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The time has come for me to resign
It's been an honor to serve as a moderator on Parenting all these years, so first and foremost, thank you for that. The rest of this post may or may not resonate with you. Either way, it's fine.
Ever ...
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How far is this site willing to tolerate "folk wisdom"?
As I've been reading, sad to say, I have come across some answers that don't leave me feeling particularly enlightened. I feel like some, honestly, too many, of these top-ranked answers are relying ...
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What should we advise when one disagrees with the premise of a question?
Something came up in the comments on this answer to a question on whether to close controversial questions that I feel deserves its own question:
What is the ideal response to a question based on a ...
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What's the best strategy to combat soapboxing?
I realize that parenting is a very emotional subject for many here, but I'm seeing a concerning amount of:
People responding to "How do I implement $parenting-strategy?" with answers that aren't ...
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Announcing a Pro Tempore election
Summary: Parenting will begin the nomination stage for a special election on April 30, 2018 to bring in one more moderator.
Last year (has it really been a year?) I broached the idea of beta ...
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Closing Questions That Raise Issues You Disagree With
Sometimes questions arise in which the poster asks something like "How best to do X" when many people disagree that X should be done at all.
Two recent examples come to mind. In one, the OP asked ...
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Do weapons belong here?
I like to keep an open mind, and I admit that it's a wise parent who asks, how can I protect my child against the weapons I keep at home because that's relevant to some professions.
But some ...
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Would we accept questions *about* parents?
The act of parenting, by definition, is purely a parent->to->child process. As expected, this site is all about questions in that direction; questions about parents handling/raising dependents in one ...
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Contest: Anything you always wanted to know about parenting (but were afraid to ask)
Summary
Parenting Stack Exchange has tons of untapped potential. Contests can be a fun way to stir up some excitement in the site. From Mother's Day (May 11) to Father's Day (June 15) we'd like to ...
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Did you know that we have flyers?
So, I talked to our wonderful and amazing designer, Jin, and he was kind enough to whip up a couple of flyers for me to post up here so that you all can use them! It's very exciting, I know. I have ...
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What should our logo and site design look like?
One of the tasks that we must complete in the beta is answering the 7 essential meta questions. I'm creating these meta questions here for us to work on.
We should begin collecting ideas and ...
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How should we tag age-specific questions?
Should we favor tags for specific age ranges like [toddlers] or [teens] over a general tag like [age-specific]? Since tagging a question with an age range implies an age-specific question, does it ...
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What can we do to help boost traffic now that the latest school session has started?
Now that school is in session, there will be zillions of parents with school-age children, and they'll all have lots of questions.
Since there are already a lot of parents here with older children, ...
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Please welcome a new moderator: Erica
I'm pleased to announce a brand new member of the Parenting moderator team:
What I appreciate the most about Erica is her reasoned approach to answering which is always backed by data, research, and ...
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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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Congratulations, you're no longer in Beta!
This site started private beta before July 2012, so it is no longer "beta", it is a full site by our definition. We've removed the word "beta" from your site banner because we believe that you aren't ...
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Moderators Wanted - Apply Inside!
I'm looking for some volunteers that are willing to step up and help lead this community through its final stretch to graduation. What will I do? Who should apply? Well, I'm glad you asked!
About the ...
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Pregnancy Questions?
The title of the site is "Parenting". Is this limited to child interaction? Are questions regarding the pregnancy period relevant (Aside from serious medical questions, of course). Example questions ...
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Do we need to avoid serious medical questions?
Many of the other SE sites seem to avoid/discourage certain topics for liability reasons. Examples that come to mind: Photography.SE follows the IANAL approach when folks ask for guidance with ...
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Are we as welcoming a site as you want Parenting.SE to be?
How welcoming a site should Parenting.SE be? Are we as welcoming as you want this site to be?
In this question, there was some expression that the site was negative enough to put off at least some ...
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Moms4Mom merge possibility?
Is there any possibility of the Mom4Moms community wanting to merge into parenting.stackexchange? Should we reach out to their community to discuss this or other possibilities?
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2018 Community Moderator Election Results
Parenting's first moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering, ...
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Stepping down as moderator
I would like to announce I am stepping down as moderator. I am pleased that Erica agreed to take my place. You may or may not have noticed her skill at defusing situations and educating new users ...
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what to do about overreaching moderation?
Anongoodnurse, a moderator of Parenting, appears to be vastly overreaching her mandate. What to do? The issue is that disparate voices that have significant contributions are driven away, because it'...
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Does anyone know who answers.ninja is?
They seem to be violating the licensing on the site and stealing our content.
http://parenting.life.answers.ninja/post/574
Does anyone recognize where the phrase "Dinosaur on the button" ...
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Is The SE Platform Appropriate For A Parenting Discussion Site?
One of the fundamental premises behind the SE platform is simply this: Ask a question, get an expert answer. Questions that cannot be answered are off-topic and not allowed. This can include ...
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Parenting Stack Exchange has an opening for a moderator, are you interested?
Due to time and life constraints, I'm sorry to report that Balanced Mama will not be able to continue on as part of the moderation team. She did a fantastic job while she could, and deserves our ...
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Need community input on questions asking for help in determining if a child might be suicidal
SE has a clear policy directed at moderators when it comes to users expressing suicidal ideation: close, comment (with resources), notify CMs who will follow up with the user, and delete. Users might ...
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How much should my parenting philosophy factor in when voting on answers? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Policy for voting
This may be a bit trivial, but since Parenting is more subjective than most of the Stack Exchange sites, I want to understand how opinion should affect ...
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Please welcome your new moderators, Balanced Mama and Karl Bielefeldt
After Torben And Cabbey stepped down, we began the search for some new awesome moderators to lead the Parenting SE community toward its goal of graduation.
I'm happy to say, we've found two excellent ...
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Our questions need more votes!
We've discussed this before, but I think it needs to be brought up again.
I've seen a lot of questions lately that have several upvoted answers, but nary a vote on the question itself. (All of the ...
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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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Parenting will remain on the HNQ
@SomeShinyObject raised our poll asking the community whether we should opt out of the Hot Network Questions list, as on the one hand they bring new visitors, but on the other, the rapid influx of new ...
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What do we do when a popular answer doesn't seem to directly address the question?
We have a question that recently hit the "Hot Network Questions" list for the Stack Exchange platform.
If you're not familiar with this list, it is displayed on the right side of the screen, and ...
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How do we increase our questions per day?
Related:
How do we boost participation? (June 2012)
What is still needed to move this site out of Beta? (August 2012)
Two year anniversary (March 2013)
Why does the site continue to remain in Beta? (...
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Making the site more popular
The progress of this site ain't too fantastic. Basically, there isn't enough users or visitors. What can we do about that? I've tweeted about the site, but that's all I can do, pretty much...
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Providing Long-Term Updates?
I was browsing around and wandered back across an old question of mine, and wondered if there would be any value in providing an update on how things turned out.
If so, what would be the best way to ...
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When is an answer not an answer?
Recently a question was asked about if it was acceptable to ask a mother on a bus to control her overly-talkative daughter, and if so, how to do so.
A highly-voted answer was flagged as "not an ...
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Are duplicates of moms4mom.com questions acceptable?
For anyone that doesn't know, moms4mom.com is a StackExchange 1.0 site about parenting - i.e. they're using very similar (but dated) software on very nearly the same topic.
The general StackExchange ...
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Thank you, Torben and cabbey!
It's with a bit of a heavy heart that I must inform you that two exemplary Parenting SE moderators will be stepping down shortly:
I've worked with them not only as an employee of Stack Exchange, but ...
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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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Do we want to unpin the accepted answer from the top?
Stack Overflow has changed the way the answers are sorted:
We no longer pin the accepted answer (with the green checkmark) to the top of the list of answers. By default, we now sort strictly by votes ...
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Are questions regarding adult children/parent relationships on topic?
I have a question regarding how to resolve an issue with my mother. It partly relates to her relationship with my kids, but moreso to do with her relationship to me.
Are these questions considered on-...
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Does Parenting.SE entertain frame-challenge answers? Do we argue the premise of a question?
Situation
Parenting Stack Exchange can be an extremely subjective environment to ask and answer questions. We have tailored our Tour, Help, and FAQs to guide new and existing users on the areas that ...
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Policy on ChatGPT generated posts
A new Internet phenomenon has reached our own corner of the Stack Exchange network. Yesterday, we had for the first time multiple posts of which we very much suspect they have been generated by ...
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How clear do you need to be that you're not asking medical advice to not be considered asking for medical advice?
Question in question:
What should I consider when getting tympanostomy tubes (grommets) for my child?
I have a close vote (and presumably a downvote) because:
This is clearly asking for medical ...
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What should moderators do with answers that disagree with the premise of the question?
It seems there's been a lot of discussion and controversy lately over how moderators should (or should not) handle answers that stray from the question being asked (including "frame challenges&...
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Am I allowed to say Goodbye in Parenting Meta?
I really just wanted to say goodbye and thank you, everyone of you who hang around Parenting. It's been a pleasure reading your posts and they have helped me in my own parenting. I hope I have also ...
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What did you think of our question asking contest?
Between Mother's day and Father's day (in the US) we held a small contest for asking questions. I got a few comments on the announcement:
If I'd seen this in time, I would have tried to get a t-...
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Should we discourage questions and answers that reference specific (i.e. "my") children?
I am interested in what others think about this, but my initial feeling is that explicit mention of specific children has two disadvantages:
It violates a child's privacy. For example, if I ask about ...
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