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Is it time for this site to move out of Beta?
The site meets or exceeds most Area 51 criteria, particularly on users and traffic.
There is a healthy number of established 20k+ users.
The site is well-moderated (and very actively so).
It is now ...
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Affable Geek has passed away
I have learned today that one of our moderators, Affable Geek, has passed away. He was one of the best posters, if not the best poster at Politics.SE, and he was a great moderator.
He will be missed....
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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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Can all questions asking about the Queen's decision-making be closed as duplicates?
There's a lot of questions on Politics.SE asking if the queen has any decision-making power:
Did the supreme court overrule the monarch?
Can the Queen of the United Kingdom appoint her successor?
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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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Can we devise a canonical question about US federal law vs State law?
@IllusiveBrian had a highly voted and (in my opinion) useful comment on this post about maternity leave laws in the US:
I wonder if we need a canonical question explaining the role of the US Federal ...
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Merge [public-pensions] and [private-pensions] into [pensions]
Both existing tags have few questions associated with them yet there is no tag for pensions in general. Given that it is difficult to distinguish between the two in some countries* it might be better ...
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Make [trump] a synonym of [donald-trump]
I’ve come across a few questions that’s tagged with trump and I’ve retagged them with donald-trump.
As such, can trump be made a synonym of donald-trump?
(I have suggested this synonym at https://...
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What is the tag “social-politics” about?
I see we have this social-politics tag, but I have no idea what qualifies for that. There is "Social Politics" journal, but it's basically a feminist journal.
Social Politics is a leading ...
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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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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Merge [tag:uk] and [tag:united-kingdom]
There is a frequently used tag uk. I think this would be better called united-kingdom, considering that for other countries, we also use the full name rather than a two-letter abbreviation. uk can ...
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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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Question Edit invalidating existing answers
A recent edit to Has any of the US federal armed forces acted violently against civil movements / protesters? invalidates several answers with multiple upvotes. The original question had no date ...
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Make [gdpr] and [general-data-protection-regulation] tag synonyms
general-data-protection-regulation has 6 questions and gdpr has 2. It's easy to retag one to the other manually, however, new questions are likely to create the other tag again.
Therefore, I think it'...
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Notice: SHUTDOWN tag now available
I've noticed we've gotten several questions about the shutdown of the United States government. I think these deserve their own tag, so I've added it. It's probably good to have a separate stream ...
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Does Politics Stack Exchange as a whole have a bias? If so, how can it possibly be quantified?
Background
This site is supposed to be about the following:
Specific issues with governments, policies and political processes
Real problems or questions that you’ve encountered
And not about the ...
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2020 Community Moderator Election
The 2020 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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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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Community Moderation
Flagging Rule-breaking posts is great, It helps the mods keep this place clean of spam and off-topic discussion.
However, sometimes, you might not want to wait for a moderator to log on and handle ...
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“Don't vote politically” banner
There are many good (and mediocre) questions on this site which do not have a partisan slant to them. But there's some which provoke voting based on the politics of the viewer rather than the quality ...
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Where are users located
Is there anyway to get a general idea of where in the world the user base is located? Looking for the possibility of breaking it down percentage wise in order to get a better understanding of how much ...
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Merge [free-trade] and [trade]
I think we should merge the free-trade and trade tags. The degree to which trade is "free trade" and who benefits from "free" trade is a big part of what discussions of trade are about. There might be ...
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Will there be a candidate questionnaire for the upcoming election?
The announcement for the pro tempore moderator elections says:
For these elections, the candidate questionnaire is an optional feature that individual sites can choose if they want (example here). If ...
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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How could I have handled this answer better?
This answer was posted earlier: https://politics.stackexchange.com/a/32156/3169
I left a comment for the poster, a new user here on SE, letting them know about the back-up up policy. I feel like ...
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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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Merge [tag:britain] and [tag:uk]
britain is not quite the same as the uk. For example, on Wikipedia, see Terminology of the British Isles, Glossary of names for the British, and British Isles naming dispute.
Although some ...
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Can we get a gay-rights tag?
I tried to make a gay-rights tag on my question, but I don't have enough rep yet. I think it fits well with my question and would be useful on the site.
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How to word “advantage/disadvantage” or “arguments for/against” questions?
There seems to be some disagreement about whether "What are the advantages and disadvantages of X?" questions are on-topic for this site, with, on the one hand, a number of questions being close-voted ...
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Make [welfare] a tag synonym of [social-welfare]
welfare has 9 questions, social-welfare has 24 questions. They are basically the same, so it makes sense to make one the synonym of the other. I suggest keeping social-welfare as the main tag because ...
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How often does the automatic question ban happen?
How often does the automatic question ban happen?
I read through the answer to this question about "question bans" and it seemed to me that the automatic algorithm could be gamed by a group ...
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How should this closed question be changed in order to be sufficiently narrow
Update:
The question has now been completely deleted. Can anybody please explain who did this and why?
This question has been closed as too broad by the community.
The only comment regarding the ...
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Editing a deleted Q provides contradictory feedback
While attempting to revise a deleted question, I read the SE text below:
If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center,
please edit your question.
I clicked edit, did a ...
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Can we add a tag for Universal Basic Income?
I'm seeing more and more questions relating to the UBI on here, including one from myself, and there is not yet a tag for it as a topic.
I think it would prevent inaccurate tags to allow people a ...
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Would it be reasonable to add a Public Choice tag?
Public choice is the branch of economics which looks at (mostly democratic) government systems using economic logic ie: the ideas of rationality, utility maximization, and game theory etc.
As a ...
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On the question “What is the success rate for non-violent revolutions” and why I consider it is not too broad or open
The question https://politics.stackexchange.com/q/981/130 has been closed by Robert Cartaino. Quoting his comment:
This is a very broad, open question that isn't likely to be very quantifiable. As ...
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Should I reopen the question or should some other action be taken?
Concerning the question Why does double jeopardy not apply to impeachment?, which I closed as a duplicate —
The Constitution does not allow citizens to be tried for the same crime twice except for ...
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How should the [social-security] and related tags be used?
Background
This question is somewhat related to (perhaps broader than) my previous Make [welfare] a tag synonym of [social-welfare]. It may also be related to the pensions tag.
In this case, the ...
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Request for Tag: Personal-Identification
I Request for the tag "Personal-Identification"
It would include topics related to ID, like Passport, Residency permit, drivers' License, National Identity card/number, etc.
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when *only* adding tags, I see the “… must be at least 6…” message. why?
when I edit some questions like this, only adding tags, I see the "... must be at least 6..." message. why?
Update. I want to add the "UK" for tags, here, but see the comment "... must be at least ...
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How much of a bump does this site get on nights when there's an election?
It seems like when election returns come in there is always a question or two, often from a first time user, who is displeased with the outcomes and is looking for some kind of explanation. It isn't ...
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To delete an answer question
I'd like to delete this question which has been put on hold too broad (see below). I keep getting the below message when I apply the deletion.
w
Question
Other than asking the person that answered ...
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Site self evaluations - are there any official rules/guidelines on how to assess a specific question
The meta post advertizing site evaluation seems to give very vague guidelines on how exactly we should judge a give Q&A when voting. It merely says:
Let's try to look at this site through the ...
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How can we decrease the number of unanswered questions?
To be clear, the stats on Area 51 are not the gold standard in how a site is measured. Different sites have different criteria for "success," but that said, there is a stat that is bothering me.
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can we have a placeholder/FAQ/feedback mechanism for questions that we know the community is going to close?
Once again, we have a why doesn't the US do Communism question. It's by a new poster, and yes, all the usual reasons are going to be trotted out before closing. It may even be closed without any ...
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What tag should I use for these questions about political organization?
I've recently posted somequestions about political organizations:
In U.S. local politics, what is the relationship between a campaign and a party?
Where do local political parties get their revenues?
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How can I improve this question about police reform?
I asked a question that I was advised to narrow down, and after initially found the suggestion frustrating since it's a question that's difficult to ask in a narrow, succinct way. It's a big topic, ...
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Clarifying topicality of a question about state media contents
After a question was closed I had a feeling I was not good in explaining its relevance to this Q&A site, but I might be wrong.
So my actual question was why open source/open tech activities ...