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11 questions linked to/from We could use some more pro-forma comments
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How is the community doing? [2017] [duplicate]
We wanted to take a minute to check in and see how the community feels like things are going on the site. A little more than a year ago, we had a pretty lengthy discussion about site problems; it ...
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How is the community doing? [2018] [duplicate]
(Largely cribbed from the 2017 check-in)
We, the elected moderators, wanted to take a minute to check in and see how the community feels like things are going on the site. About a year ago we did this ...
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Why are site comments being deleted?
Some site users have noticed old comments being deleted. This is correct - site comments are meant to be a mostly temporary means of improving questions and answers. Here's an explanation of the ...
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Links to "D&D Tools" / dndtools and similar sites
I've noticed lots of links to dndtools.eu lately. That site seems to have verbatim text from a lot of non-OGL D&D stuff.
Obviously, that's really useful as a reference! But the site itself is ...
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What's a frame challenge?
So there's a ton of questions about how to present a frame challenge, or how not to frame challenge, and I've had people mention it on the comments on questions of mine in response to others' comments....
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How do we handle a desire to challenge the frame of a question?
Sometimes, someone asks a question that seems like it might suffer from the XY Problem (asking about your attempted solution instead of your actual problem) and you want to point that out. Or you ...
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Who should make welcoming comments?
When a new user posts their first question, there is often a need to clarify certain aspects of how this site works. This is usually done by a friendly comment starting with "Welcome to the site" or ...
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A low-intervention approach [rules-as-written]: back to tagging basics
Sometime during the weeks of wrangling over the rules-as-written tag it occurred to me that, I am pretty sure, we've fallen into a fundamental error that may be the cause of all the problems:
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Could we get a [forum] shortlink?
We get a lot of questions that are better suited to a forum, and it's customary when closing them to provide a link to that post. Since I've started doing moderation, though, I've noticed that we don'...
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Is there a way to decrease the amount of questions submitted without a system tag?
Quite often we get questions on here with no system listed. Often they are by new users. This seems like a fault with the workflow of the site and something that should be able to be corrected. And, ...
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Is there a quick way to link to the help center?
I learned from a meta post by HeyICanChan once that you can type [tour] in a comment and SE will convert that into a link to the tour page.
Is there a similar way to link to the help center?
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