Unanswered Questions
220 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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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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Embed an audio player
Questions about the pronunciation of a word as heard are probably common for a site for people learning a language. I can imagine questions similar to the following ones:
I listened to this [link to ...
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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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