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Is there something to be done if a question about facts is mostly answered by opinions?
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Is the "Dinner with Trump" campaign legal?
This seems to be a question that should be answered by pure facts, it is just asking 'is x legal', the law site ...
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Reopening a question that is explicitly looking for fact-based answers, got one fact-based answer, but got closed as opinion-based
I asked this question: "What is the best strategy to slowly shift local taxes from property taxes to income taxes?".
The question explicitly contains this text, boldface in the original:
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On the use of sources when focusing on political policies
It says here ...
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... that by providing sources you are backing things up, and moving beyond the subjective into the objective.
However, what if I find ...
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Whether to use the [debate] or [legislative-process] tags for debates in legislative bodies?
Excerpts from the Wikipedia article, Debate:
Parliamentary debate
In parliaments and other legislatures, members debate proposals regarding legislation before voting on resolutions, which become laws....
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Should a [constitutional-court] tag be created?
There are currently 37 questions mentioning "constitutional court". Some are tagged supreme-court, some judiciary, and some with no distinct tag identifying a "court."
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Why was my answer to Q91394 deleted?
This answer of mine was deleted without any justification having been provided, which, in my humble opinion, is a display of extremely manners, especially so when the ones who voted for deletion did ...
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Was This Advice Good, Bad, or Too Vague to Be Helpful?
Could you please clarify whether this comment advice was bad, good, or so vague and open to interpretation that it shouldn't have been given in the first place?
I followed it at face value, but now I'...
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What if I VTC every question?
There's something mildly troubling I've noticed on the main site. It appears that some users (whom I'm not going to name) are more inclined to VTC than others. In particular, whenever a question is ...
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Reasons for being interested in what happens in the world on topic?
I wanted to post a post about asking reasons to be interested in what happens in the world.
Would that be appropriate on this site?
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Request for Review to Reopen Q
A question I posted - When elections are held in Ukraine, in the near future, who will be the major contenders? - has been repeatedly closed claiming it doesn't have factual answers:
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Why do some duplicate questions behave differently than others for logged out/lower-rep users?
Note: the behavior I am asking about here only applies to lower-rep or logged out users. If you want to see it in action, log out or use a different browser. Higher-rep users will always end up on ...
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What happens to bounties posted by suspended users?
Far as I understand, once you post a bounty, the points get deducted right away.
When it times out, you get notified and you can decide which answer gets the bounty. If you don't, I believe within 24 ...
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How should we consider seemingly rhetorical questions to bring attention to some bad aspects of a politician/party/country?
These are questions that, rather than having a clear reason for existing, seem to be more asking, out of the blue, why a person or an entity has not discussed grave, not-new, and generally accepted, ...
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How can I ask that question about Doge so that it doesn't "appear to be to promote or discredit a specific political cause, group or politician."?
Why does DOGE claim that the fraud it observes is "overwhelmingly on the left"? got closed as "appears to be to promote or discredit a specific political cause, group or politician.&...
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Human translations are allowed on Politics.SE; Unsupervised AI translations are equal or better than humans; Why are AI translations banned?
The following question was asked in 2018 about a fantastic mindmap in Mandarin: English version of mindmap on Xi Jinping Thought. No Mandarin speakers stepped up to the (admittedly daunting) task over ...
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