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Can I request observations of the blue spiral phenomenon?
Can I request observations of the blue spiral phenomenon on Astronomy StackExchange? If someone saw one in the 1970's for example. Perhaps it will be considered off-topic? I think it is astronomy. It'...
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Is there a good time for deciding to fork a follow-up question?
We are encouraged to Edit, improve our questions, for clarity, especially when someone expressed an opinion in this direction in a Comment. That's a good thing. But I think there are limits.
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Shall we keep both the [star-maps] and [map] tags and update their distinctly different usage information?
We have two tags:
star-maps 39 questions (starting around 2018)
The star-maps tag has no summary, can you help us create it?
map 9 questions (starting arond 2021)
The map tag has no summary, can you ...
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Do we have the Biology website badge logos?
I opened my notifications inbox and I found our badges are the Biology ones:
Of course, after closing and reopening it the badges became the small circles we are familiar with:
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Spurious and trivial question edits
What mechanisms are in place to prevent users bumping questions (and presumably getting an undeserved editing record) by making trivial or spurious edits to questions (e.g. adding a bunch of spaces to ...
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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of ...
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Replacing latex commands in edits
I have just rejected an edit of one of my posts. The edit wanted to replace numbers and symbols enclosed within mathematics delimiters, with equivalents not enclosed in latex markdown. An example is ...
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Will I punish somebody by selecting a better answer?
If I select an answer as the best one, and tomorrow somebody writes a better answer and I select that instead, does the first guy get his points subtracted?
I often don't select the best answer ...
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Do we really want a [debunk] tag?
During an edit I removed a newly-hatched debunk tag from Is it true that “ Shower meteors always come in spurts separated by spells of inactivity that can last up to a few minutes” Since the OP put it ...
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The computer caught someone mass downvoting all my posts
In two incidents, today and yesterday, someone methodically went down all my answers, and downloaded all of them 12 times. the computer detected both incidents and reversed the downvotes.
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Would somebody please remove the period in the name of the "Astronomy." stack exchange?
It's probably trivial, but it gets on my nerves every time I see it. No other SE has a period after its name.
Shoot me; I'm a perfectionist.
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Should there be increase in reputation for upvotes of a comment?
Should there be increase in reputation for upvotes of a comment?. The reason I am saying this is because, even if you can't answer the question fully, you atleast provide enough details for the answer ...
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I'm done with you and you're done with me
I ask my questions to have a thoughtful, open minded discussion, to defend my point of view and maybe disprove Yours. I wonder how can that be a bad approach or against the regulations. I wonder how I ...
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Is it allowed to post the same question on both Astronomy and Physics SE?
I guess, that it's discouraged, but is it allowed?
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edit reason declined with reason "comment reserved for system use"
EDIT: This bug seems cross-site and has been reported elsewhere (1) and (2), too.
When editing this question by replacing the supplied images of the formula with identical mathjax formulas I tried to ...
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