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10 questions linked to/from 2014 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
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2014 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic ...
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Word for disrespecting eldest half-sister by referring to her husband as girly-girl-manly-boy though he's amused but the rest of the family isn't?
Are these single word requests getting out of hand, or am I just still too new to this site to recognize a long-standing problem and standard ways of dealing with them?
I thought that by using ...
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Bring back the Summer of Love (aka Make new users feel more welcome)
I'm a big fan of SE sites and spend an awful lot of time on StackOverflow. When I saw an English Language site, I pointed a few of my friends and family this way (one of whom is an English professor ...
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So, are non-native speakers not welcome any more?
If I may, I would like to share some of my feelings about this website with you.
I used to think of english.stackexchange as a welcoming place for educated people from all around the world who are ...
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This is not a site for "serious English language enthusiasts," and it never will be
I think it's time that we addressed the conceit that ELU is a site for "linguists, etymologists, and serious English language enthusiasts." Its framers and many of its devotees intend for it to be ...
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Do we want to enable post limits?
The question of posting limitations was brought up several months ago, wherein we learned that there are post limits for some SE sites and not for others. We learned that the limitations are 6 ...
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Has anyone thought about changing the name of this site?
Wouldn't "Advanced English Language & Usage" be more appropriate and cut down the ELL questions?
Just by the name of the site the users who post "ELL" are right. I believe this site poorly named....
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What the "primarily opinion-based" close reason is for
(tl;dr version: "Primarily opinion-based" is designed to stop "What's the best X?"-type questions. It's not supposed to be used on every single question that involves opinions.)
Until last year, one ...
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Can I ask here a question that I have already asked on English Language Learners?
I have some questions that I could ask both on https://english.stackexchange.com/ and https://ell.stackexchange.com/.
Can I ask them in both places?
For that matter, would this question be better ...
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Why does this post require moderator advice on format?
Irritatingly I have taken some noise recently on my original answer (prior to editing) here - My original answer was "Are you referring to "open secret"...".
This was jumped on almost immediately by ...
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