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A friendly reminder: ELL is not EL&U's trash can
Everyone's banging on about that one bad question that was migrated.
Someone lets their dog crap in my yard and I go out and scoop it. Now I can toss it in the garbage, or I can go leave it on my ...
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Should we have a migration path to ELL?
status-completed
As of 22 September 2015, we do have this capability, courtesy of The Powers Who Do That Sort Of Thing.
As WendiKidd has implied in her answer, there are risks and potential ...
Andrew LeachMod
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One answer to a Q. is suited to ELL, but the other answer is suited to EL&U
I composed a response to this question several days ago but didn't post it because it seemed tangential to the question that TrevorD raises. The interesting comments (most recently Araucaria's and Dan ...
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Extraordinary spike in low-quality questions by 1 rep users
TL:DR - The SE system breaks down when there is a lack of comradery throughout the community. Our proactive options are: change the system or try to change people. Systems are a lot easier to program.....
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Removal of both the [grammar] tag and its mention in the ELU tour and help center pages
The grammar tag should be blacklisted.
It's not useful: a question about grammar will almost certainly be able to find more specific tags, and new users simply think that everything is covered by "...
Andrew LeachMod
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Flagging a Question as a Duplicate of an ELL Question
Disclaimer - I'm answering this from the ELL perspective, so this answer says nothing about how the ELU community would like to handle these sorts of situations.
If you're aware that there is a ...
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What should we do about closed questions that should be migrated?
If a question is closed here, it is generally because it does not meet our quality guidelines. (See What Types of Questions should I Avoid Asking.) If it is a decent question that meets the ...
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Which users have close vote privileges both here and on ELL?
Through the magic of T-SQL I've found the answer. You can run my query here, with the data being updated weekly. There are currently 57 users with close/reopen privileges on both sites (not including ...
LaurelMod
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Removal of both the [grammar] tag and its mention in the ELU tour and help center pages
Removing the "grammar" tag is unnecessary.
I don't strongly object to the blacklisting or removal of the grammar tag, but I don't think it would be very helpful either, and I'm a bit ...
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Extraordinary spike in low-quality questions by 1 rep users
Spot ELL on the home page of Stack Exchange sites. On the other hand, it's hard to miss EL&U, and its size suggests that the site is successful. Could this home page be partly responsible for ...
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One answer to a Q. is suited to ELL, but the other answer is suited to EL&U
Of course there's a way to deal with the problem, and that's to disband the CPVPV or at least change its members' absurd dedication to the supposed purity of this site. You can find this attitude ...
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On the recently-migrated question "Need help with understanding the sentence"
I definitely would have edited the question to add the comment. It isn't putting words in his mouth because it is something the OP said himself. It doesn't change the meaning of the question.
I think ...
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Should we have a migration path to ELL?
I'm one of the more active users in moderation over on ELL, so you can imagine I viewed this proposal with a certain degree of concern, and in fact I voiced caution on ELL's matching meta post.
But, ...
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Should we have a migration path to ELL?
As a moderator on ELL, I'm going to try and explain why I think this is a Well Intentioned but Very Bad Idea.
I get that the request for an ELU->ELL migration path has come up in the past, an ...
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Artificial Intelligence to Detect ELL worthy questions
Questions should only be migrated if they are both off-topic for the site and on-topic on another site, so not only would the AI have to detect whether it was off-topic here, it would need to detect ...
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Removal of both the [grammar] tag and its mention in the ELU tour and help center pages
The problem I see with blacklisting or removing the grammar tag is that when I go to edit a question to remove the tag, I'm stuck trying to think of some other tag to put on the question. Using ...
LaurelMod
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Removal of both the [grammar] tag and its mention in the ELU tour and help center pages
The grammar tag should be blacklisted.
It's not useful: a question about grammar will almost certainly be able to find more specific tags, and new users simply think that everything is covered by "...
Andrew LeachMod
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What should and shouldn't be migrated to ELL?
It turns out ELL's meta has the best resource on this here. As I cannot mark something as a cross site duplicate, I'll note the key point of what's considered on topic for ELL:
If your question is ...
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ELL ad is out of date
The ELL community ad has now been updated, and should now match the site’s graduation theme.
tchristMod
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What should be done with "Another" vs "other"?
Firstly, I think the only one who should roll back edits that add additional research is the original poster. Only that person can determine if his intention was violated. Otherwise it's just two ...
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What should be done with "Another" vs "other"?
I personally wish to refrain from casting judgement on the matter of determining whether this is a duplicate question, as my judgement on the matter seems to frequently be at odds with the community ...
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One answer to a Q. is suited to ELL, but the other answer is suited to EL&U
I can't see there's any problem at all. The ELL stack is quite explicitly dedicated to 'speakers of other languages learning English'. There is nothing in that description about the nature of a ...
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Extraordinary spike in low-quality questions by 1 rep users
I went over 3K a few days ago, and started on the close-vote queue. I am allowed to vote on only 20 posts per day. I can understand why there is a daily limit, but 20 per day is low.
As with ...
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