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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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Meta Introducing a new proposals process

Welcome to the new Proposals site! As we noted in the proposal for this change, we feel we need better way to propose and evaluate new communities for our network. A single post and people expres...

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

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Incubator Q&A Do search engines detect and penalize AI generated content?

If I want to use chat GPT or other large language model AI to generate content for my website, will that be a good strategy for SEO? Can search engines detect and penalize content that was written...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by Michael‭

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Incubator Q&A When importing Creative Commons licensed content from another site, how to ensure that search engines won't penalize my site?

Codidact has tried importing questions from other Q/A sites like Stack Exchange. However search engines have not liked that. Those questions and answers don't usually get indexed on Codidact, and...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Meta Introducing a new proposals process

Thanks, this looks like an improvement from my perspective of somebody who is proposing a site. This lets me get on with demonstrating questions and answers without needing to get the site set up ...

posted 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Incubator Q&A Is it possible to set up a website that will last for 100 years, paid in advance?

Under ICANN rules, registrations are not allowed to be longer than a ten-year term. Some companies, most notably Network Solutions, offer a 100-year term when you buy a domain name, but as far as I...

posted 1y ago by Ullallulloo‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Ullallulloo‭

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Incubator Q&A Is it possible to set up a website that will last for 100 years, paid in advance?

I've seen a lot of domain names expire or hosting go dark when a website owner stops maintaining the site. Is there a way to prevent that for my own site? I'd like it to remain up, well after I'm ...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Meta How to tell that a proposal is ready for launch?

Previously in the old system, we asked around of how many that were willing to participate, posted scope proposals and declared interested with comments or voting. Now: The "Descriptions" tab...

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

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Meta 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 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by Lundin‭

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Meta Why was the codidact proposals down all day

In a nutshell... Cloudflare. To give a little more detail, it looks like Cloudflare's anti-AI scraper tool went a bit off the deep end and decided to block our frontend from accessing the backend,...

posted 2mo ago by Mithical‭

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Incubator Q&A What could be a believable reason for technologically advanced underground people to not notice the end of surface war for hundreds of years?

Consider the following scenario: We are in a far future. Technology has advanced quite a bit. A large, devastating global war has broken out. One faction decides to hide from that war underground...

12 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A What could be a believable reason for technologically advanced underground people to not notice the end of surface war for hundreds of years?

I don't think that anyone can really answer that without first answering how they expected to know in the first place. Did they plan to monitor the outside world through some technological means? ...

posted 2mo ago by John C‭

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Incubator Q&A What could be a believable reason for technologically advanced underground people to not notice the end of surface war for hundreds of years?

The war was devastating but nobody thought it would be so bad they'd nuke all advanced technology from their memory. Even those who'd seen it happen couldn't believe their eyes, and those born afte...

posted 2mo ago by honnza‭

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Incubator Q&A House-level battery backup now, solar panels later -- what do I need to know?

In the last few years my area has seen increased power outages -- usually a few hours, occasionally longer. I'd like to defend against these better so that a poorly-timed outage doesn't ruin my wh...

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

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Incubator Q&A Where can I find a simplified Railways of the World map for player reference?

I've just gotten a copy of Railways of the World after playing and enjoying a few games. The eastern-US map is physically very large and "artistic". I and some of my friends have vision problems ...

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

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Incubator Q&A What is a good, simple way to send electronic updates to a small group?

What is a good way to send occasional updates (like meeting times) to a small group of people (5-20) electronically? I see a lot of groups like this create a Facebook page and post updates on ther...

2 answers  ·  posted 12mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by Michael‭

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Incubator Q&A Can an email's Reply-To have a different domain than its From?

Any such negative effects would seem to be against at the very least the letter, and really also the spirit, of RFC 5322 section 3.6.2 on originator fields. In the words of RFC 5322: The "From:...

posted 1y ago by Canina‭

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Meta 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 ...

4 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Antares‭

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Meta How can I propose a new website in Codidact?

I want to propose a new website to be launched at Codidact. How can I formally make this proposal?

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

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Meta 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 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Meta Make proposed community tags mandatory

I've added a new close reason: community not specified This question is missing a tag for an active community proposal. If the proposal this question is part of exists, please add the tag and t...

posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Incubator Q&A Do search engines use content user ratings for ranking purposes?

I have a Q&A site where users can upvote and downvote the questions and answers. Does Google use these votes as a ranking signal? Will pages that my users vote up rank better than pages that ...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Incubator Q&A What's the deal with content farms?

In the last 5-10 years, I've noticed that many searches (especially Google) about technical or semi-technical questions, have the results clogged with "content farm" results. It's hard to precisel...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A Is Kant's categorical imperative applicable to Q&A sites like Codidact?

On sites like Codidact, the question often arises about what rules should be imposed on user behavior. What is a good question? What is a good answer? What behaviors are desirable and which are not...

3 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A Why was the codidact proposals down all day

Thanks for reporting this. All Codidact communities, including Codidact Proposals, were unavailable for most of yesterday. This has now been fixed, but you weren't able to raise this until after i...

posted 2mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta Is this one fishing for ideas?

the reasons to close by some standards (which are or are not defined or agreed upon yet ... ) The standards for what kinds of questions are allowed on Worldbuilding will be determined by Meta ...

posted 2mo ago by trichoplax‭

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