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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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Can we get a featured image added to the site theme?
This has been running really well for 7 months I say we ask for it.
In the meta post on the new themes it says,
But, what this means is that if one site has an element, other sites can pretty easily ...
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Photo Competition: December 2018 - Trails
We are announcing a fun activity to have a photo competition each month.
There two sets of rules:
Rules that are always applicable.
Rules that are applicable to a particular theme of competition (...
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Having a monthly photo competition in Meta?
I just came to know about this Photo competition December 2018 on Travel.SE.
I find it pretty much fun :-)
I sort of informally asked if it okay to have such a thing at our meta site.
But, that not ...
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How is the question about a whether a particular weight strategy makes sense off topic?
This question was migrated to English Language and Usage (ELU) despite,
Being specifically about backpacking (there are other variations of the saying that have the subject of money or writing that ...
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If you cannot give a short explanation why you downvoted a Meta question or answer, should you downvote it?
We all know that downvoters on TGO and any SE site are a fact of life that has to be accepted. Unless there is a pattern of serial downvoting, complaining is pointless, and can sound whiny.
However, ...
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What is the policy regarding flags on comments in chat rooms?
Each comment in The Base Camp chat room has a flag beside it.
Hovering over it says "flag this message as spam, inappropriate or offensive."
I have a few questions about that flag and its ...
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What are the goals of the TGO?
There has been a lot of back and forth about scope and broadness in TGO questions.
The conversations tend to focus around how a particular question, then another does not meet someones vision of ...
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"Chicken and egg" problem for our "too broad" decisions
I have been noticing a chicken&egg problem (Ie: The classic "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?").
People ask questions because they don't know the answer, obviously, so they want help ...
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Can a "spoiler" be used to hide a video?
I've seen "spoilers" on some sites, where the text or picture is "hidden" behind some sort of box. If you hover over the box, you can see what's under it. The point is that if you don't want to see it,...
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Is the StackExchange HTML 5 video support enabled for The Great Outdoors?
According to a meta.stackexchange answer, YouTube/HTML-5 video embedding has been allowed for a few years now.
All Stack Exchange sites that have either YouTube or SoundCloud embedding enabled now ...
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I'm not complaining, in fact I think it is funny, but why was my flag denied?
This question asking the purpose of a criss-crossed elastic strap elicited this answer:
to put the jars filled with the blood of your enemies.
which I flagged as
Repulsive and smart-alecky ...
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How does a question get bumped without any apparent activity?
This old question how-to-find-new-poles-for-old-tent showed up in my list of questions. The list says "modified yesterday fred 1" but I see no apparent activity by anyone named fred or anyone else. ...
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How can we throttle back on incorrect VTCs on the ground of opinion based?
The reason Opinion Based (OB) is used too frequently to close questions. Two examples:
Why are long distance trails so much more famous in the US than in Europe?
What top items did the teams ...
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Can we delete the closed questions that were "closed as cross-site posts?"
We have three questions that were closed as cross-site posts, meaning that someone posted the same question on more than one site.
https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/16078/how-does-...
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