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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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Enough with the flood of artificial questions!
I didn't want to pop my opinion on until key contributors from the community had had a chance to, in case I skewed things, but I have to say I am in agreement that OddDeer adding a good stack of ...
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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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Do we really want to assist suicide?
If you look at the question, it has nothing to do with assisting suicide - it's a very reasonable question to ask of those who have experience in freezing environments so that the OP can recognise the ...
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Is it good to add attribution for answers copied from other sites?
Many thanks for doing this - the two options are to comment to the OP to add the attribution themself or to add it in for them. I commend you on doing it yourself - it helps us avoid outright ...
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Which sports need to be discussed?
In my opinion there are many sports which are played outdoors but - at least for my part - don't have an especially strong connection to nature or The Great Outdoors(TM).
Just to start listing some ...
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Should “nature management” be on-topic?
My general thought to "on-topic" "off-topic" is that we should not be preemptive in our definitions. Ask the questions. Nine times out of ten the community will resolve the question without any fuss ...
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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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Do we really want to assist suicide?
I have no experience or training recognizing suicidal behaviors. For better or worse, I personally wouldn't consider this question in isolation to be a sign that someone was considering suicide. If a ...
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Should animal behavior be on topic
In my opinion trying to decipher animal noises to human feelings, words, or emotions is off-topic, speculative, and subjective. I personally feel that animals can feel and express emotions but ...
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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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Enough with the flood of artificial questions!
Firstly, I really disagree about the fact people are seeding topics... this has been talked about in Meta before. See: We need to get the question rate up
Secondly, whilst there has clearly been a ...
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everything seems in scope here
Not sure exactly what your question is, but if it is to say that the way we do things here is different to fitness.SE then yes, I'll happily agree.
If you are trying to say it is not holding true to ...
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Do we need to tag explicit hunting questions somehow?
No, please don't. This site includes support for a lot of sportsman's activities so things can get slimy and squishy on occasion. There's no need to be overly gratuitous, but don't tell a hunter to ...
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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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