Unanswered Questions
115 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Congratulations, Philosophy is graduating!
It's a big day. You've been cleared for graduation by the Stack Exchange Community Team! Philosophy met our threshold for graduation-worthy sites and after a review, the Community Team determined that ...
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Philosophy Topic of the Week: Plato!
NOTE: The weekly challenges are suspended until further notice (probably at least until the new year.) You can see the rules and outstanding list of thinkers below. Please feel free to continue to ...
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Is Philosophy SE being trolled, and why exactly aren't these questions closed?
So I went onto Philosophy SE main looking for good substantive questions, and Instead I find:
Is Gravity The Fundamental force?
The question seems like an obvious joke, so I said, and scrolled down....
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2016 Community Moderator Election Results
Philosophy's first moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 3 new moderators are:
They'll be replacing the pro tempore crew shortly — please thank everyone ...
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We want hats, right?
SE is planning to run another "dash for hats!"-style promotion this year, but this time for all the sites. Here's some example hats from last year:
Now, it's totally opt-in, both on a per-site and ...
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2018 Community Moderator Election Results
Philosophy's third moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the new moderator is:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly—please thank them for ...
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Happy holidays, Philosophy!
Happy holidays, everyone!
Well, it's been a long and wonderful year! I just wanted to say that I'm really thankful for the community here, and that I continue to be excited to be part of it as it ...
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Scope of the tag “logic”
In the last 24 hours, several have had the tag "logic" removed from them.
There seems to be a "logic" about this, but I'm not sure I follow it in every case.
First, several where I agree:
Is this a ...
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Obviously punitive voting with no explanations
This is the convergence of two different issues -- excessive, patterned downvoting is the primary issue. But that issue could be resolved if we knew what the motivation behind the downvotes was.
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Have we achieved Elite Status on Philosophy.SE today?
Have we acheived 'leet status here on Philosophy.SE?
I have as evidence:
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New Beta Theme Launched
Your site looks a bit different today. Yes, we are getting rid of the 'Sketchy' look and replacing it with a more-polished and finished design for sites in beta.
You can read more about the redesign ...
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Merge “knowledge” and “epistemology” tags?
What is the consensus on merging or symlinking knowledge and epistemology? Are there any reasons why we should need both tags?
Although I was in favour of retaining epistemology at first (probably ...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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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: ...
