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How does the topic of this site differ from Aviation, Electric Engineering and Robotics?
It differs in that it will have a concentration of people who can answer the questions. In my experience:
Aviation isn't much good at answering questions about the practical applications of ...
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Should questions asking for support for a specific software suite or firmware be on-topic?
This is a very good question. Personally, I feel the answer should be yes... in most cases. I think it is easy to agree that bug reports and associated issues with software packages should go on their ...
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What is a programming language?
This is Better Suited as a Meta Discussion Once the Site Launches
That's not to say this question is a valid question...hell, it's actually something that'll need to be defined pretty quickly once ...
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A mostly opinion-based site?
I disagree with your categorisation of these proposed questions, and I also disagree that your categorisation of them implies they are a bad fit for Stack Exchange.
Questions about design will always ...
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Overlap with The Workplace
Does Stack Exchange have a policy…
Yes, we do. See
Respect the community - your own, and others’
TL;DR version — if two (or more) communities overlap in scope, nobody is granted "...
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Should we allow ChatGPT generated example questions?
No. Stack Exchange is for solving real problems and answering real questions that people have. If a question was generated by an AI, that means that it's not actually a real question/problem that a ...
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How does Interpersonal Skills differ from the failed "Relatioships and Dating" site?
Interpersonal Skills is essentially more broad of a topic than what Relationships and Dating was scoped to, which was:
Q&A site for people seeking answers to questions about dating and
long-...
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A mostly opinion-based site?
Note: Your question is basically the same as this one so my answer will be very similar.
I see a danger but I think it can be avoided.
So I spend a lot of time on reddit and any sufficiently popular ...
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How does the topic of this site differ from Aviation, Electric Engineering and Robotics?
This is a good question. Rather than answering each part piecemeal, I think it's helpful to set up a comparison to Robotics alone.
Robotics (for general automation and control questions)
This is ...
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Overlap with The Workplace
The answer to your first question is no and the second is yes.
The overlap between Interpersonal Skills and Workplace don't seem to be bigger than that between Movies & TV SE and Science Fiction ...
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How does the topic of this site differ from Aviation, Electric Engineering and Robotics?
My concept for what this proposal would turn into if it passed into the beta stage is a forum where questions and resources which technically fall into the purview of other SE sites, like the ...
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Redefining Site in Beta
The community of Area 51 cannot answer whether the Music Fans site should expand the scope of their site. That question should be asked in their meta support (which looks like they already did).
The ...
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What is a programming language?
The "ML" in "HTML", "XML", etc. stands for Markup Language, and the "QL" in "SQL" stands for "Query Language". They make no claims to being ...
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What is a programming language?
For this purpose, I think it makes sense to open it fairly broadly to any language with a non-trivial notion of computation. In a sense that's sweeping the problem under the rug, because what exactly ...
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Should questions asking for support for a specific software suite or firmware be on-topic?
I would also want product specific questions to be considered as on topic for this new site.
IMHO, one goal of the site should be to help hobbyists and people new to the field to become familiar with ...
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Can we have a SE site for energy information system?
I am interested in this as well - I am an energy researcher for a non-profit and from our own research and discussion with colleagues, partners, academics, and funders there is a real need for a venue ...
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A mostly opinion-based site?
Mostly, but not detrimental
This is similar to kaya's answer, but I also thought it wouldn't hurt to answer your questions first question.
Firstly, design isn't an objective thing; it's different from ...
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What is a programming language?
"Programming language" is a prototype category. ALGOL is a programming language, lambda calculus is a programming language, Turing machines are a programming language... and things like them ...
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Should questions asking for support for a specific software suite or firmware be on-topic?
No, they should not be on-topic at this point in time.
What makes the difference between a good tool-specific question and one guaranteed to quickly go stale is the stability of the tool-set. Drone ...
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What benefits will Scratch.SE provide to the Scratch community above and beyond the official Scratch forum?
What is the advantage of a SE over a traditional forum?
SE's are more easily searchable, common questions are more easily resolved, and the best answers are shown before all the other answers.
Using ...
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How does Interpersonal Skills differ from the failed "Relatioships and Dating" site?
"Relationships and Dating" is a subset of "Interpersonal Skills." Or, if you prefer, this is a superset of the other.
The better questions from "Relationships and Dating" can be migrated here. The ...
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