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Referring to sects or schools of thought respectfully
Since this is a "multi-view" site we need to have certain policies in place to prevent the usage of terms that other Muslims might find offensive when referring to ideologies or schools of though ...
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Scope of this site - and type of questions
What type of questions are more welcomed here?
The one that ask about basic ruling of Islamic about different things such as zakat,Hajj, prayers and so on.
Or the ones that are philosophical and ...
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How close must answers stick to the topic?
I recently asked a question and shortly received an answer.
The question was kind of a big topic and raised a number of specific questions, however it was centered around a very specific issue and I ...
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Do we want cut-and-paste answers?
I've noticed a trend — on Islamic forums in general, not exclusively this site — of answering questions with nothing more than a copy-paste of an article written by a scholar. Even if ...
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Synonyms and Merges
Now that you have pro tem mods, you may want to think of organizing your tags. One step is merging tags that aren't really different in that they apply to the same posts.
You can see some proposed ...
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Moderator Pro Tempore Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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Private Beta Badge
I have noticed that there is a badge specifically for private beta users / helpers.
Many of us have actively helped out in the beta but none have got this badge.
Can any of the SE mods help us on ...
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History vs. Seerah Tags
So we have a history tag. Awesome. Should we have a seerah tag too (biography/life of the Prophet)?
If we have history, it can be general and a super-set of seerah. But, I still see value in seerah ...
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what kind of edits should be done?
I have seen this question and I'm kinda surprised from the Edit. The Edit is bigger than the original question. What if the OP did not mean that and he/she simply meant what was asked in the original ...
user37
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An advertisement poster for Islam.SE
My main intention of writing this post is to encourage users to make adverts for promoting Islam.SE
Please try a hand at making one and post it as an answer here.
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What guidelines should we impose on questions to ensure quality?
I have noticed a trend in the posts on this site, where a question is asked under the (apparently) implicit assumption that all Muslims follow a single unified doctrine called "Islam."
In a lot of ...
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Are adab questions too open ended, or listy?
Consider my question https://islam.stackexchange.com/q/1243/44 . It had some disagreement as not being a good fit for QA format. You can see the comments below it, and also the transcript of the ...
user44
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Should we allow "true muslim"?
The original heading to this question was "What should a true muslim do if his daughter does not respect the faith" (I suggested an edit about this, it may or may not be accepted while you ...
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should we prevent some sources?
there are some sources/websites that are against Islam completely, and gives people wrong information by fraudulently translating into english .
for example : www.thereligionofpeace.com
should we ...
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Should we close boring/trivial questions?
Quoting from here
Close boring, trivial, mindless, uninteresting, etc. questions.
It's taken me a long time to get here, but your really need to shut
down any question that wastes your top-users time ...
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Why Sectarianism is Ruining Your Site
This morning I spent a solid two hours clearing out a whole mess of flags, comments, and suspending users for inflammatory and nonconstructive remarks.
Four days after ashes999 posted his plea for ...
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Islamic history, on topic?
As Robert explains in this post, we're trying to forge a Q&A site about Islam (the religion) rather than about subjects of interest to Muslims (the people).
As for Islamic history, it seems to be ...
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Having a short and a complete part in Answers
I think not everybody is interested (or have just-in-case time) to read the whole answer (which contain Ayas, Hadiths, mental trail, etc...), there are many people who may need to get a quick answer ...
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Any plans regarding Facebook/Twitter/G+?
I see that many other StackExchange sites have Facebook Pages, Twitter, and sometimes Google+ Pages.
Are there any plans regarding this? are these pages managed by site moderators or by volunteers? ...
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Arabic text issues [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
is it possible right to left option be added for Quran verses?
This includes issues from this question and this question
Can we get some language support for Arabic in posts ...
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Questions about the main debates between Sunnah And Shi'ah
Lately, A lot of question been asked and these questions actually are not real questions in my opinion which is based on the golden SE rule (Real questions have Real answers). These question did not, ...
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Shouldn't the tag be 'shariah' instead of 'sharia'?
The word is written in Arabic as
شريعة
Words in Arabic that end with
ة
should be read with a 'h' in the end if it is read as a single word according to the correct tajweed. So like the tags ...
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What is our stance on book recommendations?
As I'm sure anybody who's been frequenting the StackExchange network knows, questions asking for lists of recommendations are nothing new.
Such questions are almost universally shunned, and it's ...
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Are questions asked specifically to promote a certain point of view allowed?
I'm asking in regards to this question:
The question itself is an obvious lead up to a certain point of view (as opposed to seeking an real answer). Self answering the question by the OP only ...
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Please add a right-to-left, right-aligned display option for Arabic quotes
Quran quotes tend to be written in Arabic, which is written right-to-left; writing this left-to-right is awkward.
Also, increasing the size of the font would help with readability.
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What does each flag reason mean, and when should I use them?
What does each flag reason mean, and when should I use them?
I'm ready to dive in and help the moderators weed out content which requires their attention. What does each flag mean and when is the best ...
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Dealing with users who use questions to express their criticism of Islam/Muslims
This is about users who use the site to post and express their or other people's (typically negative) views and opinions about Islam/Muslims.
For example, several of BROY's posts have a clearly non-...
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Islam, Islamic countries, and Islamic law
This is partially spurred on by this question: https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/917/how-come-in-saudi-arabia-females-are-not-allowed-to-leave-without-permission-d
While I feel the wording ...
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No Tolerance for Intolerance
I've noticed a trend among some people that they attack other people's ideologies. That is to say, they go through answers that have, say, hadith, and say things like:
All hadith are not authentic
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Chat events (suggestions)
I was discussing in the chat about starting up a regular chat event, in order to draw more traffic to the site.
I am posting this just to see how everyone else feels about it, and whether they have ...
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Multiple Viewpoints
There are two existing religious sites on the network: Judaism (Mi Yodeya) and Christianity (Christianity SE). These are both very broad categories, containing multiple viewpoints. How do you define a ...
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Please do not be too quick to judge and Downvote!
My request is regarding this question. This user seems to be "not-so-good" in English. Hence, initially his question came off as offensive. But, after some inquiry in comments, the question was edit ...
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Should question regarding explaination of an Ayah (tafsir) be asked?
Though i think that this is not well suited for the Q&A style of the site because of the diversity in nature of this topic. But on the other hand it'll benefit the users and visitors. Of course we ...
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Why doesn't my reputation increase even though I get upvoted? Bug?
I've been noticing that though Votes in summary of my profile increases, the reputation doesn't increase and also it doesn't show up in profile. It used to before like +10 or +20 etc. I tried to ...
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Who should our beta moderators be? [closed]
Islam.SE has just hit Public Beta, and soon it will be time to get our first batch of moderators, as explained in the Moderators Pro Tempore blog post:
That’s why I am in the process of identifying ...
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Moderation when we go public
In order to avoid re-inventing the wheel, I'm compiling a list of threads from meta.christianity.SE on dealing with trolls, un-Islamic answers, etc.
How to handle comment trolls
Should be be deleting ...
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A right answer getting downvoted without any special reasons
I see wherever this user, it's has got downvoted (sometimes, heavily) without any comments mentioning what is wrong with it. I mean more the situations where they are valid ones. I wonder if it's ...
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Should "evidences/proofs" explicitly be mentioned as Sunni/Shi'a though the conclusion is agreed by both?
My question is with reference to this answer. Though the conclusion is agreed by both Shi'a and Sunni, the Shi'a have a problem with the source of the evidence. Considering that it is one of the ...
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Another problem with Arabic font
Well I recently came across this problem. The problem is that Arabic font cannot be put on two separate lines
E.g.
The text was typed like this.
But it ends up like this.
Whatever I did the ...
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What to do about plagiarism?
Unfortunately, I have noticed answers in this community are more susceptible to plagiarism than in other communities. (More specifically, plagiarizing without permission and/or attribution from ...
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Most interesting questions/answers
This question is for the purposes of promoting Islam.SE. Please nominate others' contributions as answers to this question.
Rules
Post a link to a good question from Islam.SE that has a great answer(...
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Islam SE: Not a Muslim Peer Support Group
I recently closed a question which raises an issue we've only just been skirting around.
Remember that the purpose behind an "Islam Stack Exchange" is to build a compilation of knowledge about the ...
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Try to help others improve their posts before down-voting them
The difference might not be clear but it is a bad practice to first down-vote. If an answer is incorrect/incomplete use comments and edits to help them improve their post. If they don't follow up and ...
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Should we ask and answer ourselves the "usually asked questions" before we go public?
From our experiences, we know the frequently asked questions (but not easy or basic) about Islam by people. Is it a good idea to ask them and answer it ourselves with the best answers beforehand? Or ...
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Formatting your questions and answers
Since the first day, I have seen lots of posts that don't take advantage of Stack Exchanges formatting options. This makes the question really hard to read. So, I have a few suggestions:
If you are ...
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When is this site going public? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How long will the site stay in private beta?
Just a quick question - are we going into public beta tomorrow? Or is that later? Would appreciate it if you can give us some idea ...
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Is it okay to have a 0% accept rate on this site?
I have recently come under some criticism for having a 0% accept rate.
I want to ask the community how they feel about this.
Please note, that I do intend to accept some answers, but I feel it's a ...
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Please Down-Vote Beginner Questions
Possible dupe of: Question quality
Dear Islam.SE users: we are deluged with low-quality beginner questions. By "beginner" questions, I mean questions that, if you spent less than five minutes ...
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List of tag synonyms and tags to be burninated or removed [closed]
We'll need to merge tags/clean up. In the answer below is a list of tags that need to be turned into synonyms.
Concerning which tag should be made 'dominant', this answer says:
The practice on ...
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Question quality
What do people think of the question quality so far on the website?
My two cents: I fear it is quite low and it may just be the reason this becomes just another forum where Muslims hang out and hash ...
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