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Aristocratic Jack profiles
I wanted to call attention to a recently-downvoted user likely being related to previous ones. I don't believe the following list is exhaustive.
from months ago, no scores above zero
from two days ...
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Should the how-much-fuel-for-round-trip question have been closed?
In this question (How much fuel does the SpaceX HLS need to do a round trip? Want to estimate the number of launches needed to refuel HLS) the user asks this community for help estimating the amount ...
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Does SE's intolerance of opinion result in McNamara Fallacy?
Recently, two SE questions have been closed (or recommended they be closed) because they “could be answered by opinions”.
I understand (and whole heartedly agree) that SE wants answers supported by ...
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Edit to this question vastly improved the question but invalidated all the answers that had been posted
Subject question: When will we land on other planets in our solar system?
This, as posted, was a bad question asking for future predictions and was rightfully being closed. However, 3 rather lengthy ...
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Can Stackexchange see my email?
I recently created an account on Stackexchange and am concerned that Stackexchange has personal information. I needed to share my email to create this account. I do not want to get spam on my email ...
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Should we do anything for answers on duplicate questions?
This answer was added during a close-as-duplicate vote. There's some discussion of the answer in the comments; some of that is just how we typically receive the idea central to the answer here, but ...
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How have I earned 7 “Yearling” badges in the last 4 years?
I made my account on this site about 7.5 years ago, but my first rep-earning activity (aside from association bonus) was in October of 2021. How then, have I managed to get 7 copies of the “Yearling” ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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Moving comments to chat
I would like to have a discussion about the practice of "moving comments to chat".
I understand that it is a useful tool which can be used to promote the "purity" of the SE Q&A ...
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Can a delay be added to the votes in the queue?
There was this question which was in the queue of first question. I accidently clicked on "Looks ok". This was a mistake and I didn't mean to click this.
Since people always make a mistake ...
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Is a question really "Only One Question"?
In a comment on my answer to this question, a commenter said...
"Naturally people disagree about these kind of things, but if we credibly read the OP as being only one question (as the site ...
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When is it OK for a moderator to delete an answer on SE Space Exploration?
We have voting and comments for addressing most issues with answer quality. Deleting is a "super power" reserved for mods. There is also "Voting to Delete" - a power that trusted ...
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Why was the answer to the "how-did-20-radio-observatories-track-balloons" question just deleted?
This is baffling. The answer was a high quality response that would be valuable to lots of people. It had one up vote and zero down votes. I can see no reason for a mod to swoop in and delete it ...
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What happened with this answer (downvoted, mod-edited/improved, bountied (reward existing answer) and then mod-deleted?
This answer to "Alternative small mass payload transportation from the moon to L5 besides rail gun and mass driver?" was initially substantially down voted, probably in part because it was ...
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I just wrote up a new answer to this question that I'm sure will meet the communities guidelines. But the site rejected it. Can I please be unbanned?
I have a question about my Space Exploration Stack Exchange post: Is a railgun up Olympus Mons possible?
The error I'm getting is "Sorry, we are no longer accepting answers from your account ...
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