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Are frame challenges in comments disallowed, and if so by what policy, and can this be more clearly communicated to users?

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Problematic moderation actions

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What are the limits of open-endedness, hypotheticality, and encouragement of "discussion-based or extremely long answers", are they too subjective?

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How to limit the range of answers to questions which are not technically considered opinion based?

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Should the Worldbuilding-Process tag be discontinued?

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Sandbox for proposed Questions

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Allow internal-consistency tags with science-fiction, science-based, or hard-science tags

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Can we include a "spherical-cow" tag?

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We've suddenly begun beating the snot out of new(ish) users - and that's saying something coming from me

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Is there a rule prohibiting “follow-ups” [duplicate]

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Proposal : An automated "tutorial" notification for new users with low-score posts

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Why was my answer to "Can selective breeding maximize human intelligence without major complications?" deleted?

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Merge Middle-Ages and Medieval tags

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What did I do wrong and how to know if my question got reviewed

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Should we have a [role] tag?

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Restore the aerodynamics tag as distinct from flight

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What happened to the "tour" button?

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Advice: real facts vs. worldbuilding rules

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Will we have a Holiday Bountapalooza this year?

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What do you think about a fake bounty? (this isn't exactly click-bait...)

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Why do people link the word "edit" in their comments?

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Restore space-exploration as a separate tag from space-travel

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Do we need to attribute the work of others if we include it in our posts?

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Why, exactly, was Robert's answer deleted?

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The Rules and the Worldbuilding Resources Tag

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(Not so?) Suspicious Deletion of Suspicious AI Generated Responses

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Policy Proposal: We do not engineer technologies

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Chat is back! The Factory Floor is once again open for business

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When are comments needed?

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Missing reputation

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Regarding the tag info for the 'aliens' tag

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Regarding tags related to nuclear phenomena

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Trying to understand why a relevant post with a peer-reviewed paper directly linked to was considered "low quality"

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Will the main chat be unfrozen?

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Could we change the standard moderator action for off-topic questions from closure to migration?

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Should the unofficial "1 Day Rule" become an suggestion?

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Should the hard-science tag be retired?

7 votes
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How should we deal with "vexatious questions?"

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Found a potential answer to my own question, but didn't get feedback on it. How do I fix that?

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How to deal with "Please develop my High Concept" questions?

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6 answers
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Case Study #2 - Daaaah Whoosh

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Case Study: The Consequence of Inadequate Comments

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Question closed despite lack of legitimate complaints

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685 views

Would we support expanding existing (fictional) worlds?

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I think my question on the 1/72 scale nuke should be opened and was closed for blatantly wrong reasons

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Should we burn the video-games tag?

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252 views

Disagree with a Deletion

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Users should be able to flag tags for review


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