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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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Why are my tags getting flipped?
On Should you secretly drill your children?, for example, I put the safety tag first and discipline second, but after submitting it reversed the tags. This isn't really that big a deal, except in ...
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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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Quick start guide
So, in chat and various comments/discussion I have had to learn a lot as a non-programmer just to navigate certain things. For example, right now I can use the B above the box to make words bold. I ...
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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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Is there a way to view badge progress?
When you review first posts or possible edits, you can actually see progress toward review badges (and a few others). Is there a place that is similar but allows you to view progress toward all ...
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How on EARTH did I get a +11?
This is really just out of curiosity, but it turns out that I had +189 reputation yesterday. THEN I got a +11 for a vote on a question. As a result I got the motarboard badge. I'm not complaining ...
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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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Why can't I edit this question?
I was doing a little site perusal and wanted to make a few edits to this question but the edit link is disabled. It seems to be only for this one question; I submitted edits for a different question ...
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How do I remove my profile here? I would rather not be a member or receive notifications anymore
The question is in the title. How do I remove my profile and/or not receive notifications anymore? I am not happy with my membership here.
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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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Inbox Access when I don't have a red alert mark
I had an inbox alert (the little red circle) and clicked on the message to respond, but then the computer froze and I had to reboot. Now, I can no longer access the message to find out what comment ...
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What is an Assoc. Bonus?
I'm curious what the Assoc Bonus is for. In the future where can I look up this kind of information? Am I right to ask about it here?
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Used 40 votes today for the first time but did not earn badge that goes with it.
Is this just a bug or am I missing something? Or is there some sort of delay?
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Is there or could there be a Glossary
It would be really nice if the site had a "Glossary of terms". I have no idea what a roll back is for example. I don't see it in the faq and it isn't the only term I've run into that I would have ...
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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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“Teacher” Badge
I see that you have a teacher badge, but it would be nice if there was a signature or something that could be added if one is actually a teacher offline. Aside from my experience with my own child, I ...
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Can we add a tag for Home Education?
The number of families using home education with their kids is climbing but the issues one faces and answers to those issues can be slightly different so this tag would be nice.
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Combining my first Account with my second
I responded to a few questions before I'd "registered" then, when I registered on a different day it wouldn't let me use my own ID. How can I combine myself with myself? Same email was used.
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Can we add a new tag for budget / budgeting / expenses?
These may need to be linked to money, but I would never think to look for that tag when searching.
If people think we should add the new tags, should there be something different for budgeting than ...
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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 ...
