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Following on from the great work of F'x over on Academia.SE, this meta post will track our stats on Area 51, fortnightly (previously weekly) or a bit longer if I forget and someone else updates it.
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Where do we draw the line between sustainable living and gardening?
We're already getting some questions like this that have heavy cross over - what should the policy be? We should probably decide sooner rather than later in order to have a clear aim going forward and ...
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Do we want sustainability to be an evidence based stack exchange site?
A recent question got me wondering what stance we want to take on the evidence requirements for answers (or indeed questions) on Sustainability.
At the moments, as all stack exchange sites say, we ...
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Should we be a high-voting site?
Some sites get lots of votes (upvotes and downvotes) for question and answers. Others get very few votes. Should we be a high-voting site?
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Shall we ban shopping questions?
In general, Stack Exchanges don't do shopping questions - questions which ask for product or service recommendations. And for several good reasons. This is best explained in Jeff Atwood's ...
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Is sustainable economy on-topic?
This question on sustainable economy has received a close-vote.
Is this site about sustainability in the narrow sense (resources of the Earth), or does it include sustainability in the wider sense: ...
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Disagreement on premises are a problem for this site
On the one hand, sustainability is a relatively new topic, and collectively we are just beginning to learn about it; there's not much we agree on yet.
On the other hand, "sustainability" is a popular ...
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Should this site be renamed?
In Group focus level -- world or local, and this A51 discussion, and other comments that I've seen in other places (including the late "Renewable Technology" A51 proposal, now closed), it is asserted ...
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How do we promote our site?
How do we promote our site, sustainability.SE, both across the Stack Exchange network and beyond it?
This is one of The 7 Essential Meta Questions for Sustainable Living Stack Exchange
We've had 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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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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How strict are we about "sustainable"?
Our FAQ says:
Sustainable Living - Stack Exchange is for folks dedicated to a lifestyle that can be maintained indefinitely without depleting available resources.
Plastic and gasoline are currently ...
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Have any sustainability.SE questions ever made it to the hot network questions list?
Just curious as to whether this has ever happened, and if so, what the result was -- spammy answers, or increased engagement and new traffic?
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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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Why might the question on PCBs be off-topic?
This question on sustainable PCB removal: How can I remove PCBs from my soil? has picked up three votes to close as off-topic, but I don't see why.
Fertile soil is a depletable resource. PCB ...
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