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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Advice to Querents asking "is X plausible or realistic?"
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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On bringing closed questions with answers on topic?
If an off topic gets an answer before closing, logic suggests that whatever answers may have been submitted must be off topic as well. The possibility of making a post that has value to the community, ...
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What about splitting the WB physics tag in physics-past and physics-future?
When you see questions with a physics tag on WB, lots of comments and answers (and closures) immediately start to assess correctness, with current Earth physics as a reference. When a science or ...
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Splitting hairs between “stimulus” and “motivation” in the Psychology tag - Can I word this better to reopen?
In developing societal norms for a fictional culture I chose to put a representative through various stimuli and share its response. This expository method follows the “Don’t say there’s an elephant, ...
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Can you please help me focus my question better?
This thread: Which areas of USA would have the most successful centers of growth after nuclear holocaust?
I seem to not quite understand how to formulate my question so that it doesn't cause issues ...
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Is there a policy or practice regarding posting end products?
I have not yet seen one single link to an end product (a work involving a built world) on the main site. Is that per policy or simply something participants haven’t practiced? I ask because I ...
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How can one make this question regarding sociology more on-topic?
This question is currently closed for being off-topic. I am not the author of the question, but I find the idea very interesting.
It asks how to design a coed school that feels realistic. I believe &...
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Are there cultural objects that came thanks to this site?
SE-Worldbuilding can give a lot of cool ideas and concepts. Have you (or someone you know) created any book/movie/game/etc thanks to this site ?
The cultural object must have been publicly released ...
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VERY opinionated Usernames are ok?
Usernames like https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/users/89947/python-programmers-are-souless
I am a python programmer, and username like this is grating on me. Makes me feel unwelcome.
Ok, I am ...
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Question Upvoting Etiquette and Frame Challenges
We have a rule of thumb around here that "if you find a question good enough to answer, you should upvote it". Generally I agree with this; however, I often find myself on the fence about ...
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Let's talk about answers and their quality
A long time ago the WB.SE community was discussing whether to adhere to the Back It Up! policy or not. Those discussions are not very relevant today since most participants are long gone now. And the ...
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A Plea for Consistent Close-Voting
I don't believe it's a surprise to anyone that I'm an advocate of swift question closure. I'd rather have a chance to help a user produce a great question than suffer the problems that come with ...
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Suspended to cool down
Logged in,
Got a bunch of notifications.
Click on the last one.
Read the answer.
Try to upvote it.
"Suspended users can't vote"
Goes on worldbuilding meta, can't even post...
Searches for ...
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Why is the bounty limit 500?
Seems very low considering most users here have been on the website for a very long time and 500 isn't that much.
I mean, is it an arbitrary random number or is there a specific reason behind it?
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Should an answer be deleted as "spam or rude or abusive" for citing a historically held offensive belief?
In this recent question, an answer was deleted as "spam or rude or abusive" for citing a contributing factor about why the Nazis hated Jews. In reference to the writings of Adolf Hitler, ...
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I was answering a question in "worldbuilding" when it was closed in my face. I would like to know who did this
I think it is not a good practice to close doors on one's face! My English is not good? It's ok. Tell me that. I'll accept it and I'll make an effort to make it better. I have let an incomplete ...
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Why can't we ask about fictional scientific theories?
This question has been closed as off topic. This apparently because it is about a synthesis of real-world theories
However, there are many other questions (such as this) which are similar syntheses of ...
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2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Can we have a controversy tag?
I think a tag to indicate that the OP is touching on a sensitive topic that is considered by most to be rather controversial in nature, it serves as a warning so that readers can choose to avoid ...
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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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What are some statistics that prove Worldbuilding is the best Stack Exchange site?
I'm no good at SEDE. I doubt this will change. But I know, deep in my heart, that worldbuilding is by far the best Stack Exchange site.
So, let's crowdsource.
What are some statistics that prove WB.SE ...
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Who is the mysterious user @67275?
I was poking around in WB, and I found this user, who had bountied this question. However, this user has 1 rep, bountied the question with 100 reputation, and, and here's the most confusing part: They'...
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How fast can I vote to avoid the system thinkig that I'm a bot?
Badge hunting, does it go against the rules of the website?
if it doesn't, how fast can I vote questions and answer to get the badges?
the limit is 40 votes per day, can I just take a few minutes to ...
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Can I ask questions related to music making here? Music that I want to use for worldbuilding projects
TL:DR -I want to put music in my games, they are games about a fantasy world, can I ask questions about music here since the music will be used in worldbuilding projects?-
I wanna travel to the USA ...
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Should we make a "unsure" tag?
Occasionally, although not often, there's a question where I can't figure out how to tag it. Usually I'll make one that fits, but low-rep users might not be able to do this.
So, should we make a "...
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What is this question missing to prevent it being reopened?
I have edited this closed question to provide some details that a few commentators mentioned were missing and submitted it for reopening. The reopen was rejected and the feedback is insufficient for ...
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Story-based questions, opinion-based questions, etc - where to go with those?
As one of my questions is on a brink of being closed (as "too story-based", presumably for the brief mentioning of the existence of a protagonist within the question), I thought it might be ...
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How to keep the "hard science" tag "hard"?
Related: this Meta question, which has no answers after five years.
There seems to be an issue with the "hard science" tag. First, it should have an automatic banner to remind potential ...
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Do comments sometimes cause mods to remove complete topics?
Just to be sure..
https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/220523/how-do-you-build-a-kingdom-under-a-mangrove-forest-for-a-childrens-picture-book?noredirect=1#comment678050_22052
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Questions about real world effect of real world bullets appropriate on WB?
Which would be stronger against armor: 8mm or 6mm?
Research screenshot looks like a military manual, or a manufacturer ballistics calculation site.
Question... "what caliber is best" ? no ...
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Where's everyone?
Forgive me if this is such a dumb question. I don't wander around in the meta section.
I had a quick question about WB policy, so I went to the chat, The factory floor .. only to find out: that place ...
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How to communicate different meanings of "proportional" in shrinking-growing questions?
A question which semi-regularly comes up here is "How [strong, fast, hungry, etc.] would [something] be if I scale its dimensions by [factor]?"
So we have some common language, let's call ...
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Why does worldbuilding have such a disproportionate share of HNQ?
On the Hot Network Questions sidebar, there's almost always a Worldbuilding question there. However, a community like, say, Magento (picked at random), which apparently is almost 10x the size of ...
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Why is seeing vote breakdowns such a high-rep privilege?
I just got the see vote-breakdowns privilege, and I can't understand why it's such a high-rep privilege. You can't really do anything wrong with that info, so why is it so high in the privilege chart?
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Goodbye - the thought police are here
Folks,
It would surprise me no end if any of you gave a damn, but I've decided to quite posting on Worldbuilding at all.
The latest attempt to make a rule where we're going to persecute (oh, sorry, &...
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Is it Fair to Encourage People to NOT Answer Questions that Need to be Closed?
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WB.SE has a SE mandated format; the community has determined that certain rules need to apply to the asking and answering of questions; the community has in place certain policies & ...
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Four similar tags relating to metalworking
I was writing a question about working with iron, and noticed that there seemed to be quite a lot of tags relating to the topic, some of which seemed conflicting:
metals (147)
metalworking (56)
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Are justification questions off-topic?
I had a template in the sandbox. that is a Justification of X in my world question.
So @JoinJBHonCodidact said me that my template was too story-based, I disagree in several ways but just one is ...
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About Inadequate questions which already have answers
Recently there's been yet another case of a certain unpleasant situation I myself experienced to an extent shortly after joining WBSE.
Essentially, it all begins when an inadequate question is asked ...
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Opinion-based close text, should we customize it?
Update: It seems that my reading of the meta post linked was incorrect, we aren't able to change the text in the way proposed, alas.
In the reopen review queue we often deal with questions which have ...
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For what exact reason is my question is considered opinion based?
For what exact reason is my question "What are the minimum historical changes that would permit the use of paratroopers at the beginning of World War I?" is considered opinion based?
For ...
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Can I ask about invasions?
What we can hopefully agree on:
Worldbuilding is about working out general systems and rules, not specific situations or plots.
Warfare is a condition composed of many different discrete instances ...
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What do we call animals with lungs and three-part legs?
I'd like to ask some questions about a type of animal with a very complex anatomy. Due to the complexity and uniqueness, it'd be hard to list out all the characteristics on every question about them, ...
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What are we supposed to do when someone doesn't understand your question?
What are we supposed to do when a question we ask receives an answer that doesn't help answer the question?
There are multiple ideas on the proper response, which end up summing together to the rule ...
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Policy proposal: Questions about names and the process of deriving names are off-topic
I visited What calendar can be used for Venus, Mercury and moons of Jupiter and Saturn? and realized that a policy of the Stack had been left off A Concise List of "The Rules": the policy ...
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A Concise List of "The Rules"
"The rules" are spread across a number of locations. This post is an attempt to bring the basics of what this Stack expects of questions together into one place. Before I begin, please let ...
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Clarification concerning a loophole in the Real World Question policy
Policy Reference: A proposal to finalize the "are real world questions on-topic" debate
Enlightening Comment: A proposal to finalize the "are real world questions on-topic" debate
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The description of 'science-based' and 'hard-science', as it is now, allows interpretations outside mutual exclusivity
Personal view on the problem: mutual exclusivity is is not strongly enough suggested by the language use by the description of science-based and ...
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Proposing a tag for worldbuilding questions that use existing worlds
I think that the current complete ban on third-party/licensed worlds is overzealous.
Research is not worldbuilding
Firstly, a question like "How do lightsabers work in Star Wars?" should ...
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Why the rule against third party worlds?
There is a rule against asking questions about worlds and features from third party works, and I find this rule to be unhelpful for numerous reasons. While there is some explanation here, there are ...
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