Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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How to handle a user with multiple unregistered accounts posting low quality answers?
We appear to have a user that semi-regularly posts low quality answers (either lacking in sources or simply paraphrasing other answers). They seem to now operate under two different usernames (having ...
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Has the moderator's several rewrites of my question gone a little bit too far, and actually convert it into a conspiracy theory question I didn't ask?
Soon after I posted a question with the title "Why was the gunboat USS Panay in China’s Yangtze River circa 1933?" and within the body:
I'm curious why exactly it was there in 1933. I ...
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Is Wikipedia an acceptable source?
My question which emphasizes scientific consensus What is the latest scientific consensus on the peopling of the Americas? was answered with Wikipedia links. I submitted an edit to remove some of them ...
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How many times can a question be added to a reopen queue via editing?
There is a question on this site that was poorly received and closed 10 days ago. Since then, it was trivially edited a number of times, with the result that it has been added to the reopen queue 19 ...
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2024 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #2 on History has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:
They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering and ...
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The [astronomy] tag and the [eclipse] tag
A couple of days ago, I suggested that the following recent question have the astronomy tag added:
Why didn't eclipses cause mass vision damage in historical societies?
But this suggestion was ...
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2024 Community Moderator Election
The 2024 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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2024 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
History Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, 2024-...
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What could've been a 'correct question' for the following answer about how the UK, US, Japan & Australia are allies?
Re this When and how did X and Y become allies?
Essentially, I wanted to ask the relationship US, UK, Australia & Japan, Bobby Fischer's 'allies of evil' to counter George Bush Jr's 'axis of evil' ...
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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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Do we wish to request the AI warning banner as mentioned on Meta?
The meta site is promoting a banner which would be used to warn a prospective user that AI generated content is not permitted. It must be requested to be installed on a per site basis.
We’ve recently ...
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What to do with an old answer if I want to change it completely
This recent edition to a high votes answer is interesting:
What is the historical background of the current Ukraine crisis (2014)?
The most voted answer was edited by the user, saying:
"I re-...
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6-month ban, 1 question, banned again, why?
I endured a 6 month ban, then posted my first question in a long time in September. I was about to post a new question today just to discover I had been banned again.
It puzzles me because that ...
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Is it immoral to post a history-related photo like this one or not?
Honest question. There is no known photo of Homer Plessy, of Plessy v. Ferguson. The photo which often turns up in searches is absolutely not him; a case of mistaken identity now well documented.
I ...
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What's actually wrong here? Should we always avoid even mentioning or citing the present within a question post?
I've asked the following question (shown below) and two down votes and two close votes immediately appeared. So I (at least temporarily) deleted it and decide to explore the issue further here first.
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