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What thread format do you prefer for Picture of the Day contest?

It seems there are still some questions about the Picture of the Day contest threads. We've been using a single-thread approach for a while now. This approach is certainly a bit easier for moderators ...
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Weekly Featured Image: Jan 17 '11

This is the place to submit and vote on photos for the week of Jan 17 to be featured on the main site. Rules: Limit one photo per person per week. A specific photo may be submitted at most two weeks ...
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Weekly Featured Image - should late votes count?

It seems to me that there was a mistake made when selecting featured image for current week. The last two (deciding) votes have been cast after voting deadline - see current winner's reputation ...
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Weekly Featured Image: Oct 31, '11

This is the place to submit and vote on photos for the week of 31 October to be featured on the main site. This contest should showcase your best quality work, demonstrating at least moderate skill ...
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What resources is Stack Exchange dedicating to meeting the needs of Photography Stack Exchange?

It's been more than six months since this post promising Generating revenue from non-technology sites will enable us to dedicate more resources to meeting your needs so this is good news. (...
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Weekly Featured Image: Jul 25, '11

This is the place to submit and vote on photos for the week of 25 July to be featured on the main site. This contest should showcase your best quality work, demonstrating at least moderate skill with ...
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Proposed migration of astro-photography questions from astronomy.se

The Astronomy site is being shut down, and most of the content is being migrated to physics.se. Some of the physics community is reluctant about taking the questions that lie farthest from ...
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Weekly Featured Image: Jan 16, '12

This is the place to submit and vote on photos for the week of 16 January to be featured on the main site. This contest should showcase your best quality work, demonstrating at least moderate skill ...
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Should we allow questions about unreleased cameras?

Disclosure: this is a suggestion as a topic to include on the faq - feel free to express how you'd like to see this handled There are a large number of websites on the Internet that include details ...
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Weekly Featured Image: Feb 21 '11

This is the place to submit and vote on photos for the week of Feb 21 to be featured on the main site. Rules: Limit one photo per person per week. A specific photo may be submitted at most two weeks ...
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Weekly Featured Image: Nov. 22, '10

This is the place to submit and vote on photos for the week of Nov 22 to be featured on the main site. Rules: Limit one photo per person per week. A specific photo may be submitted at most two ...
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Color vs Colour (and other words with similar multiple spellings)

How should the US vs UK color (mis)spelling be handled? I've already seen both several times, and I can foresee this being a big issue with doubled tags. I for one vote for sticking to color instead ...
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Weekly Featured Image: Jan 24, '11

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Should we create a separate camera gear recommendation site?

Consensus seems to generally be that camera-recommendation questions are off-topic on this site. (See discussion Equipment recommendation questions) But we get a lot of such questions, and they make ...
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What is our view on product recommendations in answers?

Taking this question as an example. First the answer given by "André Carregal" seems appropriate to me and as such I have already upvoted it. However I'm curious about the community view on the ...
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Weekly Featured Image: May 24, '11

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Weekly Featured Image: May 9, '11

This is the place to submit and vote on photos for the week of May 9 to be featured on the main site. Rules: Limit one photo per person per week. A specific photo may be submitted at most two weeks ...
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Should we disallow hot-linking?

It has occurred that text links (<a>) to images in a question have been replaced image elements (<img>) pointing ...
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Weekly Featured Image: Dec 27 '10

This is the place to submit and vote on photos for the week of Dec 27 to be featured on the main site. Rules: Limit one photo per person per week. A specific photo may be submitted at most two weeks ...
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Weekly Featured Image: Nov 14, '11

This is the place to submit and vote on photos for the week of 14 November to be featured on the main site. This contest should showcase your best quality work, demonstrating at least moderate skill ...
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Should we encourage / allow comments with helpful advice to questions we know will be closed?

This is a followup to Short answers as comments — please resist the urge and to Removed comment. It is often the case that we get questions asking for camera shopping advice, or which are otherwise ...
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Weekly Featured Image: March 5, '12

This is the place to submit and vote on photos for the week of 5 March to be featured on the main site. This contest should showcase your best quality work, demonstrating at least moderate skill with ...
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Weekly Featured Image: Jan 10 '11

This is the place to submit and vote on photos for the week of Jan 10 to be featured on the main site. Rules: Limit one photo per person per week. A specific photo may be submitted at most two weeks ...
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Limitations on PotW submissions within a given time period?

PhotoSE staff (both the moderators and a few key top users) has been watching the Picture of the Week contest for some time, and we are always looking for ways to improve it, make it more fair, etc. ...
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Weekly Featured Image: Jan 3 '11

This is the place to submit and vote on photos for the week of Jan 3 to be featured on the main site. Rules: Limit one photo per person per week. A specific photo may be submitted at most two weeks ...
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2017 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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Weekly Featured Image: Jun 13, '11

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Criteria for determining if a post should be a comment or an answer

We have previously discussed that we don't want comments to be used for answers, but we also seem to not want under-developed answers either. This leads to a problem where we need a reasonably ...
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Proposed "soft-landing" for "what camera" questions.

This is building on an idea from this discussion about equipment recommendations. The idea is that we'd have a "soft landing" post which "I am new; what camera should I buy?" questions could be marked ...
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Weekly Featured Image: Feb 6, '12

This is the place to submit and vote on photos for the week of 6 February to be featured on the main site. This contest should showcase your best quality work, demonstrating at least moderate skill ...
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Weekly Featured Image: Feb 28, '11

This is the place to submit and vote on photos for the week of Feb 28 to be featured on the main site. Rules: Limit one photo per person per week. A specific photo may be submitted at most two weeks ...
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Weekly Featured Image: Oct 3, '11

This is the place to submit and vote on photos for the week of 3 October to be featured on the main site. This contest should showcase your best quality work, demonstrating at least moderate skill ...
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Is it a duplicate question if I need a more specific answer?

While looking for how to shoot a nadir image for a spherical panorama, I found this relevant question which is a superset of what I am looking for. Only thing is that answers are long-winded, ...
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Weekly Featured Image: May 2, '11

This is the place to submit and vote on photos for the week of May 2 to be featured on the main site. Rules: Limit one photo per person per week. A specific photo may be submitted at most two weeks ...
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Weekly Featured Image for Mar 14, '11

This is the place to submit and vote on photos for the week of Mar 14 to be featured on the main site. Rules: Limit one photo per person per week. A specific photo may be submitted at most two weeks ...
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Weekly Featured Image: Nov 21, '11

This is the place to submit and vote on photos for the week of 21 November to be featured on the main site. This contest should showcase your best quality work, demonstrating at least moderate skill ...
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Weekly Featured Image: Aug 15, '11

This is the place to submit and vote on photos for the week of 15 August to be featured on the main site. This contest should showcase your best quality work, demonstrating at least moderate skill ...
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What term should we adopt for Speedlights/Speedlites?

I think we need a tag for small, hotshoe mountable flashes. You could then tag your question with [flash] for questions that could also include other kinds of flash ...
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Where do we draw the line on Photoshop and similar questions?

Possible Duplicates: Where is the right stackexchange site to post photoshop questions (here or superuser) ? Is this the appropriate place to ask questions about how to accomplish an effect in ...
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Weekly Featured Image: Jan 31, '11

This is the place to submit and vote on photos for the week of Jan 24 to be featured on the main site. Rules: Limit one photo per person per week. A specific photo may be submitted at most two weeks ...
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Weekly Featured Image: Jan 30, '12

This is the place to submit and vote on photos for the week of 30 January to be featured on the main site. This contest should showcase your best quality work, demonstrating at least moderate skill ...
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Picture of the week theme for contest starting July 30th: Science

The theme for the contest running the week of July 30th will be "Science". Submit your best work which fits within the theme and all the usual rules. The winning photo will be displayed beginning ...
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Weekly Featured Image: Week of October 15, 2012

This is the place to submit and vote on photos for the week of 15 Oct to be featured on the main site. This contest should showcase your best quality work, demonstrating at least moderate skill with a ...
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Weekly Featured Image: April 2, '12

This week's contest will run two weeks in a row, to account for the tie last week. You've got extra time, make some awesome water photos! This is the place to submit and vote on photos for the week ...
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Weekly Featured Image: Feb 14 '11

This is the place to submit and vote on photos for the week of Feb 14 to be featured on the main site. Rules: Limit one photo per person per week. A specific photo may be submitted at most two weeks ...
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Weekly Featured Image: Week of July 2, 2012

This is the place to submit and vote on photos for the week of 2 July to be featured on the main site. This contest should showcase your best quality work, demonstrating at least moderate skill with a ...
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Weekly Featured Image: Feb 7, '11

This is the place to submit and vote on photos for the week of Feb 7 to be featured on the main site. Rules: Limit one photo per person per week. A specific photo may be submitted at most two weeks ...
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Weekly Featured Image: Mar 7 '11

This is the place to submit and vote on photos for the week of Mar 7 to be featured on the main site. Rules: Limit one photo per person per week. A specific photo may be submitted at most two weeks ...
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Weekly Featured Image: Dec 13 '10

This is the place to submit and vote on photos for the week of Dec 13 to be featured on the main site. Rules: Limit one photo per person per week. A specific photo may be submitted at most two weeks ...
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Weekly Featured Image: Oct 10, '11

This is the place to submit and vote on photos for the week of 10 October to be featured on the main site. This contest should showcase your best quality work, demonstrating at least moderate skill ...
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