After reading through some of the questions on Software Recommendations Meta (SRM), most notably: "You're doing it all wrong!" "What is required for a question to contain “enough information”?" I'm concerned about how as a community we will be addressing software recommendation questions and ...

Earlier today, a Stack Overflow (SO) member noticed that another member was knowingly editing answers on SO that contained iTunes links to include the latter member's affiliate account number so that they can profit from the referral credit for purchases. This topic was discussed here. When the t...

I just stumbled upon this in our review queue: Is it really useful/necessary to point this out for every question? Don't the other tags make the issue clear? Or is this a good thing for filtering by tags ("Well, I need a desktop-client for icons" – huh?)?

All along life, every one of us, is always learning. The meaning of dicotomic is a concept of psychology I would like to share with other meta to achieve a better quality website in this section we are building all together. It deals with the concept of flexibility. For psychologist seeing thi...

This is one of those seven essential meta questions of every beta and I feel it's going to result in a lot of discussion. Unlike other Stack Exchange sites, much of our documentation is probably going to be quite unique. Here is what superuser.com's documentation looks like for reference: Sup...

Due to the unique nature of Software Recommendations in comparison to the rest of the Stack Exchange network, I feel some discussion needs to go into the creation of close reasons specific to this site. What is the point of this post? The issues I want to tackle with this discussion are as fol...

I'd like to better understand the meaning of two things that seems opposite to me. To recommend means to give an advice to someone. The etymology of advice is: advice (n.) late 13c., auys "opinion," from Old French avis "opinion, view, judgment, idea" This section for its itself definition so...

This is the answer edition of What is required for a question to contain "enough information"? As a continuation of the above, the second key problem that I see Software Recommendations having, is people answering questions in a manner that is extremely low quality and not very useful for future...

This is another one of those seven essential meta questions of every beta and I feel that this, too, is going to require a different approach to the way this is normally handled on other sites in the network. Unlike other Stack Exchange sites, we are not appealing to a specific set of experts wi...

The formal difference is obvious, and there is a strong difference in many contexts, but I can't see any difference in a website like this. Infact what are you expecting to read as an answer to the following questions? Can you list me the best software*s* to make a forensyc analysis of someon...

As the days on Private Beta are passing by, we have been seeing quite a few questions which might have a proper solution(s) which could be found by just making a simple Google (or whatever search engine you prefer) search for the same. Should such questions be marked to be of Low Quality? Shoul...

Related: Would video game related question be ontopic? This is just a friendly heads up that I am going to be extensively trying to define and establish the test case for game recommendations later on tonight, using material that has previously been deleted from Arqade (gaming.stackexchange.com)...

First of all, I hate dealing with troubles and problems, especially if they could be averted before hand. And tags will always become a problem of all SE sites. If you have come from any site you know that there's always drama about tags (we are already asking for some tags to be blacklisted) so ...

I have come across a few problems related to tags that I have outlined below: I have not yet earned the privilege of creating tag synonyms, but have come across a few tags that may benefit from having a synonym relationship established. This may also save some work and headache later if we est...

In this question I asked for a simple video annotation tool and got an answer by JBaruch with a good recommendation, the program does the trick, but in a not so good answer (at least in my opinion, but also considering this meta post). I wrote my own answer which (I hope you agree) is better, bu...

I have question Android application to learn English for small kids First answer recommends two wrong applications, not usable for small kids without reading and writing skills, but people are voting up for this. Probably because Duolingo is very good app. This makes this site useless...