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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What is this spam on my old question?
I notice two separate spambot answers to my question at Ways to make contact with aliens on a much larger size scale? that appear to be the same idea, with the same perpetrator though completely ...
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Why can't we ask about the use of anatomical features?
This stack exchange is about worldbuilding. Specifically it is for making sure that the features of your world are sensible and realistic/logical. I assumed that this purpose included asking for the ...
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King is back or Should diamond users define behavior of everyone else in case of this Q as an example [closed]
Can we fulfill the world electricity production by nuclear power?
Content of the q, just in case, nothing special:
Nuclear energy is a form of energy released from the nucleus, the core of atoms, ...
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What should edits that do nothing but change pronouns in a edit count as?
I've recently found 2 edits in my edit queue that were nothing but changing all the pronouns from he/him to they/them. I don't know what to mark these edits as. They don't improve or make the question ...
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How can I improve my evolution question?
The question in question is: Why would terrestrial, rodent-sized sapient mammals evolve to be hairless?
Please correct me if I am mistaken, but worldbuilding SE has accepted questions of this sort for ...
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What is a duplicate?
What counts and does not count as a duplicate?
From what I have read (mainly the answers to this question), essentially a question is a duplicate if it can't be answered in a way unique from other ...
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Accepted Answers - to pin or not to pin? New Se feature, a per site option, may be coming
Stack Exchange staff have announced an upcoming change to the way answer acceptance works.
Unpinning the accepted answer from the top of the list of answers
Currently, the original poster of a ...
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What is so wrong with this question?
This question was closed and since then has had no sign of interaction. I've edited it to solve all the solvable problems given in the comments, so what else must I do to get it reopened?
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Penises = rude and abusive?
I was looking at this question
Designing a low technology flamethrower with limited resources
and on a whim decided to see why an answer (deleted by "Community") was rude and abusive.
https:/...
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Should we warn about (presumably unintended) parallels with racist tropes?
Somebody asked a question asking about a fictional humanoid race. To my eyes, the premise of this fictional race has strong parallels with a real-world early 20th century racist stereotype of African-...
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Are we doing a cleanup effort for old questions?
Is there a cleanup effort on old questions going on? Today I got a comment out of the blue on a question I asked five years ago. This stack was a very different place then, and the question would be ...
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Can we ask OPs for a story-building side questions, if they are completely not important to provide answer?
Can someone explain me what is wrong with this my question:
The maximum possible human population in fifty years, if we build up all the land
I have asked a simple theoretical (?) question for a ...
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Died of a Theory: A Challenge for Too Story Based and Fishing for Ideas Questions
I wanted to test a theory. I wanted to see what would happen if a question that asked for a narrow list of ideas would react on the site now that a week or two of my previous meta post asking how to ...
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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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feedback on the q - why it is off-topic
I am still interested in that the little q I have
A big primitive computer in orbit, very big, powerfull but old technologies from 80's, what is a potential fiat money value for its use?
but ...
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The unnatural hair colour question is not a duplicate
This question about dyeing hair into unnatural colour using medieval technologies was closed as a duplicate of this question asking about dyeing red hair into a natural colour in a similar setting. ...
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Does the Stack wish to allow questions concerning the profession of worldbuilding?
EDIT: It appears that the question in question has been closed, then reopened, then closed again, and is a vote into reopening it a second time. We're pretty divided about permitting questions about &...
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Why was this question "unsuitable for this site"
https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/revisions/207782/1
Why was this question originally closed for being "Not suitable for this site"?
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What is the reason behind ...
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Are the Science-Fiction and Hard-Science tags mutually exclusive?
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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What is it supposed to mean when a question is closed for need of details or clarity?
This question was closed as needing more detail/clarity. Looking at the various descriptions of this reason, I have come to the conclusion that the solution would be to edit to add more details and ...
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Should the Science-Based tag demand (similar to Hard-Science) that all world rules adhere to real-life science?
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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How to prevent suggestions on reality check?
The tag reality-check states:
Asks if a given concept is realistic in a given context. Answers should say yes or no, with supporting info.
However I seem to be getting suggestions on alternatives ...
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Is this edit proper form for editing or was my edit out of line?
In this question here: What would a therapist be able to do with the ability to read people's dreams?
I made a couple readability edits to spacing and added a recap as a form of TL;DR reiterating the ...
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Is a question with an implausible or logically flawed premise opinion-based?
This question here: If Spider Were the Size of Horses, What Sound Would They Make?
It was met with a VTC by AlexP because "the giant spider can make any sounds required by the story". See ...
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We need a community ad to promote creating and voting on community ads
Is it just me, or has participation in Meta dropped off a lot over the last two years? It always seemed like about 10%-15% of users active on Main were also active on Meta. Now it feels more like 1%.
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Just made a chatroom for alternative history
Basically, talk about anything you want, as long as it's more-or-less related to the topic.
https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/126931/alternative-history-discussion
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Im I ruining genre recognition when I deconstructed supernatural creatures to be Mutants I.E. X men?
Deconstruction is a terrible word to use here. But the only word I can think of to describe my world.
But anyway genre recognition is when the audience can understand what genre a movie or tv show ...
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Community Ads for 2021
September update: Community Ads are now live network-wide. All ads with a score of 6 or higher, or with a score of 4 or higher and no downvotes will be displayed (except for any that have a note from ...
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How should we handle possibly legally/morally sensitive topics?
This question was triggered by this one : Appstore application to assassinate anyone. I have a lot of troubles dealing with it.
Quoting it, the core of the question is something akin to that (Know you ...
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Found two Horned Humanoid Questions
Found two Horned Humanoid Questions... From oldest to newest... I can't find a point of differentiation, except mine, the older one, requiring it be neither "horns = sexy" or actually being ...
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Why does WB.SE treat social sciences as non-existent?
I do not know how to talk about it politely, please excuse my bluntness.
This question (Can gender identity exist in a world without gender roles?) is the perfect example that the WB.SE community ...
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Character's capabilities or not?
I wonder how do you read this question:
How far could a peak social manipulator go?
A Rogue Ant. and I had a discussion in the comments and came to a realisation that we read this question in two ...
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What happened to the chat rooms?
So, I put a temporary hiatus on my activity on StackExchange to try out Reddit. I go back, and this place had become a ghost town, even the factory floor.
What happened?
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Testing 3-vote Closures & Reopenings and the Value of Closing Questions
Stack Exchange is testing the use of 3-vote close-voting & reopen-voting. This is an important issue that everyone on this Stack should be aware of.
We ended up with five votes to close based on ...
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Why asking for the details isn't always a good idea
Over the years I've read WB questions that were very generic in nature, and others that wanted the ugly details. A handful prompted my post about running to the patent office because the details would ...
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Why was the jaguar armour question closed?
Would a taxidermied jaguar make decent armour?
The question was closed without explanation, and I am making a Meta post hoping to find out why.
Questions along the lines of "would this material ...
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Speculative History Discussion
So this is a chatroom I created a while ago about "what would hve happened if something happened differently"-type stuff. It's on the History community, but it could be useful for ...
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Advice concerning questions asking HOW to implement a technological procedure or device
Though not terribly common, there are occasionally questions where the querent asks either how to implement technology or whether or not their suggested implementation is viable, practical, feasible, ...
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Is necroing a question really okay?
Sometimes I see really old questions get brought back up to the top. Sometimes it is beneficial since there are lots of answers and quite a few useful bits of info in them, but in other cases, they ...
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'Uncomfortable' questions
I wonder if a question that touches on 'uncomfortable' topics should be deemed as 'Not suitable for this site' and closed as happened to this question about readily accessible drugs that can be used ...
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Is it possible and reasonable to add "This is a high concept question" to the list of community-specific reasons to close a question?
Edit: An incredibly valuable example of why we should add "This is a high concept question" to the VTC reasons is this question: What would happen if the salt in the oceans disappeared? The ...
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Would it be on topic to build a castle, question by question?
So, my question Where and how do I build a castle? got closed.
Probably because it was thought to be a dupe of:
Build an impregnable fortress in the middle ages with modern technology - Nope, I do ...
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Messed Up a Question
I confused two ideas when asking a question, and I want to edit it to reflect what I actually meant. But two people already answered and I'm not sure if I'm allowed to do that. Can I? I'd hate to spam ...
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My [neural-network] suggests to burninate this tag
While looking for tags appropriate for my new question I came across neural-network tag.
Currently, it only have a single question (closed as off-topic) and no description. On said question, it doesn'...
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Closed question "This question needs details or clarity" but without explanation of what should be more detailed of clarified
This question has been closed with the reason: "This question needs details or clarity"
I had already replied in the comments some clarifications. It is not clear to me though what further ...
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Should we think long and hard about [sex]?
(pun in title intended)
There is a question posted about intimate relationship between members of different species: What would be the most comfortable position for mermaids and humans to engage in ...
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What should be done with tag darwiniv?
Today I noticed that there are some questions using the tag darwiniv
The questions are all asked by the same user, and revolve around that planet.
How do you feel about the tag, and what should be ...
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Are there no universe factory editors anymore?
Around a 10 months ago I made a post asking about what happened to universe factory. HDE 226868♦ informed me that he was really the only editor left and that activity had died down due to a few things....
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Is WB going to be opting-in to the new editor?
I noticed that SE is testing out a new rich text editor, similar to the one used by Reddit.
Will the beta be available in Worldbuilding, or will we need to wait until it gets out of testing?
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Are nick names the place for propaganda
As I got more information on the situation, I'm able now to formulate the question, originally was point C in that question.
originally it was asked as follows:
what it all about for reinstating ...
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