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Can we have a different favicon (ॐ) for Hinduism SE?
After more internal discussion and comments under this meta post, we agreed that ॐ would indeed be a good favicon for this site. We forwarded the request to our design team a little while ago, and ...
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Can one expect a new moderator in short time?
An election to bring some more folks aboard has been scheduled. Assuming it has enough candidates to run successfully, a new moderator should be added to the team once it is concluded.
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Is it possible to mass-update broken URLs to IndianScriptures.com with HinduScriptures.in?
All of the url replacements have been made.
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Define Off-Topic Close Reasons
Personal advice question are considered off-topic here. See : Related meta post
for details.
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A Notice About Personalized Advice?
This has been updated as outlined in Mr_Green's answer and, thanks to Shog9 is now live.
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Where is the Hinduism SE FAQ?
As of status-completed, refer FAQ Index for Hinduism Stack Exchange
faq tag has been added to below mentioned question:
The copy-paste issue, Hinduism version ✓
Political questions and Scientific ...
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Define Off-Topic Close Reasons
Political question and Scientific explanation questions are off-topic
here. See : Related meta post
for details.
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Purge and blacklist the mythology tag
This request has been completed. mythology is burninated.
The tag was also blacklisted as requested as it was widely used, here's what people will see when they try to use it:
If you want to add ...
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Discussion about the need of a "Controversial post" banner
The feature was enabled on the site. Thanks to everyone who've participated in the discussion.
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Can we unify tags 'incarnation', 'avatar' and 'avatars'?
I just made avatar and incarnation synonyms of the avatars tag.
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How do I search the comments of Hinduism.SE?
Turns out, it's real easy using the following search-comments query of StackExchange Data Explorer**.
http://data.stackexchange.com/hinduism/query/114513/search-comments
Just type the search term++ in ...
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Purge and blacklist the mythology tag
Similar to the recent request on aviation can you please check questions that have only mythology + one other tag to make sure they still make sense without the mythology tag?
Since this is a fairly ...
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Should we permanently delete the abusive edit history from the posts, which were [accidentally] approved for spam edits?
Yes, that should be done. Not only Community managers, even diamond moderators can redact a revision.
A custom flag asking for redacting a revision and a link (it does the mod's job easier) will ...
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Change the moderators of Hinduism SE Site
I agree that Cheenbabes and Senshin are not doing any moderation on this site these days.
As per my observation, the only problem I can see is:
Not many active users to answer the questions.
Since,...
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A Notice About Personalized Advice?
I believe this would be more fitting -
Hinduism Stack Exchange is a website for answering queries about Sanatana Dharama. It does not offer personal advise, and is not a substitute for Guru, Pandit,...
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A Notice About Personalized Advice?
My opinion is as follows:
Like any library, Hinduism Stack Exchange shares great information,
but is not the place for getting personalized advice. It does not take the place of
seeking such ...
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A Notice About Personalized Advice?
What do you guys think of this? I didn't change much as I think most of it applies here as well.
Like any library, Hinduism Stack Exchange shares great information, but does not offer personalized ...
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Update the help center page with all off-topic reasons and other changes
The scope of Sanskrit language related questions and that of Ayurveda is now clarified at on-topic page of help center.
Find an update to help center as follows:
Coincidentally a meta request ...
PandyaMod
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Can we change the "help center" link appearing in off-topic reason to on-topic page?
We've updated (replaced) the close reason from:
This question does not appear to be about Hindu religion, within the scope defined in the help center.
To:
This question does not appear to be ...
PandyaMod
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Define Off-Topic Close Reasons
Any hypothetical question can be marked as off-topic.
For example: What would have happened if Lord Rama had not left Seeta maata after hearing the words of a washerman?
The answer would mark ...
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Define Off-Topic Close Reasons
Questions that ask for shopping recommendations (e.g buying books from Amazon) are off topic.
PandyaMod
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Change the moderators of Hinduism SE Site
Let's talk about moderation on Hinduism.SE.
I have seen several questions from day one till date. Insulting moderators and asking for their replacement with efficient ones. I honestly don't mind as ...
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Purge and blacklist the mythology tag
Does this mean until it is blacklisted and purged completely users are free to add the mythology tag as long as it's not the only tag on the question?
I see some users still using this tag in April, ...
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Change the moderators of Hinduism SE Site
I stumbled upon this question. Yes, I had the same feeling about the first 2 inactive moderators "cheenbabes" and "senshin". It's a real SHAME when the site has to deal with such moderators, who don't ...
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