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The fundamentals of SEO haven't changed in two decades: Create great content. Use the words and phrases for which you want to be found in search engines. Ensure that search engines can crawl y...
A healthy community requires both activity and people. The Incubator Q&A category is the place to build activity (and Meta is the place to flesh out issues that come up in doing so), but we'd ...
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. ...
From the Georgia Pacific page on OSB: Blue edge seal helps prevent moisture intrusion And on the specifications page downloadable from the Georgia Pacific web page: BlueRibbon Rated Sheathing ...
Personal opinion, not speaking for the team: There is a tension between being accessible to all, on the one hand, and assuming a baseline of knowledge in a site's topic. On a software-development...
One solution, which I know has been discussed in other contexts, is to have a community-specific glossary of terms. A really neat way to do this would be for the first time something is included in...
Home Improvement seems like a site where recommendation type questions might happen quite frequently, including product/component recommendations as well as tool recommendations. I think these can ...
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...
Swap too much control for too little If your concern is that being able to control light would make your character(s) too powerful, but you feel that not affecting light would seem like an oversig...
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...
They can only see a cut-out of the reality Depending on their technological capabilities underground people might have something like periscopes, cameras or drones available to take a "peek" on th...
I'm imagining a sort of magic that only manipulates probabilities. That is, you cannot achieve something that's against the laws of nature (for example, you cannot create energy out of nothing), bu...
I've read one novel with a similar setting where the answer was: a small number in the government know the truth, but they intentionally deceive everyone else in order to retain power. Anyone who w...
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...
If you can do it with your mind, then why can't everyone do it, and why are there wizards with inherently different strengths? It is like many other abilities we are already familiar with. Some p...
Thanks for pointing this out. I think this is a broader problem than just proposals: wiki posts are intended to be community-owned, so the original author shouldn't have any special privileges on ...
You're not really using these dice as dice, but as markers. It sounds like you won't be "rolling" these dice, and therefore expect an even outcome between landing on each of the 6 sides. Paint th...
I haven't found what I'm looking for online, so I'm wondering if there is a specialist term for this type of dice that would give me better luck. What I'm seeking I'm looking for dice that are id...
Science tends to discover knowledge by performing experiments in the lab. For example, suppose we have a hypothesis that a volume V of atmospheric air, when compressed quickly to a certain ratio, ...
The viability of a community doesn't depend on votes; it depends on activity. If a proposal attracts a body of Q&A (and other posts) from enough people, those are signs of a solid community. If...
What is the gender distribution in each of the Star Wars trilogies, and how does it distribute over each faction or group, such as the separatist droid army, empire officers, jedi, etc? I am somew...
I've had an idea where there's this humanoid based life-form that has no real origin other than being found on some remote island. Kind of like skull island and seems be a complete anomaly in the n...
Tankwar, 1978 I created Tankwar in 1978 at the RPI (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York) Interactive Computer Graphics Center (ICGC). The ICGC had two Prime 750 computers, each wit...
Today we take multi-player first-person view computer games for granted, but what was the first one? When was that? What did it run on? Who were the players? What was it like? Any interesting ...
Long thin wings aren't all that great for getting fast, but they are great for conserving energy. The usual approach to efficient flight is to have hybrid wings that narrow down when you want to m...
