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There's something you want to discuss with the community. You want users to answer and comment to express their views about it, rather than just voting; and you expect your question to be voted based on usefulness and quality. // Quieres debatir sobre algo con la comunidad. Quieres que los usuarios respondan y comenten para expresar su opinión sobre ello, en vez de solo votar; y esperas que tu pregunta sea votada acorde a su utilidad y calidad.

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Announcing a Pro Tempore Moderator election

Summary: Spanish Language Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on September 9 to bring in two more moderators. For full details of the process, see the announcement ...
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Has anything changed in our policy regarding the language of answers here?

The bottom line summary of this answer says Ideally, the answers should be in the same language as the question. However, I don't think we should down vote or limit these other-language answers ...
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Can the question "In the U.S., may I go up to strangers to practice Spanish, and if so, how?" be rescued?

Someone asked an excellent question, I thought, and found the answer provided quite helpful. I think that that q&a is well suited to our site, even if it is a bit out of the mainstream. Please ...
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Proposal: a second standing chat room

Reasons for my proposal: I read an old closed question today that asked Any place to speak with people in online in Spanish? This question actually has an answer, in theory, I think: La ...
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A proposal to help newcomers get up to speed quickly

Motivation for this proposal: I've noticed that each SE site has a slightly different culture. For example, some sites: do not allow partial answers in comments (e.g. Interpersonal Skills) frown ...
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Proposing moderatorhood

This is a formal proposal to add Charlie to our crack team of moderators. Diego described Charlie's contributions to the site better than I could: preguntas muy interesantes, respuestas geniales ...
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Charlie's Greatest Hits

What are some of our chillin' champion Charlie's greatest hits? Could be a question or an answer (or both!). Give us a link and a quote. Include your name and optionally tell us why it grabbed you.
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Uno entre catorce mil – ¡Enhorabuena Charlie por llegar a 50 K!

Más de catorce mil usuarios registrados. Más de quinientos usuarios en el ranking de reputación. Menos de una decena de ellos por encima de diez mil puntos. Pero solo UNO ha sido el primero en ...
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¿Son offtopic las preguntas sobre términos en inglés que se refieren a aspectos del idioma español?

Recientemente se ha formulado en el sitio la siguiente pregunta: When talking in English about Spanish orthography, which diacritics does "tilde" cover? Iba a responder a la pregunta ...
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What's a kosher way of switching to the community wiki approach?

Let's say there's a question that gets several answers, but I think the question lends itself to being community wiki. Do I have to post at Meta, or is there some more direct way of switching the ...
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What are multiple ways a visitor could find the canonical questions?

In a website, the most important information should be findable in multiple ways. For example, an organization's phone number or email address could be in a thin banner at the top, and in the footer, ...
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What topics do we need canonical answers for?

We have some canonical Q-As (listed in ¿Qué preguntas canónicas tenemos? What are the canonical answers we've discovered over the years?), but we need more, so that we can point ...
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Invert the duplicate relationship

I came across a duplicate question relationship which I think should be inverted. The closed question has better answers. From the accepted answer in the current duplicate I like: It's a polite way ...
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Is it fair to close an English duplicate question where the pointed-to Q-A is in Spanish? [duplicate]

This question arises from the discussion about whether to close Removal of accents from demonstratives. Let's say we get a new question in English about something that's already been asked and ...
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Cambio del mensaje de bienvenida en el chat de "La Tertulia"

En el chat principal del sitio, La Tertulia, se puede leer ahora mismo el siguiente mensaje de bienvenida: Lugar de chateo para los grammar punkies de Spanish Language Se está debatiendo sobre la ...
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Y tú ¿por qué participas en Meta?

Inspirado por Y tú ¿por qué no participas en Meta?, me gustaría comparar las diferentes motivaciones que tienen los que participan con cierto ritmo en nuestro Meta.
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Do we want a different favicon for Spanish Language?

Currently both Spanish Language and Earth Science have a favicon that is almost the same (see Meta.SE Favicon of Earth Science and Spanish are too similar (exactly the same in HNQ list) and Earth ...
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Y tú ¿por qué no participas en Meta?

En estos últimos tres o cuatro meses, quitando a los dos moderadores, se pueden contar con los dedos de una mano los usuarios que han preguntado / respondido / comentado algo, lo que sea, en hilos de ...
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¿Qué etiquetas deberíamos utilizar para las preguntas del tipo "Diferencia entre la palabra X y Y"?

Veo la pregunta What is the difference between "migas" and "migajas"?, con etiquetas uso-de-palabras y vocabulario y me quedo dudando: ¿es correcto que use estas etiquetas? Hago ...
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Moderators can now exclude questions from the HNQ list – when should we use this?

The mechanics Hot Network Questions (HNQ) are questions shown in the bottom right sidebar featuring from other sites of the Stack Exchange network that are considered “hot” by a heuristic that takes ...
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¿Sobre qué elementos de revisión debemos evitar los mods ejercer el "binding vote"?

Los moderadores tenemos un "binding vote" para todos los elementos del stack que moderamos (cerrar y abrir preguntas, borrar y desborrar contribuciones - cualquier cosa en las colas de revisión). Esto ...
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Shall we start making our own collection of false cognates, and if so, where?

I was just editing a bilingual answer and had to take out "censorship" and use "censure" instead. ("Censure" is "criticism" but "censorship" refers to the suppression or prohibition of part of a book,...
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How do you decide whether to vote to close an iffy question?

I've noticed that deciding whether to close a question on this site is a bit different from some other sites. I've become persuaded that it makes sense to be less stringent here than on some other ...
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How can we encourage participants to assist with the "review" queue?

In a recent Meta comment, a moderator wrote: We need more people to go through the /review section. Otherwise it is @Diego and me cleaning it up, which works in the meanwhile but just hides the ...
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¿Qué implicaciones tiene graduarse?

Al hilo de la pregunta Would our site like to contribute an opinion to a Meta.SE question about difficulties sites like ours have trying to graduate from Beta? ha resurgido el debate sobre qué tan ...
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Would our site like to contribute an opinion to a Meta.SE question about difficulties sites like ours have trying to graduate from Beta?

A Meta.SE question Writing.SE clamours for graduation has brought up the difficulties sites like ours have trying to graduate from Beta. Would we like to weigh in? Either with one voice, or with ...
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How can we salvage the question "Are names of international figures still translated routinely in Mexican universities?"?

I would like to reopen Are names of international figures still translated routinely in Mexican universities?, which is specifically focused on famous people whose names come up in Mexican ...
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2018: a year in moderation

A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated: We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost ...
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Retrospectiva de 2018 en Spanish.se // Spanish.se 2018 Retrospective

Sirva este post para desearos a todos los usuarios feliz entrada y salida del año. Ahora que estamos a punto de empezar 2019, parece un buen momento para hacer una retrospectiva de lo que ha sido ...
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¡Empieza el Winter Bash 2018! / Let the Winter Bash 2018 start!

¿Habéis visto un nuevo icono copo de nieve en la parte superior de la barra de usuario? ¡Se trata del Winter Bash 2018! Yo me acabo de dar cuenta de que estaba. ¿Me he perdido alguna notificación? ...
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¿Seria on-topic una pregunta sobre la traducción de un juego de palabras en particular?

Hace como un mes quise hacer una pregunta, pero me faltó tiempo para publicarla y luego empecé a preguntarme si sería on-topic o no, así que hoy he sacado tiempo para preguntar en meta. El contexto ...
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Is there a difference really between [tag:reflexivos] and [tag:pronominales]

Is there a difference really between reflexivos and pronominales? I had never heard of pronominal before participating in this site. Example question: I understand that Me llamo is like, I am [...
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Removal of a link to an article and video from an answer by a moderator

The question I answered was this: The use of 'imperfecto' vs. 'indefinido' in two specific sentences I gave an answer based on a formal, written article and provided the link. ...
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What's the difference between [orden-de-palabras] and [sintaxis]?

What's the difference (if any) between orden-de-palabras and sintaxis? What I mean is, what are some examples (if they exist) that should have one or the other tag, but not the other? Or, are they ...
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¿Responder de acuerdo al uso coloquial o de acuerdo a las reglas del idioma?

Dado que el lenguaje es dinámico y está en constante cambio, es habitual que primero se genere una nueva forma de expresión, y sólo después se acepte como norma dentro del lenguaje. Cuando una ...
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Is the "deletreo" tag needed?

Prologue: This question originally appeared at Tag Housekeeping Requests. I brought it over here and gave it a separate thread of its own because that request/proposal turned out to need more ...
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Tag Housekeeping Requests

This is a page where simple tag housekeeping can be requested. If you have an idea for, for example, a tag synonym, this is a good place to record it. If your simple request turns out to need more ...
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Newcomer's off-topic post: to downvote or not to downvote?

How this question originated: I read an interesting discussion in La Tertulia about whether it's a good idea to downvote a newcomer's off-topic question. I thought this could be a fruitful discussion ...
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What is the purpose of "meaning-in-context" tag?

I just noticed that we have a meaning-in-context tag. As of now the tag has no usage guidance. Only two questions are tagged with this tag and one of the is closed as off-topic. The other queston is ¿...
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Gentle ways of bringing newcomers into our way of doing things

Let's edit imperfectly posed questions which are salvageable. What I have learned from my participation at Academia SE and ELU SE is that when a newcomer asks a question that isn't on topic, rather ...
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What's the difference between [acentuación] and [diacríticos]?

What is the difference, if any, between the tag acentuación and the tag diacríticos? If a question is correctly tagged with acentuación, then is the ortografía tag actually ...
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Agenda del sitio [closed]

He encontrado que este sitio tiene implícitamente una política y una mentalidad bastante nocivas para el español. No se pueden hacer preguntas "culturales" o "políticas", más bien, consiste ...
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Documentation of bounties

I noticed that a site participant put a huge (400) bounty recently on an oldish question. I've only touched the surface of that Q&A page, and am planning on spending some time digging into it, ...
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¿Dónde podemos hacer memes del SE o podemos al menos hacerlo?

A veces veo cosas interesantes en el SE que me llaman la atención, por ejemplo preguntas relacionadas con otras, usuarios que se destacan. En este caso para mí es la reciente obsesión de Charlie por ...
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Let's start collecting our HNQ data

I am interested in learning more about how exposure via the Hot Network Questions (HNQ) list affects our efforts to attract more participants to Spanish Language Beta SE (SLB) and stimulate ...
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¿Cuáles son los hitos de esta comunidad en cuanto a proyección mediática?

Hoy nos avisó Charlie de que Alfred López se ha registrado en el sitio. Se trata del autor del famoso blog Ya está el listo que todo lo sabe. Tras la alegría inicial, y hablando del tema, se nos ...
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¿Por qué la pregunta "Technical translation for 'stream'" tuvo tanto 'éxito'?

¿Qué tiene una pregunta como ésta para ser vista 1k en un día, con 9 votos y 5 respuestas? Desde mi punto de vista es poco atractiva y referida a un ámbito súper restringido. Con todo respeto por ...
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Some concerns about recent messages in the chatroom La Tertulia

(Please jump to the ampersands at the bottom if you want the TL:DR) English version follows Compañeros: Antes que nada, ¿puedo pedir, querido lector, que eches un ojo a Stack Overflow Isn’t Very ...
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How broad is "too broad"?

I just noticed that this question has been reopened: What are the main differences between Spanish in Spain and Spanish in Latin America? It is a very old question -- actually a pre-Beta question. ...
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¿Cómo podríamos clasificar las etiquetas por tipos de sentencias?

Después de ¿Deberíamos juntar modismos / frases idiomáticas / expresiones en una única etiqueta? Should we use a unique tag for idioms?, modismos tiene estos sinónimos: frases ...
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