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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
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Why were two of my questions deleted by "community" with no reason or notification given?
Two of my questions (https://sustainability.stackexchange.com/q/12721/14406, https://sustainability.stackexchange.com/q/12697/14406) were recently deleted by "community". I was not given a ...
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Could this question be on-topic?
Sorry about the vague title. I couldn't come up with anything better that describes the question. Anyway …
I'm planning an upcoming trip, most of which will be by plane due to how far I'm travelling. ...
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Community Moderator Strike 2023 [Concluded]
Note that as of August 10th, 2023, the Sustainability moderators have concluded strike actions with the following announcement on Meta Stack Exchange:
Moderation strike: Conclusion and the way forward
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2023 Community Moderator Election
The 2023 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
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Election phase
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2023 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.
Sustainable Living Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next ...
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Sustainable Living is 10 years old! Were you there at the start?
In a few days Stack Exchange will be sharing a blog post about all the sites on the network that recently turned 10, including Sustainability.SE.
Question #1 was posted on January 29, 2013: How much ...
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2022: 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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Upcoming moderator election in January 2023
Sustainable Living Stack Exchange last had moderators elected around half a year ago. After discussing it with the current moderator team, we're looking at scheduling an election to start sometime in ...
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2022 Community Moderator Election Results
The first full moderator election on Sustainable Living has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the winners are:
Robotnik will be joining the existing crew shortly, and congrats to ...
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2022 Community Moderator Election
The 2022 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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2022 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.
Sustainable Living Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next ...
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We graduated! Now what?
As you may have seen a while back, 59 sites left beta in December 2021, and Sustainable Living is one of those sites.
The linked Meta.SE post goes into all the details, but essentially this means that ...
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Earth Day 2022: What sustainable living choices have you made in the past year?
Earth Day 2022 is today, Friday, April 22. Continuing the tradition we started last year, we're asking folks to share something they did during the past year that contributed to the goal of ...
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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.
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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.
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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.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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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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