Unanswered Questions
15 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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How to report spam of questions?
What to do when a user is asking the same question, with different words, every few days?
First there was a series of questions asking about events of extremely low probability, and some users ...
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Philosophical questions vs. questions about philosophical views
This seems pretty open-and-shut for some of the other SE sites, but I'm not quite familiar with how Philosophy.SE works yet so forgive me if this is a poor question or has been discussed previously (I ...
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Are moral dilemmas within the scope of philosophy stackexchange?
Are moral dilemmas within the scope of philosophy stackexchange?
Which philosophers would allow the rape of their lover, in order to lower the possibility of some global political evil?
If it's ...
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Are moderators etc. focusing on trying to get better questions, when they should be focusing on getting better answers?
Are moderators etc. focusing on trying to get better questions, when they should be focusing on getting better answers?
Seems to me that'd be a misallocation of resources.
I believe virmaior was the ...
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Deleting and re-asking the same question
There was this question.
The asker themself deleted it.
And then asked it again.
When I tried to flag it as duplicate, the system said Cannot flag a deleted entity as a duplicate.
Now it seems to me ...
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Am I missing active questions
At 23:48 GMT 16/04/24
Am I missing a disappearing (and reappearing) active question?
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What is answerability?
I invite a discussion about what identifiable characteristics an “answerable” question has - which ideally has some level of convergence amongst moderators and editors.
One obvious factor is, how many ...
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The “Is X justified/legitimate/reasonable?” question
Following up on my stated wish to collect recurrent question types, this post aims to focus on the question “Is X a good argument”?
Here is one example, please add more via edits or comments:
Is non-...
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Do you welcome attempts at creative questioning here or not?
Do you welcome attempts at creative questioning here or not? That's what I am trying to do, and I seem to have met a heap of hostility for it. Is it outside the remit of the site, at least for heavy ...
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Are there lower standards for what answers are not nonsense than there are questions?
Are there lower standards for what answers are not nonsense than there are questions? I feel the onus has been put on someone asking a question to show they know what they are talking about. That is ...
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Clear unambiguous questions vs asking someone to prove their question should be asked
Clear unambiguous questions vs asking someone to prove their question should be asked. Which are you looking for here?
The latter seems like a foolish errand (no I am not going to prove that, nor the ...
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Why are some questions paled out in the queue?
I noticed that some questions in the queue appear pale, for example How did Descartes made a logical skeptic argument... and Why aren't Kripke semantics "syntax in disguise"? It is similar ...
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https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/70435/what-is-a-both-sufficient-and-necessary-condition-for-not-treating-people-merely
I am trying to understand why the now editted question is still off-topic.
I am looking for a necessary and sufficient condition to classify some/any arbitrary treatment as a treatment merely as a ...
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Can we be as even handed and quick at reopening questions as we are at closing them?
Can we be as even handed and quick at reopening questions as we are at closing them?
I think that would sort out a vast amount of umbrage about high rep users.
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I have the answer: only upvotes on questions
What is the justification for having downvotes and not just close votes - on questions?
How can a question that fits within the remit of the site, have -ve value?
I'm not being facetious, I just don'...
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