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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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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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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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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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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Reputation graph shows upwards plot, but the value is stuck at 1 - Bug?
This is about this user: https://space.stackexchange.com/users/22203/phil1008. If you go to Activity dashboard, you will see the reputation graph has an upward plot, but the rep value is stuck at 1.
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Three users voted to deleted an answer that I was working to improve while I was discussing improvements with another user. Please help!
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I posted an answer that was factual and provided evidence that misinformation was being perpetuated by tweets that Elon Musk made, which led the person asking the question to make an ...
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If you attended TASTI 2023, which talks might you find particularly interesting/informative?
TASTI 2023 (Taiwan International Assembly of Space Science, Technology, and Industry) runs all next week in Taipei. There will be many talks - some days have several parallel sessions. (keynote ...
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10th anniversary of Space.SE!
It turns out we, The Final Frontier, https://thefinalfrontier.stackexchange.com , more commonly known as the Space Exploration Stack Exchange, are turning 10 years old! This summer we hit that huge ...
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Do we have any way to note, record or collect errors/problems/omissions/potential improvements to Space Exploration-related Wikipedia pages?
I was browsing Wikipedia's Stack Exchange; Notable users; Other notable scientists and mathematicians and saw at least one familiar Space SE user Anders Sandberg but saw that prolific/notable Mark ...
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