Unanswered Questions
68 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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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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Ads test beginning December 3, 2024
We’ve been exploring the concept of using open auction to manage advertising on some Stack Exchange sites. Under this model, advertisers (who have been organized into categories based on their ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 was this question deemed "off-topic?"
This recent question was closed as off-topic. The question asked for help in removing a bathtub strainer, which seems to me a reasonable plumbing-related question.
I agree that the question is not ...
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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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Duplicates that are a new view of an old question
This one Plumber drilled through exterior 2x4s - that's bad, right?
I kind of like, because it's new detailed pictures of an old problem.
It's like the answer is common but the question is unique ...