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Information on the moderator candidates
Yi Jiang has put together a nice site that uses the Stack Overflow API to display information on the moderator candidates.
Click here to see all the information.
The information presented is:
The ...
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Should we allow questions about stuff "outside" of the home?
Questions about sheds, pole barns, retaining walls, decks, patios?
All these are questions and issues that home owners have, and typical DIY'ers like us have to deal with. All the ones listed above ...
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Is it OK to quote from NEC?
I recently supplied This Answer, which quoted almost an entire article from NEC. Is there a problem (legal or otherwise) with doing this?
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How should minor edits be handled?
I received notice that two of my previous questions were edited. Obviously, if those edits improved the question somehow, that's a good thing. So I went to check them out, also wanting to verify that ...
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Home Improvement updated site theme is ready for testing!
As part of implementing the new unified themes across the network, we're gradually rolling out updated site themes for each site. As of today, we have enabled your updated site theme for testing.
If ...
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Should "this is what I did" be updates to the question or stand alone answers?
We get some people who will return to their asked question to post "this is what I ended up doing". Some update their original question, some post it as an answer.
When I see it as an update ...
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Is using notations like “cluster F” or f*** acceptable?
A member is using implied swear words in their answers. Is this acceptable, because it’s not an actual swear word?
See recent question: Water Heater Help
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How to respond to a serial single-poster who's trying to generate a reputation?
A guy named Russ Palmer has created at least three accounts over the past few days, each time answering a single old mold question, recommending that they seek a professional. The first time he ...
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What should we do with our blog content?
Did you know we have a blog?
At one time, Stack Exchange allowed sites to set up community blogs for people to contribute articles related to the site's subject that didn't fit the normal Q&A ...
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Should questions about building things that are not part of your home be on-topic?
The question https://diy.stackexchange.com/q/3712/21 is an example of a "non-home DIY" question, i.e., a question about building personal property that isn't part of your home. It's a good opportunity ...
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What is being done and what should be done when particular users routinely post answers as comments?
This isn't a question of comment-answer policy. It's about users who feel the need to answer many questions in comments. One such user is compulsive about it lately, often posting the first comment on ...
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Is a question off topic when asked by professionals or corporations?
There have been questions closed because they were asked by people representing companies (e.g. this question was debated). Should be person asking the question impact whether the question is on or ...
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Blog advertising solicitation
The blog email account has received a couple emails. I assume SE isn't interested and I was going to send a polite no thank you email. Does someone from the community team want to deal with this? ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2017
It is a bit late into this new year, being that we're already in the second month, but we are now cycling the Community Promotion Ads for 2017!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion ...
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Should questions about which way to orient flooring be off topic?
In my opinion, these types of questions are subjective, and could possibly even be closed as decorating advice.
Here's the latest example of this type of question:
Correct way to orient laminate ...
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Spam in (or as) a username
A new user has shown up with what appears to be a "I've never seen this one before, but I know spam when I smell it" username, rather than spamming links in answers. I can't recall any mention of "not ...
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Strategies for dead questions?
When I join a SE site I often look through unanswered questions and try to answer as many of those as I can. However on this site there seems to be a lot of "dead" questions, by which I mean that ...
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Do I need to do anything about a reviewer that consistently rejects my edits?
Follow-up to Do we need do something about tis reviewer - with image enhancements
I've been adding Imgur thumbnail resize options to a lot of the oversized pictures, and a particular reviewer doesn't ...
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Tagging questions about multi-way (i.e. multi-location) switching
I have noticed that a couple of users have been trying to categorize questions about multiway switching setups with their own tag. While the effort is appreciated -- I've been rejecting the edits ...
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Are commercial electrical questions on topic here?
Are non-residential electrical questions on topic here? For example, this question, which asks about wiring a showcase light. There are special codes that deal with this type of wiring, which would ...
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Should we have a post notice added for anecdotal answers?
Recently, we've been getting a lot of new users who don't know the Stack Exchange way and provide answers to questions that are little more than anecdotes about a similar situation. These frequently ...
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What home automation questions are on topic?
Since home automation is coming our way now, which questions do we consider on topic and where is the line drawn. From an earlier meta question we already clarified that shopping advice is off topic. ...
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Should question-askers be required to state their location?
We've put it in the FAQ, but there's still a lot of questions being asked that need location data and don't have it. I'd like to suggest that we ask the SE team to ask the user to state their location ...
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Would this wiring question be appropriate on DIY.SE?
We have a question on physics.SE about electrical wiring, which is off topic there. It didn't jump out at me as home improvement at first, but the people on the EE site suggested it might fit here... ...
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Nominate other users for moderator election
Is it possible to nominate other users in the moderator election, or can you only nominate yourself?
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Community Promotion Ads - 2018 [duplicate]
It's almost February in 2018, which isn't supposed to be the proper time to cycle these, but for this year it'll be once again, so we'll be refreshing the Community Promotion Ads for this year now!
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How do I get a question or answer into the "low quality" review queue?
I recently flagged an answer as "very low quality", thinking that would put it in the review queue for others to look at to decide if it needed to be deleted. However, the flag was declined ...
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Improving a Tumbleweed
I posted the question "Security door with lock guard" last week and today it earned the Tumbleweed badge. I tried to be as clear as I could, but it's difficult when I don't know the name of what I'm ...
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Should the [thermostat-c-wire] tag have a [c-wire] synonym?
Earlier today, @gregmac created the thermostat-c-wire tag (and its tag wiki) and applied it to all the questions that we have about "C" wires.
A couple of times, I had thought about doing the same ...
Niall C.Mod
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Duplicate questions with different answers
Should questions with similar descriptions be closed as dups, even though the cause or problem may be different (and not covered by the previous question)?
For example this question how to eliminate ...
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Bug in ad spacing on DIY.SE
Over at DIY.se, I noticed that the sidebar ads are being cut off on the right by the edge of the sidebar:
Using Chrome's inspector, it turns out the problem is in .everyonelovesstackoverflow in all....
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Make [health-and-safety] a synonym of [safety]
safety - 312 questions (appears canonical since [dangerous] is a synonym)
health-and-safety - 57 questions
I can't see any reason why these should remain as separate tags. Something unsafe is, by ...
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kill the "electical" tag because it is a mis-spelling
The tag "electical" just a mis-spelling of electrical, and should be deleted.
https://diy.stackexchange.com/tags/electical/info
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New close reasons: unclear, too broad, opinion-based, and custom sub-reasons off-topic
There will be changes in close reasons in the next few days:
“not constructive” and “not a real question” are replaced by
“unclear what you're asking”
“too broad”
“primarily opinion-based”
“off-topic”...
ChrisFMod
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Are 30 characters really enough to answer a question?
On some Stack Exchange sites, 30 characters might be enough to effectively answer a question. Is this same limit suitable for a topic like Home Improvement? Would it even be possible to increase the ...
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Tag merge [tag:molding] to [tag:trim]
molding should be a synonym of trim, it looks like moulding already is.
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Any interest in a project planning blog feature?
Would a general feature of help me plan my project be useful? People could sign up on meta and each month we set up a chat room for it? The normal chat bunch helps walk whomever through it over a few ...
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Don't you think Captain Construction should be our official logo?
Drawn by our very own Aarthi Devanathan in the DIY Chat room, this superhero depicts all that is awesome about those who engage in DIY.
Sure he's a little rough around the edges, but don't you think ...
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Feature Request: Moderator Nomination Encouragement
During moderator nominations, a button/link should be added to user pages to show your support for a user to nominate themselves.
Since you can no longer nominate other users for moderator election, ...
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Is asking a question relevant to a specific county too local?
I asked a question about dumping waste in my county. It was closed as too local. As per Joel Spolsky, co-founder of stackexchange, the rule of thumb for too local is "why is their a car parked outside ...
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What should we do with OPs suffering from a case of utility futility?
Sadly, in some parts of the world, trying to get a utility (electrical is the one I've seen so far, but other utilities are probably susceptible to this as well) to do anything for you without an ...
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2012 Moderator Election - Town Hall Chat Digest
The following is a "digest" version of the 2012 Moderator Election Town Hall Chat. The format, as described on Meta Stack Overflow, is one answer to this question for every question asked in the Town ...
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HVAC tag cleanup
With HVAC, we have a lot of potential tags, so before taking my own guess at what the wiki's should say, I thought I'd solicit the group. Here's a list of the current tags that I think could use some ...
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Should we add a legal link to the blog?
We recently talked in the chat about writing How-To's for the blog. In a similar vein to this question, it's entirely possible that a reader of the blog may not have the ability to complete a project ...
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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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2019: 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, ...
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Are tool maintenance and repair questions on-topic?
It seems the community has accepted these types of questions in the past.
How can I clean sticky and dirty hand tool's rubber?
Is it a good idea to spraypaint my axe head?
What are good cleaners to ...
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Writing Tag Wiki Excerpts
Just want to point out some of these guidelines and discussions from the global meta site:
Should tag wiki excerpts include "for issues relating to"?
What's the current policy on ...
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The number in the indicator showing the number of mod flags outstanding is hard to read.
The white on yellow is very hard to read:
Can we have more contrast between the number and the background?
ChrisFMod
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Missing tag wikis
I've just looked at the tags page and noticed that there aren't very many with tag wikis.
Other sites have been trying to make sure that at least the first two pages of tags have wiki entries.
I'll ...
ChrisFMod
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