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Questions that may not necessarily have a clear-cut right or wrong answer and are often subjective. If your question isn't a bug report, feature request, or request for assistance, or question with a concrete answer, it's probably a discussion.

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How localized should we go?

The SE system automatically removes poorly used new tags, so I wouldn't say the "one-off" rule needs to be applied manually. It's a tough question, as each area has different opinions as to how impor …
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How to accept an answer if answers are both correct but different?

I'd say there are a few options in this and similar scenarios: to keep with the idea of "keep it balanced", create your own answer combining what's said to show both sides. Personally I'd create it …
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What should the name of our chat room be?

The Soapbox
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Should country specific "Constitution" tags redirect to "constitution"?

Personally I'd be inclined to go the other way. If a question were tagged both united-states and constitution it's clear to me that the question is related to both the USA and the constitution. It is …
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Where/how do we draw the line between legal and political questions?

I think the fact that law and politics are so closely related, combined with that (as far as I know) there is no Law.SE [Update: there is now], we should be quite open with questions venturing into La …
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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 ensur …
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Are tag Wikis allowed to use Wikipedia wording?

I personally don't see a problem in having a relevant, accurate and clear tag-wiki that has been copied in whole or in part, attributed correctly and in compliance with the licence under which the sou …
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Questions regarding Parliamentary Procedure

I'm not 100% clear on what you're asking here, but I'll give it a go. Questions regarding Parliamentary procedures are in general on-topic, provided that they relate directly to the running of a poli …
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7 Essential Questions - FAQ Entries

Promoting Balance I think a major potential issue for this site is going to be bias - in fact, quickly after opening in private beta form somewhat ranting questions pushing towards a bias were posted …
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I think the "just the facts" dramatically hurts this site

The problem is that to fit the site around this would take away from the Q&A format and move towards a discussion, something which is not the purpose of SE. … If a discussion is what you're after, you'd be better off finding a politics forum or maybe even using chat once we're out of private beta and we have more activity. …
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Should the political affiliations of candidates for moderator be disclosed?

This is an interesting question! I believe we have to be a little sensitive around this issue, as some may consider their political leaning or affiliation rather private. It could be argued that some …
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Should we allow the tags *left* and *right*?

Maybe we should move to (and possibly synonymise to) a tag to which they collectively belong... I can't think of the exact word at the moment but something like leaning though I know there's a better …
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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 pro …
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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 communi …