Unanswered Questions
32 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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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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Sandbox suggestion
We've had some long, complex and LaTeX-heavy answers recently, and so I'm suggesting that we create a thread a la this post on Math.SE. I doubt this will be used much, but there's a chance it could ...
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Feature request: add marvosym package to our MathJax set (for celestial body symbols)
Shameless copy from SF.'s question on Space Meta:
\usepackage{marvosym} allows you to write M_\Sun or ...
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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Worldbuilding's writing a blog post about TRAPPIST-1. What should we include in it?
Yes, this meta question is on the right site. Trust me.
Worldbuilding Stack Exchange has a blog, and it was suggested that we put together a post about the recent discovery of four more planets ...
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Please, use capitalisation of proper nouns
This is my request for everyone to use capitalisation for proper nouns. I've seen it misused in many questions and their respective answers on our main Q&A and they often cause problems with ...
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Tags to synonymise, merge or nuke
I have just reached the 'can make tag synonyms', so thought making this discussion would be prudent.
Which tags should be synonymised, merged or nuked. Discuss them here!
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Blog Status Update #1
You might have heard that we're trying to rustle up support for a site blog. It seems like we have a critical mass of potential writers such that it should be able to support itself with content for ...
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Can we have 3 flags destruction for some time?
This site has attracted extra spam in the past few months. As the current case is on English Language & Usage and The Workplace, only 3 flags are required before a spam or offensive post is nuked. ...
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Let's ask more meaty questions! - Part II
Very early on in the life of Astronomy Stack Exchange, during private beta, Jon Ericson expressed concern over the level of questions the site was getting. The problem then was that the site was ...
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This month's focus tag: white-dwarf
Sorry for the delay in the focus tag this month! Last month we took a close look at the topic of tidal forces. This month's focus tag is white-dwarf.
Featured Question: Is there a possibility that a ...
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Why has an answer that appears to be plagiarised been allowed to stand?
An answer to this question appears to be an unattributed copy of a space.com article.
I flagged this, but my flag has been rejected by a moderator.
My (perhaps limited) understanding is that whilst ...
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Are we graduating sometime soon?
Just a question about how we are doing - statistically, on Area 51, it doesn't look too bad.
I understand that many members are busy people (in real life), I know I am (5 jobs, 12 research projects ...
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What happened to my profile on this site?
This might be fixed later on, but I just joined this site and my profile is all askew. I did not get the bonus when joining and my profile is all weird.
Here is my MSE profile. I'm sure you can see ...
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Are questions that require calculations off-topic?
I've asked a question about the recent solar eclipse (March 8-9, 2016) that requires some basic eclipse geometry calculations. Someone who does this will understand how to deal with the plane - I've ...
