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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What do we offer that our target audience can't get elsewhere?
In another meta discussion asking who are the parenting evangelists and how do we attract them?, one of the answers brought up an excellent point:
To attract additional experts/evangelists, we ...
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What's the appropriate way to update/answer a semi-popular question?
When my child was 3 months old I asked a question about her then-terrible sleep. While she has never developed into a wonder sleeper her sleep has gone from abnormally-bad to generally good. As I ...
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Who are the Parenting evangelists and how do we attract them?
Following our last community self-evaluation, we came together as a community to figure out what we're doing right and where we could do better when it comes to promoting Parenting Stack Exchange. The ...
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The new Parenting Help Center
Stackexchange has recently rolled out a new Help Center for our site (all stackexchange sites have gotten one). I encourage everyone to check it out!
As part of the new look and feel, we now have ...
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Community Evaluation Results: What can we do to improve?
The results are in, and they're not pretty.
Out of 10 randomly selected questions, only one received a positive evaluation.
Granted, there were only 3-5 people reviewing each question, but that is ...
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Let's get critical: May 2013 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love Parenting Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what ...
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Should a tag for “baby-proofing” be added? Is it a synonym of “safety”?
A suggestion was made in chat to add two new synonyms for safety: baby-proofing and child-proofing.
Should these be added?
Should baby-proofing and child-proofing be synonyms of each other, or ...
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What should our policy be for “non answers”?
Part of the nature of our site seems to be that we receive a lot of first posts from users that are posted as answers, but are really either comments or follow-up questions.
The reason this happens ...
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Are questions about marriage on topic?
This recent question felt borderline to me, and, to date, has received 2 close votes.
The question is really about how the mother and father relate to each other, and the answers it is garnering are ...
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How long is this site going to remain in beta now?
Considering two years have passed Two year anniversary, how long is this site going to remain in beta now?
I have seen some sites getting closed in their beta sessions? How to know whether this site ...
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Encouraging referenced answers
Generally, I feel that most of our questions get very good answers.
We get a lot of answers based upon experiences and anecdotes, and most of them are very high quality. However, I feel that we've ...
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Similar to Parenting: a site for teens
Parenting is a great place; the discussions are very useful and fascinating.
However I, as a 15 year old, feel a need of something a bit similar but different. I proposed a new site, Teen Life, which ...
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Two year anniversary
Alright, Parenting SE's two year anniversary is coming up next Friday. I would love to get us out of beta before our three year anniversary. I don't know how and when they decide to do it, but I've ...
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medical questions - line between on / off topic and how to handle
These recent questions (on the front page of questions as of time of posting):
What are the risks of surgery for a tongue-tied toddler? (asking about risks of surgery, relatedness of other medical ...
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Do we need a “Parents” tag?
Similar to our question on "Do we need a 'Parenting' tag?", do we need parents?
Is this tag redundant, or does it serve a legitimate purpose? If so, what is it?
We don't seem to be using it ...
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Parenting site is too strict. Should we be more open?
Closing too many topics drives users away. Should we be more open, since we are in beta?
Closed questions should be commented with suggestion what kind of similar question would not be closed.
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Rules and Quality Control vs. a Welcome to the community
Part of what I have come to love about Parenting SE is the rules that help to make being on the site a quality experience. At the same time, I just had a question closed on one of the other sites ...
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How to deal with suspected abuse or neglect [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Mandatory Reporters
Inevitably, people will post about concerning situations. For example,
What to do about Grandchildren who need help to have - well, what they need
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Should we have a standard comment to new users?
As the number of new users increase, we also see a natural increase in users who aren't familiar with the Stack Exchange model ("it's not a forum"). Moderators as well as several users (thanks!!) ...
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So if the only thing preventing us from moving out of Beta is questions
How long does the site need to keep an average of four questions/day? Do I have that number right? before moving out of Beta?
Can those who are more active commit to 4 questions/week on the main ...
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Terminology and editing etiquette
I'm new to parenting.stackexchange. Yesterday while browsing the site for the first time, I came across a question that includes a word I feel is offensive or at least inappropriate (for the record, ...
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Can we alter the site rules to allow questions that seek reference material?
It has been suggested this question is best addressed as its own question right here in meta.
Its been an often enforced bugaboo of moderators to block questions from users seeking reference material ...
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“What are good books for 'X'?” are NOT off-topic questions!
I'm tired of this on SE sites. It feels like a snarky attack by purist mods.
The basic jist is that on some SE site, a user wants to know what good references for a particular topic they are having ...
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When is a seed question too bad?
Seed questions are questions about hypothetical situations. Any user may post them, and they often receive really great answers and increase the value of this site -- that is the purpose of seed ...
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Can we start a blog for parenting.SE?
I have seen many sites have their own blogs which regularly publish about the site's activities and other stuff.
Do we want to start a blog for parenting.SE?
As highlighted on the Blogoverflow ...
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Change tag “talking” into a synonym for “speech”?
There are 6 questions tagged "talking" right now. The tag has no excerpt to explain its purpose.
In my opinion, the tag should become a synonym for the "speech" tag instead. Should we do this? What ...
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Can't I ask an anonymous question on parenting (meta)?
I just noticed that unlike on stackoverflow and other stackexchange sites, here I cannot ask a question anonymously, neither on the main nor on the meta site.
Why is that so? Because the site is ...
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Any advice for C.SE on handling questions seeking subjective how-to material?
Over on Christianity.SE we've recently bumped into an instance of a question type that in most cases is not-costructive for us. However, there is something more there than the usually kind where ...
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Can we burninate [tag:recommendations]?
The recommendations tag seems to be rather popular, but I'm not sure what it is supposed to represent.
It seems to sometimes be used to indicate "I want people to recommend a book/video game/other ...
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Parenting Self-Evaluation: Let's Get Critical! [closed]
You love your site and we love your site, but there is a whole world of people out there who might not even know it exists. When they do find it, their first impression will either scare them away or ...
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What is still needed to move this site out of Beta?
I've been wondering for a while what it would need for the site to leave Beta. We seem to have an excellent ranking for most things except questions, which is definitely improving.
So what's left?
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Should we remove the “parenting” tag?
As of right now, we have 10 questions tagged "parenting". (Nine; I just edited one.)
Given that our entire site is about parenting, this tag makes no sense at all and should be removed -- if it's ...
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Should we merge the tags “school” and “education”?
The tags on this question made me think about this.
Is there any difference in meaning between the two words, or are they actually synonyms?
If they are synonyms then which one should be the tag and ...
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How do we address region-specific terminology?
In this question a user asked about sectio caesare. I am not familiar with that term, and instead know it as caesarian section.
However, I do not wish to assume that the version I am familiar with ...
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As a separate homeschooling community has been proposed and that community invited to join us should we look at community bias?
The statement that homeschooling is bad for socialization or statements that would indicate this underlying assumption has been made in a few question and answer discussions on parentingSE. When ...
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What happened to the [preschool] tag?
A user created the "preschool" tag but now it's a synonym for "daycare".
Why?
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Cognitive Sciences (cogsci.SE) would like to offer its services
I am an active user on Cognitive Sciences, and in the midst of establishing a tag on parenting, stumbled upon the section of your FAQ advertising "sister sites" on the exchange.
We would like to ...
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How do we boost participation?
We've now been in public beta for over a year. According to our Area 51 stats, we've come a long way.
Our % answered is excellent. 100% of the questions on our site have received answers.
Our ...
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Infertility questions
Are questions concerning the infertility allowed in the Parenting site.
Because the solution of infertility problems will lead to Pregnancy, then Parenting.
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Parenting self-evaluation: let's get critical! [closed]
You love your site and we love your site, but there is a whole world of people out there who might not even know it exists. When they do find it, their first impression will either scare them away or ...
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How granular do questions need to be. Can I ask a question that has 5 pieces?
I'd like to know which "known facts" have been investigated at all and listed 5 inviting others to, in fact, add to the list. Should I instead ask a separate question for each one?
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Please join us for discussing video games and Autism! [closed]
We've talked in the past about having featured chat events. We now have our first topic!
Please feel free to visit our chat room to address the following:
Disclaimer: I realize that a lot of ...
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Does anyone know why Parenting got ads in the sidebar?
I've been seeing ads for Parenting in the sidebar of various StackExchange sites recently, even though Parenting is only in beta. Does anyone know why/how this happened? The ads seem to be based on ...
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In what ways are the moderators annoying you?
Now that the site has been in beta for nearly a year(!), I thought it would be constructive to collect some feedback on the work of the moderators.
The moderators are tasked with keeping the site ...
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What should I do if two different answers are equally valid
I asked this question and received two contrasting, but equally valid answers. I don't feel it would be fair to choose one over the other, so what is the right thing to do?
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New Beta Theme Launched
Your site looks a bit different today. Yes, we are getting rid of the 'Sketchy' look and replacing it with a more-polished and finished design for sites in beta.
You can read more about the redesign ...
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How many answers should it take to convert a question into a community wiki?
While writing this other meta question I started thinking about the CW threshold: Currently it takes 30 answers to convert a question and its answers into a community wiki.
Is "30 answers" a ...
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How do we make good use of valid list-type questions?
Our FAQ says we must avoid asking questions where every answer is equally valid.
Generally, questions that can't be answered with a single precise post are frowned upon because they're a poor match ...
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How to approach locality of all content/questions?
If I ask a question about primary schools, should I in the question say that I care about US context only.
then there might be same questions just with different location context.
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On Mutually Exclusivity of Two Questions
Would the question,
"What is the criteria of being a good parent?"
And
"What is the criteria of being a poor parent?"
have answers that are mutually exclusive?
