Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Identifying incorrectly tagged [hard-science] questions
One of the more confusing things about this site is the hard-science tag. Looking through the meta site, there aren't a lot of clear policies surrounding the tag.
One particular problem I have is ...
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Rename [life] to [lifestyle]
In a recent question of mine which asked about the mechanics of life, I was about to use life until I saw the tag wiki exerpt, which reads:
Questions tagged with life should be about life in ...
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How is this POB?
My question Why would a colony need to relocate? got a lot of flak along the lines of “what would determine which answer is best?”
But how is this different from any other question, like
What kind ...
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How to make a "Fishing for Ideas" question fit on Worldbuilding Main
Being the most creative and imaginative Stack in the Stack Exchange library has a handful of disadvantages. Stack Exchange's basic behavior is to expect a single objective and answerable question that ...
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Make "accepting an answer within 24 hours" a privilege
Having seen that often newcomers (included myself when I started here) are too quick in accepting an answer, and having also seen that the reminder to wait at least 24 hours to allow a wider batch of ...
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How should I select which answer to accept?
Some of my recent questions have gotten more than a few good and highly upvoted answers. How do I decide which one to accept?
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Possible new 'non-reality-check' tag?
My question is kind of related to this one, in terms of people sometimes answering with this couldn't happen answers.
In writing some questions for the WorldBuilding.SE, sometimes I am looking for ...
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Case Study #3 - James
Part three of the case study series.
Part 1 - Tim B
Part 2 - Daaaah Whoosh
I submit the following for review.
What single element could destroy the world?
About world building?
Insofar as ...
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Putting Tags in order on the main site
The point of this post is to put some order in the tags of the main site. Suggestions can be done here instead of spreading on multiples questions. You can suggest to create synonym, merging tags, or ...
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Is "science-based" a meta- or otherwise-problematic tag?
science-based is the most popular tag on this site.
Its tag wiki tells us a lot about the requirements on answers to science-based questions, but not a lot about the questions. (Except that these ...
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Seeking community advice/consensus on rolling back edits that invalidate answers
Yesterday I answered a question that had a given scope. Today I saw that the question had edits that changed its scope. I saw it because of a downvote to my answer - I believe it was due to my answer ...
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A chat room for reopening (and closing?) questions
A couple days ago, MolbOrg created a chat room called VoteOpen. They intended it as a venue for discussions about whether a question should be reopened or not - which can get long and unwieldy if they ...
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Should the [tag:execution] tag be removed?
While reviewing Most painful way to kill somebody with 10 bullets? I looked up the torture and execution tags. Their definitions aren't great in context of worldbuilding, and I think that's ...
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Fortnightly topic challenge #11: Religion
Now begins our eleventh topic challenge!
Topic: religion
Dates: 7 July - 21 July
Proposed by:
Simply because it gets omitted so many times when we create new worlds and new societies. I would ...
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Where does Reality-Check actually fit in the burden of proof framework?
A July 2022 renovation of the reality-check tag and others has changed the context of this question. It is now obsolete. Please see the following question and the link under "Conclusion." If ...
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Should Science-Based henceforth actually be science based?
The science-based tag has seen a lot of misuse recently, since apparently 28% of our questions are science-based. Since we have killed off its erstwhile companion tag fantasy-based, I believe it now ...
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Are Too Character Based and Too Plot Based the same?
It's been proposed that the risk factors "Too Character Based" and "Too Plot Based" could be merged together into one close reason and that there is enough overlap between them to warrant that.
I can ...
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Is it considered good practice to edit your question after answers have been given?
Though only being around for a short while, I noticed that sometimes people edit the question they asked, even after one or several answers have been given. In some cases, follow-up questions that are ...
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Answering a Question you Closed
A recent newcomer posted this question, and it was closed within 2 hours and I was among those that voted it as "too broad."
But before I voted, I decided to post an answer anyway.
My goal in ...
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Is it ok to ask questions that don't have specific worldbuilding use?
Let's say that I was reading some article, and it inspired me to ask a question. However, this question isn't for any particular thing I'm making, it's just a question. In all other aspects, the ...
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Revisiting the Blog
A while ago, the community discussed starting a blog. Good ideas were raised and an initial scope was formed. However, the discussion stagnated after the realisation that in-house SE blogs are on hold....
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What makes for a good "why would" question that stays on-topic?
Most of these types of questions get judged as too story based, and get closed rather quickly. However, there are a few gems that have lasted the test of time. These mythical diamonds in the rough ...
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Idea Generation in Help
We usually agree that idea generation questions should be avoided, as per here. However I had the feeling that we used to have a more explicit statement about it in the help section.... but I can't ...
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Clarification for new users: when is a "fishing for ideas" question on- or off-topic?
Over the last couple of months I've seen a lot of what I call "fishing for ideas" questions. Questions that are either too broad or, more often, primarily opinion-based because the OP hasn't thought ...
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Remove now off-topic questions that were barely on-topic previously?
Ideas for a Worldbuilders mapping site, Mapping site - Go Break It and Mapping site (again) - Moderators are about the development, bug collection/review and moderation of a mapmapking tool that was ...
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A Promotion for the Community Promotion Ads
I have a pending community promotion ad that I believe deserves more attention — but I also think that we need more participation generally in the cause of creating community promotion ads. As ...
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Is it possible to change the descriptive text for the POB selection?
When users pull up the VTC panel, the description for "Primarily Opinion-Based" is:
Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will ...
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Should moderators mark a high voted answer as the accepted answer after a while?
This is a general question across SE sites, but I figured I'd ask here since I couldn't find the answer generally.
Suppose there is a high-voted question with a high-voted answer. It has been over a ...
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Thoughts from Worldbuilding Stack Exchange moderators on the dismissal of Monica Cellio
On Friday, September 27th, Monica Cellio was removed from her position as a moderator without warning by Stack Overflow, Inc. She had been a moderator on Worldbuilding, Mi Yodeya, The Workplace, Beer ...
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What does "- Reinstate Monica" mean?
So, I was looking around on Meta lately, and I saw a bunch of people with "- Reinstate Monica" in their usernames. What does this mean?
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A Little negativity going on here? Downvotes and vote to close
Ok, throwing this out in Meta because I am noting a shift in...attitude? on the primary site.
To begin. When I joined Worldbuilding, I found all manner of interesting puzzles and fun things to try to ...
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2018 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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Limiting the Number of Anatomically Correct Questions
There's really two things that I want to bring up here. The first is that the Anatomically Correct series of questions has been flooded with recent questions about various creatures. This is kind of ...
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Any news on the progress of the new site design?
The latest information we've had on the site design was about a month ago. Does anyone have any information as to what progress is being made as well as when we could expect to see the site design in ...
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A Worldbuiding podcast/youtube channel
Afternoon (GTZ to you) world building.
A few of us were having a conversation in chat and the idea of a World Building podcast/YouTube channel came up.
The exact format and content are not defined ...
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2017 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
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Let's design some new ads!
For the past two years we have run community-promotion ads on other SE sites (graduated only), promoting this community. The current ad we're using is this:
In addition, now that we have graduated ...
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2017 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
Worldbuilding Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election starting next week, February 6th. In connection with that election, we will be hosting a Q&A here for candidates. This will be an ...
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What to do when a question should be closed but an answer is good?
This question seems to be too broad. As Michael Kjörling noted in the comments though (emphasis mine):
[...] For the specific case, I'm tempted to agree that it is very broad, but also (at a glance)...
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A name for our chat [duplicate]
Other Stack Exchange sites often have a clever name for their main chat room. For example Code Review has "The 2nd Monitor" and Programming Puzzles and Code Golf has "The Nineteenth Byte".
What ...
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Are Worldbuilding Golf questions on topic?
See:
Colored magic makes my faeries too powerful
Is it on topic? Off topic? Something we want to encourage?
The question itself is on topic, but is the way it's presented (as a competition), or the ...
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What should we have as our elevator pitch (name)
Ok, following "The 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta" what should we have as our elevator pitch? We want the pitch to be creative, catchy, and descriptive. It needs to catch the eye of new ...
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What does being a 'Contributor' look like on Worldbuilding?
I've been on Worldbuilding now for just (10 minutes as I write this) over 4 months, after noticing the question about lights being needed on space ships in November. I've really enjoyed my time here; ...
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Is there an appropriate way to build a free world on our site?
This question seeks a ready made world that is free (not copyrighted) so that anyone can set stories in it. A setting in which all the necessary questions have already been settled so an author (or ...
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Phrasing questions such that answers can be objectively voted upon
A Bit of Background
While reviewing Q&As at GraphicDesign.se for some insight I read this post about logo reviews. That post (which is trying to deal with the balance between subjective and ...
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End of beta soon?
This is from Area51:
Sites remain in beta for at least 90 days to build up a critical mass
of users, questions, and participation.
We are at day 86 and our stats are good. We have hit a ...
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Are comments saying "just use magic" problematic?
Recently I have noticed a lot of questions which always receive pretty much the same comment. The questions usually take the form
What material/technology could deal with [x problem/feature] of ...
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Understanding our double standard regarding some opinion based questions
For the past couple of days this question has been receiving rather a lot of attention.
Even though quite a few commentators seem to agree that it is primarily opinion based it has only received 3 ...
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What is the worldbuilding policy on questions and answers involving adult aspects of worldbuilding?
A few months ago, I created a question about what adult entertainment would look like in the future. I deleted it quite quickly afterwards because people were concerned anti-porn filters would view it ...
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So, about the swag
We've been asked by the moderators of Worldbuilding to investigate the current status of official Worldbuilding SE swag, given that the site has a design. We've gone to check with the design team - ...
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