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Are our mods taking part in the walkout?
I have signed the letter and marked myself as absent.
However, I have not handed back any of my mod diamonds. I would emphasize that signing the letter to the company is really just a walkout with the ...
StephieMod
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Policy on ChatGPT generated posts
My suggestion is to follow the example of SO and ban chatGPT for the time being.
Apart from the reasons listed above (especially the risk of quality decline and that we have and enforce a clear policy ...
StephieMod
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Do we wish to be part of the 1-rep-voting test?
No.
Reason: This SE already gets a lot of observable up/down voting that is unrelated to the actual quality of an answer (that is, how good the actual cooking information is), but is instead based on ...
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Are our mods taking part in the walkout?
I'm not very active at all, but I'll be sticking around for the time being to make sure that flags get handled (eventually, anyways).
This doesn't mean I'm happy about AI policies etc etc, just that I'...
CascabelMod
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Are our mods taking part in the walkout?
I am here, and moderating.
The AI question is still mostly theoretical for our site. We have deleted maybe a dozen posts on suspicion of being generated, and I don't think we've ever suspended anybody ...
rumtschoMod
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Policy on ChatGPT generated posts
I don't even think we needed to ask. We've always expected that people write their own answers, and that they answer in good faith, with information they are confident is correct. Machine-generated ...
CascabelMod
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Are our mods taking part in the walkout?
As said in the comments, I've been back in school full time. My long-term, barely active status puts me in the lovely position of not needing to make a decision about this today. I am not up to speed, ...
JolenealaskaMod
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Policy on ChatGPT generated posts
I'll give one more reason we should ban these:
ChatGPT answers suffer from the "gramatically correct nonsense" problem that often plagues text generators. Questions on cooking would be ...
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Why did moderator rumtscho delete links and pictures in one answer, and delete another answer completely?
tl;dr: for anybody who has eaten strawberries, a picture of a strawberry is not "worth a thousand words".
I removed the extra content from the answer, because it did not contribute to the ...
rumtschoMod
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Block the "food" tag
The food tag has been blocked. Please let us know if you see any issues or need to make any tweaks.
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What defines "opinion-based"?
This is something that's been discussed a lot, and which various members of the community have differing strongly held views on. I do think that despite its age, Good Subjective, Bad Subjective is a ...
CascabelMod
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What is the purpose of this script posted as an answer?
Unless its a common thing its generally not a problem. Some people... are strange and occasionally try to use SE as a pastebin, get confused cause they get too many windows open or (the one thing to ...
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Why are some "Manuka honey" so cheap, like $1 USD/100 g?
You can remove all references to price.
The way companies choose to price their products is awfully complicated, and a true answer for a specific product requires the equivalent of at least a master's ...
rumtschoMod
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Why are moderators allowed to be impolite?
I'm one of the moderators who didn't interact with your original question.
Your question here on meta is, generously, misleading about the facts of the situation. It wasn't even a moderator who ...
CascabelMod
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Organize a Photo Competition similar to travel.meta.stackexchange.com
I'm in favour (as a regular, but not a mod) - I like taking pictures of my own creations, but can't promise I'd contribute regularly.
I propose a tweak to the rule:
The photo has to be taken by the ...
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Organize a Photo Competition similar to travel.meta.stackexchange.com
While I like the idea (I am known to occasionally share photos in the Frying Pan), I am not sure whether we as mods have the energy to orchestrate it - or whether we even should.
If the community as a ...
StephieMod
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What's the tag for washing before cooking? Please create one?
Agreed, we should add the tag WASHING-FOOD (or a similar name) for this. Mostly people seem to me using FOOD SAFETY, which is our most overused tag, making it not very helpful.
An alternative would ...
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How to improve post unintentionally making health claims
I am afraid that in this case, this is out of your hands. You can only write an answer on polyphenols if the OP came to the site with the explicit intention to ask about exactly about polyphenols.
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rumtschoMod
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Are these questions with contradictory answers duplicates?
Great question for Meta; the FAQ you posted tries to avoid even more wordiness, so it apparently was confusing in this case.
We assume that the point of reading answers to questions on our site (no ...
rumtschoMod
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What defines "opinion-based"?
I'm going to specifically address those two questions, and why one is opinion-based and the other is not.
I'm not looking to learn a new skill; how do I make my knives better at cutting?
This question ...
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Do we need both the "cooking-safety" and "ktichen safety" tags?
I'd keep kitchen-safety - cooking-safety can very easily be read as encompassing both food and kitchen, while kitchen-safety is a bit less ambiguous.
CascabelMod
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Questions on food peservation methods on-topic?
I think you might be chasing a red herring here - there is no rule for or against anthropological or historical questions. The questions have to meet the other criteria of the site (actually, all ...
rumtschoMod
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What is the best way to thank a moderator?
This kind of interaction on a personal/social level would best happen in chat. (Provided you have the required reputation - and you do, just mentioning it for other users.)
Our mod team is usually ...
StephieMod
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Merge / synonymise [fat] + [fats]
I find that this makes sense, thank you for noticing.
I have a weak preference for leaving fat and merging fats into it, but let's see if somebody supports the opposite direction.
Update Merge ...
rumtschoMod
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