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Let's Reopen Rappelling with One Arm
I voted to reopen Rappelling with one arm because, even though it is related to Rappelling with an injured arm, it is significantly different.
In the Injured Arm question, the person in the question ...
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What should we do with homework questions?
This Meta question is prompted by this question about the difference between front country and back country camping. Before an edit, it started with the statement "I have an assignment about..." which ...
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Photo Competition: December 2018 - Trails
We are announcing a fun activity to have a photo competition each month.
There two sets of rules:
Rules that are always applicable.
Rules that are applicable to a particular theme of competition (...
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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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Having a monthly photo competition in Meta?
I just came to know about this Photo competition December 2018 on Travel.SE.
I find it pretty much fun :-)
I sort of informally asked if it okay to have such a thing at our meta site.
But, that not ...
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What was it about the comments on #19606 that violated "Be Nice"?
I recently asked a question about training for a long distance hike, and I felt like one of the answers was written with a condescending and rude tone.
I left a comment to let the author know that I ...
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How is the question about a whether a particular weight strategy makes sense off topic?
This question was migrated to English Language and Usage (ELU) despite,
Being specifically about backpacking (there are other variations of the saying that have the subject of money or writing that ...
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Do we really want to ban hypothetical questions?
Despite being shot down earlier, it is again being debated whether or not hypothetical questions should be allowed and whether we should abide by the "Real problems or questions that you’ve ...
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What are the goals of the TGO?
There has been a lot of back and forth about scope and broadness in TGO questions.
The conversations tend to focus around how a particular question, then another does not meet someones vision of ...
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If you cannot give a short explanation why you downvoted a Meta question or answer, should you downvote it?
We all know that downvoters on TGO and any SE site are a fact of life that has to be accepted. Unless there is a pattern of serial downvoting, complaining is pointless, and can sound whiny.
However, ...
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What is the policy regarding flags on comments in chat rooms?
Each comment in The Base Camp chat room has a flag beside it.
Hovering over it says "flag this message as spam, inappropriate or offensive."
I have a few questions about that flag and its ...
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Would a "what bit me" question be on topic?
Let's please begin with the understanding that I have already sought and received professional medical care.
I have in my travels encountered some critter, which had some venom. It seems this ...
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How is it in the best interest of TGO to migrate bycycle questions to other sites?
I Posted a question about bicycles at TGO and it was closed and migrated to another site.
Bikes are in scope at both bicycles.stackexchange.com and TGO
How does it benefit TGO to migrate inscope ...
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"Chicken and egg" problem for our "too broad" decisions
I have been noticing a chicken&egg problem (Ie: The classic "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?").
People ask questions because they don't know the answer, obviously, so they want help ...
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What can we learn from our reactions to the glacier question as opposed to the impalement question?
First, let's dispose of the hypotheticality aspect. The response to Charlie Brumbaugh's Meta question about hypothetical questions was that there is nothing wrong with hypothetical questions, per se.
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Scope, from the tour: "Focus on questions about an **actual problem** you have faced."
This question what-would-cause-gelcoat-in-a-boat-repair-not-to-harden
Interesting question with a researched answer but I am not seeing how it is in scope as defined in the tour.
Focus on ...
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Can a "spoiler" be used to hide a video?
I've seen "spoilers" on some sites, where the text or picture is "hidden" behind some sort of box. If you hover over the box, you can see what's under it. The point is that if you don't want to see it,...
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Is the StackExchange HTML 5 video support enabled for The Great Outdoors?
According to a meta.stackexchange answer, YouTube/HTML-5 video embedding has been allowed for a few years now.
All Stack Exchange sites that have either YouTube or SoundCloud embedding enabled now ...
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How does a question get bumped without any apparent activity?
This old question how-to-find-new-poles-for-old-tent showed up in my list of questions. The list says "modified yesterday fred 1" but I see no apparent activity by anyone named fred or anyone else. ...
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I'm not complaining, in fact I think it is funny, but why was my flag denied?
This question asking the purpose of a criss-crossed elastic strap elicited this answer:
to put the jars filled with the blood of your enemies.
which I flagged as
Repulsive and smart-alecky ...
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Do we want a post notice for questions where people are using equipment in ways that are clearly incorrect or dangerous?
Is it possible to get a site-specific post notice (e.g., Request for a new post notice for The Workplace: "sensitive topic / be nice") that can either alert users to proper site behavior or ...
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How can we throttle back on incorrect VTCs on the ground of opinion based?
The reason Opinion Based (OB) is used too frequently to close questions. Two examples:
Why are long distance trails so much more famous in the US than in Europe?
What top items did the teams ...
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Can we delete the closed questions that were "closed as cross-site posts?"
We have three questions that were closed as cross-site posts, meaning that someone posted the same question on more than one site.
https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/16078/how-does-...
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Is the off site resource close reason valid on this site?
There is a close reason on Stack Overflow that says,
Questions asking us to recommend or find a book, tool, software library, tutorial or other off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow as ...
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How to get across that a bear is not a bear is not a bear?
Many questions about bears on TGO ask merely about bears. The OP assumes a bear is a bear is a bear. But we all know this is not so.
The latest question about bears deals with changing clothes ...
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On-topic? And tag suggestion: bush-crafting
TL;DR: Bush-crafting - on topic? - tag?
This question goes hand in hand with the one I just asked about the on-topicness of filtering and carbon usage. I thought of this question while finishing up ...
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Why are the sailing and the paddleboating questions too broad?
A relatively new user took the Meta question Why can't we get the question rate up? to heart, and posted a question about beginning boating. That question was very broad, and probably should have ...
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Why can't we get the question rate up?
It's frustrating that there aren't more questions to answer. If I keep checking for new questions and there aren't any, eventually I am going to stop bothering to check and then because I am mostly ...
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On-topicness of discussions about filtration/purification mechanics
We have a lot of questions/answers which revolve around the use of filters and purifiers for air and, even more, water.
TL;DR: It would be beneficial to TGO to have information that helps people with ...
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Suggest community promotion ads 2018
Update on results:
One posted to Scifi -> never got enough votes to work.
One posted to Travel -> 1 click since March 6th maybe because it exceeded the filesize requirements and so was never actually ...
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Is self-promotion spam?
This question is triggered by me flagging a post, that does not try to answer the question and contains a link to a camera comparison, a moderator reviewing and declining it and @studiohack removing ...
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Questions about wildlife support on The Great Outdoors
I am pretty active on Pets.se, answering questions about helping wildlife are out of scope there. A couple of days ago we got the question How to help a wild baby parrot who cannot fly? I did post ...
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Composing quality answers
A trend has started on tgo.SE where answers are being composed almost exclusively out of quoted snippets from other sites with very little narrative. While this demonstrates a knack for googling ...
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Let's be more proactive in protecting old questions
We have a bunch of good questions with good answers and lots of views, but we keep getting low-quality posts from brand new users on them that end up getting deleted.
For example,
What's the ...
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What is a shopping question part 2 (Does X exist?)
Are questions that ask if a product exists off or on topic?
Usually in these cases the person already knows what they need to solve their problem, they just need to know if it actually exists
For ...
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What is a shopping question part 3 (What X should I buy?)
Are questions asking which product to buy off or on topic?
For example,(first 2 open, rest closed)
What are the suitable choices of crampons for Scarpa Charmoz GTX Women boots?
What Rope to purchase?...
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Why Was My Answer Deleted?
I recently posted an answer to the question Dealing with rashes between thighs and around the groin. The answer stated:
Others have good advice: none-cotton, tight underwear; balm or talcum powder; ...
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What to do when you cringe at reading one of your old answers?
Some of my answers from several years ago make me cringe. They are badly formatted (except when some Good Samaritan edited them), and sometimes not very thoughtful. At least one is strange: why did I ...
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Would best locations to see X when Y questions be on topic?
So planning a scuba diving trip has got me wondering if questions where someone asks where to see specific animals/plants/natural formations would be on topic, either on a global or national scale?
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Can we change our tag line to include more topics and make us easier to find?
A recent question on main Meta entitled Is there any site about animals or nature? led me to look at our tagline. And I have to say I didn't like what I found:
For people who love outdoor ...
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Merge [canyoneering] with [canyoning], and [abseiling] with [rappelling]
canyoning and canyoneering are essentially the same thing, just with regional variation in what it's called. I propose that these tags be merged and a synonym created to avoid confusion. I've ...
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What is a shopping question part 1 (Where can I buy X?)
Are questions where a user asks Where can I buy X? on or off topic?
Where can I buy X? (all examples open but the last 3)
Where to buy ethanol in Canada?
Where can I buy bear banger launcher and ...
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What is a shopping question part 4 (What features should I look for in X?)
Are questions asking what features ones should look for in a product or comparing one set of features to another on or off topic?
These 4 are the only questions like this that I know of that are ...
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What is a shopping question part 5 (How can I solve problem Y? Answer: You should buy X)
Sometimes users will ask How can I solve problem Y and then the other answers will recommend product Y, are these off or on-topic?
For example,
What's the best or easiest way to attach a loop ...
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What exactly is a "shopping" question?
We keep going round and round and round on this, and don't seem to be able to decide on what is, and what is not a shopping question.
I have split this into 5 parts so we can vote on each ...
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Adding question feeds to the chat room
It is possible to add feeds to the chat room. For example, a lot of sites like to add the meta site as a feed so that new meta questions show up on chat. It is also possible to follow a particular tag ...
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"Where can I buy" vs. "Price shopping"
Referring to: Where can I buy bear banger launcher and ammunition and have them shipped to US?.
This question is not price shopping assistance. It is, at the core, a question of how to get ...
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Why did my new anwer not bump up the Squirrel question to the top of the question list?
I'm not complaining, I'm just curious.
I wrote an answer to the question about humanely killing a squirrel and was surprised to see that my answer had not bumped the question to the top of the ...
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Do we have a tag for "fitness training"?
I was reading this question and realized it didn't have a tag relevant to physical fitness.
I wanted to add the training tag, but the description doesn't seem fit for a "fitness training". It says:
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To get rid of spam/rude posts quickly, ask the users in the Charcoal HQ chat room
I recently discovered something, instead of flagging something as spam and then putting a link into the site chat, you can ask the users in the Charcoal HQ room to report it.
On the two I have done ...