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Save The Robot!
Some history
Let me start with a story.
Back - what, three and a half years ago? almost four - in the mists of ancient time, a strange site wandered into private and then public beta. We weren't like ...
HDE 226868Mod
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Should we turn Worldbuilding Stack Exchange into a Planet of Hats?
Yes!
Full speed ahead to Planet of the Hats!
Everyone loves hats - they promote lots more activity on the site during a time when there would usually be less activity.
There is no need to ruin the fun ...
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Do we want to enable a banner stating that AI content is banned on WB.SE?
YES, I want the banner as explained in the question.
L.DutchMod
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If we can't burn the "reality check" tag, can we rename it?
I would propose naming the tag internal-consistency because the rules-consistency might be confusing for users. In the opposite direction of what it is now: reality-check makes them think it is "...
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Please lower the reputation requirement to participate on WB.SE Meta
Yes, we should lower the reputation requirement, for questions and answers
Lowering the reputation requirement to post answers, and therefore to participate in the Sandbox, is a good step to make ...
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Can we extend mhchem support in MathJax to include physical units?
I support this request: Worldbuilding users can benefit from having mhchem enabled.
L.DutchMod
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Should we turn Worldbuilding Stack Exchange into a Planet of Hats?
I would be for hats. Like X-27, I find that the hats do lead people towards more interesting questions and answers than they usually would. It's a fun tool to help encourage people to leave their ...
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Get in the spirit: The first annual holiday bounty extravaganza - or bountapalooza
I figured we might as well keep track of all of this, so I've created a community wiki answer.
A list of the questions with bounties started during this season:
Logic to support specialized kingdom ...
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Should we turn Worldbuilding Stack Exchange into a Planet of Hats?
I would agree with X-27 if the button were not “I hate hats”. Hate is a strong concept and one of the precepts I try to live by is “do not hate”.
We need a button for
I mildly dislike hats
I’m not ...
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Is the tag [logical-consistency] workable?
I feel like logical-consistency is a duplicate of reality-check. The latter is designed to do what your tag does: ask if an idea is consistent within the laws of physics of the universe in question. ...
HDE 226868Mod
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Should we turn Worldbuilding Stack Exchange into a Planet of Hats?
I don't have a clue about this hats thing, but I'm in :)
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What is the difference between [superheroes] and [super-powers], and is [superheroes] as proposed reasonable?
I'd kill "superheroes" tag and just keep "super-powers".
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Are pictures of fishbowls on wheels valid answers?
The question is fine, the answer is not
I disagree with @Molot's answer. There are plenty of good, thorough answers to the question, and it is completely possible to cover the bases just like with ...
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The fourth annual holiday bountapalooza
List of bountied questions
Add your latest bounty here!
Plausibility of helium dominated atmospheres on super-Earths, asked by TheDyingOfLight and bountied by HDE 226868 (+200)
How soon can the ...
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Can we extend mhchem support in MathJax to include physical units?
I've enabled this as of an hour ago (26 April 2022) Adam said it should be fine but if you run into any issues, let me know and we'll disable it and investigate what's going on.
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If we can't burn the "reality check" tag, can we rename it?
Yes, I do support the proposal to rename the misnamed reality-check tag to something more clearly suggesting its intended use.
More than that, I believe we should ...
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Tags: global-warming undefined... consolidate or leave separate?
I agree with the separation completely: it clarifies the differences between the two terms.
However, there are questions out there about global cooling and other large-scale climate changes that aren'...
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Please raise the threshold for the "too many answers" flag
Distribution of questions by answer-count, last 90 days
This is another one of those sites where the expected number of answers skews a bit toward "many"; the gentle fall-off from 2-8 answers is ...
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The second annual Holiday Bountapalooza
A list of the questions with bounties started during this season:
Could a large radio telescope survive interstellar spaceflight?, asked and bountied by HDE 226868 (+100)
What near-future propulsion ...
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Please lower the reputation requirement to participate on WB.SE Meta
As of today, August 9 2018, the meta rep requirement of 1 is live for questions and answers; Shog just enabled it. All users should be able to post on meta - barring those suspended, of course. This ...
HDE 226868Mod
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What's the difference between [astronomy] and [astrophysics]?
Here's a proposal as a wiki:
Astronomy: for questions related to the study of planets, moons and stars and their motion on the sky.
Astrophysics: for questions regarding orbital mechanics, stellar ...
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What's wrong with printing in Worldbuilding
This is fixed as per https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/329187/235711
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Please lower the reputation requirement to participate on WB.SE Meta
Yes, we should lower the reputation requirement, but only for answers
Lowering the reputation requirement to post answers, and therefore to participate in the Sandbox, is a good step to make ...
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There is a missing link in the blog side panel of the questions page
I saw it too -- a link to that SE blog post, and "page not found" if you followed it. It's now fixed; that link goes to this blog post.
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Will the main chat be unfrozen?
'Tis done. I'm one of the room owners and probably should have been monitoring it more regularly -- that's my bad. The Factory Floor hasn't been active in a while, to put it mildly, stretching back to ...
HDE 226868Mod
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If we can't burn the "reality check" tag, can we rename it?
This rename isn't necessary.
All of our active users understand it. All of our new users get the gist of it rather quickly. Is the reality check tag the problem here? or is it really that there are a ...
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Are pictures of fishbowls on wheels valid answers?
I have another doubt, that is:
If the fish bowl on wheels is an answer, was it a good question?
This one does answer the question. It is a vehicle for water breathing creature to move on land. It ...
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