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Changing the site name?
The proposal name passed through the commit stage as Veganism & Vegetarianism, but it seems to have been renamed to just Vegetarianism - I don't feel this properly reflects the aims of the site as ...
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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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Vote Early, Vote Often!
Note: This post is (nearly) identical to this one on Language Learning Stack Exchange except for this part.
I would like to echo a post that Scott Morrison made on Meta.Tex.SE:
I'm a moderator from ...
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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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Should we change veg*n questions to vegan/vegetarian ? (for search engines)
I've recently answered this question (Are most electronics veg*n?), and while making further researches I realized that I never ran into this post itself on search engines (except on DuckDuckGo which ...
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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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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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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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Announcing Moderators Pro Tempore!
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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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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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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How can I best convince people to come join the site in a reddit post?
I'm going to (EDIT: I now have) post something like the below on the vegetarian and vegan subreddits. I'd like it to be as persuasive and informative as possible, without boring people of course. Any ...
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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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When I'm working with vegan-substitute food [item], can I still call it [item]?
A recent question (How can I replace eggs when making an omelette?) attracted a couple of confused comments, essentially wondering whether an eggless omelette is really an "omelette".
A couple were ...
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