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Deleting comment violating SE policies
This concerns the comments following my response to question Does Hamas have any leverage against Israel (other than the hostages)? I flagged a comment that referred to some of my assertion as ...
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Is there freedom of speech here? [duplicate]
Is there freedom of speech here?Just two or three biased votes are enough to deprive a person of his right to express himself. Is this sector a breeding ground for regional discrimination, or will the ...
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Should Memes be allowed in Questions?
This question - Why is the Muslim world focusing on Israel's conflict with the Palestinians, yet expresses virtually no interest in the Uighurs? - includes a meme in it. (I have also come across ...
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Is there a pattern explaining a high number of downvotes on my recent questions?
I'm aware that questions related to Israel-Palestine are often controversial, and I asked a few of these along the years. But in the past month I asked three questions which collected a particularly ...
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Should Politics SE posts conform to the IHRA suggestion and updated APStylebook regarding "antisemitism" vs "anti-Semitism"?
We now write antisemitism (n.), antisemitic (adj.), without a hyphen and with no capitalization.
This is a change from AP's previous style: anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic.
APStylebook, Apr 23, 2021
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Mods - Request to merge questions
This question - What is Antisemitism? - by a new member has repeatedly been closed, despite the reasonably good efforts made to revise it (trying to address the clarifications and concerns expressed ...
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What makes a question about political ideology opinion-based?
I am new here, therefore I would like to ask for pointers regarding this question.
The brutality of the oct 7 attack on Israel astonished me, and as more and more forensic evidence and testimonies ...
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How biased can sources be, before they aren't considered useful references here?
I've now seen several references to the The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center in the context of the Israeli/Hamas 2023 War to "buttress" claims of misdeeds by Hamas.
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What makes my question/answer helpful to someone I never met?
I wonder how does the algorithm in someone's mind determine if the question is helpful to him.
Perhaps user comes to the site to find answers to questions he heard about in the news. When he sees some ...
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Is some government monitoring this site?
Update: the images in posts hosted at i.stack.imgur.com are again not viewable. I suspect that they did it to punish me for this post.
i.stack.imgur.com, as well as imgur.com, had been blocked for ...
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Is it okay that this answer was deleted?
This answer was deleted. You'll only be able to see it if you have requisite privileges.
This is the revision history. The answer seems alright.
One problem is the irrelevant link, which might be why ...
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Can and should moderators delete comments with out moving them and notifying users?
A user very active on this site in the comments of this answer (https://politics.stackexchange.com/a/82516/28966) was, in my opinion, using and justifying ethnic cleansing euphemisms, and I called it ...
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What is the evidence for dimissing concerns about "citizen evidence" website?
While researching evidence for an earlier version of this question I found no evidence showing that that Amnesty International
considers "Citizen Evidence" to be its affiliate. I posted the ...
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Does Politics.SE have a problem with too many comments?
Does Politics.SE have an issue/challenge/problem with too many comments on some questions?
I am an outsider to the Politics.SE community. As someone who mostly reads but doesn't post, I've noticed a ...
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Discretion in Stack edge cases and best practices
The answers to this question seem to point to the history/politics cutoff being a discretionary thing, based on context. Some seem to believe that the discretion should be based on date. But it seems ...
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Answer deleted by moderator as "not an answer" -- but I think it is a good answer
I hope it's OK to ask on my own behalf here (what else with a narrower scope could I do to obtain a review of a moderator action?).
Philipp apparently cleaned up in the highly active question What is ...
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What is the canonical way to obtain a review of a moderator action
An answer of mine was deleted by a mod, and I'd like somebody (possibly the mod himself) to take a second look. The "Undelete" button does not work for mod-deleted posts.
What's the ...
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My question should be reopened because it was not a duplicate
The question needs to be reopened are: "Conflicting Egos: what groups of people tend to support the stabilizing of federal spending on personnel?"
and Why does no one stand up to protest the ...
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Is it hypocritical to force a subject as opinion-driven as "Politics" into a Stack Exchange format?
Is it hypocritical or self-contradicting to force a subject as opinion-driven as "Politics" into a Stack Exchange format?
The Stack Exchange Network is notoriously stringent about requiring ...
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Why was my comment offering a clarification deleted?
Yes, I know it is a common question here, and that comments are like temporary post-it notes. However, in general comments that are helpful and / or offer clarification are rarely deleted.
In the ...
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Was the Agora chat room always a stream of videos and articles that one user finds personally interesting, or is this a more recent characteristic?
In the last 12 days one user has posted 16 videos and over 50 article links that I suppose they think everyone should know about.
I would like to know how folks see the following:
Is this pretty much ...
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Is this a left-wing site? Be honest [duplicate]
Any users with familiarity with this website. Is it left- wing like Reddit, or more balanced like like quora?
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Why was my question about how Amazon's policies appear to abridge free speech guarantees in the first amendment considered not political?
I asked a question asking how Amazon's "punitive" policies "silenced" and repressed the free right speech guarantees in the first amendment and this was not considered a political ...
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How should we identify a Muslim?
Is there any contingent of Muslims who support the right to burn the Quran?
I wrote the above answer. In my answer, I said that, in order to identify a Muslim, we have to consult Islamic scriptures ...
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Why no love for Thailand('s politics)?
What all has to happen in post-2023 election Thailand before it can have a new prime minister? has 102 views, +0/-0 votes and has had a +200 bounty for four days already (I'd also given it a +100 ...
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Please, do not insist on using "Russia" instead of "the RF" or "The Russian Federation"
This has come up in discussing this question.
Originally I used the name "the RF" in the title because I was choosing between "the RF" and "the Russian Federation" and I ...
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What should be done with the [twitter] tag?
The are two questions using the twitter tag.
With the rebranding of Twitter to X, what should be done to the twitter?
While renaming the tag is a possibility, X, nee Twitter, is also a social-media ...
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What's the deal with a dozen users removed yesterday? [closed]
I don't care much about rep and users do delete their accounts all the time, but this struck me as a bit unusual. I don't recall ever seeing this many users deleted in one day.
Did I have a ...
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Why are moderators making political judgements?
I've made several contributions lately where moderators are becoming involved in arbitrating the political correctness of the contribution.
I've just had a positively-voted answer deleted which ...
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Why aren't disparaging remarks towards political outgroups treated as rude?
I've noticed that my flagging history on politics.SE has a quite low acceptance rate. In particular, I currently show a total of 6 "rude or abusive" flags, all of which have been declined.
I ...
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Did you erase the comments pointing out that Wagner is a terrorist organization?
Were my comments to this question, pointing out that comparisons between Blackwater and Wagner are entirely inappropriate get erased? Those were my reasons for voting to close the question, which is ...
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Deletion of my answer to the question "Why do people believe that if Putin ceases to be Russian president, the Russo-Ukraine war will cease?"
My answer to the question "Why do people believe that if Putin ceases to be Russian president, the Russo-Ukraine war will cease?" was deleted by moderator with this explanation:
This is not ...
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How far back in history do political history questions "on topic" for this site? [duplicate]
Seeing that political history is "on topic" based on this answer, how far back in history is "on topic" before making the question more suitable for History.SE?
For example:
A ...
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Can I repost content from a deleted answer?
I was going to answer a question when I noticed that a heavily downvoted answer already included part of my answer. So as to not duplicate the efforts and reposting the same information, I too ...
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How can I pose a Specific Situation in Politics, where the desired solution is a Political Strategy?
I'm interested in posing a relatively narrow but detailed, real problem from the sphere of politics and asking users to answer it with a political strategy that could successfully address or advance ...
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Should accusations of being a *Russian sympathiser* be treated as *unfriendly or unkind*?
Should accusations of being a Russian sympathiser be treated as unfriendly or unkind? What is the current moderation policy in this respect?
Here is an example taken from one of the threads that I was ...
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What is the point of comments like "Doesn't answer the question."?
From time to time I see comments like
Doesn't answer the question.
At best such comments are useless, since they do not explain what is the problem with the question - the same point is sufficiently ...
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Sincere, honest, open-minded question closed as "not good faith"
My question about California's policy re: Trinity Lake reservoir function was closed with "not good faith" etc. However, I have not used any partisan sources nor unfounded assertions.
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Country != State. Right?
I see a lot of answers conflating countries - geographical units, areas, places - with the states governing those countries. Example: Great Britain is a country (although, arguably, an island with the ...
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What do we do with an older question when subsequent events make it counterfactual?
For example: Why doesn't a conservative majority SCOTUS repeal Roe v. Wade?
It was originally asked back in 2014, and I think that it was a perfectly reasonable question to ask at the time. But then ...
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Should we define capitalism and communism?
I think this community could benefit defining precisely the use of terms like Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism. These terms are often used in their colloquial/intuitive sense, i.e.,
capitalism is ...
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Why is my question off-topic?
The question In what sense did Trump put a notch on his belt? was originally posted on ELU (not by me) with a language connotation, then I decided to post it here because I wondered if the expression “...
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Should a [military-spending] tag be created?
Recently, a question was asked that added a military-spending tag. I changed the tag because I felt that the addition of such a tag should be discussed here, on Meta, due to the number of questions ...
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No [westminster] is better than a bad [westminster]?
The westminster has only 8 questions but they seem to cover different topics.
Few are about the Westminster system of government:
Is regular Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) something unique to ...
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Tag guidance for using [icc] vs [international-court]?
I noticed the icc and international-court are used somewhat interchangeably on recent questions about the ICC warrant for President Putin.
I wonder what the tag guidance should be so these tags are ...
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What is to be done when an accepted answer is factually wrong?
The accepted answer for this question - Would killing ISIS journalists be considered a war crime? If so, could ISIS use the ICC? - is wrong as I've pointed out in the comment. What is to be done for ...
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Should the [bri] be burninated
A newbri tag was recently added to 8 questions and it appears to be about a "Belt and Road Initiative" in China. Personally I am of the mind that this tag is very unclear as to what it means ...
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Increase negative score threshold for questions to get into active feed
Questions on Stack Exchange scoring some number of downvotes are not getting into active feed. Guess there are reasons why it´s so, but the question is not about it. The problem is once your question ...
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Why were my comments under this answer deleted?
My comments under this answer have been deleted without explanation. The top comment under the answer says that comments have been moved to chat, but I don't see mine there. If they were deemed ...
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Is it acceptable to use posts and comments to further one's political agenda?
Is Politics.SE a place where it is acceptable to further one's political agenda?
For example, am I allowed to:
Ask a question of the format:
...Trump's policies are all designed to benefit the ...
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