Unanswered Questions
85 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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No low rep voting, please!
There is a system-wide plan to test lower voting threshholds - basically 1 point for up or down voting (so any new registered user) with no downvote penalty. The full details are here on Meta SE..
The ...
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I'm stepping down from moderation duties, and here's why
I simply do not have the amount of time to give, that I think this site deserves. While my family continues to grow, "free time" has become a thing of the past. My responsibilities at work have also ...
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I feel sorry for Tester101
The question activity this morning makes it look like @Tester101 has the worst-constructed house in the industrialized world.
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Congratulations on **300k** Harper
Congratulations Harper on hitting 100,000 200,000 300,000 reputation!
2024-03-12 Update: Harper is now the first person to reach 300,000 imaginary internet points on DIY!
2021-11-02 Update: Harper is ...
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3-vote close - how's it going?
UPDATE: While the testing period has ended, this change has been well-received by the community so we have opted to not reset the votes needed to close/reopen to 5 while we look at data.
Please let me ...
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Can we just upvote questions more?
Don't have much to say. I thumb through questions. I upvote anything that contains all info needed and is not a repeat. However I often see comments on the question from our top 30 users and see no ...
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Would you like to help promote the site by giving away pencils?
So I made up these DIY pencils:
They look great AND I have oodles of them. If you'd like to give these away, such as at a local hardware store or leaving them at a Habitat ReStore counter, that's ...
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Are questions about safety-equipment testing off-topic?
A question I had asked about checking respirators awhile back was recently closed as "off-topic". From my understanding, it would fall under tools & best practices for home improvement ...
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Why were flags on these conversational/argumentative comments declined?
Stack Exchange guidance on the use of comments specifies
You should submit a comment if you want to:
Request clarification from the author;
Leave constructive criticism that guides the author in ...
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Announcement: new users can now post images
Since the beginning of Stack Exchange, new users—those with less than 10 rep—have not been allowed to add images to their posts. Since this can be a deterrent for them, other users on ...
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2012 Community Moderator Election Results
Home Improvement's second moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the two new moderators are:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly - please thank them for ...
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We've got a blog! Would you like to contribute to it?
First off, we've got a blog!
Would you like to contribute to it? You'll need to contact an administrator for an account. We need to know your username here on diy.stackexchange.com, and we'll need ...
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New Design Launched
Hi All, as you can see the new design just went live. Which means this site has been officially launched! Congratulations!
If you're still seeing the old favicons, please load the follow urls and do ...
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Home Improvement or DIY - scope change to grow site
Buried in comments and answers to other questions here on meta (some linked below), there is an underlying questions that we need to talk about. Are we a Home Improvement community or a DIY community?...
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We should [finish] this
We have way too many tags about finish, and not an excerpt to be found
finish - 44 questions
finishing - 127 questions
wood-finish - 18 questions
wood-finishing - 56 questions
And then we have
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The [panel] tag is vague
panel - 31 questions
Most are meaning electrical-panel but there's a couple talking about wood paneling and one about fence panels. We should probably retag the non-electrical ones and synonym.
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2013 Moderator Election Results
Home Improvement's third moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for ...
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Did you know that we have flyers?
So, I talked to our wonderful and amazing designer, Jin, and he was kind enough to whip up a flyer for me to post up here so that you all can use it!
Check it out:
(Full size here.)
These are ...
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2012 Community Moderator Election
The 2012 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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2018: 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, in ...
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New custom close reason here on meta
I've proposed the following new custom close reason for here on Meta.DIY:
The problem described here can no longer be reproduced. Changes to the system or to the circumstances affecting the asker ...
ChrisFMod
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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 ...
ChrisFMod
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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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Burninate this [old-house] tag
Insert Bob Villa joke here. Also, obligatory link to what Burnination is
old-house
Saw someone editing this into a question. This is the very definition of a meta tag
The reason meta-tags are a ...
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Is the diy-vs-pro tag useful?
Currently there are 43 questions with the diy-vs-pro tag. Looking quickly through the list, I couldn't find any that were asking if they should do a job or hire a pro. Is this tag useful in any way, ...
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Synonym [splicing] and [splices]
We've got two tags that overlap
splicing
splices
Both are exclusively used in the electrical sense from what I can see.
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Gas cans should be on-topic per the Help Center
As stated in the question, filling a gas can at a gas station is a common home improvement task that enables me to perform other home improvement tasks at home.
How to easily fill a gas can at a ...
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New redesign removes spaces between user, vote count, question & answer and vote count, and is as a result ugly
Some time in the last few weeks ugly things happened to the site pages.
No spaces Between 1&Vote, 2&Answers, 2K&Views.
No spaces between userhandle, votes, and asked, answered etc. Yet ...
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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.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Editor eating parts of my answer
In this question:
Is it OK to run 12-3 cable to a ceiling fan from a switch that's wired with 12-2?
My answer started out:
Either is fine.
Scope out the edit history.
That was eaten (...
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The number in the suggested edits indicator on meta.DIY is hard to read
On this meta site, the number and the background of the suggested edit notification are almost exactly the same color. There's a '2' inside the notification shown here:
Could one of them please be ...
Niall C.Mod
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2012 Community Moderator Town Hall Chat
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Town Hall Chat session with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the ...
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Should the "Title:" label on the question entry form be changed to "Question:"?
RE: Should every question's title be edited into a short question?
In my opinion, this would re-enforce the idea the question titles should be QUESTIONS.
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How do you feel about sharing DIY.SE content on Pinterest?
Update: Since there's been no objection here, I've started pinning things to a Home Improvement board on the Stack Exchange Pinterest account. If you're on Pinterest (or if you're just curious what ...
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Do I look OK in that shirt?
Thanks for the welcome pack! First sun out in UK could not resist some DIY work.
:-)
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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.
As most of you here might be ...
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Vote to Close - different site - add sites?
I just added a Vote to Close How to make a DIY video player? As I have found in the past, the only option for "This question belongs on another site in the Stack Exchange network" is https://diy.meta....
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Why is there a product-recomendation tag if those questions are "off topic"?
Just noticed this tag today: https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/product-recommendation
Should we at least point out that they are off-topic questions in the tag details or delete the tag ...
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What online tools exist for creating home wiring diagrams?
In the Q&A Request Support for CircuitLab schematic editor, I disagreed with the proposal to use CircuitLab for creating wiring diagrams.
But that raises the question if there is an app that ...
Niall C.Mod
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Will DIY.SE be allowing SE advertising?
I know some of the other SE sites are utilizing some "cross-pollination" where, if related to the main topic, put up an advertisement if the community agrees to a connection. For example:
Movies.SE ...
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Are moving or transport questions on topic?
Bizarrely, this isn't the first time I've seen a question asking how to build a custom hoist. That's not the approach I'd take in the first place, so it's something of an XY question. It's also not ...
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Add "delayed close"?
Some of our close reasons include a request for additional information, with the implication that this might allow them to reopen. That strikes me as somewhat off-putting to newcomers, so I tend to ...
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Tags for things that aren't on topic?
I asked this question - How to get rid of tiny brown ants?
Simple question, chose ants and pest-control as tags.
Then was told that question is off-topic? What? How can a question be off-topic if ...
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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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Are tool identification questions appropriate?
Noticing that there are no tool-identification or identification tags, I found this meta discussion where consensus was that such a tag wasn't needed or appropriate.
However, nothing in that question ...
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