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I'm taking a leave of absence from moderating
Update 1/20/2020: called2voyage has resumed moderation, more info here.
I’ve wrestled for some time with how to approach this issue, but I’ve finally come to a decision. The bottom-line is that it ...
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Congratulations Astronomy Stack Exchange for 10k questions!
I just checked the question count, and discovered that we hit 10k overnight (well actually a few hours after 0:00 UTC) :D
So I just want to say congratulations to everyone here, the moderators, all ...
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June 5 Strike - Who, What, When, Why, and how to join
Following from Stack Overflow, and as other sites will soon have to (if they don't already have them, I have decided, with some approval, to announce the upcoming June 5 strike on this child meta. It ...
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Let's congratulate Connor Garcia on becoming our next moderator!
Congratulations!!!
Today, @ConnorGarcia was appointed as our next moderator!1 So I just want to give a huge shoutout to him for having courage to self-nominate and take on a task that requires much ...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
As of 2021, the site is no longer under pro tem moderation. It is now under elected moderation. Donald.McLean stepped down, but called2voyage and HDE 226868 have stayed on as moderators. They were ...
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Congratulations to @ProfRob for reaching 100k reputation!
Congratulations!!!
I'm quite late to the party after a break from SE, and I've seen that @ProfRob has hit 100,000 reputation, a new milestone for our site!
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Announcing a Pro Tempore election
Summary: Astronomy Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on March 29 to bring in one more moderator.
For full details of the process, see the announcement on Meta Stack ...
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Feature request: add marvosym package to our MathJax set (for celestial body symbols)
Shameless copy from SF.'s question on Space Meta:
\usepackage{marvosym} allows you to write M_\Sun or ...
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Congratulations to James(100)K
Congratulations to JamesK on his 100k-hood on Astronomy SE.
1452 answers (and 5 questions). It's a lot! Also - 2.2m "reached", which is an importantly large number.
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Regarding moderating the new Code of Conduct
To hopefully alleviate concerns regarding the new Code of Conduct, I want to explain how I intend to moderate regarding pronoun use.
When speaking generically, posts should use gender neutral ...
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What stellar content do we want to share with Twitter?
As of late yesterday, Stack Exchange has revived its official Twitter account, @StackExchange. It had been used intermittently/actually-not-at-all for several years,...
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This month's focus tag: white-dwarf
Sorry for the delay in the focus tag this month! Last month we took a close look at the topic of tidal forces. This month's focus tag is white-dwarf.
Featured Question: Is there a possibility that a ...
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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.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election
The 2021 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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Community Policy Repository
This is the official repository for general community policy decisions.
On Posts
How do we handle questions with answers on other sites?
Is the use of ChatGPT or other chatbot software forbidden?
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Sandbox suggestion
We've had some long, complex and LaTeX-heavy answers recently, and so I'm suggesting that we create a thread a la this post on Math.SE. I doubt this will be used much, but there's a chance it could ...
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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.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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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.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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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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Do we need a tag for merging? I struggled to find something suitable for supermassive black hole mergers in galaxy collisions
I wanted to add a tag like black-hole-merger to How do we know that supermassive black holes can gain mass by means other than merging with other supermassive black ...
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Blog Status Update #1
You might have heard that we're trying to rustle up support for a site blog. It seems like we have a critical mass of potential writers such that it should be able to support itself with content for ...
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Worldbuilding's writing a blog post about TRAPPIST-1. What should we include in it?
Yes, this meta question is on the right site. Trust me.
Worldbuilding Stack Exchange has a blog, and it was suggested that we put together a post about the recent discovery of four more planets ...
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Question got roomba'd, would it be possible to undelete it?
Just a few moments ago, I realized that one of my questions (Relation between core mass and red giant mass?) got deleted by Community for inactivity. Would it be possible to undelete it so I can place ...
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What is a healthy number of bounties?
I am slowly understanding what the beta-state means. I saw the Key Performance Indicators and I am trying to improve the ones in status "okay" by getting involved, e.g. asking or answering ...
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Tag usage guidelines are being copy/pasted with WIkipedia definitions insensitive to astronomical context and unhelpful when needed most
There have been several tag Wiki and Wiki excerpt edits in the last half-day that appear to be copy/pasted from Wikipedia without regard to the astronomical context of the terms.
I've voted to reject ...
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Why has an answer that appears to be plagiarised been allowed to stand?
An answer to this question appears to be an unattributed copy of a space.com article.
I flagged this, but my flag has been rejected by a moderator.
My (perhaps limited) understanding is that whilst ...
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Let's ask more meaty questions! - Part II
Very early on in the life of Astronomy Stack Exchange, during private beta, Jon Ericson expressed concern over the level of questions the site was getting. The problem then was that the site was ...
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Please, use capitalisation of proper nouns
This is my request for everyone to use capitalisation for proper nouns. I've seen it misused in many questions and their respective answers on our main Q&A and they often cause problems with ...
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Tags to synonymise, merge or nuke
I have just reached the 'can make tag synonyms', so thought making this discussion would be prudent.
Which tags should be synonymised, merged or nuked. Discuss them here!
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The tags for cosmic microwave background need merging
It seems like there are two tags referring to the cosmic microwave background, cmb and cosmic-microwave-background.
Should they be merged?
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Is there a useful distinction between the DIY and the telescope-making tags? Should they be somehow merged?
telescope-making has 16 questions starting from 2015
diy has 3 4 questions starting from 2014. I just added one that mentions a Raspbery Pi project.
Neither tag has any usage guidance!
A quick check ...
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Should we delete this closed, cross-posted Spaceflight question and get rid of the Kerbal Space Program tag at the same time?
Multiple aerobraking from 2016 was closed as off-topic but the OP reposted the same question in Space SE before it could be migrated.
It was very well received there and has several good answers, ...
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Can we have 3 flags destruction for some time?
This site has attracted extra spam in the past few months. As the current case is on English Language & Usage and The Workplace, only 3 flags are required before a spam or offensive post is nuked. ...
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What does a good "What is this thing in the sky?" question look like?
As per the help center,
Avoid asking questions about unidentified aerial objects unless you are prepared to provide detailed pictures and/or sufficient description to identify the time, location, ...
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Are we graduating sometime soon?
Just a question about how we are doing - statistically, on Area 51, it doesn't look too bad.
I understand that many members are busy people (in real life), I know I am (5 jobs, 12 research projects ...
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Are questions that require calculations off-topic?
I've asked a question about the recent solar eclipse (March 8-9, 2016) that requires some basic eclipse geometry calculations. Someone who does this will understand how to deal with the plane - I've ...
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Can we merge this two questions?
This question was asked on EarthScience.SE on January 15 which was later migrated to here 18 hours ago. On the same date, OP posted the same question here. Now, we flagged the migrated question as ...
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Change Community Wiki Answer
I recently posted an answer for which i used Community Wiki option. Later I realized that SE is suggesting not to use the Community wiki thus I want to remove it with Moderator Assistance
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The new and increasingly popular "close for insufficient research" close reason, are we headed in the wrong direction here? Is there a way to reduce?
Comment under Why is the moon tidally locked with the earth? with +4 votes
I’m voting to close this question because there's no evidence that OP has done any research.
Comment under Plane of Moon&#...
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"Serial voting was reversed" while I have only one item to vote on
On Astronomy stack exchange I have only one item that people can vote on, a question from 2016. It was upvoted once that same year and gained another upvote in 2020. How can this be the target of ...
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Should the E-ELT tag get "sent to the cornfield" and replaced by extremely-large-telescope?
When tagging What two "little observatories" run by a university in Chile and "by Germans" are near the future site of the Extremely Large Observatory? I typed "extre..." ...
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Interest in Photo of the Week?
We used to have Topic of the Week a few years ago but it lost steam after a few weeks. I've seen other sites have Photo/Screenshot/etc. of the Week and would like to introduce it to Astronomy. Any ...
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Do we need a tag [agn] or is [active-galaxy] enough?
I was a bit suprised that agn did not exist, and neither does active-galactic-nucleus, and I just created it because a search showed 72 results (as of 2021-04-15). On second thought, it is probably a ...
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Reviving the Astronomy SE blog
Our blog, An Eye On the Universe, has been inactive for two years. I recently joined the short list of contributors (see these posts: 1 and 2), and have begun to contribute to the blog.
So I am ...
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Is "voids(s)" a synonym of "interstellar-space"?
Is the (newly suggested tag) voids a synonym of interstellar or interstellar-medium?
I am asking since I have not yet observed that term being used by astrophysicists, but that's just my subsample.
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Strategy for getting the best answer(s) to my question about electron-multiplying CCDs?
How often are electron-multiplying CCDs used in telescope focal planes? Will Nancy Grace Roman be the first use in a space telescope? has been around almost two months but so far there are no answers ...
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How to attract real-world radio telescopists to radio astronomy observational techniques questions?
Here are ten questions about observational radio astronomy that are either unanswered (eight) or have no accepted answer (two). These are selected from my own questions only so far, there may be ...
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Tag definitions for solar-flare and solar-storm?
The solar-storm tag has 8 questions and no usage guidance.
The solar-flare tag has 32 questions and the following guidance:
Questions regarding a sudden brightness increase due to the release of ...
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Should the tags stellar-classification and spectral-type be merged?
We have two tags, spectral-type and stellar-classification. The former appears to be slightly more popular, and the latter appears to have been mostly used on questions about spectral types?
Do we ...
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2019: 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, ...
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