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Stepping down as moderator
Yesterday I sent in my resignation as a volunteer moderator of Sustainable Living. I've always loved moderating this website, but in the last year or so I noticed I was visiting the site much less. ...
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And the best new user of 2021 is
Inspired by this post on SciFi.SE, I went through the yearly reputation league to see who the best new user was each year -- the user with the highest reputation for that year, who was not previously ...
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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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Let's have a [baby]!
While posting this question about breastfeeding, I noticed that there is no baby. There are a number of good questions where it would apply:
Is there a recent life cycle analysis for cloth diaper and ...
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Please do not answer in the comments
Please, do not answer in the comments. Stack Exchange sites are designed to have a question and answer(s) format; use the answer section to post answers to the question.
Here are some reasons for this:...
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Vote early, vote often!
I cannot state this strongly enough. Voting is absolutely critical to the formation of a healthy SE site. And this is never more true than in Private and early Public beta.
Vote on Questions
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Should [battery-charging] be merged into [batteries]?
The battery-charging tag is redundant, and I propose that it should be merged into batteries.
The process of charging and discharging is intrinsic to the concept of a battery, so I suggest that ...
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Please contribute to tag wikis (2021)
Hello Sustainable Living community! 👋
Our site has a many tags that could benefit from the addition of tag wikis and excerpts. Please consider contributing your expertise and writing skills to help ...
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What is, in your opinion, the best publication on environmental and climate news?
What is, in your opinion, the best publication on environmental and climate news? I enjoy reading BBC Future articles about sustainable technologies and solutions (like this one). I often discover new,...
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Earth Day 2021: What sustainable living choices have you made in the past year?
Earth Day takes place this week on Thursday, April 22. To celebrate, we're asking folks to share something they did during the past year that contributed to the goal of Sustainable Living:
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Suitable to ask about how to use a particular controller?
Is it on-topic here to ask how to set up a particular controller? This is a Resol Deltasol BX controller for my solar hot water. I'm confused by the wording.
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Merge battery and batteries tags?
I noticed there is a battery tag with 1 QA, and a batteries tag with many more.
May I recommend merging the two tags, and creating a synonym?
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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.
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Should we lower the close/reopen vote threshold from five to three?
Update June 22, 2020:
With no objection and consensus among the mods, we've decided to elevate this to the CM team.
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Currently, it takes five votes within 14 days from users with the ...
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Make [climate-change] a synonym of [global-warming]
We have both climate-change (3 questions) and global-warming (14 questions). Neither has a wiki.
The lemma on Wikipedia is Global warming:
Global warming is the long-term rise in the average ...
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