The Factory Floor

Green

12:14 AM

@Shalvenay in all the videos I've seen is been a two man crew. Maybe could be solo, only slower and /or more dangerous.

@Avantgarde welcome to WB. I really enjoy the squishy mix of rigor and variety. People here are crazy smart.

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HDE 226868

12:54 AM

@Webstarian Hey, welcome! I get the feeling that more folks here are into writing as opposed to game development, but there's probably a healthy mix.

@Avantgarde Heh, you should visit some of the smaller beta sites. Physics (and Worldbuilding) are massive in comparison.

JDługosz

2:24 AM

@Webstarian Here we are more literary than other SEs, and people spend hours composing the question. Answers are, as I put it, a showcase of creative presentations.

Sometimes not so serious…

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A: Safe way to eat zombies?

In all cases, suppose that cooking properly will take care of infection. But the skeletal muscles are rotten in the classic zombie: Perhaps you harvest just the (high-calorie) bone marrow, which is not rotted. More generally, some parts may still be edible, depending on the age of the zombie. ...

This was a self q&a I wrote and posted here.

Avantgarde

4:49 AM

@Green (Sorry for the late reply) Thanks for the welcome! Yeah, lots of imagination being put to use. I like that.

@HDE226868 I did visit them. Physics is huge yeah. Math is probably the hugEST I think.

Enigma Maitreya

12:25 PM

@HDE226868 Perhaps the community is more into creative/speculative thinking than others.

Perhaps to have one foot and on occasion both feet over the line that separates what we think we know from what we know is impossible. :)

JDługosz

1:05 PM

Holy Cow, my poisons post is about to pass up coconuts in its score.

Secespitus

@JDługosz It needs only 2 (now 3) more votes to catch up and the poison question is still going strong.

Secespitus

1:41 PM

@JDługosz Do you still have plans for using your already posted Sandbox question? The Sandbox Notes look like you intended this to be part of your lesson post. I was just looking through the Sandbox to see if anything should be removed because it's hasn't been worked on in a while or has already been posted and saw your post.

JDługosz

2:49 PM

@Secespitus yes, I left the notes (linked from the posted Q) and comments visible.

Check out my new Q:

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Q: Economic system to support Kessler Remediators, with maximum drama

After reading this question by Nick M (now closed) and exchanging some comments with him, I have some ideas related to the scenareo. I realized that the comprehensive design covers several distinct topics and is not what the question asked, so I’m posting the questions I did answer, as new quest...

But I think one of the answerers isn't “getting it”. Can some others jump in? Any further responce from me would just seem like arguing, I'm afraid.

@JDługosz Sounds you're wanting me to build your world for you. ;) — sphennings 4 mins ago

sphennings

@JDługosz I guess I'm unsure what your asking then.

DaaaahWhoosh

3:05 PM

I also can't really tell what the question is

sphennings

Someone who wants the ability to safely orbit a satellite will pay for it. Whether that's a corporation looking out only for their satellites or an organization who's monitoring the whole sky is what I made an argument for in my question.

Both answers address the question in this way. I argued for a centralized governing body that employed private contractors. The other answer argued for individual corporations directly employing private contractors.

Bellerophon

@JDługosz You may want to edit that question. It has two unclear what your asking close votes.

DaaaahWhoosh

I think it'd help to summarize the linked question, rather than assuming people will go and read it

JDługosz

3:23 PM

Well, wait for the answer I posted it to introduce?

AndyD273

I think a short explanation of what a Kessler Remediator is might actually help too. I did a google search, and your question is the top result, with mold remediation as the second. Down the page a little were a few semi related results about the dangers of space junk

Bellerophon

@JDługosz We shouldn't need an answer to clarify a question.

JDługosz

3:57 PM

Well, It has my answer and another good answer already, so is that more understandable (to at least some people?)

Otherwise, help me understand what you don’t understand about “what is a good economic model…” I put the question first rather than burrying it in a big narrative!

@Bellerophon questions that are just props to post an original Answer are different.

@sphennings This comment is better than the original answer post, in that respect.

Bellerophon

@JDługosz No, all questions must be understandable regardless of if you only post them in order to self answer or not.

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JDługosz

Wow, a downvote right out ofbthe gate! That's unpleasant.

Some constructive criticism on the writup would be nice.

sphennings

@JDługosz You described a very dysfunctional system. Which while you do ask for that in the fluff of your question isn't obvious at first glance.

JDługosz

4:14 PM

@sphennings yes, I can hang a bigger bell on that. Thanks.

Worldbuilding Meta

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Q: Do we need the [poke] tag on Meta?

I want to discuss the usage of the poke tag on Meta, as I think it is unnecessary. While looking through some older questions here on Meta I found this question: Accept Answer Thursday The question introduced the poke tag. The user created this tag to explain his idea of "poking" a person by ...

discussion specific-tag tags

AndyD273

5:34 PM

@JDługosz I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but if I'm planning on a self answer before I write the question, I usually wait a few days to see what other ideas come in. It's kind of like accepting an answer on the first day; There aren't any rules against it, but it could stifle other answers since this is the one that OP wrote... For example, with my poison question, the answer you gave is very very close to the one that I came up with before I asked.

I would have self answered it in a couple days, but now I don't have to

JDługosz

@AndyD273 cool.

@AndyD273 I've done both; using the self-answer feature to post both simultainiously; and waiting for others so as not to influence them.

AndyD273

I kinda think it would be interesting if more world builders used the site as an idea repository: write a question about a problem you had, and a self answer on how you solve the problem. It is explicitly allowed and encouraged in the SE rules.

DaaaahWhoosh

@AndyD273 I think for us, it'd be easy to become too specific and non-helpful

and really, that's something I fear about any self-answered question

they can work, but I don't want to encourage people to try to create them

AndyD273

You could probably avoid that with the "questions should be about worlds, not a specific story" rule, so users will be encouraged to write general purpose questions.

But I guess it might be a very fine line to walk

DaaaahWhoosh

I guess maybe I could try writing up a self-answer about how to make warring factions look distinct in a less hard-sci-fi setting

it'd be similar to this question, but more general-purpose worldbuilding-process

but then at that point I might as well just try to make it into a blog post

Serban Tanasa

5:48 PM

@DaaaahWhoosh, I think generally self-answers are for "stuff that's been bugging me for a while, and now I finally found an answer that's exciting and I think others would find it quite useful as well"

AndyD273

@DaaaahWhoosh Having it as a blog post would probably be good, but less people see the blog, and it doesn't show up in the site search. Also while your self answer might be really good, that doesn't mean that there might not be some input from other people that you might even like more. You could of course do both.

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