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Why were my comments deleted?
I made two comments on the question Was there a gender reveal party by IDF soldiers in Gaza that involved demolition? and they were deleted. Why?
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Should we allow answers which put the claim in context and help people think skeptically?
There is a prohibition on "theoretical" answers. I understand why it exists, a definitive answer directly refuting the claim is best and avoids the "some guy on the Internet says so&...
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Why was my answer about US tariffs deleted?
Is the US government making $2 billion a day on tariffs?
The question was: "Is the US making $2 billion a day on tariffs?"
My answer: explaining that tariffs do not bring any money into the ...
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I would like my answer undeleted
It seems you deleted my answer. You wrote that it should deleted because:
The numbers are unreferenced; 3.8 million is at the high end of the
estimates I have seen.
The arithmetic is flat out wrong. ...
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How should we deal with (often politically motivated) bad faith notable claims?
Asking this one specifically because of the question here, but it's nowhere near the only example -- antivax advocates are also terribly fond of the format.
Sometimes a statement is made in such a way ...
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Should long, contentious comment threads be flagged for deletion? How?
On other Stack Exchange sites I frequent, comment threads that get long and/or devolve into contentious arguments are typically deleted by moderators.
Is this the norm on Skeptics as well? If so, is ...
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Why do I have to list sources for things that are very common knowledge?
My answer to Did Hitler ever claim "I am a socialist"? stated the obvious, namely that Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi party, where Nazi stands for "Nationalsozialistische"....
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What other sources am I supposed to give?
My answer here to the question Is it dangerous to vacuum-clean motherboards (and other electronics)? was deleted by a moderator.
They first prompted me to give additional sources. Among electrical ...
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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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Ads test beginning week of January 13th, 2025
We’ve been exploring the concept of using open auction to manage advertising on some Stack Exchange sites. Under this model, advertisers (who have been organized into categories based on their ...
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How do I improve a deleted question?
The question Did Al Jazeera incite and support terrorism? was deleted.
The comment says it is unanswerable because there is no definition of "terrorism".
This is easily fixable: the question ...
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Closed and deleted question about fraud in the 2024 Venezuelan election
My question pertains to the following question:
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/57189/what-evidence-is-there-of-election-fraud-in-the-2024-venezuelan-presidential-ele
It was deemed to ...
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Moderators pinning opinions on questions but deleting opposing ones
A moderator posted a comment on this question:
A reminder to the linguistic prescriptivists: Scientists don't own words, and the battle over the term "chemical-free" was, perhaps sadly, ...
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When answering, is it acceptable to mainly use a trustworthy website or media as proof?
Simply put, can I reference a trustworthy article/news paper/media as the main evidence when answering here? Or is that not enough? More specifically, can a The Guardian article be proof/evidence? I'...
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How should new information that invalidates a popular answer be handled?
There is a pending edit suggestion for politics - Is Barack Obama a natural born US citizen? - Skeptics Stack Exchange.
The edit adds this definition:
Certificates of Non Citizen Nationality states:
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