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2025: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
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Ads test beginning week of January 13th, 2025
We’ve been exploring the concept of using open auction to manage advertising on some Stack Exchange sites. Under this model, advertisers (who have been organized into categories based on their ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
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ELL Mod asks: Are these types of questions good candidates for migration here?
I'm one of the Mods at SE.ELL.
Our site attracts a fair number of questions asking for learning resource and technique recommendations. We've decided that these requests are off-topic for the main ...
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Is the "Duolingo gems" question off-topic?
This question got flagged as off-topic: How do I send gems to another user in Duolingo? I completely agree with this flag, as it has nothing to do with learning languages. However, I can't just ...
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Is the question asking how to pronounce "dad" in Arabic on topic?
I'm referring to How can I pronounce the Arabic Dad?. It basically asks how "Dad" is pronounced in Arabic.
Personally, I'd consider it off-topic for the reason:
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How do i show spanish in orange and english in blue?
I tried using html tags, but the tags did not work.
<h1 style="background-color:DodgerBlue;">quiero comer fruta cruda. Por ejemplo, apples.</h1>
<p style="...
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2022: 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.
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How can we reduce the number of off-topic "specific characteristics of a language" questions?
Many questions are closed here under the close reason:
Question about the grammatical rules or specific characteristics of a language.
Use this reason when a question asks for an explanation of ...
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2022 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #2 on Language Learning has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators are:
They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for ...
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2022 Community Moderator Election
The 2022 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
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Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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Announcing a Pro Tempore election for 2022
Summary: Language Learning Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on October 17 to bring in 2 more moderators.
For full details of the process, see the announcement on ...
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Why are non-specific translation questions not allowed?
There are many reasons I ask this question, including translation is an important part of learning a non-mother tongue language, without a teacher, making this forum lose use to a lot of people.
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Why are my browsers saying one specific meta page is "not secure"?
I tried to browse following this link https://meta.languagelearning.stackexchange.com/questions/231/create-an-ad-for-this-site but Firefox gives me:
Websites prove their identity via certificates. ...
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