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Better ways to improve questions: Sandbox/Workshop post? Chat? Template for Meta?
This came up before in 2019 and in 2017 but I want to restart the discussion.
Sometimes posts are closed and they need a bit of discussion to reach a state where they're ready to be reopened. I don't ...
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Should the threshold for the Community♦-raised flag "20+ comments" be lowered from 20 to, for example, 10?
Many questions and answers get a lot of comments, even though comments are not intended for extended discussions. This issue has been raised before and some solutions have been suggested, for example:
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Red Hot subjects and agit-prop
Some issues that are very current and very hot, come up here on occasion — fortunately much less often than on politics-SE but still it does happen.
Is it of any use? To anyone or cause?
Repeating ...
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Recurrent Question Type (RQT): “Is X ethical?”
Compile all known examples of such questions as links in a community wiki answer to this post.
Offer an analysis in paragraph or bullet form about what you think the questions have in common. Suggest ...
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General chat for philosophy SE seems very inactive
Should something be done to improve the responses from chat room?
It could be helpful for friendly discussion or some relief in anxious or confused moment. Unfortunately the room is very non ...
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Is there a way to filter individuals
I would like a way to view new questions, but filter out particular posters so it's a bit more readable. Is this possible?
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Is there an option to have pinned posts on the main site?
I know this might need to be a feature request on Meta.SE but I wanted to know if there might already be some option to do this.
I'm thinking of how we can have information available for new (and not-...
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Friends, how can we shift from meta Q&A to action?
In a prior meta Q&A, it was suggested that moderators would benefit from clarifications from the community. Certainly, our moderators currently are even-handed, but there seems to me to be a myth ...
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What does removal from site for reasons of moderation mean
When I went to search for this question: https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/74217/is-equality-as-a-political-goal-meaningless/74227#74227, which had earlier been closed, I was confronted ...
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Friends, how could a question about an idea with its own article in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy be closed as off-topic?
1) Why was the following post closed?
What does "disposition" mean in a philosophical context?
It's clearly a question of analytic philosophy related to the philosophy of mind and indirectly ...
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low-quality answers
I get that answering on Philosophy SE doesn't require a degree, but shouldn't the answers be at least slightly academic?
I won't link the question here because it could be considered a conflict of ...
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How can I best ask ontological engineering questions?
I try to bring up things such as the incoherence of trying to construct the notion of a set containing itself from the perspective of ontological engineering and get voted down on a non-ontological ...
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Can we have a Frequently Asked Philosophical Questions Meta post?
There are recurring philosophical questions that generate duplicates, as well as "basic" philosophical questions that are often being asked in the SE. There are Meta questions that discuss this (...
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Should downvotes have explanations?
Firstly I know this is beating a dead horse. I'm not even going to link all the previous discussions. They are easy to find. But I would draw attention to a scenario presented to me by this: https://...
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Should we have a chat box linking to the Symposium?
Many custom pages like SciFi & Fantasy have chatrooms permanently linked directly in their sidebar.
As not many of you will remember, we actually do have a general chatroom in philosophy as well: ...
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'Missing context' close reason: remove 'other details'?
We currently have a close reason that was originally intended for zero-effort homework and now reads:
This question is missing context or other details. Please improve the question by providing ...
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Can we add options to closing questions as off-topic when the question belongs on another SE site besides our own Meta?
Many questions asked on Phil SE seem to be better fits for other SE sites, e.g. Math, Physics, Biology, Cognitive Sciences, History, Law, Skeptics, sometimes even Sci-Fi/Fantasy or Worldbuilding. ...
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Has anyone asked for a "suggest edit" button, or is the rollback feature enough?
I would like to edit e.g. this, but it seems a bit impertinent when the asker is active, as well as general users with more reputation than me.
Would it be OK to request a "suggest edit" button for ...
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Close reason for 'blatantly off topic' / 'philosophical problem unclear'
We're getting quite some questions that are closed with a custom close reason. Over the past 90 days, we closed 234 questions, 40 (17%) with a custom reason. Looking through the list of custom close ...
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Should downvotes be justified? [duplicate]
This is a group of philosophy. Made by and for philosophers. Philosophy means a taste, a fondness for knowledge; a will to go out and seek knowledge.
So, if someone downvotes the question or answer ...
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Subjective Questions: Deciding what we want as a community
Introduction
Greeting, fellow lovers of wisdom!
I apologize for the length, but this is an important topic that has come up repeatedly, one that has never been completely addressed, and I feel the ...
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Is the comment privilege (i.e. needing to earn rep in order to comment) useful?
I suppose that privileges are no concern of moderators, and that therefore nobody from philosophy.se can change anything about that, but I was wondering if getting the privilege to comment that late ...
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what about a debating stackexchange?
I would love a debating site from stackexchange. If there is one already can you point it out?
That would be very addicting. A site that has subcategories, like debate philosophy, debate history, ...
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Retracting a close vote?
Is there any way to retract a close vote? I know that you can get rid of downvotes (and upvotes, for that matter), if the post has been edited. In fact, I recently made a trivial edit (adding a comma ...
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Can't we come up with a 404 philosopun?
Many SE sites have a funny 404 page. We don't.
Can't we come up with some philosopun for the 404 page?
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Should questions on Zen thinking be allowed in philosophy.stackexchange?
According to many famous practitioners and writers of Zen, Zen is not strictly a philosophy in the sense of the word.
There is something extra-logical about the nature of Zen thinking.
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Resources to get started on Philosophy
I want to know if there is a possibility of having a sort of list of resources to get started on philosophy, both in general (which is what I am interested in right now) and in particular themes. I ...
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Why is there a "Philosophy" tag?
I just noticed that there are 7 questions tagged with philosophy. Is it just me, or is this a terribly ambiguous tag? Should this tag not be removed, so that all questions will have at least a ...
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Unifying "this site is for..." descriptions?
After updating the FAQ, our 'this site is about...' description no longer matches the global SE site description (that has been with us since Area 51.) I would like to get all of them saying the same ...
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Could we get certain tags to link to Wikipedia in their wiki summaries?
I notice that many, if not all of the tags that so far exist have excellent associated Wikipedia articles. Would it make sense, or is it even possible, to automatically poll information about the ...
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Can we allow more space and possibly a larger font for comments?
(Good) Philosophical arguments are essentially back and forth exchanges of long, coherent and self-sufficient arguments. Thus, I think the character limit on comments is not enough for proper ...
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How can we get mathematical formatting on Philosophy Stack Exchange?
I think Philosophy.SE ought to have LateX availability in text input, because there are going to be a lot of formal logic questions. How can we get LateX, or a comparable math typesetting feature, on ...
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Can we change the "Subjective and Argumentative" close reason to "Not Constructive"?
Several people, both in the formative phase of this site and more recently, have expressed varying degrees of confusion, consternation, and irony over the fact that one of our close reasons is labeled ...
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