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Are legal questions on-topic?
Possibly related: Where/how do we draw the line between legal and political questions?
We already have quite a few questions that at least touch on law. One in particular - What is the legality of ...
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How to handle opinions in factual answers?
If there are political opinions/bias in an otherwise "good" and neutral/factual answer, how do we as a site want to handle it?
As a hypothetical, someone asks a question on presidential elections. ...
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How should we deal with unsupported claims in answers that state a "fact" about opposing views?
One of the things that greatly irks me in political discussions (including answers on Politics.SE) is the habit of people to state something like:
"X side of political spectrum is for Y, and the ...
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Should we have a requrement for rigorous definitions for **questions**?
Many Qs and As in politics are highly subjective as it is, but one of the major reasons making them even more subjective is incredibly vague definitions of popularly used terms, which come with ...
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Is there a good tag to refer to political points of view held by a specific side of a debate?
This question is two-part:
1) What is a good META.politics.SE tag to use on questions which deal with content that can be described as "points of view from one side of political debate"? E.g. "what ...
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Are questions in the form of "How does X set of political views explain Y conundrum" on-topic and welcome?
1) Are questions in the form of "How does X set of political views explain Y conundrum/controvercy/objection" on-topic and welcome?
As a random example, would the following question of the type:
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How do we feel about "General Reference" questions that are somewhat answered on Wikipedia?
I was going to ask "What are the main differences between Objectivism and Libertarianism", but the Wiki already has a fairly good summary ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism_and_Objectivism )...
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Poll: "arguments for/against" vs "advantages/disadvantages" [closed]
Following up this question:
How to word “advantage/disadvantage” or “arguments for/against” questions?
... and the suggestion in the Private Beta Extension discussion that it (among others) should ...
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Should we allow the tags *left* and *right*?
There is already the use of the tags left and right and I wanted to ask whether anybody else sees a problem with using them.
Personally I think because there is no clear definition of "left" and "...
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Private Beta Extension [closed]
Given the volatile nature of the topic, Politics.SE has done a great job so far of keeping out most of the subjective discourse. However, we’re choosing to extend your private beta for a week to give ...
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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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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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Mobile version allows access to non-committer during closed beta
Following a discussion in the DMZ, we discovered that when using a mobile device, it is possible to access the closed beta - even though I did not commit (or even follow) the proposal.
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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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How to avoid opinionated debate in an advantage/disadvantage question?
I've just asked the question:
What are the advantages and disadvantages of a politically appointed vs. permanent Civil Service?
... which I found very difficult to write in a way which was
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7 Essential Questions - Temporary Moderators [closed]
As per the Moderator Pro Tempore blog post, after about a week SE looks for temporary moderators for new sites to help with the development of the community and to act as a liaison between the ...
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How to accept an answer if answers are both correct but different?
In this question, there are presently two answers. In short, one says yes, one says no, and I can't really say which one is more correct:
Does the head-of-state pardon violate separation of powers?
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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?
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I think the "just the facts" dramatically hurts this site
First off, I am a heavy user of Stack Overflow and find it's focus on questions with clear answers good (although at times I wish it allowed "what is the best..." questions). But for a site on ...
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Tips on improving a (possibly controversial) question
A question I asked about an hour ago - What effect has the death of Osama bin Laden had on Islamism? - has since had its score go up and down like a yo-yo, and is steadily attracting close votes.
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Should major political thinkers have their own tags?
I've created the tag rosa-luxemburg because I think major political thinkers should have their own tags. Am I right?
Added: In the meantime, tags bin-laden and benito-mussolini have appeared. There's ...
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Is politics limited to politics of public governments, or also of other bodies?
Wikipedia defines Politics as:
Politics (from Greek politikos "of, for, or relating to citizens") as a term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, ...
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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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United States tag synonym with USA?
The Tag Synonyms to merge question currently contains only the suggestion to merge us and usa into united-states. While this is probably appropriate for the vast majority of questions asked with ...
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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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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
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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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Tag Synonymns to merge
Please post in this question all tag synonyms which you think should be combined. Having too many ways to refer to a given topic is just confusing, and it fragments things.
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Questions about campaigning?
Campaigning is a political process, so it's at least nominally in scope.
Our examples/first few questions seem to be centered around policy/political science.
Should questions from people aimed at ...
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Questions should ask about both the advantages and disadvantages
Consider questions like What are the disadvantages of first-past-the-post electoral systems? This question only asks about the disadvantages, not the advantages. The problem is that someone will then ...
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7 Essential Questions - FAQ Entries
As part of "The 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta" this question is intended to solicit ideas and commentary for site-specific FAQ entries.
Anyone is welcome to suggest entries and discuss ...
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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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How localized should we go?
It seems inevitable that we'll have country specific questions as this question assumes:
How should we tag country-specific questions?
Where do we draw the line? We probably don't want moose-jaw-...
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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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How should we tag country-specific questions?
Some questions on this site are likely to be somewhat localised to an individual country or group of countries. As such, I feel it may be important to ensure such questions are tagged as such to ...
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