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Can we get the "No AI" banner enabled?
I'm just going to copy/paste my answer from Super User's Meta on the same topic…
Yes.
It can't hurt. It costs us nothing. People will either read it & pay attention or not, but if only 1% read it &...
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Change the site's primary URL to homeimprovement.stackexchange.com
Good suggestion. However, my experience on multiple SE sites is that folks don't much care what the domain name reads. If they have a problem they want to plop it somewhere to get relief. The fact ...
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Why so many Community bumps? Can/should it be changed?
Community bumps questions that have no upvoted answers. The rationale behind this is that the question hasn't been satisfactorily answered yet so it needs more attention
The way to stop the question ...
ChrisFMod
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Difference between legal questions and questions about building code
Contractors or tradespeople are generally licensed at the state level, but permitting is done at the city or county level, where it's even done at all. Permitting varies by jurisdiction, where some ...
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Is it possible for a non-OP to select an answer?
Keep in mind that "disappearing OPs" are also an artifact of StackExchange's mellow approach to user accounts. Casual site visitors are given persistent cookies meant to survive 20 years or ...
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Request Support for CircuitLab schematic editor
It agree that it would be great to have a tool for creating wiring diagrams, but I don't think that CircuitLab is well suited to the type of diagrams that we'd typically need on Home Improvement.
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Niall C.Mod
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Can we get the "No AI" banner enabled?
The banner for no AI content allowed has been turned on. Apologies for the long turnaround time.
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Should the How to Ask page be fleshed out a tad?
Mods don't have the ability to update that page, but we can edit on-topic with custom content.
The how to ask page appears to be the same for all the SE sites that I looked at (with the exception of ...
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Close -> A community-specific reason -> INCONSISTENT
It's because the question was previously migrated, and SE has extra steps for mods to migrate a previously migrated question. Unfortunately, those steps are currently broken (500, internal server ...
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Can we add an identification tag?
I could talk a bunch about ideas on strictness of criteria and such when it comes to identification questions across the network, but I think that's a genuinely different problem than what we're ...
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Can we add an identification tag?
I came here to ask this exact question. I would like to note that as of this time there are 944 results when searching for "what is tool" on the site. This seems like more than enough content to ...
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Hard to find "ask question" button
Stack Exchange is currently rolling out new site theme, "responsive design site themes" on all* SE Q&A sites, which basically looks like current Stack Overflow. You can see which sites have ...
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Where does this "close question" message come from?
Our site is at our 3/3 custom close reasons, so one of the top three in that list would need to be first deactivated to add a new reason. Feel free to propose replacing on of our reasons here in meta. ...
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Image Shrinking/Upload
A little-known fact about JPEG is that quality is adjustable via its "Q" parameter which ranges from 1 to 10. This is chosen when the file is saved. The "Q" parameter dramatically ...
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Is it possible for a non-OP to select an answer?
For Community to bump the question, it must be:
non-negatively scored, open questions every hour that have at least one answer scoring 0 and none scoring more than that
(Source)
Therefore my ...
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Reminder to Add Pics to Questions
On the other hand, there are plenty of times that pictures aren't all that important. Looking through the first page of questions at this very moment:
Have pictures: 28
Do not have pictures but would ...
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Why are so many "Off-topic" reasons listed in the "On-topic" page?
The moderators only have edit access to the on-topic page. I believe the don't ask page is standard across all SE sites. If there are changes to the on-topic page, feel free to raise those in meta for ...
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why doesn't home improvement require a country tag?
Because there are plenty of other questions where location really does not matter. Some recent examples:
Increasing the distance from the wall of my pull up bar
Does a regular (outlet) fan work for ...
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Possible to reward users for providing before and after pictures?
If I understand correctly, you want to reward an answer more than an upvote/acceptance? If it is, then you can put a bounty on the question after it has been posted for 2 days, then select "reward an ...
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Is it possible to type equations in DIY (similar to that in math.stackexchange)?
The math-typing feature (which is named MathJax, by the way) is enabled on a few SE sites, but not this one at the moment. Our standard procedure when we get any request for a special site plugin like ...
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"Hire a professional" answers
There's times when "call an electrician" is necessary to prevent the DIY users here from killing themselves and others. The fact that you deleted my answer, which was the TOP ANSWER with 30+ votes, ...
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Request Support for CircuitLab schematic editor
Electrical isn't electronics. The difference is Wiring Methods
In DC electronics you see wires going every which-way. You see it in breadboard spaghetti, in PCB traces, in schematics. We can't do ...
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