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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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Should we have a "back it up" rule for answers?
I've asked my first question on Politics today, and I'm not very happy with the first couple of answers that I received. Don't get me wrong, both answers are helpful, I appreciate the answerers' time &...
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Help! I am being oppressed! Why do people keep downvoting my opinions?
I came to this website, just wanting to exercise my freedom of speech rights and tell everyone my opinion about [issue]. But people keep downvoting my questions and answers. Is this website ...
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Be more responsible with your votes
I was browsing the flags queue today when I came across the following answer to the following question:
https://politics.stackexchange.com/a/19474
That answer is nothing more than a sarcastic ...
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Why did the question "Is President Donald Trump a racist?" get closed?
On March 4th, a user posted the question "Is President Donald Trump a racist?". Moderator Philipp closed this question a few minutes later with the reason "Promotes or discredits a ...
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What custom close reasons should we have?
Update: The two most upvoted close reasons have now been enabled. Let's see how they work out in practice. We re-added the auto-generated "not about [site-topic] as described in the help-center&...
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What measures are taken to protect the site from propaganda posts during the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine?
As you certainly noticed, there is currently a war going on in Ukraine. As you know, the first victim in every war is the truth. Organized and unorganized actors will fight online to control the ...
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What is a "push question"?
I've seen the term used, multiple times, in comments, as a reason to close a question, and in general I do not disagree with the closure. However, the official reason for the closure is never because &...
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Is political history within the scope of the site?
Political history is on topic on our sister site, History Stack Exchange, and questions about it are mainly under these two tags:
political-history
politics
A category of questions being on topic ...
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How does "Primarily Opinion-Based" work on this site?
I am new here and I’d like to understand how you define a POB issue on a site that focus on politics.
Politics by definition is a matter of personal ideas and opinions, at least in countries where ...
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Should we allow questions where we are attempting to apply the term "fascist" to a modern political figure?
Related to Why are we closing questions for being susceptible to opinion on a site about politics? but focused on a broader question raised by it.
We have this question about Donald Trump, which is ...
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Adding Law and Economics as question migration targets in Closing -> Off-topic -> Migration
When trying to close an offtopic question, I see only the following option:
belongs on meta.politics.stackexchange.com discussion, support, and
feature requests for this site
From various ...
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Would Focusing more on Political Science improve the site?
This site is nearly moribund, especially when compared to active SEs. The number of questions that gets asked and answered every day is well below the number that would be necessary for a thriving ...
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How to handle open-ended questions seeking opinion based answers
It is inevitable that questions like these will come up:
What are the disadvantages of first-past-the-post electoral systems?
What are the advantages/disadvantages of a mandatory voting system?
How ...
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If, (and only if), there were professional trolls and moles here, what if anything should be done?
OFF TOPIC note: This question is hypothetical, therefore comments and answers disputing its hypothesis are off topic. That is, while the question of "Are there actually any trolls and moles here?" ...
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Do we really want to tolerate personal attacks and antisemitism here?
We have a user here who frequently engages in personal and antisemitic attacks against other users. They have very few answers or questions, their only purpose on this site seems to be to spread hate ...
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Notice: Macroeconomics is officially in scope
Having spoken with the awesome Jon Ericson, I can officially state that the proposal to put questions of macroeconomics in scope is the consensus among the Community Managers.
To wit:
I talked ...
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Should we change the help center to mention that Political Theory is on-topic?
We have a number of questions tagged political-theory. They are generally questions with some philosophic component. They are not questions about any actual government, policy, process, group, etc.
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When should we remove a question from the Hot Network Question list?
As you might have read in the recent global meta announcement, moderators now have the option to manually remove a question from the Hot Network Questions list.
Should Politics Stack Exchange make ...
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Please reword the "good faith" close reason
We recently changed the custom close reasons, and one of them reads:
The primary purpose of this question appears to be to promote or discredit a specific political cause, group or politician. It ...
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Troll questions lately from single-use accounts
I've noticed a string of questions from single-use accounts that are generally either ill-informed or offensive.
The ones I can see from my meager 123-rep account:
Is fascism an older, less liberal ...
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Cutoff between Politics and History
At which time point the questions belongs to the History, and not to the Politics stackexchange?
Is there a particular cutting point, for example 1989/91?
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Are requests for references on-topic?
Some SE sites seem to dislike requests for references.
Are we considering the following two questions on-topic:
What is a good book which covers in-depth topic XYZ [from ABC angle]?
Seems like very ...
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Where/how do we draw the line between legal and political questions?
Are questions about the functioning of the state political? They might be either political or legal. For example, would it be on-topic to ask:
Is action X by president Y unconstitutional?
or
Do ...
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Declined flag on an egregiously sexist and passive aggressive answer?
Here's some highlights from a post I recently flagged as rude or abusive.
The closest parallel I can find is the Clinton/Lewinsky affair. No, that wasn't conduct becoming of a president (certainly ...
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Why do we need references?
Back in 2012, it was established that answers on Politics.SE need to be backed up with references. I am all for that, but I cannot properly explain why that is the case. I regularly ask users to back ...
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Are antisemitic conspiracy theories against policy?
I flagged this answer as "rude or abusive". The flag reason states:
A reasonable person would find this content inappropriate for respectful discourse.
The linked policy states:
Bigotry of any ...
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Strange removal of a decent answer
The only answer provided to this question (also automatically removed, so now it is accessible to 2K users only) was "hammered" by a moderator.
However, the question had and has a good score and ...
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Are give-me-data-only questions on topic?
I was looking at this question earlier
Sortable table or spreadsheet with full, detailed 2017 UK General Election results for every constituency
And couldn't fit it within any of the following 3 ...
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What degree of rewriting is acceptable in attempting to salvage a "not constructive" question?
I just did a complete rewrite of this question, in an attempt to bring it into line with acceptable standards for politics.se.
IMO the original was a barely-disguised rant, and subsequent edits did ...
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How should I ask a question regarding a celebrity's political stance?
Title says most of it. The original question was put on hold and then deleted without comments on anything, which I consider to be pretty bad form.
As celebrity endorsements are certainly part of the ...
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LOTS of comments being deleted
I'm see a whole lot of comments being deleted in this SE site compared to most of the rest. I can only offer my opinion, but I find that a turn off. Politics is going to naturally be a chatty area of ...
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What is the rationale for the "question ban" for user guest271314?
You have reached your question limit
Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account. See the Help Center to
learn more.
How can I get out of a question ban?
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Why are we closing questions for being susceptible to opinion on a site about politics?
This question about fascism and President Trump was closed and deleted because "answers will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise".
This ...
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Why are answers that basically say "right wing illogical bad, left wing rational good" allowed to exist?
I just flagged an answer that literally just said pretty much "The reason for X is because Left is rational and right is irrational", using a lot of randomly picked statements (can't even ...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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What should be considered opinionated?
Politics, by its nature, is a very controversial subject. We need to draw a distinct line on what will lead to a specific answer, and what will lead to controversy.
Things like "Are conservatives ...
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Repeatedly closing and reopening of (highly) controversial questions
Philipp cast a cast "2x-power" close vote on a recent controversial question on Trump's tax returns, meaning there were already 3 such votes. This was a minor exercise of mod extra powers. I'm not at ...
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Are frame challenges acceptable on Politics.SE?
I came across this question and answered it with a frame challenge that the statements the OP references are a rhetorical device more than actual beliefs. It's garnered some upvotes but wound up in ...
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Asking about advantages and disadvantages isn't a list question
If we can't talk about the advantages and disadvantages of different policies we risk this site merely becoming an encyclopedia or dictionary. Most policies have a reasonably sized list of generally ...
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How does this site "make the Internet a better place?" And what can we do to make sure that it does?
Okay, I'll start with some context. I was on vacation last week, and so actually tried to break my SE addiction. :) Over the course of that time, I really missed my beloved Christianity.SE, but this ...
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Whale hunting question has a bunch of issues; would it be better deleted?
I'm referring to this one: What is the fundamental difference between catching whales and hunting other animals?
This question, comments and answers are all happily out of control, and the entire ...
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Should the political affiliations of candidates for moderator be disclosed?
While the tone so far during the private beta has been remarkably congenial, it seems obvious that politics.se has the potential to attract more contentious questions, answers and comments than some ...
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What should be on the moderator candidate questionnaire?
NOTE: The questionnaire is now up
Related to Will there be a candidate questionnaire for the upcoming election? and 2020 Community Moderator Election
Please post answers below that contain a question ...
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Politics vs Economics
There have been quite a few economics questions that have been asked here in the last week or so.
Most of these questions are actually good economics questions but not really about political ...
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(Why) are questions about what Rush Limbaugh or Fox News [personalities] say off topic?
Are these opinion makers/leaders not (highly) relevant politically? Some of them have a greater audience than many local politicians, whose sayings would undoubtedly be on-topic. And yes, these are ...
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Why my accepted answer got deleted for alleged "apologizing antisemitism"?
I understand why my answer could be generally disliked, as I accuse identitarian left that if one reused their own claims, just replacing "white", with "Jew", one would be considered as blatantly anti-...
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Sandbox for proposed questions
What is the Sandbox?
This "Sandbox" is a place where Politics users can get feedback on prospective questions they wish to post to the main page. This is useful because writing a clear and ...
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Are people voting along political lines?
Are we voting by political preference, rather than by quality of answer, as warned for in this area51 post? That includes myself.
I find that there are many controversial posts, with many up- and ...
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To what extent are policy questions on or off topic?
Most of the questions asked so far are about the political process ("What criteria does a US Presidential candidate need to meet in order to appear on the ballot?"). Some ask about the details of ...
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