The Life category includes proposals in subjects like home, family, education, careers, and self improvement.
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Should all the Q&A in this proposal use Chinese language only? | 这个项目里的所有问答都将使用中文吗？
Proposal: Applying to Foreign Colleges & Universities (in Chinese)
这个项目的核心是解答中国学生在留学上的疑惑，这是不是意味着，这个项目里的所有问题和解答将完全使用中文？如果完全使用中文，那么对于诸如在国外生活体验这样的问题，就仅仅只有海外的华人可以回答了，毕竟大部分外国人是不懂中文的，而懂中文的未必在国外生活。
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3answers
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Schools, learning, undergraduates
Proposal: Schools and learning
Proposal: Undergraduates
In two days, two proposals got added: Schools and learning, and Undergraduates. Is there any difference in scope? Let's answer for each ...
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1answer
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Supporters of “Running” please come over and get “Exercise and Fitness” over the hump! [closed]
I'd honestly like both of these ultimately succeed. However, it seems that to achieve critical mass, we should first start getting the more general category of Exercise and Fitness up and running. So ...
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1answer
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1answer
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Is an “Undeclared SE” site a good idea?
Proposal: Undeclared
Sometimes, a good question in a SE site will get closed because its not relevant to the site topics, but its generally speaking a good question someone might do. There should be ...
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6answers
153 views
Sustainable Living covers a set of questions that intersects — but does not completely overlap — other proposals, how to handle?
Proposal: Sustainable Living
Is there a standard way determined for handling sites that have an intersection (but not total overlap) with existing sites or proposals? For example, see this question ...
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1answer
135 views
Is it unusual for a proposal to be closed during the private beta?
Proposal: How Things Work
(IIRC*) I started to follow the How Things Work proposal a bit late, just to get reminded when the public beta would begin.
As I didn't get the mail, I decided to check the ...
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2answers
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Should there be some privacy/anonymity by default or identity separation from other stack exchange sites?
Reading over the A51 proposals, I see a proposal for a sexuality Q&A site (cough "sackoverflow" cough ).
I don't know if I would particularily like Careers2.0 to link up a potential employer or ...
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5answers
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Wouldn't Etiquette be a better name for the proposed Social Conventions and Interaction site?
Proposal: Social conventions and interaction
Social conventions and interactions seems like an excessively long and complicated name for what already has a perfectly suitable term in widespread use: ...
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1answer
247 views
What happened to the [heavily-followed] original?
I saw the new Homeschooling proposal this morning and thought the proposer had lost his mind because I KNOW I had been following, voted-on, and suggested questions for a Homeschool proposal. But it's ...
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2answers
93 views
Is a notification sent out to tell followers that the proposal moved from the definition phase to the commit phase?
Proposal: Genealogy & Family History
Is a notification sent out to tell followers of a proposal that it moved from the definition phase to the commit phase?
If a notification isn't sent then I ...
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2answers
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How can we make the Autism proposal more inclusive?
Proposal: Autism
How can we update the proposal to be as inclusive as possible of the wider Autism Spectrum Disorder community without losing the site's focus?
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3answers
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Merge “Running” into “Excercise and Fitness”? Will they sap contributors from each other? [closed]
In response to Rick Roth's answer to my other question.
Should we merge Running into Exercise and Fitness? I can see arguments both ways. There certainly are a lot of questions specific to long ...
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1answer
116 views
Let's try again for an Etiquette site
Proposal: Etiquette
Proposal: Etiquette [closed]
The etiquette proposal was closed today after spending over 2 years in Area51, but it was near to the required 200 commitments. This is a site I very ...
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5answers
271 views
New proposal description is too restrictive/uninviting
Proposal: Genealogy & Family History
The new description does not reflect what this Q&A site should be about. It is far to restrictive.
Proposed Q&A site for genealogists who study ...
12
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1answer
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An invitation to bring any scientific questions about autism to Cognitive Sciences
Proposal: Autism
As an active user of the Cognitive Sciences beta site, I would like to offer the followers of the Autism proposal a chance to ask some of their scientific questions on our site.
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1answer
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Should some sites have requirements other than number / reputation of users before going into beta? [closed]
Proposal: Human Sexual Response and Non-Platonic Relations
I just went through the list of committments to the proposal, and out of 192 committers, I found just three with a recognisably female ...
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2answers
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The proposed site is just for “experts”?
Is the site just supposed to be for Experts in mental health to talk to each other, or is it supposed to be for people in general, experts and non-experts alike, to share experiences and information, ...
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2answers
92 views
Getting more expert committers - Become one yourself!
Proposal: Genealogy & Family History
To make beta, genealogy needs to excel in 3 areas:
committers - currently 159, needs 200. Other discussions (eg Would someone draft a blurb I could use to ...
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3answers
181 views
What is included in 'Sustainability'?
Proposal: Sustainable Living
Are we talking only environmental sustainability or does it include social sustainability? Permaculture talks about "permanent culture" and is one model of a sustainable ...
8
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1answer
222 views
What does Freelance Workers address that can't be handled by OnStartups?
Should Freelance Workers merge into OnStartups? What does Freelance Workers handle that cannot be asked there?
Proposal: Freelance Workers
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2answers
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Expand the group to cover all special needs
Proposal: Autism
I think it will be easier to gather more people if the proposal covers all special needs. It could cover Cerebral palsy, genetic conditions, Autism, Downs syndrome and others. Just ...
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3answers
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All healthcare related area 51 proposals. Differences? Similarities? Can they co-exist? How can members of all proposals benefit?
Proposal: Healthcare Industry
Proposal: Bioinformatics
Proposal: Biomedical Informatics
Proposal: Biomedical engineering
Proposal: Neuroinformatics
Proposal: Public Health & Epidemiology
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1answer
108 views
What is the proper target audience for the Sexuality proposal? Sample questions don't match the description
Proposal: Sexuality
The description of the proposal is:
Proposed Q&A site for educators and professionals to discuss human sexuality.
However none of the questions I see as upvoted > 10 is ...
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1answer
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Should questions about improving ones looks or health be posted in the Proposal “Health & Beauty”?
Proposal: Life Improvement
Proposal: Health & Beauty
Should questions about improving ones looks or health be posted in the Proposal Health & Beauty?
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2answers
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Would someone draft a blurb I could use to help get the word out on new Genealogy proposal?
Proposal: Genealogy & Family History
The genealogy proposal is now in 'commitment' and needs more committers. How best should we get the word out?
Could someone write up a blurb that I (and ...
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6answers
231 views
Why does the proposal include the term serious amateurs?
Proposal: Genealogy & Family History
The proposal description reads: Proposed Q&A site for genealogy enthusiasts, family historians, professional genealogists, and serious amateurs.
Why the ...
4
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0answers
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Wouldn't most questions be subjective?
Proposal: Will my idea work?
And if not, wouldn't most of the answers be subjective anyway? What person A and B think might contradict C and D. It also doesnt' seem like it'd give any real value ...
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3answers
167 views
Medical and Health Questions
Proposal: Nutrition
Although the whole Nutrition scope of the site has health implications – Nutrition simply is one of the most obvious factors to health – I think the site has to draw a line ...
3
votes
1answer
78 views
Attracting Followers
Proposal: Recreational Boating seem to be dead in the water (pun intended). There is no other related proposal (I strongly disagree with one moderator’s opinion that it is a duplicate of The Great ...
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votes
1answer
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Isn't it too localized
Proposal: Where to get
The proposal is about where to get stuffs, but the stuffs can be found at different places in different countries/regions. So all answers would be localized.
What do you think?
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0answers
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Do not use “create new discussion” to ask questions, since this proposal is still at commitment stage. （本项目仍在Commitment阶段，暂时不能在此提问。） [closed]
Proposal: Applying to Foreign Colleges & Universities (in Chinese)
我也刚刚知道这个规矩：在commitment阶段，SE（Stackexchange）暂时不提供“问答”功能。所以，目前依然不能在这里进行问答活动。在“create new ...
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3answers
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Frugal: Is this a viable SE site? [closed]
Proposal: Frugal
I'm not convinced that Frugal could be a viable Stack Exchange site. Its description is:
for frugal people. Not interested in new gizmos and marketing spam. Happy with low ...
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2answers
96 views
Why were my comments deleted?
Proposal: Nutrition
Why were most of my comments deleted? Since I don't have votes left, comments are now the only way I can leave feedback about the questions.
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0answers
72 views
You won't be Committed if you don't confirm your email
Proposal: Genealogy & Family History
Currently we show over 250 committers. You should see yourself in the list. If you don't, but you think you've committed, then most likely you haven't ...
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1answer
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How do I engage users from a closed proposal to inform they about a similar active proposal?
I created a proposal for diy-projects as my question was off-topic for Home improvement .. I got a suggestion that these folks of 'personal-manufacturing' had a similar project so how do I engage ...
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5answers
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码农，尤其是没有太多存款的码农，移民去美国都有哪些办法可以用呢？ [closed]
美国的计算机工业极为先进，对于码农来说应该是最合适的目的地了。
目前看上去移民有很多种路线，哪一种比较适合码农呢？
Proposal: Immigration Oversea（in Chinese）移民海外
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votes
1answer
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Why has CopyrightX been closed?
Proposal: CopyrightX
About 2 hours ago, Robert Cartaino closed the proposed CopyrightX SE community with the comment/announcement:
"I'm sorry but we cannot create a closed-group site. Instead ...
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2answers
174 views
Wouldn't “Miss Manners” be a better name for this proposal?
Proposal: Etiquette
There are good arguments in this discussion. But 'Etiquette' is, as commented, archaic. With the defining reference to Emily Post-style newspaper Q&A, wouldn't 'Miss Manners' ...
