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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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Posts by trichoplax‭

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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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Meta Should proposals all have MathJax or none have MathJax?

Some Codidact communities have MathJax enabled, while others do not. Each community decides whether they want MathJax based on weighing up the advantages and disadvantages. However, Codidact Propo...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Meta Tag collision between proposals

Definitely a problem I don't see this as a problem for filtering posts. If I filter by the proposal tag and the clashing tag, then I will only see posts with the clashing tag for that proposal, no...

posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Incubator Q&A Would it make sense for an entity who can control tangible and/or intangible materials be able to manipulate electricity but not light?

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...

posted 2mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Incubator Q&A How do I search for d6 dice with a blank 6th face?

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...

3 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Antares‭

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Meta What should the "webmasters" site name and url be?

When SE's webmasters community was just starting out, they had a Meta discussion about what the site name should be. Although they settled on "webmasters", some of the arguments given at the time m...

4 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Wicket‭

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Incubator Q&A First use of dice to determine direction

Which game first introduced the concept of rolling dice to determine a direction? I'm designing a board game and I know which game gave me this idea[1] but I doubt it was the first to use it. I'm ...

0 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta Why can we not vote for community proposals?

What was the rationale for removing it? This wasn't my decision so I'll answer the discussion side rather than the support side. I'll leave the rationale to be answered by someone who knows. ...

posted 3mo ago by trichoplax‭

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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?

An alternative Maybe they did notice the war had ended, but still chose not to leave the safety of their underground society. Over time, this alternative reason for staying could drift into the si...

posted 2mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Incubator Q&A Quiet dice on a budget

I'm designing a board game that involves rolling several dice simultaneously each turn (usually between 1 and 20), and in testing I found that this is surprisingly loud. I'm aiming to keep the gam...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta Make proposed community tags mandatory

Every question in the Incubator Q&A category should have 1 or more tags for a proposed community, so that it is clear which community or communities the question is intended for. Currently it ...

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

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Meta Can Tabletop Games Codidact be given as the support site for a board game?

If I design a board game, can I list Tabletop Games Codidact as a place to ask any questions? Does this depend on whether the game is free or paid for? Does this depend on whether the game is open...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta How do I object to a community proposal?

Public objection You can raise a discussion on either of: Proposals Meta, if you believe that the presence of the proposal itself is a problem. Codidact Meta, if you believe that either the pr...

posted 3mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta Is Worldbuilding fit for Q&A?

Existing communities that are different from standard Q&A There are already several Codidact communities that cater to art and have different rules than might be expected in a question and ans...

posted 2mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Descriptions Artificial Life

Site Name Artificial Life Description A community for anyone interested in Artificial Life, the cross-disciplinary study of life and its abstract processes, distinct from but cross-informed by t...

posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta 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 2mo ago by trichoplax‭