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Will you help moderate this site? Nominations needed
Notes:
I would like to self-nominate.
Why Me
I love animals and love to help people.
Got my certificate for Veterinary Technician in spring 2013 - Licensed in summer of 2013
Worked in many ...
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Accepted
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James losing mod privileges Sept 7
Thank you, James!
I just wanted to stop by and say thanks. I understand your position and respect your decision. As I said in my own stepping down post, the Pets Moderators were exceptional and ...
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What next for the Pets Community?
Pets.SE will not be left without any moderators. The site is not going to close.
I intend to accept the new moderator agreement in due course. There are certainly actions by SE over the past few years ...
Harry V.Mod
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Will you help moderate this site? Nominations needed
Notes:
Why Not Me?
Elephant in the room - My reputation on this site is definitely not the highest because until recently I wasn't a heavy contributor. As an active member in Charcoal-HQ I spoke ...
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Questioning the deletion of an answer
Not an active member of this community. Not a moderator. Not the moderator who deleted your post, so take this with a grain (or frontloader) full of salt.
The deletion undermines the right to freedom ...
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I'm stepping down as moderator
Thanks for all of your efforts over the years, Yvette! We've been extremely lucky that you've shared with us your extensive knowledge and expertise for such a long time now and long may it continue.
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The many pets of Pets SE
While he's passed on... here's Ash, possibly one of the more famous dogs of Stack Exchange
He's an accidental rescue, used to belong to a actress, and had a tragic backstory and a fear of heights.
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Are questions regarding carnivorous plants within the scope of this site?
In my opinion, no. They are not animals.
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"Go see veterinarians" as a close reason?
Closing with "go see a vet" is not a valid reason to close.
Pets.se is a global resource, not everyone has access to a vet. There is nothing wrong with encouraging the question asker to see ...
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Time to say goodbye - one less moderator
As an original beta participant, but admittedly much less frequent in recent years, I'm sorry to see you go. You were an expert in a site that needed experts because there is a lot of bad information ...
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Accepted
Hijacking of my question in comments
Sorry for the bad experience, the situation was dealt with and should now be resolved.
The comment was originally posted as an answer. Since it didn't answer your question, it was converted to a ...
ElmyMod
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The many pets of Pets SE
My pets are for now exclusively aquatic animals, although I am planning to have a cat somewhere in the future. I have aquarium with the volume of around 26 L (6.8 gallons); it hosts a small gang of ...
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The many pets of Pets SE
I am not sure whether my idea is in alignment with the premise of this Q&A, but I want to include a few drawings of pets of Pets SE that I made about a year ago. All of them are made with a black-...
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Questioning the deletion of an answer
I am the moderator who protected the question from answers being posted by new users, just prior to the answer being deleted. I then asked other mods to review the questions
My reasoning was:
I ...
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Time for separate beta sites - cats.stackexchange.com and dogs.stackexchange.com?
In addition to what James says, anything that would be on topic for CatsSE and DogsSE, would likely also be on topic here. So there is nothing gained by splitting up the sites that isn't already here. ...
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2019 Community Moderator Election Results
Congratulations, Harry V!
Really glad that you'll be joining the team :)
A huge thanks to everyone who nominated themselves to become a moderator - I had a really hard time voting because all of you ...
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Accepted
Should the Off the Leash chat be abandoned?
Seeing these long periods of inactivity, I think it's self evident that we no longer need to keep Pets Chat - Off The Leash active. The only way it would still be needed is if Pets was a much larger ...
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The many pets of Pets SE
This is a flattering photo of Sonny. He also featured in a video here, where he was coughing. He is all better now, also thanks to Elmy's help.
Charlie was a Maine Coon of my college. I took care of ...
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The many pets of Pets SE
May I introduce you to Tommi?
Once upon a time someone thought "Ohhhh, he's so cute!" and brought him home. This someone had not the slightest clue how to train dogs. This someone also had ...
ElmyMod
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The many pets of Pets SE
Currently, I have three cats, though over the years I've had countless more.
Artemis (calico) and Havoc (black and white) are bonded littermates adopted from a local rescue; they were part of an ...
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The many pets of Pets SE
This is my best friend Alfiq! I adopted him about six years ago. Unbeknownst to me, he was on his deathbed when I adopted him and we went through a few stressful months of medication and force feeding ...
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Necessity of flag icon for OP himself/herself in his/her own post
I've recommended it a few times on a site I moderate on.
You can always see your own deleted posts - some moderators may suggest fixes, and once that's done, that's one way to get it undeleted.
You ...
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Accepted
What has happened to this site?
Well, the quarter just started with October, so don't read too much into that set of stats! However, yes, there's definitely a slow down from the initial days of the site and we could remain in ...
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What is the stance on users who answer their own questions, very fast?
It's a good thing!
The site's goal is to build a usable, accessible knowledge base that will be of use to future users.
Most of the time you'll find that users who 'self answer' have been unable to ...
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Time for separate beta sites - cats.stackexchange.com and dogs.stackexchange.com?
It is not going to happen.
New sites are proposed at https://area51.stackexchange.com/ go take a look at some of the recently closed sites. You will find close reasons like this
This subject is ...
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