@cflat If I came across as rude I apologise. It wasn't the intention; I was just trying to explain how StackExchange works. I was rushing when I noticed your post, so it would have been easy to be rude without noticing. My apologies.
@cflat It's not some sort of high rep conspiracy. Basically there's a way the site works that might take some getting used to. If you don't go with that though then you can expect close votes/deletions/etc just because you aren't using the site how it's supposed to be used.
Many people on the worldbuilding website ask series of related questions when building a setting, either because they divide the work into manageable chunks or because they want to follow up on a previous question.
What would be the appropriate way to aggregate links to a series of related quest...
A while ago, the community discussed starting a blog. Good ideas were raised and an initial scope was formed. However, the discussion stagnated after the realisation that in-house SE blogs are on hold.
StackExchange hasn't been quick about re-opening blog creation. However, as many people noted ...
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@ArtOfCode There we go. I'll undo it soon.
In theory, I should not have done that.
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By the way, I realized that I simply don't know enough (and can't do enough research) to answer your city-design questions. I see you got some really good answers, though.
@HDE226868 I asked them just because the topic challenge was up... I was expecting a couple of basic comparisons, not 2-3k views and about 20 answers...
Deleting comments, seeing analytics. There's a mod chat room for each site, and a network-wide mod room, which is helpful for discussing cross-site issues and migrations, and contacting CMs. Shog9 is often there.
I have actually no idea what I can and can't say. It's not incredibly interesting, though. Well, it was for five minutes. On HSM, they aren't of much use. The data queries you're made up are probably just as useful. I don't know how useful the analytics are on Worldbuilding, in comparison to Data Explorer.
You could see them soon, if SE picks one of the answers here and you reach 6k:
Are you familiar with tapas?
These are little appetizers invented in Spain that people enjoy while talking and drinking in the cool of the evening. What makes them so great is that you get a wide variety of tastes without getting fed up.
Not long ago, I asked for suggestions of a new 30k...
Education in the United Kingdom is a devolved matter with each of the countries of the United Kingdom having separate systems under separate governments: the UK Government is responsible for England; the Scottish Government, the Welsh Government and the Northern Ireland Executive are responsible for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, respectively.
== Stages ==
In each country there are five stages of education: early years, primary, secondary, further education (FE) and higher education (HE). The law states that full time education is compulsory for all children between the ages of 5 (...
Mars and Earth's moon already feature in a lot of fiction about space colonization. After these two planets, and assuming that other solar systems are too far away, what is the best place within this solar system to colonize?
It does have some pretty good answers already... but the prospect of possibly making 300 rep in a day might draw me in ;)
@MonicaCellio / @MichaelKjörling / @TimB can we get this featured for a while? I feel like it's a pretty big thing affecting the community so I'd like people to know about it instead of springing "hey, we have a blog now" on them.
@ArtOfCode The problem is we're unlikely to be able to have an official blog, even on an off site server, which makes official support (even to the point of featuring posts etc) tricky. We'd have to find out the position from the powers that be before we do anything on it.
@TimB I appreciate that. However, the SE team does seem fairly receptive to things that pop up; if we were to talk to our CM about it then I hold fair hopes they'd at least be happy for us to feature some stuff.
Sure, official support/recognition is a different kettle of fish and I'm not even going to try that discussion: I'm fairly sure the answer is no.
But as a blog run by the community, of interest to the community, I see little reason why we shouldn't be allowed to show it off a bit around here.