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Is anybody out there?
Yes!
The community team is keeping an eye on things. Robert has a degree of finesse and warmth that positively can't be replicated or imitated and we know that's going to be missed, but we're going ...
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Asking open ended questions while still complying to SE guidelines
If they aren't too broad, IMO questions like this about open problems, or what technique to achieve a desired effect, etc. can be answered quite well within the guidelines. For instance, we can ...
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Can we have a Physical Science SE for people with low quality physics questions?
You are mixing up "low quality" and "simple".
Asking why the sky is blue is not necessarily a "low quality" question (for example), the quality of the question depends on how it was asked not it's ...
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Does Area 51 have quality bans?
Question and answer blocking was not implemented in the proposal process, and there are no plans to do so; it doesn't really make sense in that context (not without significant re-engineering). The "...
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Editorial line for a new Q&A site
Unfortunately, this isn't the purpose of a Stack Exchange site isn’t really a valid use case which we wish to pursue.
Somewhat related to this article (On proposals soliciting reviews, ...
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Why were these questions closed in Defintion?
You are correct that some of these questions may not technically be closed as an "exact duplicate" on the actual site — but for the purpose of presenting the strongest possible Definition for ...
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Why were these questions closed in Defintion?
Few suggestions.
Question: What programming languages can I use to create a smart contract?
It's a list question, see: What is the definition of a list question?
These kind of questions are ...
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How can I be more helpful on Area 51?
If you get enough rep you can do some minor moderation see Review but as you say not a lot of value added there as Robert takes care of most of it.
New site proposals that actually have a chance of ...
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Does Area 51 have quality bans?
Kind of, if you collect a lot of down votes you can lose abilities.
See Related Hypothetically, what if you fall below 25 rep? & How does a user with no activity get to 35 rep on Area51?
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Asking open ended questions while still complying to SE guidelines
I believe that this site should hold itself to the same standards as any SE site. But don't forget that the example questions are merely titles - there is only so much specificity that can fit in a ...
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Can we have a Physical Science SE for people with low quality physics questions?
Explicit low quality is a terrible thing. Even where there's different sites for different levels of knowledge, say ELU and ELL questions have to meet a minimum quality standard.
There is no ban ...
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible