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Runoff voting for the name of our chat
The Factory Floor, From Slartibartfast line to Arthur "Welcome to our factory floor" in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
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What should the name of our chat be?
The Factory Floor, From Slartibartfast line to Arthur "Welcome to our factory floor" in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
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Change the name of our chat bot
Slartibartfast from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series is the ultimate Worldbuilder to me.
Quotes:
Arthur Dent: Are you telling me you originally made the Earth?
Slartibartfast: Oh, ...
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What should the name of our chat be?
The World Workshop
It implies that this is where you can finish building unfinished worlds (and the alliteration is a nice bonus as well.)
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Runoff voting for the name of our chat
The World Workshop
It implies that this is where you can finish building unfinished worlds (and the alliteration is a nice bonus as well.)
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Change the name of our chat bot
The Lost Builder
(I don't actually care if we rename the bot, but if we do, well, we already have a mascot, and fan fiction based on it...)
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"Let's Continue This Discussion in Chat" just kills the discussion
Actually you are in the right place because while this happens in all of SE, Worldbuilding is only one where it is an actual issue.
The assumption behind "move it to the chat" is that the relevant ...
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What should the name of our chat be?
Just for completeness:
Worldbuilders' General Chat
For anyone who wants to vote to keep it the same.
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Change the name of our chat bot
I would suggest we look to our chat's resident god Glarnak in this issue. I suggest the names Glarnak for the meta bot as, like a god, meta sends down commandments onto us which we must live by.
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Worldbuilding Discord Server
I don't think this is a good idea - the chat is good enough for what the community needs, but if you find others feel free to create a private Discord space for WorldBuilding.SE and announce it in the ...
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Should we name our chat?
Background info for ease of access...
During the original review of this idea the site was still really new and the conclusion, if I recall correctly (someone correct me if I am off base here) was ...
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What should the name of our chat be?
Terra Forma
This is a play on words referencing both terraforming, aka world building, and terra firma, which literally means 'solid earth', but in common parlance refers to finally reaching the land ...
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A chat room for reopening (and closing?) questions
I'm not sure if this is a good idea...
I'm not an avid user of the chat rooms, but even I've seen the usual "vtc plz" it seems kinda close to encouraging voting rings, just with close and reopen ...
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Story-Go-Round Background & Info
Theories
Ideas of why things are the way they are, without having to explicitly say it in the story.
These are not official canon, but more ideas to give the world some background.
If something in the ...
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What should the name of our chat be?
The Workshop
A variant to fi12's suggestion.
Hey, what've you been doing? Well you know hanging 'round The Workshop.
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Where's everyone?
The site's changed a bit since the early days, back in late 2014. As with many Stack Exchange sites, there was a lot of excitement as the community here fleshed out its scope, and we did have a pretty ...
HDE 226868Mod
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Should we have some sort of chat sessions?
I like this idea. The content of the session interacts with the style of the session, so think about that dimension too. How many active participants are you expecting? How many do you need for the ...
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How to delete chat comments?
Chat messages can't be removed after the edit period of 2 minutes. They will stay in the chat the way they are. Mods can theoretically change them, but there is no reason why they would need to do ...
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Should we direct users whose question will be closed to the Factory Floor?
It's nice to point them to the Factory Floor for more open-ended discussions. Just make sure to mention the requirement of having at least 20 reputation on the StackExchange network. It would be ...
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Story-Go-Round Background & Info
Things & Items & Animals
Here you find info on things and items specific to our world & story.
Spire-Trees
kilometers high
thick trunks
delicious scent
Fire Root
when boiled makes a ...
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Story-Go-Round Background & Info
Concepts
Here you find info on different concepts of our world & story.
Voidships
vessels full of advanced technology
in order to serve on these vessels one must pass The Five Challenges
The ...
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Story-Go-Round Background & Info
Locations
Here you find info on the locations of our story.
World (no designation as of now)
several moons, not all of them visible at once
lavender horizon at early morning
Arcologies
People ...
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Implementation of a "working room" chat room?
I don't think this would be useful
I find it a bit cumbersome that the author is forced to ask a new question for a scenario every time, especially because following questions are often not so hot ...
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Should we have some sort of chat sessions?
Good idea, but I'd want a proof-of-concept before planning too far.
We can have a chat session to see if chat sessions work. We can try scheduling it, and then see who shows up and if anything gets ...
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"Let's Continue This Discussion in Chat" just kills the discussion
In general, I agree. This is not a forum, but often further clarification / commentary is needed beyond the comment section.
That being said, when this happens on Main, I think meta posts provide a ...
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What should the name of our chat be?
The Green Dragon
Of obvious Tolkien fame and also coincidentally a sort of unofficial headquarters for the American Revolution.
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What should the name of our chat be?
Magrathea, Who built Earth in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
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A chat room for reopening (and closing?) questions
Over on Stack Overflow we have Stack Overflow Close Vote Reviewers (we do reopens and deletions as well). Of course, the moderation load is much larger over there (our Close Vote queue hovers around ...
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Story-Go-Round Background & Info
Timeline
To help keep track of where different groups are at different times. Above the line is used for Bremdag and whoever is with him. Below the line is for other people/groups.
I will try and ...
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Story-Go-Round Background & Info
Culture/Society
Here you can find info on various aspects and concepts relating to the society our characters live in/left.
The Rite / The Five Challenges
A collection of 5 challenges that need be ...
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