@Green Try the entire front page. jmac and flaggers (i.e. everyone in the TL with a Travel account, as well as in the Travel chat) have gotten rid of most of it, but some of us are running out of flags, and jmac's getting tired of nuking accounts.
@HDE226868 I've seen nothing in the last half-hour, so I assume they've blocked it at its source. (I can flag on Travel, but I can't see review queues, let alone deleted posts.)
Are "What is the most efficient way to use resource X/object Y ?" questions accepted on Worldbuilding SE ?
If yes, what information should be added to make them neither opinion based or too broad?
I expect the criteria to be:
Exact description of the item
Available quantities/number
Descripti...
What's the force of 160 atmospheres on a human body? 100kpa is one atmosphere. 100kpa * 160 = 16000kpa P=F/A F=P*A F=16000000 Pa (N/m^2) * 1.7 m^2 F = 27.2 MN
@James, get your coffee! There's world building to do! :) (And it strikes me that I'm entirely too cheerful for someone who hasn't had coffee yet. Sorry.)
@HDE226868, in the second graph of that answer meta.worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/2560/9685, I have the number of votes on a question as a function of the total number of votes for the hard-science challenge. There is a point far above the others (further from the fit), and that was your question. You break the stats ;-)
@bilbo_pingouin Haha, that's funny. I also broke the HNQ yesterday by having two questions on the same page, apparently. Apparently, I'm good at breaking things with question. :-)
My world is, at a very high level, well populated. That being said my focus has been on certain cities relevant to my story. These cities are detailed, they have government structures, leadership (people), armies/guards, cultural identity, racial make-up and more, essentially, they are complete...
@James I've read it over a couple of times, and it seems a bit broad. I don't know if there's enough information about the world. Good question, though - I'd just want more information to answer it.
@James I would want to know the government type of the nation-state before figuring out the government of the city. If there is a democracy, then I would expect there to be a democratic city government citizen. If there is a monarchy/empire, I would expect power to rest in the hands of roughly one or two people within the city.
@Vulcronos I saw another question that was pretty much an exact duplicate, just with a different backstory.
@James Or for racial tolerance, I would want to know what the races are and the backstory behind their relationships, if there is one yet.
Well that's kinda the whole point right, I don't want to have to figure that all out, I'm looking for a system that will do that for me, I have dozens of cities that are nothing more than a dot on the map.
@HDE226868 Doh, I meant to have that in there...I forgot to add the world level details...doh.
Doh. Doh. Doh. Doh.
...Standby
@HDE226868 I updated with some relevant details...but again I am more looking for a method to do this quickly for a bunch of cities rather than defining a particular city
Seeing the downvotes and close votes increase at the same time indicates to me that community quality management is working as it should. As our viewership increases, I expect to see a (hopefully) small increase in low quality posts.
Is there a meta post where we can propose getting rid of specific tags? Monica's answer here suggests that burnination is only for certain special cases.
I'm just reminded of a lot of tags that are extraneous.
challenge seems to be being used in the one question on the main site as a meta tag.
This is a list of proposed tag synonyms, feel free to add your own proposition.
Note: to make things easier, the master tag should be on the left. It's the tag you need to select if you want to suggest a synonym.
@HDE226868, @MonicaCellio, @James, et al of the blog curation team: I actually quite like the name Universe Factory. Would anyone object if I kept it, rather than going with the top-voted name suggestion?
@ArtOfCode nice art! Since this is the first in a (presumed) series, I suggest using that same art for all of them.
Question: how should other people who want to do their own "best of" posts interact with this? Everybody play in the same space and different authors are fine, or should each one personalize it somehow, or what?
(Minor thing: instead of associating an image credit with each badge, maybe just put a blanket statement at the bottom? Also, it derives from an SE image, so I'm not sure what that means for licensing.)
@ArtOfCode "Universe Factory" is fine with me. I haven't checked meta lately; has anybody objected to it?
@Green I think it's just you; I tested in an incognito window (not signed in) and I don't see it. It makes sense that Medium would prioritize content from publications/people you've read from in the past.
I'm on a writing roll right now. I'm writing another blog post that I can keep around and publish some other time when we need content and I can't come up with any.
@ArtOfCode btw, I'm not sure I would tag those with 'badges"; that seems a minor point from the perspective of the reader. But if you dropped "badges" and "questions-answers" in favor of something like "featured-questions", that'd work well.
@MonicaCellio Sounds good to me. If you've got improvements like that, feel free to edit - I think our curators could be useful in editing metadata like tags
@bilbo_pingouin @ArtOfCode I really hope the articles will all be written well enough that the context tells you what you need to know about the badges. This first one does that.
We shouldn't edit people's content without extremely good reason to (and if there is, that might actually be reason to reject a submission) - but the meta like tags should be fine to edit.
@MonicaCellio Phew - I was wondering if I'd done that well enough.
@Green (Sorry for pinging so many times) I accepted your answer to the structural linguistics question; I had wanted to wait a bit to see what else popped up.
@ArtOfCode Another awesome picture, too.
There should be a challenge where you post a picture and people have to build a world off of it.
@HDE226868 That is one top idea. In fact, I'd be tempted to have that as a blog thing: a month-long challenge, announced on meta with the cue picture, and people have a month to write one chapter of a story around it. Results get posted to the blog.
Oh, by the way, I might write up a blog post about my "experiment" on Worldbuilding - building a world based almost entirely on a series of questions. I should probably resume that at some point.
Are "What is the most efficient way to use resource X/object Y ?" questions accepted on Worldbuilding SE ?
If yes, what information should be added to make them neither opinion based or too broad?
I expect the criteria to be:
Exact description of the item
Available quantities/number
Descripti...
My world is, at a very high level, well populated. That being said my focus has been on certain cities relevant to my story. These cities are detailed, they have government structures, leadership (people), armies/guards, cultural identity, racial make-up and more, essentially, they are complete...
This is a list of proposed tag synonyms, feel free to add your own proposition.
Note: to make things easier, the master tag should be on the left. It's the tag you need to select if you want to suggest a synonym.
The Factory Floor
The Factory Floor