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Why so many new users from Vietnam?
I was looking at the new users reputation for this Meta site, and I noticed that most of the new users are from Hanoi, Việt Nam, and have exactly 1 reputation. Also, all of these user profiles have a ...
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January 2020 Moderator Election — Community Interest Check
This community last had moderators appointed in 2013, so it's been a while... In addition to that, the moderator team has reached out requesting extra hands on deck.
Since moderators were last ...
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Should we merge [car] and [cars]?
car has 6 questions and no description.
cars has 32 questions and a description.
Should we merge these two?
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Are all these anti-wind questions coming from the same user?
Over the last few months I've noticed a number of questions from new users that seem to take an anti-wind power stance:
Does the cost of wind energy double when calculated correctly?
Have wind ...
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Why does a question on the main site take you to meta?
Recently a question was migrated from Earth Science to the main Sustainability.SE site, and it shows up on the main page:
Then, it was migrated to meta, as you can see here. Now, the link is on both ...
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Is there demand for a Stack Exchange site for the Climate Crisis?
I belong to a group of Fulbright Scholars that has been entertaining the idea of an online massively collaborative approach to the climate change crisis. Particularly, imagine a stack exchange site ...
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Automatic clean-up of unanswered questions
I recently found this post on meta explaining that
the Community user will automatically delete old abandoned / dead questions in the following circumstances:
If the question is more than 30 ...
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Would this question on different forms of compensation for excess solar PV production be a good fit?
Over on electronics.se there's a question that might be a better fit over here:
Difference between Net metering, Feed-in tariff and power purchase agreement
There are just a couple of related ...
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Unable to close and migrate to any site besides meta
This question on solar power systems for a van would be a better fit for electronics.SE, as indeed some have suggested in comments. However, in going through the close dialog, when I select the reason ...
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How to flag Tags without posting them in meta
I note that a user has created a Tag with no attached wiki titled "Emergy".
This raises the question of rigour, as the term itself is ill defined - that is not my question here.
When flagging the ...
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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 hold a contest to design and select a new site logo? What would the contest look like?
Why a new Logo and a Contest? To help move this Stack Exchange site (Sustainable Living beta) up from page 12 of 15 to at least page 6/15 of the ~170 sites by 'traffic',and move it off beta (status ...
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Can someone fix the technoloy in the tour?
In the Tour:
for professionals in renewable energy and other clean technoloy
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Red dot for review queues doesn't go away
I've been having this issue for a while -- nothing in my review queues, but the red notification dot is there:
Over on meta.stackexchange.com I found a post discussing the issue: Experiment: Review-...
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Would a question soliciting ideas be a bad fit?
I have a vision for a type of grocery store that would buy food in bulk and package on-site into packaging which is 100% reusable (at the store) or truly compostable (unlike many types of so-called "...