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Welcome to the staging ground for new communities! Each proposal has a description in the "Descriptions" category and a body of questions and answers in "Incubator Q&A". You can ask questions (and get answers, we hope!) right away, and start new proposals.

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Discussions about proposals or the proposal process.

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What tags should these puzzles have?

The following posts in the Puzzles proposal have no tags other than the proposal tag. If we launch the community, those posts would be untagged. Can we get some tags for them? They're probably u...

4 answers  ·  posted 10h ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 41m ago by trichoplax‭

discussion puzzles
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Graduate the Puzzles to its own community

There is probably more consistent new content on the Puzzles incubator than any other community I've seen on the site. Is it time to promote?

2 answers  ·  posted 11d ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 11h ago by Monica Cellio‭

discussion puzzles proposal
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When is there consensus that a proposal is solid?

From Community Proposals: When there is consensus that a proposal is solid, we'll create the community When? What are the criteria for a consensus? What are the criteria for solidness?

2 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by Ooker‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by Lundin‭

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Should I delete wrong puzzle answers?

On most communities, if I post an answer that I later learn is wrong, I would delete it to reduce the amount of wrong information on the site. When I recently realized that a Puzzles answer I post...

3 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by Lundin‭

discussion puzzles
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Unlisted Q&A category

Is there supposed to be an unlisted Q&A category? Since we already have the Incubator Q&A category this seems redundant. There are no posts there but I appear to have access to make a post ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Puzzles with no insight required

I'm going to post some puzzles as a test of a category of puzzle that does not require finding an insight, but just following steps. If solving a puzzle that requires an insight is like painting, t...

2 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by will.octagon.gibson‭

discussion puzzles scope
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proposal: advance Worldbuilding and merge with Scientific Speculation

We'd like to discuss advancing the proposed worldbuilding community and merging it with Scientific Speculation. A discussion on Sci Spec meta was positive (see also this comment thread on the prop...

2 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

discussion worldbuilding
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Home Improvement + Arts & Crafts -> some sort of "makers" community?

In response to a proposal to broaden Home Improvement, an answer counter-proposed merging Home Improvement with Arts & Crafts into a broader DIY community: There is a significant overlap in ...

3 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

discussion Arts-&-Crafts home-improvement
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Allowing Meta discussions about categories to be tagged

I tried to add the tag "categories" to a Meta post and was told I cannot because it is a mod only tag. This was surprising, but it made sense once I looked at the tag page: Parent for tags that ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by trichoplax‭

discussion tags
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Duplicate puzzle solutions

In most Codidact communities, I will read the existing answers to a question before posting an answer of my own, to avoid repeating an existing answer. So far I have taken the same approach with th...

2 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

discussion puzzles
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Minimum length of a proposed community name

The minimum title length here on Proposals Meta is 15 characters. This setting is adjustable per category. A Proposed community name may be shorter than this, so the minimum title length for a new ...

1 answer  ·  posted 5mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

discussion status-completed
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Potential MathJax section in the formatting help

MathJax is enabled in this community, but it is not mentioned in the formatting help. If MathJax guidance is wanted, there is some in the Mathematics Codidact formatting help (at the end). This co...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by will.octagon.gibson‭

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Incorrect bolding in help article

This post is a follow-up to this successfully answered question: https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/295639 I notice that there seems to be some incorrectly bolded text in three places in the Fo...

0 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by will.octagon.gibson‭

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Incorrect post times are shown

Sometimes in the Puzzles incubator, post times are incorrectly shown. Here is an example from my Where is the large cook promotion post. Under Lundin’s answer there are some comment threads (with...

1 answer  ·  posted 6mo ago by will.octagon.gibson‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Subscript and superscript 3 displayed too low in MathJax

There seems to be a bug in the way that the digit 3 is displayed in MathJax when used as a subscript or superscript. Too low: $2^{1234567890}$ Okay: $1234567890$ Too low: $2_{1234567890}$ Up...

0 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by will.octagon.gibson‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by will.octagon.gibson‭

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Details tags to avoid spoilers in comments on Puzzles

I raised on the main Meta Should details tags work in comments? and the results were mixed, including some people strongly opposed to the idea. I expect that different communities will have differe...

2 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

discussion puzzles
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Isolated letters in a code block are sometimes incorrectly bolded.

There seems to be a bug in how some isolated letters are displayed in a code block. This bug affects how the letters a, b, i, p, and q are displayed. These letters are being bolded without even b...

2 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by will.octagon.gibson‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by Michael‭

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How do we encourage answerable Philosophy questions?

Philosophy is an academic discipline and also a more informal conversational pursuit. How should the Philosophy community be structured to support and encourage answerable objective questions and ...

5 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Ripheus24‭

discussion philosophy
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Checking in on Webmasters

Our largest proposal (by number of questions) is Webmasters. Most of the questions are well-received, about half are answered, and there has been little recent activity. I'd like to understand th...

1 answer  ·  posted 7mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Michael‭

discussion Webmasters
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Rename Home Improvement to Homes?

A while back, I asked a question about "home stuff" beyond improvements -- things like cleaning, general maintenance, patio gardening, etc. There was some discussion about gardening, but in genera...

2 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Lundin‭

discussion home-improvement
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Where are the hot new questions?

SE and other Q/A answer forums have listings on the main page detailing recent activity in certain groups. I would like to see what communities are asking. Does Codidact have a "hot new" questions ...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by bowl0stu‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

discussion feature-request
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How can Worldbuilding successfully support creative exploration?

The Worldbuilding proposal currently includes this bullet: We would accept a fairly broad range of question types. Within reasonable limitations, questions that require focused brainstorming or ...

4 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by VLAZ‭

discussion worldbuilding
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Prevent tags overflow

I just asked a question and created a new tag without warning. Is there a kind of "sweeper" to clean up tags that are similar to each other, or some kind of friendly warning like "xyz" is a new ta...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by watchmaker‭

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Where to put proposal-community-specific help pages?

In a Codidact community there are community-specific help pages, reflecting the fact that each community is different. Over time these help pages can be modified in response to discussions on Meta....

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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How should we indicate non-Q&A categories for Incubator posts?

Some proposals include categories beyond the defaults of Q&A and Meta. We don't have all those categories here on the proposals site, but we need a way to indicate which category a post is int...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Andreas‭

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How can Worldbuilding support more open-ended questions? [duplicate]

The Worldbuilding proposal has some "conventional" questions and some that are more open-ended or even "idea generation". This happened in the SE Worldbuilding community too, and the latter got sh...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  closed as duplicate 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

discussion worldbuilding
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Can we have a Chemistry community?

I noticed that Codidact has very less variety of communities. What about chemistry?

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Jayant‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

discussion chemistry
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Is this one fishing for ideas?

There was a very nice question posted recently about an underground society not knowing overground war has ended. Just out of curiosity: The question could be regarded as "too broad", "genera...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Antares‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by trichoplax‭

discussion worldbuilding
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Highlighting the games we play with screenshots on Codidact

Something that could give us a bit of life and community beyond information-based content, would be a way for us to share experiences and highlights from our own game-playing experiences. Arqade SE...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Andreas‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Lundin‭

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Why was the codidact proposals down all day

I tried to post a question on worldbuilding and after I found I wasn't able to get into the site. I kept getting redirected to page telling me that codidact proposals was unavailable and it even to...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Melchizadek ‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Proposal authors can cause disruption by deleting their proposal

There is one specific issue here with one emergency solution. Because of this specific situation, we have discovered a flaw in our system. This flaw needs to be discussed further, and eventually re...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Andreas‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Is Artificial Life alive?

Artificial Life, a community for "the cross-disciplinary study of life and its abstract processes, distinct from but cross-informed by the specific instance of life that is studied as Biology", was...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Antares‭

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What should we do with older proposals that have no incubator activity?

We have several proposals that were made a long time ago but haven't had any incubator posts at all. That wasn't a use case we anticipated; we expected that proposals might be slow to build and th...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Does the Invasive Species proposal have support?

Invasive Species was proposed almost a year ago but has no incubator posts. The proposal includes outlines (titles) of sample questions that would be on-topic, but they haven't been developed into...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Antares‭

discussion invasive-species
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Welcoming a wide range of Artificial Life questions

I'd like to welcome questions at any level of understanding, in particular because Artificial Life is an interdisciplinary field, so even an expert in one field is an outsider in some sense. I'd al...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Should Accounting merge into Finance?

Accounting was proposed about a year ago, but there have been no posts in the incubator. A comment on the proposal suggests that accounting should be within the scope of Finance. There is no over...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

discussion finance accounting
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Is the Open Source proposal currently viable?

Open Source Software was proposed about a year ago. Ten people have joined or are watching, which might be a record here, but there have been no posts in the incubator. The description is: A s...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

discussion open-source
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Is Worldbuilding fit for Q&A?

There is one simple answer to this question: No. No, it does not fit into the current concept of Q&A. The topic of Worldbuilding is fundamentally different to probably all other possible commun...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Antares‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Allowed types of questions for Worldbuilding

I like the proposal text and have actually very little to add. Should be a solid starting ground. One concern I have is the general thing with "malformed questions". I strongly advocate for not h...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Antares‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Andreas‭

discussion worldbuilding
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Supporters for a Worldbuilding community on Codidact

I would like to get a picture of the general supporters (those who are "okay" with this) for a Worldbuilding community. Supporters are not meant to be obliged to participate actively. Just interest...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Antares‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Antares‭

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Can I ask Worldbuilding questions here?

I would like to ask something about a world I am designing. Can I ask that here? Is this like in StackExchange and I get closed and downvoted without help? To the existing members: This is the i...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Antares‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Antares‭

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Is there room for a long list of types of buildings and facilities in a city or country?

I'm looking for a very long and sufficiently detailed list of every possible type of facility that exists in the world today, or perhaps is likely to exist in the future. For example, the list woul...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Andreas‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Link back to the proposal post in the wiki for the proposal's tag

When I'm browsing through questions in the Q/A category, I often want to look closer at the community proposal that the question belongs to. The most obvious path to follow, then, is to click on th...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Andreas‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Andreas‭

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On a tag's wiki, list every community proposal using the tag on a question

When looking at a tag in the Incubator Q/A category, I often want to know which community that tag belongs to. As is the case today, tags in that category aren't actually confined to a single commu...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Andreas‭

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Why can we not vote for community proposals?

Codidact is rather strongly centered around the idea of voting on content. Personally, I am open to revisit the manner in which we rank and asses content on the network, but for the time being, tha...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Andreas‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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How do I object to a community proposal?

Codidact is wide open to have any sort of community proposed. This means that any kind of proposal can also gain a significant backing from either new or existing members. However, that does not me...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Andreas‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Scope discussion for Sports

I have updated and formalized the scope definition of the Sports proposal. This post is intended as a general discussion post regarding site scope. Specifically as of 24-06-27, I would like feedba...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭

discussion sports
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Broaden the scope of AI tech into all ML?

I created the AI tech proposal primarily because I thought it would be good to have a place to discuss doing stuff with AI models rather than the details of how they are trained and how they work. ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by pbloem‭

discussion ai-tech machine-learning
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Use a mainstream definition of politics

The current description says: “politics” as human social phenomena which come from humanity’s tendency for subjectivity - that people may have fundamentally different beliefs, preferences, or wi...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭

discussion politics
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Home Improvement versus a more general "home stuff" community?

Would the proposed Home Improvement community be open to questions about "house stuff" more broadly? I have in mind not just home improvement, but household operations more generally. I'd been co...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Lundin‭

discussion home-improvement