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It's allowed technically, it may even be helpful later (see below), but I wouldn't recommend it for an early site. "Seed questions" become harmful when folks come to believe that the author doesn't re …

I'm including my answer from the original Genealogy Proposal for reference: … A question along the lines of "Help me find person [X]" would have to be closed as off topic. Genealogy SE would be abou …

Stack Exchange sites have been known to provide community and technical support for 3rd-party products. But your second second example (outage reports and resolution) involves customer services issues …

With a sufficiently active community, helpful comments and wiki-style editing should (ideally) be enough to keep the answers updated and relevant when the facts (or the question) change. Instructive c …

This can be an effective means of gaining notoriety for a site if you approach it with the right mindset. Instead of setting out to simply "re-ask" questions on this site, look for ways of helping exp …

Yes, comments are ephemeral by design. Comments are there to ask for clarification or to make suggestions for the post. But once their purpose has been served, the comments should be removed. It's com …

This blog post provides guidance about how to adhere to good Q&A when the subject becomes more subjective: Good Subjective, Bad Subjective When the answer search becomes more collaborative, chat is …

I believe you are confusing two separate issues: The purpose of having a Stack Exchange site, and What constitutes a good answer written by an expert on the subject. If copying the work of others is …

Multiple accounts are generally not allowed, but we (Stack Exchange) have yet to take an absolute, hard-line statement against having multiple accounts. Some feel they have a need to separate (for exa …

What activities and discussion are generated around what you discovered, if anything? Are there broader issues that can be addressed? …

The timing is tight, but a simple method of promoting your community is having these one-page flyers available to hand out to interested folks at events. Time seems to be an issue, so I dug up a fe …

I don't believe that link will work without prior access. The site will be entering public beta in the next few days, but in the meantime, you can use the 'invite fellow experts' interface located in …

No, your questions/day stats do not need extraordinary actions, nor should users pledge to ask more questions. You can't grow a site that way. The site grows when the community grows, and the best way …

Is there a test than I can apply … Yes, there is a test (for lack of a better word) which was enumerated as a series "Guidelines for Great Subjective Questions." It's become one of our most often …

The Community Team (of which I am a member) generally fills the role of community moderator until pro tem moderators can be selected for your site. We had a Community Team summit in NYC last week, so …