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Does a (legitimate) desire to graduate from beta lead to be (excessively) tolerant of poor questions and/or answers?

I'm new (approx 2 months) to the SE community and right now I'm active only in two of its sites: Arduino beta and Electrical Engineering (EE). But I'm already amazed by how opposed the cultures of ...
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What do you do with ignoramuses?

What are you supposed to do with the ignoramuses that ask a patently idiotic question and then refuse point blank to believe any of the answers because they have formed their own (completely erroneous)...
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How to attract highly skilled / knowledgeable users to Arduino.SE (instead of EE.SE or SO)

Before I started to tinker with Arduino some months ago, I was already a heavy-user of StackOverflow (I am a professional programmer) and at times EE (home-made electronics now and then has been a ...
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Where we are, how we can improve: what do *you* think about the quality of Arduino SE?

Averaging over 4K visits a day and a bit under 10 questions per day, we are getting great traffic. However, now is a good time to talk about the quality of our site. Even if we had 100K visits a day, ...
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When does a question ask for too much information/too specific, making it useful to a limited number of users?

This Arduino SE community has a more laid back scope than most sites. We have a fair number of shopping questions, which aren't allowed on most other sites. However, that doesn't mean that we shouldn'...
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Should we ban "how to hack XYZ" from our site?

I can picture questions like this popping up everywhere: How do I hack a treadmill? How do I hack my alarm clock? How do I hack my garage door opener? Some of those things aren't really meant to be ...
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Should we add some content on our site that is widely known to get more users on our site?

(Obviously, we shouldn't be focusing solely on getting users in a private beta, but I want to add some content to the site and the current content is limited. Let me give an example. Can I do a "Q &...
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How can we guarantee high quality in the questions and answers on our site?

One important aspect of every Stack Exchange site is guaranteeing that the questions and answers are high quality? How should we address quality in our site?
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When should questions be considered shopping recommendations?

I just found this question: Is there a color LCD display for an arduino? Should it be considered a shopping recommendation?
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