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How early is too early to answer a question evaluating a person or policy?
A user recently posted this question asking about what steps President Biden has taken so far to address climate change: On what steps from ecology plan have Joe Biden's administration already made ...
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When should a macro-economics post be posted here as opposed to economics stack exchange?
Questions on macroeconomics are in scope both here on Politics and also on Economics:
See also:
Notice: Macroeconomics is officially in scope
Politics vs Economics
https://economics.stackexchange.com/...
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When are questions about flag identification on-topic?
Recently, a new user posted a question asking to identify a specific flag they saw in a documentary.
While the question was answered, and stands at +7/-1, it accumulated 3 close votes as: "This ...
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Can “What did they say” be off-topic?
The linked question was closed as off-topic.
It simply asked what Trump said on twitter before the content was deleted.
Like it or not (for either reason) Donald Trump is for a few more days the ...
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Are overly specific questions on-topic here?
For example, I have queries regarding a specific US Senate special election in Alabama in the 1930s? Specifically, I hope to get more information on the candidates and their vote shares.
Can I check ...
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Are public officials' or politicians' reactions to current events off topic?
Rather than fight this issue over every other question like that that gets posted (my own included), can we have a straw poll here?
Q: Are public officials' or politicians' reactions to current ...
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Which questions belong to Law.SE and which to Politics.SE? [duplicate]
Laws are the results of decisions by politicians, so they are inherently political. But we also have a website law stackexchange.
How do I tell if my question belongs on Politics.SE or Law.SE?
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How to ask beginner-level questions on political theory or science?
Politics SE was a tough nut to crack for me because I mostly participate in Math and Science related sites.
So far I have been able to ask "explain the news" and "did this happen" ...
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Should questions asked using “present tense” in past that have different situations now be edited to make them “past tense”?
I came across this question: Why China is blocking ban on Notable Terrorist Masood Azhar?
It was asked about a year ago and the context was right then. At present, the situation is different. I am not ...
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What are some respectful ways of making old and outdated questions visible?
I have gone through several old questions over the last two days.
Some of those have some problems:
Didn't have good answers. Those questions might be answered better now.
Some were outdated. As of ...
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Edit rejected. No deviation from original intent
I suggested an edit to the only answer to my question Is there any good evidence for institutional racisms in the United States?.
The edit got rejected by user "JJ for transparency and Monica&...
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How can we handle questions that are dynamic and change over time?
Some questions are asked about concrete situation at a moment of time. For example What has trump accomplished in his first term?.
As long as situation changes, answers may fade out.
Maybe such "...
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Is a source necessary for a publicly-verifiable fact? [duplicate]
There's a question concerning an alleged waning of Trump support with a top-rated answer - this top-rated answer goes into detail about the reasoning around why support for Trump is waning, but does ...
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Please VTD “questions” that are blog posts about Covid-19
I won't name a particular user here, although I do have one in mind as the prime example, but as general note: some users turn their questions (sometimes after they are answered) into [fairly long] ...
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What's the question with the most downvotes here that nevertheless was not closed (nor deleted)?
When asking this meta-question, I'm motivated by the recent "Is Donald Trump a fascist?" (currently +17 / -14) and also by "Why is the US so politically right-wing?" (+9 / -7 right now). But the first ...
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Should we use +5 instead of +10 if this becomes possible in the future?
Stack Exchange has decided to raise question upvote from +5 to +10 and applied it to all communities, including the private ones. I image that this one implemented like this because it was much ...
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Should we have a standard dupe for “Can the president be impeached for doing X?”
The answer is always yes (in theory), unless the question is actually asking for historical examples for the particular X.
I'm not sure what the best generic dupe would be though. Perhaps an answer ...
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Should we start requiring users to register before they can post questions?
Recently we've been hit by a wave of extremely low-quality questions, mostly from unregistered accounts. A few examples (all deleted):
https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/46883/does-fascist-...
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Should we openly require that obvious-to-experts terms be clarified/defined?
So, I ran into a comment today with +6 score:
Please define your terms: Demonetizing, black money and how it relates to higher denomination notes.
This is on a question about Modi's demonetizing ...
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What ensures that below zero question ratings on Politics Stack Exchange aren't politically motivated? [closed]
Are there ways of formulating a question title so that it will be more likely to be of no interest to anyone who would be likely to be displeased by the body of the question?
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Why was my question removed from the HNQ?
My famous question "Why are Kinder Surprise Eggs illegal in the USA?" became a hot network question, but the next day a moderator had removed it from the HNQ, which is irreversible.
So, why was my ...
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Is a question innately political just because it involves a politician?
Questions such as this question about golf or (possibly slightly more controversially) this question regarding pronouns don't appear to be have a solid connection to politics and the political process ...
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Is asking about the political expertise of politicians or Politics SE users in scope?
Is a question that asks to estimate the level of political expertise or political talent of a political leader of the past or present necessarily so opinion-based that it must be put on hold?
What if,...
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Closure of Qatar question on their policy to pay western sources
This question was closed because according to some:
Questions asking for the internal motivations of people, how specific individuals would behave in hypothetical situations or predictions for ...
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A full and objective description of good faith?
I've noticed a number of recent trend where both moderators are deleting and I am voting to close questions and answers on grounds that they were not written in "good faith".
Examples include:
As a ...
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What should we do with the “why” questions?
We often get "why isn't X a case" questions, especially for USA.
The problem with most1 such questions is that they are really two questions in one:
"Why isn't there a law for X"?
Which has one, ...
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Is a question on campaign contributions on-topic?
I visited the help center, and reviewed on-topic and off-topic subject matters. My apologies, but I am still not clear about the subject of campaign contributions.
I would like to determine three ...
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Should I be shy about making significant edits to improve a question? [duplicate]
If someone posts a very biased question that is likely to be quickly closed but I can see a way to heavily change the question to be objective (while preserving some of the intent) should I do so?
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Should we encourage 'explain in very simple terms' questions?
Questions explaining a subject in simple terms
The title may be a bit ambiguous, but I recently came across the following questions:
How to explain the E.U. to a 5 year-old
How to explain the ...
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How does 42 add up to -3?
I gave a seemingly simple straight-forward answer and got +44 points and -2 points for it. Yet the answer has rested at -3. How is that possible? How does the math work to generate more positive ...
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Are there double standards for pushy questions, exemplified by two recent ones on nuke power?
From the current HNQ darling of the echo bunnies
Why does the new green deal push for green energy but not for nuclear energy?
(united-states / environmental-policy / nuclear-energy)
It seems strange ...
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Can we declare motivations off topic?
We have quite a few questions that ask about the hidden, unstated, or ulterior motives of a policy or action.
Some quick examples:
Why US has a biased approach towards Shia Terrorists
Why World is ...
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Should we encourage questions to be rewritten in nonpartisan terms?
This question seems to have actually just been after the view of Amnesty International in the United States, but since the question implied a perceived liberal bias in the country's views on the topic ...
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Personal scandals topple leaders and the ambitious so why close gossip/scandal questions?
Somebody just asked Why did Jemima Goldsmith divorce Irman Khan?, which at least 4 closers feel is too low a question for Politics.SE -- their rationale is probably quite idealistic or academic. (...
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Recommendations for Yes/No questions that can only be definitively answered for one outcome?
I've noticed several questions that have a similar pattern, and I'm interested to get opinions on how they should be handled or possibly improved. Basically, they are questions seeking to know if some ...
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How do I ask a great political theory question?
We have almost 200 political-theory questions. These questions focus on political theory, whether that be moral philosophy (ethical) questions or ones that involve scientific theory.
My experience ...
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Is it acceptable to make your own question which is similar to a subjectively worded question instead of making a hard edit to that question?
I saw this question and thought about how I could improve it into an on topic objective question. I ended up writing this question as a separate question. Was that an appropriate course of action? The ...
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Is it acceptable to ask questions with obvious answers as a means of improving the community?
I've been somewhat active in the Politics.SE community for a few weeks now. I have personally learned a lot from my short time here and would very much enjoy seeing the community grow. One possible ...
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Should naive, but technically correct questions be closed?
During close review process I came across this question and I did not know what to do (I skipped it): it sounds kind of silly (thus many downvotes), but it seems to be technically correct (it is about ...
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If an unsatisfactory answer inspires comments by others that taken as a whole answer the question, should I mark it as answered?
Consider an answer that's only partially satisfactory, but neglects some essential factor. Comments ensue, which resolve the neglected factor, so that the answer and comments, when taken as a whole, ...
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Do we consider opinions on which facts have the most weight as “facts” or “opinions”?
I am really confused as to how this question can be anything but an invitation to opine.
Controversial topics generally have facts supporting both sides of an argument. A controversy arises out of ...
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Should StackOverflow question quality standards also apply for politics questions?
When hovering the upvote button, it says that "This question shows research effort; it is useful and clear". On StackOverflow this usually means MCVE. Also, at least one attempt to solve the problem ...
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Are requests for off-site resources on-topic here?
I flagged this question as off-topic: New Jersey budget plan with the reason:
This question does not appear to be about governments, policies and political processes within the scope defined in the ...
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Question asked day does not match real ask day
I have noticed a strange discrepancy between asked info (e.g. today) and the actual day when the question was asked:
The snapshot was taken at about 11:40AM (GMT+2). Initially I thought about asked ...
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How to ask a question section on Politics?
I am wondering if Politics.SE should have a section similar to How to ask from Stackoverflow.
I have seen that many persons reviewing there are linking to this page when explaining what is wrong with ...
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Does the title of a question, have to be a question?
I wrote a question (Is there any evidence that Filipino president Duterte's war on drugs is successful?) before and made the title "Philippines: President Duterte's war on drugs" and then @...
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Do we “only accept questions where answers can be objectively judged as correct or incorrect”?
A mod said that this site "only accepts questions where answers can be objectively judged as correct or incorrect".
https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/18474/was-trump-one-of-the-usas-most-...
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Is this question kosher here?
Is the following question kosher here?
I have read that incarcerated adults in the U.S. make up roughly 1% of the adult population, and the number of adults on probation or parole is approximately 2%....
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Can pre-text change whether a question is on-topic?
Question presented
On this site, can the pre-text/context/background to a question determine whether it is on-topic or off-topic?
Example
In this meta question the accepted answer says that this is ...
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Are Identification questions on topic here?
Lets say that I was looking at a picture from a recent, significant political affair and I noticed a particularly dapper-looking fellow. Given his location in crowd, I believe that it is safe to ...
