Unanswered Questions
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Site statistics
This meta post will track our stats on Area 51, fortnightly (14 days) or a bit longer if I forget and someone else updates it:
Here's the Quantcast estimate of site traffic, with the mean number of ...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election Results
Earth Science's moderator election has come to a close. Since there were not enough candidates, we simply appointed the sole candidate:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly—please thank them ...
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Let's clean-up those rock identification questions
We now have more than 200 rock-identification questions. Here on meta, we have a very good guide on what it takes to write a good rock ID question. It doesn't take a geologist to recognise that many ...
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What are our best Q&As to show off this site?
I'm looking to promote this site and want to hear from our domain experts what our best questions in each discipline are. I'm interested in both questions with great answers and also great questions ...
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Google results show weird naming for this site
For some reason, when searching "reasons of hottest august this year earth science" in Google, it displays a weird title for this question:
Note that it should be Earth Science Stack Exchange, ...
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Announcing a Pro Tempore election for 2021
Earth Science Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election beginning on May 24th to bring in one more moderator.
For full details of the process, see the announcement on Meta ...
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Is there a consensus on non-substantive edits?
I have just rolled back an edit for (as far as I can recall) the first time on this site. This edit was approved (and improved) by Jan Doggen, a user I respect, so I thought it might be a good idea to ...
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List of identify-my-rock questions to delete [STATUS-COMPLETED]
Please, vote to delete this list of questions if you have time and you have the privileges to do so (2k).
https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/15910/mineral-identification-please-help
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Do we still need advice how to best describe our rocks?
When I forgot to add a title to a question before posting and clicked "review" I got an error which is good. But since I included the identification-request tag the advice includes ...
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Query on Stack Exchange Data Explorer to show the number of id-questions received by month
Movies&TV query
I found this query on Stack Exchange Data Explorer Movies&TV wrote that shows the monthly frequency input of id my movie questions and total questions on the site. As you can ...
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Asking for help to +500 rep users to close id-request questions [Update: all are closed]
Ok, so to stop receiving those question, we should not appear firsts at Google common searches from users that want to know what is the stone they found. For that the 450 questions we have should be ...
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Standard comment text when VTC ID questions as 'unclear'
As suggested in my comment under Spencer's answer in the Idea - make identification request posts off topic topic, what could be a 'default' comment text that we can quickly cut and paste a question ...
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Let's start offering bounties!
Somehow I became the highest rep user on this site, and since I have no use for my rep points (14.5k at the moment) I'll start investing them in bounties for ignored or interesting questions, both new ...
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Tackling the unanswered list
This is similar to the thread 90 unanswered questions and counting, I have just tackled and answered 4 unanswered questions - it took a bit of research, but was doable and I think the answers are of a ...
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