Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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What does it mean when someone's comments invalidate their question (or answer)
Does it suggest they are using a chat bot or that their question was just random noise or what exactly?
I'm guesisng it could well be the former and they aren't great with chat-gpt, that they are ...
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Are we getting bogged down in comments?
I have seen many questions with no votes and accompanying answers with no votes, but many comments.
Should we be answering and voting rather than indulging in often flippant and unhelpful comments? ...
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I have a hunch about ten of the high reach accounts here are the same person
I have a hunch about ten of the high reach accounts here are the same person. Am I right? They must be quite the polymath anyway, if so.
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Any ideas where on the internet I can just post thoughts on books I read?
Any ideas where on the internet I can just post thoughts on books I read? I don't think stackexchange is right, even if you phrase it as a question. I don't personally know anyone I can share my ...
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Am I really "flooding the site with nonsense questions"?
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When someone profits from injustice, is life less meaningful?
What can make death not a bad thing?
What is "high art"?
Personally, I feel I am being closed too often, not vice versa. I ...
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Is it possible to reopen this question?
I was unable to explain my point it seems within the question.
Which mathematical operations leave the ontology invariant?
Is it possible to reopen this question? (To meet site standards so I don't ...
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Policy regarding potentially offensive content
A question posted and closed this morning, which concerned the ethics of using AI to generate images of child pornography, prompts me to ask whether it is possible that there might be topics which, if ...
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Request for clarification: quoting sources you haven't read (yes/no)?
Is it OK? In no way am I trying to appear better read than I am. I spend much of my free time googling, and so reading, philosophy, and I have sat, and actually passed, an undergraduate degree in ...
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Death of the poster
I think that too many people are voting on answers not because the answer is well reasoned or backs up its claims with references etc. but for stuff like
this poster is clever
I like this poster
I ...
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Which philosophers contended that astronomical lottery jackpots (> $2M USD) are unfair?
How can I improve Which philosophers contend that astronomical lottery jackpots (> $2M USD) are unfair? ? How can I recast it, to render in on topic ? Thank you for your assistance!
My question is ...
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User suspended for posting too many comments....what?
I am seeing this account of user thinking man, pretty well known person here I think. Often their questions on probabilities hits HNQ.
The account says "user suspended for posting too many ...
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"Every philosophical question is about opinions" – thinkingman
I'm not a philosopher. My background is in physics and engineering. Recently, I gave an answer to a question that I believed was just a request for opinions disguised as a philosophy question. The ...
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Is there a way to filter individuals
Suppose, hypothetically, there is a person on this site who asks many questions every day. I would like a way to view new questions, but filter out particular posters so it's a bit more readable. Is ...
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How can we not give into cultural misinformation?
So I recently posted this question:
Looking at quantum physics from the perspective of Indian philosophy?
And got quite upset when the answerer makes claims like: "There's no evidence that Hindu ...
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Are there many bots at work?
How much of this site is currently AI? New accounts keep appearing and answering several questions, very quickly (anyway it takes me longer than 3 minutes to write an answer), without references (...
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Community Bot Deletions
There has been a whole slew of answers being deleted by Community Bot recently. I can't see anything obviously wrong with them. Is the bot misbehaving, or is something else going on?
Examples:
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The practise of closing questions on this website infers that a kind of dictatorship is accepted as a norm here
I have had numerous questions closed because somebody thought the question didn't fit the website or they just didn't like it. I find this process very undemocratic and dictatorial. Isn't this website ...
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What is the point of downvoting?
Why do people downvote other members' content for no reason at all?
No-one can improve their content without knowing what is wrong with it. Downvoting without a constructive comment makes no sense. No-...
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If interpreting Conifold is on-topic, should interpreting GPT-4 also be on-topic?
Not much to add to the title.
This question is on-topic: How, in layman's terms, should this Conifold argument against illusionism be interpreted?
But my recently asked question is getting close ...
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Are we (not) logicians?
This is an inquiry with several specific questions to answer:
Can questions about logic be answered wholly with rhetoric?
Do questions about logic need to be phrased symbolically and formally?
How/...
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Why is there no Cybernetics site on stackoverflow?
I was wondering why there was no cybernetics site on here given that we have sites for hardware, firmware, software, even wetware (medical sci). It seems to me like we have all the prerequisites from ...
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Can question X be on-topic, question Y be off-topic, and X be closed as a duplicate of Y?
I asked two questions X and Y, namely:
X: Does Intelligent Design fulfill the necessary criteria to be recognized as a scientific theory?
Y: What are philosophical arguments for the position that ...
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Closing and reopening of a question
This question was recently closed: Would a teleogenetic standpoint be more useful in discovering certain possibilities about life origins than the theory of abiogenesis?
I understood why -- some of ...
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A question that might genuinely satisfy "occurs in a philosophical context but is not itself philosophical"
I've had my doubts about that VTC parameter, but unfortunately I seem as if I might've proven by doubts wrong.
So, while trying to zip together some themes in my notes on set theory, I got to where I ...
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Are questions regarding subliminal messages appropriate?
Subliminal messages are usually associated with psychology but using AI with photo editing software creates the ability to be very creative with visual messages. Is this an appropriate topic for the ...
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Do you welcome attempts at creative questioning here or not?
Do you welcome attempts at creative questioning here or not? That's what I am trying to do, and I seem to have met a heap of hostility for it. Is it outside the remit of the site, at least for heavy ...
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Who is in control of community bot?
Is it automated? It seems to have lost its mind. I quote a series of texts to make my point. The very clever may have noticed I do make an unreferenced claim (that happiness is less under control than ...
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What do you find unclear?
I am confused by why people are finding my questions unclear. In my last question, I asked whether A believes B is the case, and I gave reasons I believe B. I also quoted instances of A discussing B, ...
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Is it considered to be bad form to update a question to address objections raised in answers?
Is it considered to be bad form to improve the original question (addressing the objections raised in these answers) making the original answers no longer apply?
Is this a more unequivocal way to make ...
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Why was this post deleted and no reason given? [duplicate]
Why was this post deleted and no reason given?
Here is the original question:
Is Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem a "cheap trick"?
Wittgenstein seems to think that Gödel's G (...
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What was this post deleted and no reason given?
What was this post deleted and no reason given?
Here is the original question:
Is Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem a "cheap trick"?
"We are therefore confronted with a ...
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Bot like random phrase comments
I have been seeing comments to questions from user @AgentSmith in this forum that seem unrelated to the question or other comments, and too nonsensical to me to appear like jokes.
E.g. today in
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Are design philosophy questions appropriate for this forum
A concept like form follows function is a design philosophy that covers several fields. What is the most appropriate forum to ask design philosophy questions if not in the Philosophy SE?
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Are there lower standards for what answers are not nonsense than there are questions?
Are there lower standards for what answers are not nonsense than there are questions? I feel the onus has been put on someone asking a question to show they know what they are talking about. That is ...
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Why does it seem that the philosophy of Atheism is the sieve by which all questions must be filtered?
The Philosophy SE site allows users to make egregious and outlandish statements about Theism (and Christianity) and allows proponents of Atheistic philosophies (Atheism. Naturalism, Secularism, etc.) ...
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Surely chat GPT is more reliable that your unreferenced opinions?
Under which meta-ethical theories can we forfeit any rights?
what gives?
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How should this spammy post be handled?
I recently encountered this question. Its title has little to do with the actual content of the question, and the OP never really answers a question. It mostly appears to be an attempt to promote ...
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Are questions about ethics too subjective for this site?
Completely wrong (though I suppose in some sense that's subjective so who cares right?) to close this
Epistemic failure and blaming others
Are questions about normative judgments too subjective for ...
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Finding answers to my own OPs
While looking for articles on "antiset theory," I have found answers to both of the following questions, that I myself posted:
Whether universal sets are contradictory (not for Russell/...
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When do we need to answer our own questions for clarity purposes?
When do we need to answer our own questions for clarity purposes? I mean, when do we need to explain our "motivation" beyond the question itself? Is there some sense we need to be relatable ...
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Is stackexchange a good place for questions
It should be, in theory it should be. But it isn't, and I don't think it's just a gap in in expertise. On my last question, which when you google the terms of throws up quite a few OUP book chapters, ...
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Why not delete answers that are opinions rather than questions that are difficult to answer without them?
Are conspiracy theories evil?
I don't see why anyone would read this question to be asking for anyone's opinion, but it was closed for that reason. It's probably true that most discussion about ...
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An I being downvoted because people think I'm evil?
Is there a state, individual or communal, perhaps a virtue, that cannot be touched by any tragedy?
I find that idea very unsettling; I can assure you I am not evil! Why not just downvote anyone who ...
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What's wrong with this question?
I just asked this question and it got downvoted, however no commentary was provided on how to improve it, so, unless it's spam, could anyone please provide me with feedback on what is wrong with it?
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Why don't we close, merge MORE questions as duplicates?
I bewildered at finding so many questions that nobody closed or merged as duplicates, as acknowledged by Mauro Allegranza. Why do we shun closing and merging?
The original is How can we reason about &...
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Need someone who can read deleted comments
I am not sure if I said something really stupid in response to this question
How does "if p, then q" compare to "p only if q"?
dunno if it would be a typo (I tend to think of them ...
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Close and merge these science vs. philosophy duplicates?
What is the relationship between philosophy and science? appears to be the mother thread. Many users have flagged the following as duplicates that have yet to be closed and merged. Conifold
Are ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Legitimate opinions is legitimate in philosophy?
So I'm under 10 views and already received a vote to close (under opinion based). While I do agree this is well opinion based. I was under the impression having legitimate opinions was legitimate in ...
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