Frequent Questions
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Are sorta-vegetarian diets on topic?
Some vegetarian-like diets (such as pescatarianism or ovo-lacto vegetarianism) allow for foods that some vegetarians would not consume. Are questions about such diets topical for Veg*.SE, or should ...
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What can we do to avoid questions that will attract bad answers?
As anyone with an interest in vegetarianism, veganism, and other diet-related fields knows, there's a lot of conflicting, often made-up or half-baked information floating around, plus everyone likes ...
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To what extent are references required?
In my answers, do I need to cite sources for my claims?
I'm accustomed to other sites, where references are a must-have and the rules are strict regarding them.
I've also read this blog which says ...
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Add related sites on StackExchange to our FAQ for on-topic questions
We should follow the example that Sustainability.SE set on their on-topic page in the FAQ and provide useful recommendations for other sites in the StackExchange network that might be more appropriate ...
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Are subsets of vegan diets on-topic?
Are subsets of vegan diets on-topic? For example, do we welcome questions on fruitarianism and Raw veganism?
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Blacklist the vegetarianism tag
vegetarianism seems awfully redundant to me. It's the site name. I think it's safe to assume that questions are about some subset of vegetarianism without tagging it as such.
veganism is useful ...
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What do we do with questions that affect vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike?
How do we characterise questions to be specifically about vegetarianism, as opposed to issues that equally affect vegetarians and non-vegetarians?
For example, consider these questions:
How to ...
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What is considered to be vegetarianism?
For the purpose of determining the scope of the site, what is considered to be vegetarianism?
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Are questions asking for local or travel advice on-topic?
I am in a few vegan FB communities and people frequently post there asking for advice about local services, for example (using my current home city):
I'm visiting London for a short trip, and I'm ...
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Should we allow questions on defining what is/isn't vegetarian?
My concern with questions on this basis is that there's a strong danger of them just being opinion. There's no governing body of vegetarianism and veganism that decides what does and doesn't count, it'...
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Accepting Nominations — Who should moderate this site?
Ideally Moderators are elected by the community, but until the community is large enough to hold a proper election, we will be appointing three provisional Moderators to fill those roles.
We need ...
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How do we promote our site?
This is an issue beta sites are facing: attracting users. Unfortunately, our site is not making an exception.
But the good news is that we can all participate to overcome this.
I suggest that we ...
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Define on-topic and off-topic reasons in the help center
One of the reasons on which many users are confused is on-topic and off-topic. If you once look at our meta home page, you will see that many questions are like Are questions about X on-topic here?
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Are we reaching the limit of what is relevant to ask?
A couple weeks ago we were getting 20 questions per day but that number slowing shrank and is now at 6 questions per day. My main worries about this website was that most people have the same ...
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Is the [food] tag too greedy, or should it eat even more?
We have a tag food.
This seems to me likely to apply to so much that it describes very little...
The only use of it I can think of is to help people who are only interested in food topics, or are ...
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