Unanswered Questions
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I'm taking a leave of absence from moderating
Update 1/20/2020: called2voyage has resumed moderation, more info here.
I’ve wrestled for some time with how to approach this issue, but I’ve finally come to a decision. The bottom-line is that it ...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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Returning to moderation
I've been giving a lot of thought to the question of resignation over the weekend, and one thing that kept going through my head was Jon Ericson's blog post. Despite what he had to say about ...
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Regarding moderating the new Code of Conduct
To hopefully alleviate concerns regarding the new Code of Conduct, I want to explain how I intend to moderate regarding pronoun use.
When speaking generically, posts should use gender neutral ...
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2022 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #2 on Space Exploration has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the first full moderator team is:
You can find them on the moderators tab — please thank them for ...
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This site has accessibility problems
In my opinion, too many questions and too many answers rely on images and videos. To be accessible to the visually impaired, authors who use images in their questions and answers should write ...
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Summer of Space
There are 3 large potentially helpful sources of questions that are going on right now. I suggest we take as much advantage of them as possible, to see if we can get this site promoted to the next ...
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How do we remind people not to feed the trolls?
We have a lazy spammer sending a couple copies of the same essay (rockets are real) in per day. During this time some users comment, say not to do this, etc.
Having lived a lifetime on the internet, ...
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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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How does the community feel about rolling back inconsequential edits?
In the past week or so I feel like there have been several/many edits that make very minor diction changes to other user's posts, without changing the semantic content. Here's a couple examples, ...
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Community Policy Repository
This is the official repository for general community policy decisions.
On Posts
What is the best approach to asking questions?
Can I write an answer to my own question and accept it?
When can I post ...
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What is the [shuttle-shuttle] tag for?
Title pretty much says it all.
What is the [shuttle-shuttle] tag for? How is it different from space-shuttle?
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Announcing a “Graduation” election for 2022
Summary: Space Exploration Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for an election on 28 March, as your “graduation” election.
The timeline:
On 21 March, I'll post a question collection post ...
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2022 Community Moderator Election
The 2022 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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Have any ideas posted on this site been successfully implemented in a space exploration endeavor?
Has any break through been made on Space.SE and incorporated? If so which question or answer was the most helpful?