Aus Faulheitsgründen antworte ich mal kurz in Deutsch: In der ersten Ausführung klang diese Frage eher nach ner Dummy-Frage. Getreu dem Motto, ich will irgenwas fragen, habe nur leider keine. (...

The other off-topic reasons start with "This site is about/for". For the sake of consistency I suggest: This site is for questions requiring expertise in German. Requests which mainly rely on ...

No. We want to discuss the language; not stories that have been written in that language.

Even people who do not speak any German word are welcome on this site and may contribute if they do have questions (or answers). We cannot expect beginners to be able to put their questions into a ...

ALT + 0132 = „ ALT + 0147 = “ ALT + 0148 = ” For Linux (Ubuntu at least), with the keyboard in German, AltGr + v = „ AltGr + b = “ And for Guillemets AltGr + y = » AltGr + x = «

Well, this site is about "German language & usage" but it does not state that it must be contemporary German. And any reform is related to the language and its use. That said, it's likely a ...

I totally agree with user unknown! So, now my opinion on that topic: If I read a question like that first, I would correct the misspelling and add a comment pointing out that it is only a typo/...

Well, good question. I also often feel it's not worth posting a full answer to a question whose answer is, um, that simple. And though, "writing an answer and elaborating on the topic" is the right ...

This particular question was bothering me from the first moment it appears. I gave a lot of hints but OP didn't respond appropriately. He only asked for "being cut some slack". In my next comment I ...

The german tag was introduced a long time ago (don't know who did it) and many people used it. I remember Takkat asking the very same question in chat a while ago. At that time, he removed that tag ...

It is scarcely possible to confine the range in where a question is a general reference. There will always be some questions that are on the brink. On top of that, everyone will have a different ...

After reading the other answers I want to add some thoughts further, but I'm going into another direction. In general, I don't like the excessive up-votes on GLU. Of course, sometimes I got a gain of ...

Workaround if you really want to close and reopen italic tag immediately: italic italic italic italic *not italic ;p* italic (<-note here is a space, but not in precedence to 'not italic') ...

Short answer: A question should either be entirely in a single language (German or English) or it consists of two distinct parts, preferably separated by a horizontal line. Translate a question ...

German-as-foreignlanguage? No, we don't need it at all. Any kind of question should address a particular issue and the tag should indicate the kind of issue. But being non-native is not a helpful ...

Assuming most visitors are not users of the stack exchange network but occasional visits via Google, we need to make sure that questions are likely to hit. We have some questions that are too ...

People are also interested in reading the full info tag, i.e. the about field. We should provide more information in this field. Currently we have a mixed-up content. Some of them provide example ...

I'd appreciate if we would do so. However, we should carefully consider following thoughts: Editing answer: We shouldn't simply edit answer from other users. The edit feature imho is chiefly about ...

Perhaps there isn't any additional value if a closed question is downvoted again after closing. However, I downvoted the question before the question was closed and I see no reason to undownvote. And ...

Bzgl. der Votes: Wir sind hier auf GLU noch sehr human, wenn man das mit anderen SE-Seiten vergleicht. Dort werden teilweise Fragen von Moderatoren geschlossen (mit nur einer Stimme), die von anderen ...

I think I can add some thoughts, while I was one of them who revised it. I think the first two edits by you and me are absolutely acceptable. The first version was in need of improvement, because ...

I guess that main points have been mentioned by Takkat and Wrzlprmft but I'd really like to repeat that we need to focus on having more members in our community who contribute and put in their ...

Mit den Downvotes ist das so ne Sache. Ich kann eine Frage kommentieren, zwei Tage warten was passiert und dann downvoten. Wenn die Frage dann aber untergeht (OK, auf GLU aufgrund der aktuell geringen ...

Personally I think most times the pictures are needless but distracting and diverting, maybe even annoying (if they take too much space) (some recent examples: example1, example2). Nice that you ...

Bzgl. Korrigieren: Soweit es im Rahmen unserer Möglichkeiten ist, sollten wir die Fragen korrigieren; und das machen wir auch schon immer so. Es gab schon oft genug Korrekturen und Verbesserungen, ...

I think the comments to both answers yours and Urs Reupke's imposingly show the enormous range of different meanings to - imho - even simple and clear issues. Since there is a broad range you'll ever ...

Fazit vorweg: Das muss in der Theorie eigentlich für jede Frage individuell diskutiert werden. Da das natürlich nicht im Rahmen des Möglichen ist, so kann man es vielleicht wie die "...