Linked Questions
30 questions linked to/from Please Communicate: What are the next steps for this site?
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How long can this site be popular if everybody is asked to see a doctor?
People come here to ask about queries related to their health. If doctor is so easily available nobody has to go online.
But I see most of the time, giving medical advise is being refrained from and ...
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Defibrillating Health.SE
Several of us feel that we need to call a code on this site and assess viability. It's edging on unsustainable.
UPDATE: This is an evolving process; please check the discussion in the chat room below ...
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Site Name Change & Scope Redefinition
This is an update post about the goings on of the site:
Goings on 1
Goings on 2
Goings on 3
It's been a few months since all of this has been brought up and I wanted to share that it's now all back ...
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Should we initiate assisted dying?
Health.SE is dying. Continuing the medical analogies, we are suffering from multiple organ failure:
bad questions
bad answers
not enough activity by experienced users
not enough experienced users
We ...
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Standard comment situations: suggestions for close votes and down votes
Downvotes and close votes should always be accompanied by a comment. While not strictly required as per SE policy this is especially important for new users. We should direct our criticism at bad or ...
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Moderation on Health.SE - do we need a different model?
Usually (and with good reason), mods are not expected to decide if an answer is incorrect. On some sites, though, the mod will take an action if a trusted user raises a flag.
This occurs on occasion ...
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Refocusing from Health to Medical Sciences
I've talked with the moderators (as foreshadowed), consulted the rest of the community team and listened to users on meta about the difficulties faced by a site called "Health". The general consensus ...
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Your Input regarding the Future of Health.SE
This is somewhat a follow up from Defibrillating Health.SE.
Until now, we have tried to set up a new site „MedicalSciences.SE“. The process of this isn’t all too far, we‘re still lacking quite a few ...
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Quality of References
The medical sciences are evidence-based, and because it is a field in which wrong information can be harmful, it is important that questions and answers also be evidence-based. The quality of ...
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Rethinking our Site Name
We have previously discussed that the current site name does lead to the impression that our site might be concerned with personal health of users. As this is not the case and we do not want to ...
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Tour example questions copied from Gardening & Landscaping
We might want to consider updating the sample question on the Tour page to reflect something on-topic here instead of continuing to use the copy-pasted text from Gardening & Landscaping.
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New ''Off-topic" close reasons
We clearly need a set of well thought out custom close reasons ("off-topic because…") to ease our lives.
Currently we only have one:
Questions requesting personal medical advice are off-topic here....
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Am I allowed to answer questions if I'm not a medical professional?
I've seen a couple of questions that I think I can answer, but I'm not a medical professional, just someone interested in medical sciences who likes to research and read scientific literature. If I ...
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Self-evaluation: September 2017
We think site introspection is a good idea once in a while and there's already been a lot of it here on Health. But now that there are a bunch of real questions from real users floating around, I ...
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What would you want name and scope to be? (i.e. next steps)
Ok, from the sentiments expressed on this meta question and answer/comments, there does appear to be support for a change in direction on the site.
I am going to talk with community moderators (...
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