Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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I'm taking a leave of absence from moderating
Update 1/20/2020: called2voyage has resumed moderation, more info here.
I’ve wrestled for some time with how to approach this issue, but I’ve finally come to a decision. The bottom-line is that it ...
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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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Returning to moderation
I've been giving a lot of thought to the question of resignation over the weekend, and one thing that kept going through my head was Jon Ericson's blog post. Despite what he had to say about ...
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Regarding moderating the new Code of Conduct
To hopefully alleviate concerns regarding the new Code of Conduct, I want to explain how I intend to moderate regarding pronoun use.
When speaking generically, posts should use gender neutral ...
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This site has accessibility problems
In my opinion, too many questions and too many answers rely on images and videos. To be accessible to the visually impaired, authors who use images in their questions and answers should write ...
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Summer of Space
There are 3 large potentially helpful sources of questions that are going on right now. I suggest we take as much advantage of them as possible, to see if we can get this site promoted to the next ...
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Is this particular close vote's reason absurd and the timing damaging to the site? Does this make us look silly?
I propose that the idea behind this particular close vote is absurd and the timing is damaging to the site.
The upcoming uncontrolled Long March 5B booster reentry is imminent (days) and is widely ...
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What is the [shuttle-shuttle] tag for?
Title pretty much says it all.
What is the [shuttle-shuttle] tag for? How is it different from space-shuttle?
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Community Policy Repository
This is the official repository for general community policy decisions.
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What is the best approach to asking questions?
Can I write an answer to my own question and accept it?
When can I post ...
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Have any ideas posted on this site been successfully implemented in a space exploration endeavor?
Has any break through been made on Space.SE and incorporated? If so which question or answer was the most helpful?
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Promotional resources: Site invitation letter templates
This is a follow-up on @DeerHunter's inquiry regarding Contacting space agencies PAO (public affairs' offices). Since we've more or less agreed there that it's about time we start sending invitations ...
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Tag Synonym Requests
Please collect your tag synonym requests here, to keep it all in one nice convenient spot. Basically, if you see two tags that are identical or nearly so, please let us know here so it can be fixed.
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Why was the Falcon 9 wash/paint question closed as duplicate?
Link to Q: Do Falcon 9s get a thorough wash or a fresh coat of paint (they look clean pre-reflight)?
It was voted leave open the first time, but it was closed, and the reopen review was also 3x leave ...
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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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Should Contingency have its own tag?
I am opening this question on suggestion by called2voyage here.
There currently exists an emergency tag, but no contingency tag. Emergencies and Contingencies are quite different.
From what I ...
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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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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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Dealing with possible copyright violations or plagiarism?
I have noticed that a lot of questions and answers include images and quotes without attribution. In many instances images are used that aren't licensed for reüse1. In some instances I have found ...
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Space activities live: What are the current sources for video and data?
Is this possible -- useful / advisable / add your personal criteria -- to start building a page that would be a good reference for primary sources references?
What are the current available sources ...
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Can we pleeease buy the space.se domain name?
Space.se seems to be an available domain name. It doesn't load any site and isn't parked anywhere. When I try to go to it I just get a 'this site can't be reached' error.
It's for sites in Sweden, but ...
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Alternate orbital mechanics question
I have a question that I think is quite fascinating, but first, I don't know if it really belongs here, and second, I don't know how to phrase it in a constructive, answerable format for a Q&A ...
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Space launches statistics by decade
I do not want to abuse with too many questions of the same type so I ask here if its appropriate to ask a question like:
What were the most busy times in space launches by decade?
most busy days, ...
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I had my question marked as duplicate by people who don't know the technology. How do I dispute?
My question about use of ramjets for second stage of rocket launch was tagged as duplicate by several users, and subsequently marked as duplicate. I found no way to dispute that (I edited the post, ...
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Does Space Exploration beta enforce a question ban?
I have been looking around the site for several days now, and no where I have I seen any mention of a question asking ban. By saying question asking ban, I mean the ban enforced when a user repeatedly ...
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Appropriate “Reference Request” Question - List of Launch Scrubs?
I asked about a list of launch scrubs in chat, and @briligg suggested that the question might be appropriate for the main site. I wanted to check here to be sure first, though.
Generally, questions ...
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Some small advertising on Reddit
it's not a question but rather a very small announcement.
Yesterday I asked an obvious Kerbal Space Program-related question on the site since I assumed it might be related to the site.
Then I post ...
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Congratulations for TildalWave for the first golden badge of the site!
That's all. I just want to congratulate for TildalWave for the first golden badge of Space Exploration.SE! Sadly because SE sites doesn't have any built-in message systems (as far as I know), this is ...
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Postponed! Live chat room event: India's GSLV-D5 mission
Update: The launch scheduled for August 19th, 2013 at 11:20 am UTC/GMT was scrubbed and delayed for unspecified amount of time due to detection of the 2nd stage fuel leak. This also delays our chat ...
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Is the mission-design tag description wrong? Should the trajectory-design tag be somehow nixed?
My understanding of the term "mission design" is that it includes a variety of aspects of a mission, including features of a spacecraft and aspects of its trajectory; where it passes ...
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What's best to do about questions that might not be answerable for a few months?
Two recent questions have comments suggesting that there might be something wrong about posting questions that some users feel are not immediately answerable:
Why can't the VIPER lunar rover recharge ...
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Why was this question so quickly put on hold, and without comments, guidance, or suggestions?
What does this NASA administrator's tweeted statement mean? What is the context?
Question: Would a similar statement about taxpayer money used in SLS/Boeing or the JWST (delays and cost overruns ...
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Best way to ask this potentially broad question?
I am pondering asking a question on main which could turn out to be overly broad in scope. Below is the question for reference:
Title:
Human-rating the Saturn V using modern standards
Question:
Would ...
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“Serial Voting Reversal” unwarranted?
I just had a fairly large rep loss due to a serial vote reversal.
I don't see the kind of pattern I'd expect for this.
I've been answering a fair amount of questions lately about shuttle.
Is is ...
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How does one reask something that has changed since it was previously asked?
Ive been sorting by most votes on questions and occasionally come across something for 2014. Usually Sometimes these articles end with "we dont know but probe X in 1-3 years will give us that ...
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Has anyone mentioned this site on the ARocket mailing list?
I follow the ARocket mailing list but this is full of serious Amatuer rocket folk. Like Henry Spencer, and others, so I am severely intimidated from posting.
I was wondering if anyone else seriously ...
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Do we need a 'livery' tag?
Ref: Livery on rockets?
It seems unlikely that this tag will be very useful. Are there roughly similar ones already?
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Are questions about the U.S. Space Force on topic? Tag needed?
There have been questions and answers which have mentioned the U.S. Space Force.
Do we want questions specifically about it on-topic?
If so, should there be a tag?
How should such a tag be spelled ...
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Network-wide feature request to support TeX in tables
Many of us here frequently use MathJax, whether for this site or another site on the SE Network.
Recently SE added support for tables, but ignored the needs of the TeX community, who wish to be able ...
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Tags [expandable] and [expendable]
I noticed that someone had confused the words EXPANDABLE and EXPENDABLE and used the wrong tag.
To avoid confusion I added a description for the expandable tag.
However, I'm not sure if the best ...
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FYI - Beta Graduation
I just posted Will the recent flush of Beta graduations impact sites that meet criteria? on meta.stackexchange and specifilly pointed out that Space Exploration has been meeting the graduation ...
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Should one of these be closed as a duplicate of the other? If so, which one?
Two well written, well received questions each with several well written, well received answers. Each now has one close vote as a duplicate of the other.
January 2019 Why are probes that tend to ...
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Were the moderators flagged by this user's “minor” edits? Did they find it irritating?
The question Who did I irritate enough for someone to mass downvote some of my answers? has a few answers, and discussion in comments under one of them suggest that the user's edits could be "...
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Defining requirements for hypothetical-invention questions
The idea of a hypothetical-invention tag seems to be gaining mild acceptance:
https://space.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1167/58
If we're going to have this tag, we should probably first establish what ...
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Did title wrapping change? What is El ectron?
The rocket formerly know as Electron has a new name, El ectron.
Am I imagining things, or did the wrapping of question title change in the edit window?
I thought it always did compete word wrap ...
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getting in touch with ADCS/GNC engineers
I would like to publish an abstract/paper pretty soon about ADCS engineering. As I am learning about ADCS-engineering on my own I'd like to discuss the different results of my researches with people ...
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GPS: An Introduction to Satellite Navigation, with an interactive Worldwide Laboratory using Smartphones
There is a Coursera course going on now that I think might be of interest to a lot of people here, that can be found at https://class.coursera.org/gpslab-001 . It talks about how GPS navigation is ...
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Live chat room event: Minotaur V to launch the LADEE (Sep. 7, 2013 at 1:30 a.m. UTC/GMT)
This is an invitation to attend our chat room event, where we will be covering the launch of the U.S. Air Force-provided Minotaur V rocket launching the NASA's LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust ...
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Are questions about the nomenclature of geologic features on Mars off-topic in Space Exploration?
I'm curious about the decisions to name these features: Dalu Cavus, Layl Cavus, Malam Cavus, Nat Cavus, Noc Cavus, Usiku Cavus, and Noctis Tholus in Noctis Labyrinthus. Why only some of the canyons, ...
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Eleven community wiki answers to a question?
The "oldie but goodie" question What are the choices today for orbital mechanics simulation software? has eleven separate community wiki answers (more if you count the deleted ones).
Questions:
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How to share someone else's answer here as a short post?
I recently asked a question in stackoverflow regarding simulation of suicide burn and I also got a wonderful answer from William Miller as well. I think the answer posted in stackoverflow is more ...
