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Be Nice - A Reminder
I completely agree that this community is "open and helpful" and in my opinion also very reasonable and polite.
I really want to stress that: There is no "bad apple" here on TGO. As mentioned ...
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Apocalyptic questions?
No, we do not need an apocalyptic tag. Questions would be either off-topic or fit under the survival tag.
A problem with apocalyptic questions is that questions usually do not address an actual ...
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Can we increase the amount of voting/reviewing on the site?
While I think this is a great post (+1) and there is clearly room for more voting (up, down, questions, answers, close, open), I think we need to be clear it best to vote appropriately, don't vote ...
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Is "is it actually useful to ration food?" on-topic for this site?
My two cents:
You either call it out in your original question that you are purely interested in nutrition and thereby make it out of scope for TGO, or
You make it purely within scope of TGO by ...
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Scope, from the tour: "Focus on questions about an **actual problem** you have faced."
Currently, in the growth phase, questions that are of relevance to a number of our members should still be allowed to remain.
Sure, the amps/watts one possibly would have been better on Electronics, ...
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To get rid of spam/rude posts quickly, ask the users in the Charcoal HQ chat room
Charcoal member here. Some clarification:
Manually reporting spam to us is awesome; obviously, cast a spam flag yourself as well to make it happen even quicker.
Bear in mind that Charcoal focuses on ...
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Photo Competition: March - Fauna
Wild reindeer in northern Sweden, August 2014. A friend and I were on the last hours of our hiking trip, when he signalled freeze and something ahead. Usually, the reindeer always ran away when they ...
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Photo Competition: July - Close up
A hornet ready for take-off. Picture taken on a camp ground at the shores of Lake Ossiach, Austria, in 2010.
There was a whole nest in this tree, and while I was not fully comfortable taking that ...
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Please consider upvoting the questions you answer
This has come up on the wider meta.se on occasion as well. I think it is a good idea - and it doesn't cost anything - but the general consensus is that while it is good practice, we can't obviously ...
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Questions about wildlife support on The Great Outdoors
I think they would be on topic, we already have a few similar questions,
Foxes in the living room - what causes this behavior?
How to tell the difference between bobcats and house cats?
Is there ...
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Photo Competition: January 2019 - From the top!
This photo was taken in August 2016 on the Fimmvörðuháls pass, between the Eyjafjallajökull and Mýrdalsjökull. This was an exposed plateau on the north side, giving a view to the east up the side of ...
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Photo Competition: May - Do It Yourself Outdoor Gear
Rope meter
I made this last Friday as a cheap alternative to a professional meter (costing hundreds of pounds) for measuring SRT ropes for caving. The measuring wheel was £10 from Amazon, and ...
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Photo Competition June: Baby or Juvenile Animals in TGO
Northern Sweden, August 2014. The other reindeer that didn't see us peeking around the rock.
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Does cooking game belong here under Hunting, or on the Cooking SE?
I pretty much agree with both answers, but want to introduce an additional aspect, which is the complexity of the cooking.
If the OP is asking about elaborate recipes, with sauces and garnishes and/...
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What should I do when a new user posts a lot of low quality, late answers to old questions, at the same time?
When I logged on to find ab2's alert in chat, I checked the flags, and not only were there flags against all the posts by that unregistered user account, there were also ones under two more ...
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Can we increase the amount of voting/reviewing on the site?
As a rule of thumb, if I decide to invest any time into a question, be it providing an answer or leaving a comment, then I feel obligated to provide an upvote for the question as well.
If you take ...
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What to do when you cringe at reading one of your old answers?
There is a part of growing where you realize that your old writings where not as good as they could be, in programming you know that a project has truly become yours when you read code, go "WHAT ...
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Having a monthly photo competition in Meta?
No reason we can't run our own "competitions." There won't be a prize, of course, unless someone volunteers to provide one or badgers SE into providing something, but we can certainly have a post of ...
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Photo Competition: April - At Home in The Great Outdoors
A couple of years ago, I spent a week exploring the east coasts of Benbecula and South Uist, and took this photo of one of my overnight camp sites, looking back north along the coast I'd just paddled. ...
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Photo Competition June: Baby or Juvenile Animals in TGO
This is a baby wallaby with its mother. I took this photo while visiting the Kuranda Koala Garden near Cairns, Australia.
Date: July 15, 2015
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Does cooking game belong here under Hunting, or on the Cooking SE?
Cooking game while outdoors (camping, backpacking, etc) = Outdoors
Cleaning/Dressing game taken while outdoors for later cooking = Outdoors
Cooking game in your home that happened to be obtained ...
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Would railbiking be on topic?
As the questions Walking through an active railway tunnel during a long distance walk & Where in the world are train-track right of ways, also public right of ways? did ok, I can't see any reason ...
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Would railbiking be on topic?
I think questions about these bikes would be more appropriate on bicycles.SE if the focus is on the bikes themselves. If it is more about the "outdoors aspects", then it should be ok here.
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Is it my imagination, or are we getting a lot of new users?
So I ran this query which shows the number of registered users over time and it looks like the rate of increase has actually slacked off some.
The Y axis is the number of users and the X is the ...
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Suggest community promotion ads 2018
Copy and paste this code to an established site meta such as Travel,Mathematics, Worldbuilding or Judaism to get it suggested there.
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Should the motivation of a question and not the activity determine whether it's on topic or not?
I would say that we should keep it open, but with a few edits. There are a few good examples of whistles/compass being tied using knots. I'm not sure how to edit the question without losing the ...
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Can we get a featured image added to the site theme?
Yes, provided that we have a couple of months of success with the monthly photo contest
Top photo from last month is next month's featured image.
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Photo Competion: February - Freezing Cold
Tent message
28 December 1992. Somebody evidently happened by my wild camp in the Kirriereoch forest (in Galloway) whilst I spent the day on the Merrick, and was clearly not envious!
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