Unanswered Questions
23 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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A few reminders: Voting, Flagging, Closing, Reviewing
Part of what makes the Stack Exchange format so great is the built in ability to vote for the quality of content and flag, close and review content that needs more attention.
With this in mind, we ...
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Announcing a Pro Tempore Moderator election
Summary: Pets Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on August 5 to bring in one more moderator.
For full details of the process, see the announcement on Meta Stack ...
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Stepping down as moderator
I have a lot of exciting things happening in my life right now (building a new house!) and have found that I am spending less time on the computer. I've decided to step away as moderator of Pets.SE to ...
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What are the criteria for our site to get out of beta?
Our site has been in beta for many years now. What are the criteria for a site to get out of beta?
We have 16,000 visitors daily.
We have a solid number of users 10,000+.
Answered questions are above ...
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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, ...
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2019 Community Moderator Election
The 2019 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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Remove affiliate links in questions or answers
The user in this post linked to some toys that he uses, but he used an Amazon affiliate link.
According to this meta from 2009 we should either flag them as spam or edit them out. The question is ...
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Should we close this question about statistics about vets?
This question "Scholarly article on the percentage of vets who recommend spaying/neutering" really annoys me but I'm not sure if it's acceptable on this site or not.
The main question (among a lot ...
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Why does the community user keep bumping questions?
Those of you who regularly browse the site will notice that every now and again, the Community User (bot) 'modifies' which bumps it up to the top of the questions list. The questions and answers haven'...
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Chameleon(s) tag
For a question about chameleons I tried to remove the singular chameleon and instead add chameleons as per our meta discussion on tag plurals but I get a message saying
You are attempting to ...
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synonym request: “enclosure(s)” and “pens”
We have enclosure and pens, each with one question. Can we (a) pluralize the former ("enclosures") and (b) make the latter a synonym of it? "Enclosures" seems more general, and most of our counting-...
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Tag synonyms fish-tank and aquarium
aquarium
fish-tank
are both used to describe indoor fish containers.
I propose to make them synonyms. While I think that a fish-tank describes something bigger than an aquarium, the practical ...
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The message that appears after casting a third vote in the moderator election contains a <br/>
After casting a third vote in the moderator election, this message appears.
The <br/> should either be fixed into a newline, or it should be removed altogether.
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fencing or containment?
We have a couple questions about fencing and such relating to keeping a pet (dog mostly) in the yard.
Do invisible fences pose long term health risks to dogs?
How can I keep vermin out of outdoor ...
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Adding 'Poop' as a synonym of the 'defecation' tag
This morning I was looking for a duplicate Cat poop question, but we don't have a 'poop' tag, we do have defecation with 7 questions using it so I had to look through 300+ posts with "poop" in them.
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