Unanswered Questions
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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