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Community Promotion Ads — 2020
You lost your “beta” label in 2019, so welcome to your very first edition of Community Promotion Ads, for the year of 2020!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads are community-...
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I don't understand why the question about an eagle and a young goat is off-topic
Why is the question about an eagle carrying off a young goat to its nest off-topic?
If the question had been about an eagle carrying off a small child from a campsite, or a small dog from a trail, ...
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2019: 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, ...
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Request for Thoughts on What to do Now: pros and cons of staying or leaving
SE and Monica have arrived at an agreement, which I find beyond disappointing but not surprising. But I respect whatever Monica decides.
Yesterday, I asked for my account on SE Meta to be deleted. ...
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Are questions about "location which has the best X" on topic?
Suppose I want to know what the best location in the world, or in some region, is. Naturally, I am using some objective definition for "best", to make sure the question has an answer. For example,
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Community Promotion Ads?
Does our non-beta status change how our Community Promotion Ads work?
A new post at DBA.se got me wondering if we should do something simular.
Looks like we did something in 2018 Suggest community ...
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In support of TGO's moderators on hiatus
I encourage everyone here to take a look at the proposed Day of Silence which some frustrated StackExchange participants will be observing for 24 hours, starting tonight at midnight (Eastern Standard ...
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Want to post a photo on this month's contest, BUT
I want to post a photo on this month's contest, OOPS, but to my shame, I don't know how. Actually, I've had decent photos for all the contests, but it is just now that I have decided to ask for help.
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Why downvote/VTD certain variations on similar answers?
On this question from 2012, most of the answers are essentially the same: suggesting minor variations on a similar solution. None provide sources other than personal experience.
Today another two ...
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The relevance of the current "moderation/community incident(s)" in SE to TGO
I just got such into heaps of written material over a mod being sacked by SE recently and towards the end stumbled over a post by @RoryAlsop (https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/334095/295537):
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Photo Competition: October - OOPS
Rules that are always applicable are as follows:
One photo per answer, and no more than 5 answers per user per contest.
Post only photos taken by yourself/person with you.
All entries should include a ...
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Photo Competition: September - Water
Rules that are always applicable are as follows:
One photo per answer, and no more than 5 answers per user per contest.
Post only photos taken by yourself/person with you.
All entries should include a ...
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Editing (approving edits) of old questions for minor changes
I am certain we discussed this before, but I can't find it (probably comments only, please edit or comment if you find such previous questions):
When tags on a question get changed, it gets bumped to ...
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Why is there no close reason for 'off topic'?
I found the next question:
Any experience in Street Marketing?
However, I wanted to close it since it's about coffee shop marketing, and not related to great outdoors. What reason should I have used ...
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Why deleted - How can I tie flashlight to car's passenger side mirror?
I don't get why https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/q/22963/18558 was closed AND deleted. If you delete, how can others see bob1's useful answer with six upvotes? Even if you don't like, can you still ...
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