What on Earth?

Q: Moderator Pro Tem Announcement

3:41 PM

@hichris123 @gerrit time to check your email again

Jon Ericson

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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 to act as temporary, provisional Moderators. You can read about the program here: Moderators Pro...

You guys accepted too quickly. I was hoping to have a nice relaxing morning refreshing my email. ;-)

:)

EnergyNumbers

@casey Thanks to you, @gerrit and @hichris123 for taking this on. See you in the Teachers' Lounge.

4:20 PM

How do I make sure that my chat account is associated with the Earth Sciences site?

Jon Ericson

@gerrit chat.stackexchange.com/users/27003/gerrit

(I did it for you. ;-)

@gerrit find your chat profile page and in the parent user field, click change and search for earthscience

beaten!

@JonEricson Thanks.

5:15 PM

casey has made a change to the feeds posted into this room

I think that should fix the main site and meta feeds

@casey Thanks.

no problem

5:39 PM

casey has made a change to the feeds posted into this room

Q: Which archaeology-related questions are on topic?

7:04 PM

casey has stopped a feed from being posted into this room

casey has made a change to the feeds posted into this room

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I have already asked few questions on the border between archaeology and earth sciences, such as this or this. I want to ask more, but I would like to be sure that they are on topic before asking. What I would expect to be on topic, all the time or almost all the time: archaeological geophysic...

discussion scope

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Q: A tag for mantle plumes/hotspots?

One question that'd benefit from this already, and as a somewhat controversial topic and an active area of research I'd be astonished if we don't get more. I suggest "mantle-plumes", as hotspot's more contested terminology (because it ascribes a particular process of formation to surface features...

feature-request

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Q: 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 to act as temporary, provisional Moderators. You can read about the program here: Moderators Pro...

discussion featured moderators

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Q: Add Teg for Geoinformatics

Geoinformatics is the science and the technology which develops and uses information science infrastructure to address the problems of geography, geosciences and related branches of engineering.

feature-request

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Q: Tags for Organizations

Should we add tags to allow for users to ask questions of specific agencies/datasets? (Sorry about the US Centric agency list) USGS - US Geological Survey US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency (US) EPA - Environmental Protection Agency NWS - US National Weather Service NOAA - National Oc...

discussion feature-request

Huh, that's a point - can someone give me advice on etiquette for introducing a tag? I now have enough rep to unilaterally introduce a mantle-plumes tag but I've not really used SE before so I've got no idea how rude it would be to do so...

@kaberett Just go ahead and create it. The worst that can happen is that others retag it, or that it is made a synonym of others.

Provided it's not seen as wasted work/something that ought to have consensus before decisions are made! Cheers; will go tag things up now. :-)

well I guess I finally fixed that... sorry for the spam :)

@kaberett if you have at least 150 rep, you can create new tags by just adding them to your question

casey has stopped a feed from being posted into this room

casey has made a change to the feeds posted into this room

7:15 PM

and now that should really fix the question feed, since it seemed to work for meta

@casey: yep; when I posted the question in meta I didn't have 150rep, and I've not participated in SE before so wasn't sure if there were non-obvious politeness norms around getting consensus in meta prior to introducing tags :-) In any case I've updated my meta post.

Seth

@casey yep it worked

@kaberett no problem. You'll find SE lets the community take ownership in a way other places do not.

@Seth yep. Interesting to note that if the feed link is wrong and you edit it to correct it, it won't work. You have to delete it and add it new with the right link.