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Questions about longest sentences which meet specific characteristics
I'm very happy to see that the question Longest sentence where all characters have the same sound has been received favorably (2k views at this moment!). And I do like the answers, especially the &...
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What's up with the cold reception to the HSK6 语病 ("faulty wording") post?
Recently I put in considerable effort into tabulating answers to the HSK6 语病 ("faulty wording") questions on the available exams; here's the link: What are the answers to the HSK6 语病 ("...
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Adapting the furigana script for Chinese.SE: can we make it work?
For years now, we've been trying to get the furigana extension at Japanese.SE working here. Stack Exchange staff have informed us that they're not intending to implement this, which is unsurprising: ...
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2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Is our userbase able to implement pinyin support?
A long-standing feature request is for pinyin support. To date, we're here:
Based on our current roadmap, this isn't work that we will take on, as it doesn't coincide with functional areas that we ...
Becky 李蓓Mod
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Should we modify this snippet describing Chinese.SE for the purpose of celebrating our 10-year anniversary?
As Chinese.SE approaches/passes the 10 year milestone, part of the celebration is adding a snippet to a Stack Exchange Blog post. Currently it will say:
A site for experts, language enthusiasts and ...
Becky 李蓓Mod
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Why are opinion-based questions being answered by moderators?
Recently I've seen several questions that can be easily construed as being opinion-based — hence off-topic — not only not closed, but also answered by moderators. For example:
Is it considered a bad ...
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What should we do with "How to estimate your score for an HSK practice exam?"?
The question is here: How to estimate your score for an HSK practice exam?.
It was asked in 2013, and the top/accepted answer is now obsolete (as per my understanding). If I recall correctly, this ...
Becky 李蓓Mod
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What's up with the Halloween theme?
The front page of Chinese @ SE is looking like this for me today:
The orange is giving me big Halloween vibes.
Any ideas what's going on here?
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Moderator Appreciation; 1 Year Anniversary
It has been just over a full year since the results from our first moderator election came in. We had two new moderators elected last year and they have just finished their first full year.
I would ...
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What's the mathematical relationship between Characters, Syllables, Morphemes, Words?
Why was What's the mathematical relationship between Characters, Syllables, Morphemes, Words? closed as duplicate of Character vs. glyph vs. grapheme/morphogram vs. ideogram vs. logogram vs. ...
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Should character identification requests be answered or not?
I frequently see character identification requests, like this one:
Trying to translate signature and stamp for Chinese print (Characters identified: 戊午九月石年)
that have no actual answer — as defined ...
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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Dark mode for Chinese @ SE?
I was looking over Winter Bash 2020 on the Stack Exchange site. I noticed the following hat and requirement:
Flashlight.
Try Dark Mode
When you click about this hat the description says:
Have Dark ...
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Why am I blocked for posting question?
When I want to post a question, I faced this page. I went through deeper, I recommended that I should edit my previous questions by checking all of them and make them better. I was shocked. My ...
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