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I have been VTC'ing those as off-topic and downvoting them. From the responses here, this site should only be on-topic for advanced query tuning.

I just got a tweet from StackDBAs linking this Meta question Is the tweeting of meta questions something we want?

At first, I was going to say 'no', since the question title seems argumentative and too subjective. Then I opened the question and found that what it really was asking was what does VS2010 offer that …

Personally, I think any comments to try to get the OP to show some research will help the overall quality of questions on our site. As long as the comment isn't rude, I don't think it's a bad thing …

Example: https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/17982/how-to-copy-complete-structure-of-a-table-without-back-up The OP was asking how to do something in basically any of 3 RDBMS , and received 3 'co …

There's this discussion on MSO on how the SO community regards such comments, but it seems it can be left to the specific community to decide how to handle it. …

This question made me think of a new tag for 'query-optimization' or 'query-tuning'. However it was pointed out that this type of tag might be a duplicate for other SE sites. To me, it seems 'query' i …

I lean towards only using query-help since it's specifically requesting help with the query.

Do others think this is a real issue? Absolutely, it's an issue. You're right we don't want to kick new users out, as long as they're willing to learn. How should we approach/respon …

Here's my attempt at designing. According to @jcolebrand's answer, could we incorporate a few of the colors of the RDMS into the logo? Each layer could be a different color (orange, blue, grey) or s …

Migrate percona to percona-server. I created the percona-server tag with the intention of making percona a synonym, but don't have the required score. Since Percona Server is the Percona's (the comp …

I asked this question, and the answer provides a link to exactly what I was wanting to know. I'd like to mark his as 'accepted answer', but it seems simply providing a link won't draw people to the si …

Would you tag a question as query or query-help or both when asking for help debugging a query? Example question here

Currently, if I flag a question as off-topic, I only have the option to recommend it goes to meta DB. Will I ever be able to flag it as more appropriate for ServerFault or SO?

Does MySQL need it's own specific mysql-replication tag...as opposed to using mysql and replication ?