Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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I am resigning as moderator
I have been trying to write this post for weeks. This is not the magnum opus that I hoped it would be, but it will have to suffice. I have resigned as moderator of English Language Learners effective ...
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When the Chips Are Down
Maybe you have been aware of the Monica problem on the Stack Exchange, or maybe you have been blissfully unaware of the bubbling brouhaha.
My version of the events goes like this: the Stack Exchange ...
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Please do not copy *open* questions from ELU on purpose
This is not going to be a question, but it's too important an issue to not be raised.
It's been a day, and we're already seeing lots of questions being more or less copied from ELU. Open questions, ...
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2016 Community Moderator Election Results
English Language Learners' second moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 2 new moderators are:
(source: stackexchange.com)
They'll be joining the existing crew ...
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Downvoting questions from new users
So I was disappointed to see a -3 score with no guidance at all in the comments for this question:
Can I say "something is happened to my phone"?
The author obviously was new to ELL and a ...
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With Lang-8 shutting down, where will we send proofreading questions?
We have a close reason which tells people to use "alternative websites" for proofreading:
Proofreading questions are off-topic unless a specific source of concern in the text is clearly identified. ...
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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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2022 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #6 on English Language Learners has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators are:
They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for ...
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2018 Community Moderator Election Results
English Language Learners' third moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for ...
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Questions about pronunciation which are NOT entirely answerable with a dictionary
Earlier today, I saw a question about phonetics:
When do I REALLY need to pronounce an s as a z?
Yeah, I know the rule that after a voiced consonant, the plural or 3rd person S should be realized as ...
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Unresolved Proposal List
This is years out of date, but there is some history worth preserving, so I’m not going to delete it.
As a step toward ensuring that proposals don't languish in a limbo state where it's not clear ...
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Free access to the OED in the Americas (13-19 April 2014)
This is more of an announcement than discussion but this may be useful for people here and EL&U:
National Library Week
All OUP Online products are free April 13-19th
To celebrate National Library ...
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Is "Why is 11 am + 1 hour == 12:00 pm?" an English learner's question?
I've been silently ruminating for several days now. Admittedly, I hesitated to say anything because the upvotes my answer accrued finally permitted me to reach that mythical 10k milestone. But, after ...
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English Language Learners Stack Exchange - Top User Swag!
We want to congratulate and thank everyone that helped this site and community grow healthily into what they are today!
If you can find your name among the top 72 users in the first two pages here, ...
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Is This Tag Useful? Episode 2 -- The Twins (usage and meaning)
The argument for getting rid of these tags is going to be much more straightforward.
We have tags like phrase-meaning, meaning-in-context, sentence-meaning etc. just like we have the likes of word-...
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Fifty Migration Candidates from ELU > ELL
Some weeks ago now, Grace asked that we please assemble a list of candidate ELU-to-ELL questions instead of flagging them.
I compiled such a list based on people’s nominations, but it is a bit hard ...
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Should we have a meta thread for "How to learn English quickly" tricks?
I can state two things with confidence:
1) Asking "What are some good resources for learning English?" is off-topic. However, we have a meta thread devoted to that topic.
2) "What are some good ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election
The 2021 Community Moderator Election has now started!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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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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2018 Community Moderator Election
The 2018 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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This question needs reopening, please
Edit note: Now reopened. Thank you everyone!
This question here:
'She was shot by police yesterday' or 'She was shot yesterday by police'
was closed as a duplicate of this question ...
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Please reverse the migration of this question to ELL
I'm reliably informed that ELU can do nothing at this point, and that the migration must be rejected here by the powers that be. This was my question on ELU's meta:
The question is
Can “childs” ...
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2022 Community Moderator Election
The election is now over! You can read the results here!
The 2022 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase [Completed]
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Singular tags to pluralize
Per Should we prefer plural in tags?, for consistency with EL&U and other StackExchange sites, I believe the consensus was to use plural tag names for countables. In practice, we have something of ...
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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.
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2016 Community Moderator Election
The 2016 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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Can we please make "Genitive" a synonym of "Possessive"?
They are the same thing. There's no reason to have two tags.
Tag genitive (17 questions) is significantly less-used than the tag possessive (104 questions), so it seems that possessive should be the ...
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I think it's worth reopening this question
This quesion here was recently closed as a duplicate:
double linking verb "be"
It was closed as a duplicate of this question here:
Present Simple vs Present Progressive
The second ...
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When you make a new tag, please write a description
I'm editing this to bump it, because I've been finding a lot of tags with no descriptions and few questions associated with them. If you feel like we need to group a certain set of questions with a ...
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Why is our only migration option to "Migrate to meta"?
I thought that we were allowed 3-5 targets for migration.
This user's been asking a series of questions that aren't in any way about the English language and should probably be on Academia but I can'...
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unlocking questions with historical significance
We have a question about "small" and "little"
Difference between "little" and "small"
It is fairly ancient, however the question seems reasonable. The use of &...
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What's the difference between [adjective-phrase] and [phrasal-adjective]?
What's the difference between adjective-phrase and phrasal-adjective?
Should they be merged?
Could we write some tag wiki/usage guidance to make any difference clearer?
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Please consider committing to the Language Learners proposal
There is a Language Learners proposal. This proposal is focused on how to learn a language effectively and is therefore also of interest to learners of the English language. Hence I decided to post it ...
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How can we have more conversation in chat?
What are some ideas for promoting our chat room, which seems abandoned?
We have a chat room that people don't seem to visit much, yet it could really encourage participation in the site.
What do you ...
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Backing up i.imgur.com images that may be at risk due to their new ToS
Now, you should be using the "add picture" feature in the editor to get an i.stack.imgur.com address for your images in your posts. That is hosting that SE pays for and images there won't ...
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2022: 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.
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Vocabulary tag rework?
The vocabulary tag has 1000 over questions, but unfortunately I'm not very sure how to tag questions with that tag. The description reads:
This tag is for questions about a body of words. It should ...
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Why so many questions about "can I mix tenses in one sentence"?
There seem to be a lot of questions about "Can I have more than one tense in a sentence?" (e.g. I ordered a product on saturday and it has been delivered as well)
I'm wondering if there's ...
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2020: 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 past 12 months.
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Help me out here: How would you improve these questions?
I feel like I am flogging a death horse and the dead horse is telling me to keep doing it. Once again, what I would really like to say has been said here: J.R.'s eloquently argued and sufficiently ...
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Impose a sentence on [sentence] (again)
(if you're wondering about the pun in the title, that's a Stack Exchange meme for tag-related Meta questions)
The sentence tag currently has 17 questions and no tag excerpt or wiki. IMHO it's a very ...
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Changes to the Hot Network Questions List
Updating the Hot Network Questions List - now with a bit more network and a little less "hotness"!
There are some very nice new features around the HNQ list. I’m not going to repeat the ...
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Merge request for two similar questions
Can we merge this question:
Two-year program or Two-years program?
With this question here:
Why is "letter" not plural in "two letter words"?
The first question has one upvote, ...
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Help Center translations: your thoughts?
Firstly, let me be clear that I'm not talking about translations of the full content of the entire site. Obviously with user-contributed questions and answers, this would be impossible without a huge ...
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Academic plagiarism
I would like to know what the Stack Exchange policy is on helping quaerants who are engaging in blatant professional or academic plagiarism. Should we be doing it, and what should we do about such ...
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Lay the [lie-lay-lain-laid] tag to rest
The lie-lay-lain-laid tag is just one example of a tense issue, so everything in it should be retagged to that or something more specific.
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Please look over the revision history when editing a question
So I just did a "reject and edit" for this question https://ell.stackexchange.com/posts/76087/revisions because the suggested edit was correcting an edit that probably should have been rolled back and ...
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We should make [off-topic] synonymous with [scope]
On our meta site, there are two different tags off-topic and scope. But actually off-topic is the synonyms under scope.
Refer to MSO:
Also done at U & L.
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Tag Overflow shows how tags are related, or need work
Tag Overflow is a great tool for visually comparing:
How many questions have each tag.
The overlap between tags.
Which tags have lots of unanswered questions.
You can even filter it by a tag.
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Ghost users asking questions (due to migration)
This question is not the first to arrive here from EL&U, and it is not the first where the person who asked the question "does not exist".
Of course this makes sense, as the user has made an ...
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