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How to revive The Base Camp?
I must admit that I haven't been around, but I did try getting to the chat: The Base Camp and it seems to have been frozen due to lack of activity.
Is there a way to revive this room?
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2021 Community Moderator Election
The 2021 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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2021 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
The Great Outdoors Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next ...
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TGO is rising from the dead. How to encourage this?
First, a Disclaimer: I yield to no one in my unhappiness (this word is a massive understatement) at the way SE treated Monica. As for other issues that upset people, I didn't follow them closely ...
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Is a community wiki with a camping packing list a good idea?
There was recently a question about what equipment to pack for camping. The answer given was started as a community wiki. See What's the full list of equipment I need to go camping?
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Should/can we make it more obvious to new users that we don't want shopping questions or certain types of travel questions?
Recently, we've had a couple of ill-received questions that asked for shopping advice:
Warm jacket with several pockets for travel: suggestions?
Travelling to the Kruger National Park
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How to make outdoor activities questions and answers more popular?
I have a german website about vacation rentals. Does anybody knows if it is allowed to link https://outdoors.stackexchange.com or other websites, without any permissions?
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What, exactly, happened to The Base Camp and all the other Chat Rooms?
What, exactly, happened to The Base Camp and the other chat rooms?
The Base Camp, which I followed regularly, disappeared in the wake of The Mess. I saw no incitement to riot or other bad behavior in ...
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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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What happened to the star feature to indicate a question that one really liked?
Way back when, one could click on a star to mark a question that one really liked. Now there seems to be just a bookmark feature.
Is the star gone?
Bookmarking is not the same thing at all. One ...
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Photo Contest Starts Again
Community photo contests are happening again :)
2020 - May - Birds
Come join the fun!
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Propose creating a new-york-state tag?
(I lack the rep to create tags.) I noticed there was no tag applicable to NY State in the US, though there are for some other states (eg georgia). NY is home to the Adirondacks, Catskills, a portion ...
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I think it's time to pack up and leave
The new site is up and running, an explanation of how to claim your content can be found here
I am sure most of you are familiar with "The Mess" and how people have started building alternatives.
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What is status of efforts that were started during The Mess to create a new patform for some of the sites?
During the height of THE MESS there was enthusiam for creating a new platform, independent of SE, to which sites dismayed by the treatment of Monica, among other issues, could emigrate.
What is ...
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Are questions specific to sailing on topic? [duplicate]
I encountered this question just now:
What's the hardest wearing multibraid rope type?
and I wonder about a comment that was made on that question:
yes sailors or boaters have attempted many ...
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