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We've suddenly begun beating the snot out of new(ish) users - and that's saying something coming from me
Before you or anybody gets mad at new users not looking at the Help Center.
Someone needs to make the Help Center very visible on the website. There is only one link to the Help Center on the front ...
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Accepted
Can we include a "spherical-cow" tag?
I don't see a use for this proposed tag.
A good rule of thumb for determine if a tag makes sense is to use it in the sentence "I am an expert in [tag]".
A spherical cow is just an ...
L.DutchMod
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We've suddenly begun beating the snot out of new(ish) users - and that's saying something coming from me
I'm not keen on downvoting in general, and use upvotes for questions that check all the boxes or are simply > Quite Interesting. I find downvotes really demotivating myself, and reserve them almost ...
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Problematic moderation actions
Comments, apart from being extremely volatile in nature, are meant to improve the question or ask for clarification, not to discuss with other users nor to answer the question.
Putting a frame ...
L.DutchMod
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Can we include a "spherical-cow" tag?
I can see the rationale behind having this Tag:
"I want something that is within the realms of Hard Science, but accept that the thing I'm asking for is super-highly complex and no one has a ...
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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?
The problem here/Question being asked is where does a critical comment stop and a formal frame challenge start?
I've written a number of Frame Challenges that started out as mere comments "I ...
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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?
Definition of a frame-challenge
To know whether a frame-challenge can be put in comments or not is to first know what a frame-challenge is. So let's agree on a common definition before we go forward ...
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Problematic moderation actions
Focus: Moderator
Just to focus on the issue of what might seem to be a potentially irregular moderatorial action on Monty's part, I'll dwell on these points:
It also bears mentioning that Monty Wild ...
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We've suddenly begun beating the snot out of new(ish) users - and that's saying something coming from me
There's a simple reason that has been ignored so far and which happens on many stacks (like Law.SE and Medicine.SE, where questions for specific advice are explicitly banned), and might have some ...
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