Questions tagged [discussion]
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What do people think about "basic" animal sounds questions?
Proposal: Bioacoustics
I know I've had some internal discussions with colleagues with supporters of this proposal about this, but I thought I'd open it up to larger discussion here (and since we have ...
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History repeats itself (sometimes)
Proposal: Solana
This proposal for Solana was opened almost directly after the other one (proposed by the same user) was closed for widespread voting fraud. Is there any historical precedence for this?...
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Why were sites in other languages accepted before?
A while back, a staff member posted this answer, saying that sites in other languages are no longer accepted. When
I contradicted the two points mentioned, the writer of the answer told me (and I ...
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Why was a proposal for a non-English site closed, based on a policy from 6 years ago?
Yesterday, some of us had an idea about a cooking site for non-English users. Although there is a site for English-speaking users about cooking, Spanish-speaking users can't use it, since the cultural ...
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What constitutes flagging a proposal?
What merits flagging, or potentially closing a proposal?
Here is the context of my asking this question:
On the Elrond proposal on Area 51 main, I am considering flagging it. This is because of the ...
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Site Proposal: Rubik's cubing
I'd like to propose a site for Rubik's Cubing. This site is mainly intended for avid Rubik's Cube enthusiasts, but people who want help with their cubing skills can visit and utilize the site's ...
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Why is Area 51 NOT counted as a valid site for the commitment phase?
Proposal: Synthetic Biology (But this applies to all proposals in commitment)
I committed to the Synthetic Biology proposal on Area 51 (see above) and noticed that in the commitment statistics, it ...
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Would I lose the reps if the proposal where I asked questions gets closed someday?
Would I lose the reps which I gained by posting questions in proposals which get closed someday?
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Should I ask off-topic questions?
From FAQ of Area 51:
Off-topic questions are important, too
If you have a good, useful question in mind, but aren't completely sure that it's on topic, ask it anyway; others can then discuss the ...
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Is it OK to build a site for confused users?
I wonder what if there is a site that helps confused users to know if their not-yet posted questions is on-topic or off-topic in their site of interest.
I mean if they can't find it out from reading ...
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Would an Urban Exploration site be violating any laws?
I have noticed that the Pickpocketing proposal was (for obvious reasons) not well received. While I suppose that urban exploration does not necessitate breaking any laws, I know it often involves ...
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Has anyone studied other potential Area51 criteria, that might be a better indication of a site's potential success?
I have looked at some of the most recent proposals that managed to survive the gruelling Area 51 processes. I will use the short form: q/d = questions/day (I'm trying to fit everythin on one line each)...
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Could a large number of supporters help offset a <100 number of commiters with >200 rep?
Proposal: Drones and Model Aircraft
Going forward, I'm afraid this proposal is in a difficult spot. As is evident from the general support and self-reported demographics present on the proposal page, ...
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Reputation Thresholds for Beta Sites
Current (crude) measurements of an "Excellent" number of core users consist of
150 users with 200+ rep
10 users with 2k+ rep
5 users with 3k+ rep.
In light of the new reputation changes for ...
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Ability to make your own stack sites
For example at another domain like stack.com: For smaller companies/ local regions: The ability to start your own stack project: Something like myproject.stack.com
As an example would be the Code ...
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Can I submit a proposal for a product still in development? (Proposing too early)
If I have a product that is in some sort of state which that it's not fully developed, should I propose a site about it?
To me it sounds like it could be a bad idea for the reason that since the ...
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A "translation exchange" site?
Sometimes, you find a complex piece of text in a language you don't speak - or do speak, but not well enough for poetry, or metered prose, or an archaic / high-brow dialect etc - or perhaps the ...
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I don't have enough rep, how can I see whether something has already been proposed on Area51?
I wanted to discuss the expansion of a proposal's scope but before doing that I wanted to see whether the topics I'd like to include in the scope expending were already proposed on Area51.
I read ...
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Stack site for AWS (Amazon Web Services)?
I have been thinking that AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a massive technology and maybe deserves its own site. I want to start a discussion to see if we should just let AWS be discussed in Stack sites ...
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Seeding our proposal with "Frequently Asked Questions"?
We are a large community and think we have what it takes get Stack Exchange proposal through Area 51 and to Beta Launch.
Most of our community is not familiar with Stack Exchange, but we do have a ...
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Is anyone interested in creating a Q&A for Greek language & Usage? [duplicate]
I think that the Greek would make a good addition to the Stack Exchange culture.
In my opinion, Greek is a rich language and there are also some schools in various countries which teach Greek to ...
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Can the moderator-only faq tag be added to Area 51 meta?
There are 2 sites in the SE network that have the faq moderator tag and the faq-proposed tag (Meta Stack Overflow and Meta Stack Exchange). Area 51 does have a small faq, but it's really just the tour ...
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Why Was The Name Area51 Chosen? [duplicate]
I love the name Area51, but I keep wondering what the thinking was behind naming a proposal site after a top secret military base famous for allegedly harbouring recovered UFOs!
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Would Area51 Be More Effective Without Down Votes?
NOTE: I have seen other similar questions, but they weren't clear or informative, with no clear direction of what they were trying to achieve. This question is also a different spin to some degree.
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When can "example questions" be answered?
My understanding is that there are a limited number of things a user can do for those to whom I send a link to my proposal.
Get an SE account (Yay!)
Follow It for our proposal (Yay!)
Ask new example ...
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Why are some frameworks marked as duplicates while others are allowed to be thier own site?
Yesterday, I tried to create the "Laravel" site and it got flagged as a duplicate. But yet there are other frameworks such as "Wordpress" & "Drupal" who got their own SE site. So what is the ...
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The Bone Yard. Question limbo, SE Rule boot camp, or low-quality purgatory. A place where questions go to die?
I propose a SE site that any answer or question is on topic and never closed or put on hold.Unlike other sites the commonality of these question will be that they need work. This will give th OP the ...
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Are meta-questions which link to deleted sites autodeleted?
I recently asked a meta question which linked to several site proposals. One of those proposals was deleted and the meta question was also marked deleted by the Community user. Was this automatic as ...
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Is Lighting Design proposal a duplicate of Electrical Engineering SE?
Proposal: Lighting Design
Lighting design primarily includes electrical designing of chips, and fixing them on boards, coupled with led lights, which glow and create thousands of patterns.
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How are spam content in commitments handled?
A user by the username 25887 committed to my proposal and added a link in the text field. After inspecting the link I found out that it takes me to some online store or something selling an insect ...
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Why is this question not shown up on its proposal?
This question, Network-related tags on existing sites, does not shown up in its proposal, Complex Networks, regardless of its score of 4. Why is that?
Proposal: Complex Networks
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Is cross-posting a question on multiple proposals permitted?
Normally cross-posting is not allowed (or discouraged) on SE network, however I think Area 51 has a different case. The questions here aim to define the scope of proposals and most of the time we don'...
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Red color gives feeling that an error has occured when closing an example question
Closing an example questions makes red pop-up to show how many more users left.It gives feeling that error as received.
This should be changed to different color like: If needs 4 more users , color = ...
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Rushed proposals and Community Moderation
According to this question the advancement from definition to commitment is completely automated. That is of course a very reasonable thing to do for proposals that reach the commitment stage in the ...
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Is Area51 still insecure?
I know SE is going through updating their sites to secure pages, so I guess I'm just raising awareness that I encountered an Insecure Connection warning for the following domain:
discuss.area51....
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What questions will be on-topic at Google?
Proposal: Google
Earlier this year, there had been a question asking "What will be the main contents of 'Google'?". From this, we got an answer coming to the conclusion that Google does not have a ...
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Wrong description in Area 51 achievement? [duplicate]
Recently I fulfilled my Area 51 commitment for a new site. Also, some referred users did so. Here's my reputation page with the data for March/01 expanded.
I believe it must be the other way round:
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Is there a way to graph the commitment score of a proposal?
I did found a bunch of information about when the proposal turn from 100% commitment to beta, usual information is Tuesday of Wednesday the week after the proposal gets at 100%.
That's absolutely fine,...
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Can we have a Physical Science SE for people with low quality physics questions?
I have many questions dealing with Physics, but these questions were considered low quality contributions by Physics SE. I got my account suspended by them for 30 days on Christmas and when I was let ...
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Operating Systems Development
My proposal for creating a hobby OS Dev SE was closed as a duplicate of computer science SE.
While I certainly don't agree with that, what should I expect to happen for proposing the same site but ...
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Merge to "Arms & Armor?"
Proposal: Safe & Secure
I like this proposal, but perhaps due to too much exposure to old RPGs my brain keeps on trying to autoreplace "Safe & Secure" with "Arms & Armor." Which leads me ...
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What to we need to do to help this proposal succeed?
Proposal: Geography
From my limited observations - the previous iteration of this proposal ran out of steam, then ran out of time.
What can we do to ensure that this proposal sees success?
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Can ask patents be referred back to Area 51?
The ask patents subsite has almost died out. I don't think there is a way to intrinsically revive it, if it were a question, I'd say it needs severe moderator intervention. Out of the last 15 ...
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Difference between complex networks as science of ecosystems rather than a branch of physics portal?
Complex networks can be described as a sub-area of physics and mathematics, where you study how things entangle with each other.
After Barabasi and Newman (in my personal point of view) complex ...
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How will Literature be run different this time?
I just found that there's an attempt to revive Literature. As a follower and temp mod of the last attempt, I'm curious as to how this go around will be treated differently. The old one started off ...
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Darknet vs. I2P
Proposals: Darknet, I2P
The I2P proposal, proposed two months ago and currently in commitment phase, appears like a natural subset of the Darknet posposal from one month ago which is currently in its ...
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Etiquette regarding cross-semination of proposals and S.E.s
I read a post (from 2012) recently in the Linguistics meta that "...The users that committed cannot talk about them in existing sites at the moment....".
Before that, I had been going to consider a ...
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What does 'answered' stat in Beta of any website indicate?
What does the below stat for a beta website indicate?
Accepted answers percentage? Or
Percentage of questions with answers?
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Are questions about other CryptoNote coins on-topic?
Proposal: Monero
As far as I understand it the Bitcoin stackexchange site is open to questions from all coins that are based on Bitcoin's source code.
Does this proposal plan to allow questions ...
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