Questions tagged [life]
The Life category includes proposals in subjects like home, family, education, careers, and self-improvement.
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Will I be able to post anonymously?
Proposal: Sex and Intimacy
If you search teh interwebz for my username 'Carpetsmoker', stackoverflow is the first hit (on DuckDuckGo anyway). If you do the same for my real name, SO doesn't come up ...
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Any advice on how to recover from a circumcision operation? Thanks! [closed]
I'm 19, a college freshman. I'm sorry I don't know if it is really appropriate to ask such a question on this SE site but I really need some help. I had just undergone a circumcision operation ...
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How to prevent US-Centrism?
Proposal: Law
This proposal is not meant to be US-Centric. It should be like Travel for example; it should be used to ask questions about all law systems worldwide.
However, probably the initial ...
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Advertise Law Proposal on the right-hand panel?
Proposal: Law
By virtue of the 50% Commitment rate, should we ask SE to advertise this proposal on the right-hand panel? This meta SE comment suggests that this request must be made manually and ...
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Question about proposed site: Health
Proposal: Health
I've been keeping an eye on this for months now, wondering to see if it would take a strong direction. I don't see it yet.
Mainly I'd like to know if medical questions are going to ...
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Folks with health questions... or folks learning about health?
Proposal: Health
About a month ago, I made a small edit to the audience description here, such that it now reads:
Proposed Q&A site for medical specialists, students, dietitians and anyone ...
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Wouldn't (almost) every question here be on-topic for Seasoned Advice?
Proposal: Coffee
Looking at the sample questions for this site, it look like, other than the open-ended question about opening up your own coffee shop, every question here would be on-topic for ...
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Are questions about porn on topic in Sex and Intimacy?
Proposal: Sex and Intimacy
Some people may be interested in the way porn is affecting their life or some other questions related too porn. Are similar topics allowed in Sex and Intimacy
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Health description - minor change
Proposal: Health
I think there should just be a minor change to the description for this proposal to clarify that it's about human health only.
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What should we do with the negative feedback?
Proposal: Law
This is a proposed site "for experts in law [and others]". However, seems like experts are not that interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/2qxnpq/...
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On 'Sex and Intimacy' should spoiler tags be used to hide sketches/diagrams/images?
Proposal: Sex and Intimacy
The existing question Will this site be safe for work? and answer by Robert makes it fairly clear the site is not going to be heavily censored. An answer by Shadow Wizard ...
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Will this site be safe for work?
Proposal: Sex and Intimacy
My assumption is that significant number of StackExchange users access the site during work hours. Is the site going to be safe for work? What if there is a need to post ...
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Should we aim that no gender or sexual orientation is underrepresented in the commitment phase?
Proposal: Sex and Intimacy
My very rough impression from the avatars is that, for example, there are more men than women who committed to this proposal. I think we should somehow aim to have people ...
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how does one get involved during the commitment phase?
It's not extremely clear to me what is expected of me after pressing the commit button. I'd like to help.
Proposal: Coffee
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Although I have committed, I have something to say
Proposal: Lifehacks
This will be a great site.
However, I think about 80% of the questions with answers will be answered by the asker. This is because if you know the problem, you likly know the ...
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How will we treat questions like "Can you look over my contract?"
Proposal: Law
I imagine it wouldn't be uncommon for someone to draft up a contract, or to be given one, and then come to Law.SE and ask "Does my contract look good?" or "What does this contract mean?"...
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How will we discourage people asking for, or giving, legal advice in Law?
Proposal: Law
Even in the proposal phase, Law seems to be attracting questions of the form "Is it legal for me to...", "How can I..." and so forth.
There are two different problems with questions ...
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Why three dots instead of the word in description?
I wrote a proposal that used the maximum number of characters in the description. I looked at it under the list of new proposals, where I found the description truncated with three dots(...) replacing ...
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Is this a safe place?
Proposal: Men’s Circle
One of the basic commitments of a circle is that the circle is a safe place for men to be. The things that we learn about others in a circle are to be held in confidence. Of ...
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What differentiates this proposal from politics.se?
Proposal: Law
Politics.SE looks at the processes and policies of governments. Law is wisely keeping out of "specific legal advice," but can you fashion any questions that would be on-topic in law.se ...
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Are questions about adaptive solutions (artificial limbs, braille, etc) in scope?
Proposal: Health
I just noticed there are no questions about adaptive solutions in the example questions. There have been a couple of previous failed attempts to create a site specific to addressing ...
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Is it ever alright to either reference or recommend
Proposal: Lifehacks
The book, Lifehacks, itself, by Adam Pash and Gina Trapani -- either for solutions or suggestions on how to frame possible hacks? The book, itself, obviously has ideas that ...
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How to deal with the issue of health information constantly changing due to the nature of scientific research?
Proposal: Health
Questions on health never change, but the answers to them do.
This would be a good question for Meta once the site is launched, but we should start thinking about it now.
The ...
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Health has joined the commitment phase!
Proposal: Health
I'm pleased to announce that the Health proposal has just now joined the commitment stage. Please show your support for the first Health.SE site by committing to this proposal.
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How to deal with nutrition questions, especially the problem of crackpot theories?
Proposal: Health
As a Cooking moderator, I've seen my fair share of "healthy eating" questions. We always close them with the hammer, because they make the worst kind of question: nobody has the ...
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Should question about mental health be on-topic?
There was a proposal for a Mental Fitness Stack Exchange. The site made it to private beta, but was closed after 6 days due to lack of activity.
Should questions concerning mental health be on-topic ...
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Would these kind of questions be considred on topic? If not, then how should they be framed to make them on-topic?
Proposal: Health
What is the way to cure the rough hair when the hair spa fails to help?
What is the way to get rid of the redness that appears on the skin immediately after threading the upper lips?...
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Recommendations to make progress
Proposal: Coffee
Could you share ideas on how to spread the word about a proposal?
The banner generated by the site is one thing but it gets as many views as the site it get to...
I have so many ...
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Is "Living and working in USA" for Americans?
Proposal: Living and working in USA
Is this site intended for those who were born in the US and lived there all their lives? If not, then it would seem to be a duplicate of Expatriates.
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Limiting the View of Sex and Intimacy to Minor Users
Proposal: Sex and Intimacy
Is it possible to limit the viewers of this site to 18 only when it comes to public beta? Or should we limit it now? There are many topics there that is not suitable for ...
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Will the Health SE have an option to ask a question anonymously?
Proposal: Health
Many people prefer to keep their health issues private. As such, I imagine that many people will not want to have questions about their personal health linked to their Stackexchange ...
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SwagOverflow - Clothing
I haven't seen a StackExchange site about clothing yet. If there is, please forgive me.
I have a place in mind, where you could ask questions about your outfits or clothes, or what to buy. Doesn't ...
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Should the Lifehacks proposal's description be updated/clarified?
Proposal: Lifehacks
The Lifehacks proposal's description currently reads:
Proposed Q&A site for everybody who urgently needs to bypass everyday's life problem with some simple tricks! :)
At ...
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Would questions about sex be on topic at Health?
Proposal: Health
I ask this question as a discussion question rather than just posting an example question because I think the subject may require a fuller examination then can occur in the comments ...
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How to encourage more questions and upvotes for Law?
How can this instructive, superlative proposal for Law be advertised and publicised more? Personally, I'm surprised that such an universal, pervasive subject still does not have its own SE.
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How to attract poeple for this proposal
Proposal: Pakistan
What are the methods to attract people to this proposal.
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Overview of Site (Pakistan)
Proposal: Pakistan
I am thinking about a site where people can ask matters related to Pakistan.
My nationality is Pakistani and I want to propose Pakistan.
I want people can discuss and ask ...
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How should Law Philosophy questions be treated?
Proposal: Law
For example, if I asked
What idea does "Fiat justitia ruat caelum" convey?
Is this a question fit for the proposed Law Stack Exchange?
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Duplicate of Losers - which was closed
This is almost exactly the same as your losers proposal? Which was closed...
Proposal: Dying a Virgin
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"Cleaning" is on-topic at DIY.SE
Proposal: How to Clean is already on-topic at DIY.SE - why would it need its own site?
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We need more diversity, talk to your colleagues!! (About perceived duplicates and unsuccessful proposals)
First of all I'll say I love love love StackExchange. And I think it'd be awesome if communities from more fields of knowledge would spill their expertise to the CC internet.
TL;DR
We should be ...
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Should the name be changed to "PUA"?
Proposal: Communication with the opposite sex
People asking question here should have at least a little expertise in the field, otherwise it’s just an online forum. If we want a QA format I propose ...
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Now that this proposal has reach commitment, I'm worried it's going to go the same way as the Beer Beta.
Proposal: Coffee
The beer beta had a flurry of activity to start, and then quickly tapered off. There was nothing to keep it going.
I'm of the opinion that a general 'beverages' SE would be more ...
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Any ideas for how to promote this outside the network?
Proposal: Etiquette
We're 10 months into commitment stage. We've actually done pretty well getting users already on Stack Exchange to commit here, with 83/100 of the needed commitments and 100% ...
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Should 'Laws' be renamed 'Law'?
Proposal: Laws
Calling this proposed site 'laws' seems clumsy to me, and seems to narrow the scope of questions to specific laws rather than law in general (cf 'medicines' vs 'medicine'). For ...
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Scope of Narcotic, Withdrawal, Rehab
please contribute in defining scope of this proposal, I've had these points in mind
Drugs and their effects, addiction, withdrawal, ease of availability, methods of consumption etc.
First aids for ...
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Would it be Ok to ask question for specific states inside Fedoral One
Proposal: Laws
Many countries are Federal States which have States in themselves. Many Others have autonomous regions.
Would it be Ok to ask questions for specific laws in those regions or it would ...
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Wouldn't the sheer number of countries make this too broad?
Proposal: Laws
Considering the large number of countries and regions with their own laws, is it feasible for the community to have a wide enough member/knowledge base for any question (with the ...
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How to promote Health StackExchange proposal?
I think it would be a good idea to promote this proposal to existing groups who may already be interested in the topic. Of particular importance is finding people who will have good health knowledge ...
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