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Are these two similar questions ripe for merging?
Answers to my recent question How hard does atmospheric drag push on the ISS? Is it more than one pound? and the 2015 question What is the ISS drag? both provide numbers for the drag force that the ...
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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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Was annotating and deleting a answer at the same time intended?
This answer was annotated as needing sources and deleted by a single vote at the same time.
I agree adding sources would improve it, but it seems a bit heavy handed.
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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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January 2020 Moderator Election — Community Interest Check
This community last had moderators appointed in 2017, so it's been a while... In addition to that, you may have noticed that one of the current mods — Hohmannfan — has stepped down from their ...
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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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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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Space.SE moderator resignation
Due to a highly turbulent situation, the moderator status network wide is very chaotic.
Main meta post:
Firing mods and forced relicensing: is Stack Exchange still interested in cooperating with the ...
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Where is the auto award for bounties for Space.SE?
I have lost around 800 reputation over time on Space.SE in lost bounties because I missed the dead-line to award it. I think the bulk of it may have been lost during a suspension, does that effect ...
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Why doesn't Space.SE have an icon?
Some SE sites have icons and emblems while others do not. At first glance the SE sites with icons seem more established. Why doesn't Space.SE use icons yet? What would make a good icon?
What creative ...
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Up voting a user again after the votes were reversed?
I am presuming the up vote reversal from the up votes I gave was done independently of whether the answers were on my own questions or other questions. I am guilty of up voting too much on multiple ...
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Who moved my parent site from Space.SE to another site?
I thought I was the only one able to do this? Someone moved me from Here to Physics.SE where I was suspended preventing me from chatting here and everywhere for a year. This is not right?? Can you as ...
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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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Duplicate in part? Solved
I had a question that had a part of it that included the duplicate, but it mostly was not a duplicate. Can it be reversed if it was mistaken? I was not voted on hold but moderator put it on hold. I ...
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May I be forgiven and ask questions for Christmas?
I asked to many low quality questions, got a question block and wander if it is in the power of the moderators here to lift blocks? I will make sure my next question is a good one.
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How long does a question ban last here in my case?
I have posted to many questions that was not high quality. What else can I do to earn to privilege back other than revising my posts? Some of them are as good as I can make them for now.
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I want to ask questions. A better reputation scoring is needed
This is a duplicate, but answers may very do to each individual SE policy.
I have a positive reputation. In science and math there are negatives. I thought I was OK but now I cannot ask questions or ...
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More up votes then down votes and still unable to ask new questions?
I understand that down votes equal privilege being suspended. I have a positive on the total up votes and refined questions but still cannot ask new questions. Is there a minimum up vote count per ...
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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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Why does it not show when the next time I can ask a question?
Normally when I reach my question limit it tells me a date when I can ask again. Now it just says:
Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account. See the Help Center to learn more.
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Why am I being down voted without a solid answer?
I am getting down voted for a question that I believe is a good one, but because it has physics involved the commenters and down votes want to close it as well? Is this question not answerable here?
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Where can a person find help in developing a nuclear drive for space travel? [closed]
Sometimes my most complex thoughts are when I sleep. Just before I wake like an Epiphany recently. I thought of type of drive that can split one atom at a time behind a shield using an atom injector. ...
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One person has all the power?
How is it on other Stack Exchanges it takes multiple votes to close a question, but on Space Exploration one person has the power to close a question even if it is not requested by others?
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Why the change in moderators?
I like to think that Stack Exchange as a whole is fairly transparent in their processes, and that because of this the communities are trusting of decisions that are made. One thing that happened last ...
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...And then there was silence... (to our esteemed CMs)
TildalWave has quit his moderator's position. Our esteemed CMs were quick to clean up the details of his resignation and chat transcripts, but are obviously playing the Cunctator when it comes to ...
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Keeping out of censorship, politics, sex, and religion?
Should users with editorial powers go around and "fix" the following items:
an original poster's (frivolous or not) mention of the Lord (this);
personal pronouns (replacing "he" for s/he or she or ...
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How could us moderators improve?
I'm a freshman in all this moderation business, at least as far as Stack Exchange moderation goes. If you look at the date when us pro tempore moderators were selected by the community managers, it ...
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Moderator Nominations
If your meta site does not have a post to nominate Moderators, start one now! Pro Tem appointments will begin about two weeks after the site is created. The more guidance we receive, the more informed ...
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Should we be deleting bad questions?
Related reading: What should we do with unprofessional questions?
I noticed that someone voted to delete my question: How will we get back to the moon?.
I'm not upset that it got closed, but I don't ...