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Is this question closeworthy?
I understand that this question(Can human based products be used successfully in making foodstuffs without any resulting products being flops or outing them as human based?) is gross, but is it really ...
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How is this an 'offtopic' question? Can this please be reopened?
How bad would near constant dreary/gloomy/stormy weather on our or an Earthlike world be for us and the environment?
So my question was closed for supposedly being offtopic. This is obviously not the ...
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What is the purpose of WB:SE? - Are we a "HowTo" for worldbuilding?
Important Clarification
Please read the following in the light of "How can we guide a new user to ask good questions".
Not in the light of "a proposal to change what SE or WB:SE is ...
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Can the sandbox concept be improved? Part 2: Tags
Background
This is a followup question to: part1/subforum:
A subform seems to be not realizable (that easily, it is probably not just like adding a repository to GitHub) - if you have other ...
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Can the sandbox concept be improved? Part1: Subforum
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I have recently closely observed the struggle between users that post relevant questions (in their eyes) but the questions are not deemed relevant for the site by "us". Which I ...
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10th Anniversary of World Building SE!
In September World Building SE turns 10 years old. Congratulations on asking, answering, voting, and building this community for a whole decade!
Whenever a Stack Exchange site turns 10 we like to ...
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What level of detail should questions have?
Before anybody can effectively solve a problem; they need to know what the problem is. That is true in real life, and that is true in Stack Exchange. As a result, there are rules that questions should ...
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Outside factors shouldn't be a consideration in whether to close a question
I raised a previous question, and it revealed what I see as a very troubling tendency in close votes.
I voted to close as too story-based because it's an open-ended
question where an infinite number ...
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Why was my question closed as story based?
My question was closed for being too story based with no explanation beyond that other than a meme about someone having hot pockets.
I assumed I had met the criteria. It was low concept since it was ...
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World Building Knowledgebase - How to write good Military World Building
Firstly - for the Mods - I am not sure if this is the right place to put this, but I couldn't find anywhere else for it - essentially, there are a lot of questions around Military/Weapons/Warfare that ...
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Proposed Improvement to the Habitability tag
In a recent discussion @Nosajimiki pointed out that the habitability tag could be improved to help users. Currently the tag's summary reads:
For questions asking about the conditions which are ...
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Why Everyone Should Help in the Sandbox
This post exists because SE no longer has community advertising. I expect the post to be closed and removed, but I hope a bunch of people will see it first.
What is the Sandbox?
The Sandbox is a page ...
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Why close hypothetical question about possible history of Venus?
IMHO, this question should not be closed:
If ancient Venus really were once habitable, what was its atmospheric composition and average surface temperature?
The question asks for a specific, non-...
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Help Center Upgrade: How do we feel about the word "Plausible" and its synonyms?
Before I get going into deeper policy questions, I need a good referendum on how we feel toward the word "plausible" and any of its synonyms (realistic, possible, "as real as possible,&...
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I have nominated "guns" as a synonym of "firearms"
EDIT: Thanks for your votes! The synonym was approved.
I have nominated guns (31 questions) to be a synonym of firearms (162 questions). You can vote for or against here. This is postedin Meta ...
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How do I edit a question that was open-ended without discrediting one of the original questions
So I'm new to this site and I tried to ask a question about possible powers someone with electromagnetic manipulation could do and listed off powers I know he already would have, but I was told it was ...
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My question was falsely removed as rude and abusive
This question has recently been deleted as rude and abusive for what appears to be no real reason. While I must admit it isn't my finest work and probably should have been closed as 'Opinion-Based', ...
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Help Center Upgrade: The Future of Storybuilding
Thank you for your help reviewing the first post: We're going to upgrade the Help Center page, here is the 100,000-foot-view discussion of the what-we-cans and what-we-can'ts
We've got an idea ...
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When should a question with the `hard-science` tag be on one of the Science SE sites?
The hard-science tag is very vague on when it should be used.
Yes, there's a wiki on the main site here that says how to use it on this site, but what 'markers,' if you will, suggest whether a ...
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A request to undelete my answer
My answer to the question Can an Alcubierre drive be built by starlifting? was deleted as not providing an answer to the question. This is factually untrue.
And since our goal is to help you with an ...
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Is there any high concept question test more specific than the book test?
To clarify first, I'm not trying to get rid of this policy. I'm just trying to ask if there are any better signs that something might be high concept before I waste my time and the curators time ...
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Should we do something about some lesser used and practially synonymous tags?
There's a lot of very little used tags with no tag wiki that are used on practically identical questions. I think we should make a lot of them synonymous considering there's no reason i can see for ...
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We're going to upgrade the Help Center page, here is the 100,000-foot-view discussion of the what-we-cans and what-we-can'ts
@HDE226868 has agreed to help us update the Help Center pages. I believe it's time for a fairly thorough review of what we want for the next stage in the Stack's lifespan. It's an opportunity we're ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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Do we want to enable a banner stating that AI content is banned on WB.SE?
There is a post on Meta.Stackexchange stating that it is now possible for SE sites to enable a banner that states that AI content is banned or must be cited.
Since AI Content is banned on ...
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How can we make the "where to site a backup colony" question more focused?
The refers to the question If 30% of global military spending for the next 30 years were instead spent on an "intelligent life" backup colony, where should we site it and why? [closed].
The ...
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WB Stack Moderator Referendum?
I miss the Worldbuilding stack. I left because I did not like getting my ideas deleted by moderators. And it occurred to me: what if WB stack had different moderators? I think the current ...
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Should we burn the Tactics tag?
The tactics tag has 140 questions and is defined as:
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For questions about short term actions, often in a military context. Consider also [military].
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Is this question asking "Which of these federal agency would investigate an unmanned, radioactive UFO crash" acceptable?
I'll keep this brief: In a previous post on the official site, it was brought to my attention that the question, linked here (Which Law Enforcement/Government Agencies Would Be Called to Respond to ...
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Alternate reality, is seeking help to understand reality permissible?
Alternate reality requires understanding reality, should we help?
Worldbuilding Stack Exchange exists to help users in their worldbuilding.
One particular branch of worldbuilding is alternate reality, ...
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Advice: What is Worldbuilding?
The official statement about worldbuilding in the Help Center is this:
Worldbuilding Stack Exchange is a site for designers, writers, artists, gamers and enthusiasts to get help creating imaginary ...
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What are some alternatives to Worldbuilding Stack Exchange that are “brainstorming sites”?
I will admit, I’m not in the best mood after this, so I’m going to keep this streamlined to avoid me losing my cool and turning this question into a rant full of… choice words. Either way, I’m asking ...
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Please take a moment to clear outdated comments from the Sandbox
My sincere thanks to everyone who participates in the Sandbox! We've built up a growing list of deleted posts (very normal!) and they could use a bit of maintenance to keep the web page from becoming ...
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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?
(I am setting this up as a separate question to focus on this issue alone, without being mixed with other stuff.)
It has recently come to my attention that at least some moderators consider frame ...
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Problematic moderation actions
On this question What would the effects of a space based laser weapon system capable of tracking and destroying any projectile posing a threat to human life? there were a series of what I'd consider ...
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Can we include a "spherical-cow" tag?
I recently added a spherical-cow tag to the list of available tags, and applied it to an excellent candidate, but it was removed. You could call this a "why" or "why not" question, ...
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We've suddenly begun beating the snot out of new(ish) users - and that's saying something coming from me
Two things have changed recently.
A lot of new users have begun using the site. Not surprisingly, they're not seriously reading the tour or the Help Center. And none of them save one are showing up ...
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Is there a rule prohibiting “follow-ups” [duplicate]
My question was closed, with my requests for reopening being declined even after resolving every concern presented, except one. This stated that I cannot have multiple answers, with the person stating ...
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Proposal : An automated "tutorial" notification for new users with low-score posts
Prior note
While in most cases a proposal's score is a clear indicator of how much it is accepted, it will be hardly the case here. Indeed, we're talking about new user engagment here, and newcomers -...
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Why was my answer to "Can selective breeding maximize human intelligence without major complications?" deleted?
The answer in question.
I started writing it when the question was still open, poured 4 hours of work into it, it got 5 upvotes, and then... it was silently closed while I was sleeping, with a ...
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How to limit the range of answers to questions which are not technically considered opinion based?
TLDR; Specifically this is about the last mile problem, not about opinion basis. Though I'll grant that opinion basis is related and perhaps implicit.
Note: I may be incorrect in my interpretation of ...
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Merge Middle-Ages and Medieval tags
middle-ages and medieval are exactly synonymous. They are two different names for the time period and culture of Europe between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance. I suggest keeping Medieval as it ...
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Should we have a [role] tag?
There are a lot of questions asking after a potential role for a certain creature or device.
Since other tags will narrow down potential use (which is nevertheless usually beneficial to prevent ...
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What happened to the "tour" button?
I believe this picture should help understand the issue at hand :
Tour button? Toouurr buuttooon?
I cannot find the button to reach the tour anymore, even though it is still accessible by direct ...
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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?
Per the tour on the main stack, querents should not ask "Questions with too many possible answers or that would require an extremely long answer". Also, per the help center, querents should ...
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Allow internal-consistency tags with science-fiction, science-based, or hard-science tags
The internal-consistency tag currently reads:
For questions that ask if a given concept is consistent, or being used consistently, in the context of the referenced world rules. Answers should say yes ...
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What did I do wrong and how to know if my question got reviewed
I had a question here https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/250438/106249 and it said it is getting reviewed how do I know if its been done. Also what did I do wrong in this question.
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Will we have a Holiday Bountapalooza this year?
The holiday bountapolooza is (was... shall be again...) an invitation to search for and place bounties on deserving questions and/or answers. It not only helps get people in the mood to post bounties ...
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What do you think about a fake bounty? (this isn't exactly click-bait...)
I would like to draw attention to one and, eventually, more questions that I've posted that have community wiki answers. The Bounty system isn't really designed for that, but it's the most obvious way ...
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Why do people link the word "edit" in their comments?
Open question. I'm curious why some people make the word "edit" in their comments a hyperlink to the edit action. Particularly why they do when responding to users who are not exactly new to ...
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