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Thoughts from Worldbuilding Stack Exchange moderators on the dismissal of Monica Cellio
I'm extraordinarily frustrated by the situation as it stands. I apologize that I cannot at the moment present the specific views and interactions that led to Monica's dismissal. While I can't condone ...
HDE 226868Mod
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Thoughts from Worldbuilding Stack Exchange moderators on the dismissal of Monica Cellio
I think frustrated and tired pretty effectively sum up my feelings and the feelings of many moderators across the network after the last few days.
So first a shout out to Monica. She is one of the ...
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Testing 3-vote Closures & Reopenings and the Value of Closing Questions
I think 3 closevotes is less suitable for this site than 5.
I think that, because we have more subjective rules, it is more important that there is a broader consensus that a question deserves closure....
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Is the World building forum less effective than using individual forums related to your question?
You should ask a question on WorldBuilding.SE if you are interested in the perspective of worldbuilders.
There are times when people can ask a question in similar form on multiple sites. But the ...
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Thoughts from Worldbuilding Stack Exchange moderators on the dismissal of Monica Cellio
I've just heard about Monica Cellio's dismissal from her post as a moderator on a number of SE sites. Having not seen the evidence that SE used to form the conclusion that the action that they took ...
Monty WildMod
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Sandbox clones for other SE sites
SE has several communities, each specialized in a different domain: Aviation, Worldbuilding, History, Interpersonal, just to name a few.
Why is it so? Well, it is just common sense to cluster a ...
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What is the business model of Worldbuilding Stack Exchange?
Main income is advertisement on StackOverflow
Taken from Meta Stackexchange What is Stack Overflow's business model? copying the accepted answer:
Three ways:
Job listings (e.g. the ...
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Sandbox clones for other SE sites
I would argue that we don't really need to increase traffic to Worldbuilding. Worldbuilding SE is getting a fair amount of traffic. It's certainly as active as, if not more so than, both Physics and ...
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Reposting other peoples answers onto a personal blog
I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. The references I chose may or may not be outdated. If you want to be safe you should contact a lawyer. And possibly the SE staff with the contact button at ...
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Should we try to create Storybuilding.SE?
No
The SB.SE as described will be just creative writing prompts. While people can have fun with that*, I do not think it has value for the SE network.
I do not think SE has to house everything. It can ...
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Should we try to create Storybuilding.SE?
NO
I can foresee that a StoryBuilding SE could have issues with accusations of plagiarism. How could members of such a site avoid being asked to review/write/plot students' homework questions? It ...
Monty WildMod
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Thoughts from Worldbuilding Stack Exchange moderators on the dismissal of Monica Cellio
One month has passed since the incident. I have tried as much as possible to judge the behavior, not the persons, as it has always been the guideline for moderators here.
The facts:
Monica has been ...
L.DutchMod
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Testing 3-vote Closures & Reopenings and the Value of Closing Questions
Good Idea
Short Short Version:
Close a questionable query fast, give the new OP some help on how to make it better, reopen the improved query fast. This is what "closing" a query is all ...
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How do I accept an answer?
Located to the left of the answer, below the upvote and downvote buttons there is a gray check mark. Clicking that will turn it green and mark the answer as accepted. See the following image:
NOTE: ...
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Is the World building forum less effective than using individual forums related to your question?
Huge ramble short; Worldbuilding is about fiction and pretty much dedicated to hypothetical questions, this gives you a huge advantage when it comes to getting information useful to you in forming a ...
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Thoughts from Worldbuilding Stack Exchange moderators on the dismissal of Monica Cellio
I've only fairly recently discovered the site, though I suspect I probably farmed it for answers via google queries over the years.
It's been a while since the incident now and I've read the SE ...
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Should we try to create Storybuilding.SE?
The MIDDLE WAY
Problems:
I too like questions about story building. Good ones anyway! I believe Monty has a valid point as far as objectivity goes. While writing and storycraft do have rules and ...
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Should we try to create Storybuilding.SE?
A Response from Stack Exchange Staff
While deciding whether or not to continue advocating for this idea, I decided to ask the opinion of SE staff. Here's what I wrote:
30 Jan 2023
In reference to ...
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Should we try to create Storybuilding.SE?
Yes. Good idea!
And no need to go to Area 51. This new stack will be the old stack called Worldbuilding Stack. Worldbuilding Stack will let down its hair and open its arms. The emphasis on black ...
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Testing 3-vote Closures & Reopenings and the Value of Closing Questions
WB.SE needs to be 5 because we are such a multi-disciplinary stack
KeizerHarm already covers most of the reasons why 5 is good in his answer; so, I won't really go into repeating them, but for me the ...
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Testing 3-vote Closures & Reopenings and the Value of Closing Questions
5 for close, and mods are not participating in closure, only delete spam and pornograpfy
3 for open
What the point in discussing 3 or 5 if half(won't look for it atm) of q's solo closures of mod? We ...
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Sandbox clones for other SE sites
Ignoring the fact that hosting sandboxes for other sites would be very confusing...
and ignoring the fact that other sites that don't want sandboxes won't thank us for circumventing their culture and ...
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