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sceptics.se should redirect to skeptics.se
The URL http://sceptics.stackexchange.com (currently dead) should redirect to the page http://skeptics.stackexchange.com; all /path URLs should likewise redirect. (Sceptics is the Commonwealth ...
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Oddthinking has 100k reputation!
We've just reached a milestone: User Oddthinking has reached an incredible 100k reputation!
I would like to congratulate Oddthinking with this major achievement and his unparalleled contribution to ...
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Can we enable TeX?
Please feel free to edit this question! At current this question needs examples of existing posts and how they could be improved. Additionally, more links to related resources could be helpful.
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High rep users should be able to add and remove post notices
As you know we use a lot of post notices on this site. I think they are very useful and work very well, but only moderators can add and remove them.
I see no reason why that should be the case.
I ...
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Some basic skepticism tips when reading the news, and applying this to answers
I've railed against politics questions on this site in the past. I ran for moderator partly on the promise to address the issues with politics specifically. Mostly, my ire is toward the answers, that ...
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Entirely remove the tags from the HTML title
I've been looking at some of our questions and how they appear in Google, and I noticed that the tag that is prepended to every question title is pretty much always useless to a user seeing it in ...
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Speaking at CLSxItaly
I will be speaking as part of a panel on how to moderate online communities at CLSx Italy on November 25th.
If anyone is interested in attending, I have a discount code just for Skeptics.SE. Please ...
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Tag badges are indistinguishable from normal badges
On other SE sites, tag badges usually have a distinct look, they don't look identical to the other badges, see Gaming.SE as an example here:
Here on Skeptics, they look identical:
The tag badges ...
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Why were some answers deleted on the question about Earth being covered by oceans?
Moderators cleaned up four answers on the Was the Earth one big ocean once? question after leaving a few days to the authors for fixing.
While these answers were interesting and sometimes highly ...
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Change the "How to ask" section
If you ask a question there is a section on how to ask in the sidebar, currently this looks like the following:
How To Ask
Is your question about scientific skepticism? We prefer questions ...
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Not enough contrast on Skeptics logo in some places
Sometimes when our logo shows up some places without enough contrast.
Example 1 - from here.
Example 2 - from chat.
While I'm talking about our logo, this is how our logo shows up here, I think it ...
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Can we help you moderate more?
Community elected moderators on this site are very active. This is mostly due to a fact that our rules do require a lot of moderation.
However, this does not mean that everything needs to be done by ...
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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So your answer was deleted... don't panic
My initial answer (and first answer written on here) was deleted, but has thankfully been re-instated. I've never had an answer deleted before in 7 years or using various StackExchange sites, so it ...
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Please flag trollish questions
Skeptics.SE, along with some other stack exchanges such as history, receives some trolling questions, generally in the form of holocaust denial. They're by users with only 1 reputation, and they're ...
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