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The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.

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Where can I ask for an expert opinion about photography?

If you have a specific, answerable question about photography as defined in our Help Center, then this Photography is the site to ask it on. However: Anybody can post a question on Stack Exchange, an …
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When, if ever, does refining a question need to be a new question?

My view would be that if your edit would make it essentially a different question, then it's better asked as a new question - otherwise you run the risk of having "irrelevant" answers with upvotes etc …
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How to deal with user updating http: links to imgur to be https:?

Update March 2017: Our Benevolent Overlords are making this change for us (without bumping posts), so I'd now fairly strongly say this kind of edit is now not acceptable. Original answer from Novembe …
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Are some users banned?

Users (or more precisely, accounts) can be put in the penalty box, although for accounts which haven't contributed anything positive to the site, I believe the account is likely to be deleted - that's …
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Self Answered Questions

Self-answered questions are very definitely encouraged on Stack Exchange. Just do it, people will vote your question and answer up as appropriate - if it's good, you get reputation, if it's not good, …
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Questions on photography using not-quite-a-camera...cameras

Absolutely. If it's making a photograph, it's photography and it's on-topic (subject to our other constraints, obviously). We all clearly agree that smartphone photography is on-topic, and a smartphon …
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Why do we have at least two inactive moderators?

My take on this: There's not a problem with having inactive moderator's per se. My infosec hat always gets slightly worried about unused privileged accounts and the risk of those accounts being attac …
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Is this an acceptable comment?

I'm going to give a somewhat generalised answer here: Systematic downvoting is not acceptable. If you believe systematic downvoting is occurring, the correct way to handle this is to not to post a fo …
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Seems I am not welcome (back) here

To state what I'd hoped wouldn't need to be stated: you are welcome here. That welcome is independent of race, gender, sexuality, religion or anything else. Anyone who violates the community standards …
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Why have my posts been deleted here on - photo of the week ideas?

Ideas are deleted as they are used. This is the only practical way to keep the page in a state where people can see which ideas are "active".
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Is asking about storing physical prints ok here?

Usual disclaimer: this is my personal view and is not intended to represent the views of the moderation team, Stack Exchange or anyone else. "How to preserve prints" is absolutely 100% on topic here, …
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2020 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

you open to allowing questions about using cameras as measurement devices or for machine vision where the end goal is not to produce a photograph for the sake of producing a photograph to dominate the discussion
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2020 Community Moderator Election - Results

Thanks to the community for the vote of confidence, congratulations to scottbb and thanks to our existing mods for all the work they do.
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Can software specific or software issue questions be asked?

I think this could possibly fit either here or on Superuser. The rule of thumb I'd use is that if what you're doing is primarily a photography question, for example "how do I sepia tone a photo to mak …
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What to do with out-of-date Flickr questions?

We have a number of questions about Flickr where the answer was essentially "get a Pro account" - I trivially found Can I download all of my flickr photos after the expiration of “Pro” subscription? a …
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