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Bias against religion
It is appropriate for questions about the philosophy of religion to be asked on this site. Philosophy of religion is a well-established branch of philosophy and many prominent philosophers have ...
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Should the threshold for the Community♦-raised flag "20+ comments" be lowered from 20 to, for example, 10?
My probably unpopular view is that long comment threads are often useful.
I'm a moderator on another SE site and I'll convert comment chains to chat only if they get ugly - as happens. My fellow mods ...
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Bias against religion
I am a Christian, and of course, it is enough for me to believe something simply because God said so. Many things in the Bible I believe without any evidence beyond God's own word. For example, it's ...
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Should we change the text on our comment link?
Bandaid from @nottthatguy is a good summary of the proposal.
In expanded form
I believe SE is based on the following escalation path. To the extent we adhere to it we are in sync with the SE structure,...
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Suggestions of what to do if we have concerns about a user's mental health?
I don't think that sites like this have any good way of handling genuine mental health issues. I'm guessing that just like anywhere else in our relations, we say to the person that they should seek ...
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Should we change the text on our comment link?
No
It's fine as it is and I do not want this change to happen.
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Should we change the text on our comment link?
Yes
This will hopefully help people to use comments for their intended purpose more often.
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Can communal moderation (closing, downvoting) in principle support the fair rights of the minority?
As you may have seen, I am no fan of democracy but here I think you are misdiagnosing the issue: it is not democracy that is malfunctioning here. On the contrary it is the fact that some processes are ...
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Can communal moderation (closing, downvoting) in principle support the fair rights of the minority?
The StackExchange approach to moderation includes:
community/user voting (both for score, and for closure/reopening)
moderator voting (which is often determinative)
moderator responses to flags (...
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Is philosophy stack exchange Philosophy 101, or is it a place for ideas?
This is a more specific answer regarding your contributions.
While I agree with you that I would prefer a freer discussion on a wider, less regimented set of topics, your own questions and answers are ...
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Is philosophy stack exchange Philosophy 101, or is it a place for ideas?
Phil-SE represents a full head-on clash between SE on the one hand which is good for superuser, ubuntu, stackoverflow (original) etc, ie the technical sites where demarcation is not a question and ...
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Is philosophy stack exchange Philosophy 101, or is it a place for ideas?
This site is not meant to "develop ideas" or for debate. The entire StackExchange format is for clear, singular questions, with responses in the form of answers.
Even where certain topics ...
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Do we want to collect the best questions and answers at the end of each quarter?
I like the idea; I’ll post some stuff I’ve come across that I think is high-quality here for now.
Kant, Language, and Thought
Is Heideggerian “Being” like the instantiation of a class into an object?
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Suggestions of what to do if we have concerns about a user's mental health?
In my opinion, it’s generally not our business. We wouldn’t take responsibility for the personal lives of the site users unless it’s something that’s a direct consequence of their site experience (i.e....
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Charge of duplicate seems unjustified. Shouldn't my question be reopened?
Well this answer might sound a bit harsh, but here's how I perceive the situation. I think we are stuck with three options here:
The question asks about objective evidence. Then, there are plenty of ...
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Charge of duplicate seems unjustified. Shouldn't my question be reopened?
Tkruse answer underscores one more aspect about why the closing process is broken. It commonly happens that of the 5 VTCs cast there are two different reasons chosen.
In fact in principle all the 5 ...
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Charge of duplicate seems unjustified. Shouldn't my question be reopened?
While Close voters have to pick a single reason for closing, often there is a combination of reasons to close a question. Close voters may consider this, and only click that close button if the ...
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Do we want to collect the best questions and answers at the end of each quarter?
Who decides "Best"?? If the answer is "democratically", then the vote system is already there for it — just order by score. If OTOH some people's vote is to count more than others ...
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Should the threshold for the Community♦-raised flag "20+ comments" be lowered from 20 to, for example, 10?
I agree.
I would also support an even lower threshold. During my time on this site, I have never seen a comment thread longer than three comments stay properly focused on improving the question. ...
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"Not in comments please" -- How to handle interesting discussions
Some of the best answers here can be found in comments which on occasion I have requested to be made into full answers.
So have other users.
I've seen this asked by mods... and not heeded.
Why they do ...
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"Not in comments please" -- How to handle interesting discussions
There may be a more effective way to reduce the number of comments than what has been proposed so far: ask a CM to rename the "Add a comment" button to "Improve this post". See ...
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How should I frame a question about the soundness of a particular objection to an argument?
Please be sure to add enough context: what assumptions you’re working with, and at least some of the considerations that make you think the argument fails. This will give you better answers
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How should I frame a question about the soundness of a particular objection to an argument?
There are lots of those types of questions if you search around. The format “is this argument flawed” or anything similar usually doesn’t get downvoted or closed, it’s a recurrent question type.
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Can LLMs act as neutral arbiters for interpersonal forum drama?
An LLM does not have anything "to say" about any exchange. It will merely produce a simulacrum of a human response. The output is not a product of opinion.
And while it would likely not be ...
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Do we want something like topic challenges for philosophical works outside our bailiwick, to help alleviate the Western bias on the site?
The above proposal is close to what we have been doing on Literature SE
Philosophy is not like literature
I'd probably say it's more somewhere between politics and science.
Consider someone asking ...
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What is the appropriate way to cite a specific person, or use terms named in terms of a specific person?
It is usually a matter of convention in specific (sub-)field or even requirements imposed by a specific journal.
I recall a discussion with a colleague about correctly citing terms like fermi ...
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General chat for philosophy SE seems very inactive
The existing answers have given various reasons why the chat room is quiet, but I think they have overlooked the most basic condition for reviving it: just being there, even if it's just as a lurker. ...
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Should I delete my account?
The internet allows to phrase a contribution on one day, and post it only the next day, increasing the chance of self censure for contents that are unsuitable.
A similar strategy could be to choose a ...
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General chat for philosophy SE seems very inactive
Chat is inactive because the site allows what should be in chat to happen in comments. There is no need for chat given how much chatter happens in comments.
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General chat for philosophy SE seems very inactive
How about coming up with an "office hour" style schedule where say someone with specialization in Kant (such as @PhilipKlöcking) will be there every Monday 7pm-9pm Germany time to answer ...
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2024 Community Moderator Election
I nominate Philip Klöcking as moderator.
Philip is one of our present moderators. I appreciate his excellent
work during the last years.
I also nominate Marco Ocram and the present moderator Geoffrey
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Should I delete my account?
Yes, I should. If you want to limit time spent with people IRL whom have it in for you and want to follow you on-line in secret, using LLM or not, it is advised that you do not use public spaces.
HTH
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What is the appropriate way to cite a specific person, or use terms named in terms of a specific person?
There's no "right" way. There are many style choices that are equally clear and valid.
To cite a specific person, you can just use their name. Although, typically, you'd cite a particular ...
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How Can We Meet Herr Klöcking's Call to Community?
I've tried using the site to clarify questions about things I am reading, but this was met mostly with unhelpful hostility, and I don't think I am that bad at real philosphical work, which is the only ...
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How Can We Meet Herr Klöcking's Call to Community?
Although we do have people drift in who ask questions based on trying to understand various philosophy texts, it seems that there is some kind of steady influx of people from possibly Reddit, or ...
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How Can We Meet Herr Klöcking's Call to Community?
This is just a hodgepodge of small but not meritless ideas I have had in considering feasible improvements to Philosophy SE. (The number of unfeasible good ideas is very large.)
I don’t know if ...
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2024 Community Moderator Election
Zero people have nominated themselves. I hope there is a way to change it so we can nominate others?
Otherwise, I’m casting a bit of a wider net to encourage these people to nominate themselves!
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2024 Community Moderator Election
Kristian Berry
Joe Wehler
Conifold (would be fun)
sorry, drunk
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