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What does a good "What is this thing in the sky?" question look like?

CommunityBot

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modified Oct 31 at 18:10

0 votes

1 answer

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Is this site appropriate for identifying ufos?

ProfRob

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answered Oct 31 at 17:34

2 votes

1 answer

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Is it okay to seek website recommendation?

uhoh

31.4k

answered Oct 27 at 9:44

6 votes

1 answer

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We've been using the [gravitational-waves] tag for 10 years, do we really also need [gravitational-wave-astronomy]?

Connor GarciaMod

16.2k

modified Oct 20 at 14:21

7 votes

1 answer

218 views

What are your plans for the Annular Solar Eclipse on October 14th, 2023?

Mike G

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modified Oct 10 at 19:21

7 votes

1 answer

66 views

Found a Tag Bug

Sten

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answered Sep 24 at 16:38

16 votes

3 answers

539 views

Astronomy Stack Exchange 10-year anniversary!

HDE 226868Mod

36k

answered Sep 12 at 23:59

1 vote

1 answer

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Can you undo this community Wiki Answer by me?

HDE 226868Mod

36k

answered Aug 27 at 14:04

-1 votes

1 answer

81 views

Bounty on my question

Arunabh Bhattacharya

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modified Jul 4 at 13:27

16 votes

0 answers

535 views

June 5 Strike - Who, What, When, Why, and how to join

Starship - On Strike

1

modified Jun 27 at 21:24

0 votes

1 answer

76 views

DaveTheWave isn’t a new contributor; Can we do something about repeated account recreation?

uhoh

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modified Jun 24 at 1:45

17 votes

3 answers

450 views

NOT READY FOR PUBLIC BETA — What function should this site serve?

Connor GarciaMod

16.2k

modified Jun 7 at 16:42

-5 votes

1 answer

76 views

Is it justifiable to block someone for posting a factually wrong but still clear question?

HDE 226868Mod

36k

modified Jun 1 at 13:37

2 votes

1 answer

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We've got at least 26 generic i.imgur.com image links that might break on May 15, 2023; should/could they be updated to i.stack.imgur.com?

Nilay Ghosh

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modified May 29 at 8:03

-1 votes

1 answer

86 views

Spam shouldn't take this long to be deleted

HDE 226868Mod

36k

answered May 28 at 15:01

0 votes

3 answers

62 views

Best way to refer to people in posts who have been knighted?

James K

116k

answered May 13 at 18:05

12 votes

2 answers

385 views

Let's make an attempt to answer old, unanswered questions

ProfRob

146k

modified May 11 at 6:54

4 votes

1 answer

44 views

What is the best way to tag questions about Xuntian, the Chinese Survey Space Telescope?

James K

116k

modified Mar 12 at 14:09

4 votes

1 answer

44 views

Do we need the [nomenclature] and [naming] and [terminology] tags?

planetmaker

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modified Feb 27 at 16:06

7 votes

0 answers

82 views

2022: a year in moderation

JNatStaffMod

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modified Jan 26 at 19:37

12 votes

0 answers

89 views

Congratulations to James(100)K

ProfRob

146k

asked Jan 26 at 12:10

3 votes

0 answers

22 views

Can we merge this two questions?

called2voyageMod

6,254

modified Jan 25 at 13:48

4 votes

2 answers

254 views

Why do some of our most prolific question answerers (and therefore reputation beneficiaries) rarely-to-never up vote questions they answer?

ProfRob

146k

modified Dec 26, 2022 at 12:26

3 votes

0 answers

42 views

Change Community Wiki Answer

called2voyageMod

6,254

modified Dec 22, 2022 at 14:12

14 votes

0 answers

209 views

Moderator Pro Tem Announcement

called2voyageMod

6,254

modified Dec 20, 2022 at 18:23

15 votes

8 answers

599 views

Who should our moderators be?

Glorfindel

4,780

modified Dec 20, 2022 at 17:13

8 votes

0 answers

172 views

Community Policy Repository

called2voyageMod

6,254

modified Dec 15, 2022 at 15:11

12 votes

1 answer

427 views

Should we at least temporarily ban chatbot-generated content (e.g. chatGPT) until it becomes clearer what it means for Stack Exchange?

called2voyageMod

6,254

modified Dec 13, 2022 at 18:36

26 votes

15 answers

2k views

Astronomy Jokes

Prince Pugs

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answered Nov 26, 2022 at 22:31

2 votes

3 answers

92 views

Is it wrong for someone to post an answer that does not meet their own up-vote standard?

StephenG - Help Ukraine

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answered Nov 11, 2022 at 22:43

8 votes

1 answer

175 views

Do we want to change the link about MathJax help?

HDE 226868Mod

36k

modified Nov 10, 2022 at 19:51

6 votes

3 answers

110 views

Sourcing papers vs explaining in own words

Nilay Ghosh

4,393

answered Oct 26, 2022 at 6:48

13 votes

0 answers

62 views

Feature request: add marvosym package to our MathJax set (for celestial body symbols)

V2Blast

102

modified Oct 24, 2022 at 21:44

4 votes

1 answer

54 views

"MathJax help" link is broken

V2Blast

102

modified Oct 24, 2022 at 21:44

18 votes

7 answers

1k views

Request to enable MathJax on this site

V2Blast

102

modified Oct 24, 2022 at 21:44

4 votes

1 answer

58 views

Add `mchem` to MathJax Extensions?

uhoh

31.4k

answered Oct 12, 2022 at 21:16

3 votes

0 answers

127 views

The new and increasingly popular "close for insufficient research" close reason, are we headed in the wrong direction here? Is there a way to reduce?

uhoh

31.4k

modified Sep 12, 2022 at 22:10

3 votes

1 answer

45 views

An [ultraviolet] tag to go with our [gamma-rays], [x-ray], [visible-light], [infrared], and [radio] tags?

called2voyageMod

6,254

answered Sep 9, 2022 at 15:14

6 votes

2 answers

97 views

I think that we have no good tags for solar-system-evolution or asteroid-formation or asteroid-evolution. Should we?

called2voyageMod

6,254

answered Jul 27, 2022 at 21:02

5 votes

2 answers

135 views

Should we avoid calling questions that have answers in other SE sites as "duplicate", which already has a specific and different meaning in SE?

called2voyageMod

6,254

modified Jul 19, 2022 at 18:45

3 votes

2 answers

78 views

I can't find this question. Was it deleted?

called2voyageMod

6,254

answered Jul 18, 2022 at 14:04

4 votes

0 answers

42 views

The tags for cosmic microwave background need merging

called2voyageMod

6,254

modified Jun 21, 2022 at 18:05

4 votes

1 answer

39 views

Can we merge tags "tno" and "trans-neptunian-object"?

Nilay Ghosh

4,393

answered Jun 18, 2022 at 5:34

5 votes

1 answer

76 views

Should we have a community-specific closing reason for Astrology questions?

called2voyageMod

6,254

answered Apr 18, 2022 at 16:29

1 vote

1 answer

34 views

One tag for LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA or three, or none?

called2voyageMod

6,254

answered Apr 18, 2022 at 14:11

5 votes

1 answer

88 views

Can we have a guideline about astrology for the on-topic section in the help center?

called2voyageMod

6,254

answered Apr 7, 2022 at 17:32

3 votes

1 answer

59 views

How can I withdraw a down vote?

Connor GarciaMod

16.2k

answered Mar 28, 2022 at 20:25

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