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Please help me write an on-topic question
I have been a member of this site several times, and each time my questions have been closed. My current question has been criticized for not meeting the requirements of this site and is being ...
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Should we allow AI-generated images in answers?
Today I handled a flag regarding AI content in an answer, where the accusation was that the images posted with the answer were AI-generated, in violation of the policy against AI-generated answers, ...
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How to use the Universe Factory
We've had a blog, the Universe Factory on Medium for some years. Its fortunes have gone up and down. As of last mention it is being used more now, though the most recent publication seems to have been ...
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Can we include a "user your own creativity" rule?
I was just looking at the "what issues does cryosleep cause" question, and it occurred to me that it violates a rule that we dance around, but never actually specify.
The purpose of this ...
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2025: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of ...
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Need help undoing accidental downvote
While reading this answer, I accidentally downvoted it without realizing that I'd done so (damn you, phone touchscreen). I only noticed just now that I'd downvoted it an hour ago (from seeing the -1-...
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Policy Change: Objective Storybuilding is Acceptable
Required Reading: Help Center Upgrade: The Future of Storybuilding
A year+ ago I started the process of thoroughly reviewing the Help Center to make some desirable and comprehensive changes. The ...
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Military Doctrine vs Story Based/Character Action
This is inspired by a recent discussion in the comments which I found interesting.
Consider a question in the form:
"I want my Military commander to do XYZ, how do I do it?"
One view is that ...
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Is this website open-or-not to the realistic implications of fantastic scenarios?
I have asked a number of questions recently (to be fair, some stinkers), but a fair number otherwise seem to be perfectly within the preview of this stack exchange, and yet a particular poster seems ...
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Request to delete the "social acticities" tag
The newly created social-acticities tag is associated with only a single post, and more importantly, is misspelled.
I'm not sure if there's a direct method to submit a tag to the mods for deletion, ...
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Time for an "Obsolete" Notification?
I see Trish has begun the herculean task of marking some old questions here on Worldbuilding Meta as Obsolete in their titles. Good luck with that!
Edited method:
I had originally wondered if this ...
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The Scale of Hard Sci Fi
Hard Sci Fi is science-based science-fiction that is very close to the edge of hard-science... but all these tags are exclusive to one another - so there can be only one of them applied.
For example, ...
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Advice: Math and the Zen of Worldbuilding
Executive Summary
We have a generation or two of people on Earth who have access to an absolutely unprecedented amount of information long before they've gained sufficient experience to skeptically ...
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Why isn't the Hyperbolic time chamber question brainstorming?
This is specifically directed towards JBH and L. Dutch. I saw the following question and thought, "Why wasn't this marked as brainstorming?" I'm sure there are reasons, and think that this ...
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Commenting on a conflict in an old question?
I came across this recently bumped question and enjoyed it:
How exactly do wind patterns work on a polar continent without a circumpolar current?
In the comments, one user suggest the question is bad, ...