Unanswered Questions
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Is it time for this site to move out of Beta?
The site meets or exceeds most Area 51 criteria, particularly on users and traffic.
There is a healthy number of established 20k+ users.
The site is well-moderated (and very actively so).
It is now ...
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Affable Geek has passed away
I have learned today that one of our moderators, Affable Geek, has passed away. He was one of the best posters, if not the best poster at Politics.SE, and he was a great moderator.
He will be missed....
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Celebrating 10 years of Politics Stack Exchange!
Remember, remember the fourth of December when we celebrate our first Politics.SE question: What are the disadvantages of first-past-the-post electoral systems?
Ten years, 15,000 questions, and 33,000 ...
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Notice: Macroeconomics is officially in scope
Having spoken with the awesome Jon Ericson, I can officially state that the proposal to put questions of macroeconomics in scope is the consensus among the Community Managers.
To wit:
I talked with ...
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Can all questions asking about the Queen's decision-making be closed as duplicates?
There's a lot of questions on Politics.SE asking if the queen has any decision-making power:
Did the supreme court overrule the monarch?
Can the Queen of the United Kingdom appoint her successor?
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Announcing a “Graduation” election for 2022
Summary: Politics Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for an election on September 26th, as your “graduation” election as a result of having lost your beta label a while back.
The timeline:
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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Can we devise a canonical question about US federal law vs State law?
@IllusiveBrian had a highly voted and (in my opinion) useful comment on this post about maternity leave laws in the US:
I wonder if we need a canonical question explaining the role of the US Federal ...
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Can we stop it with the "are there conspiracy theories about X" questions?
Are there conspiracy theories about Pakistan? [It's (not?) coup'd by USA regularly.]
Are there conspiracy theories about India? [It's (not?) an ethnostate.]
Are there conspiracy theories about Russia? ...
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No [westminster] is better than a bad [westminster]?
The westminster has only 8 questions but they seem to cover different topics.
Few are about the Westminster system of government:
Is regular Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) something unique to ...
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Are overly specific questions on-topic here?
For example, I have queries regarding a specific US Senate special election in Alabama in the 1930s? Specifically, I hope to get more information on the candidates and their vote shares.
Can I check ...
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Merge [public-pensions] and [private-pensions] into [pensions]
Both existing tags have few questions associated with them yet there is no tag for pensions in general. Given that it is difficult to distinguish between the two in some countries* it might be better ...
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Make [trump] a synonym of [donald-trump]
I’ve come across a few questions that’s tagged with trump and I’ve retagged them with donald-trump.
As such, can trump be made a synonym of donald-trump?
(I have suggested this synonym at https://...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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