Unanswered Questions
38 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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I'm taking a leave of absence from moderating
Update 1/20/2020: called2voyage has resumed moderation, more info here.
I’ve wrestled for some time with how to approach this issue, but I’ve finally come to a decision. The bottom-line is that it ...
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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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Regarding moderating the new Code of Conduct
To hopefully alleviate concerns regarding the new Code of Conduct, I want to explain how I intend to moderate regarding pronoun use.
When speaking generically, posts should use gender neutral ...
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What stellar content do we want to share with Twitter?
As of late yesterday, Stack Exchange has revived its official Twitter account, @StackExchange. It had been used intermittently/actually-not-at-all for several years,...
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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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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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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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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, in ...
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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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Science stack exchanges helping other science stack exchanges!
The Physics Meta promotes support for all Science sites on Stack Exchange, in this post. The same meta post is now on several other science SE Meta sites.
The Astronomy SE is one of the sites that has ...
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Community Policy Repository
This is the official repository for general community policy decisions.
On Posts
How do we handle questions with answers on other sites?
On Topics
Scope
Are astrophysics, cosmology, and theoretical ...
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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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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 ...
