Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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How do we deal with perpetual motion and other hoax questions?
Fortunately, no questions of this sort have been asked yet. I suppose it will happen sometime, but I have no idea how we should respond. We could simply mark for deletion, but this will only cause the ...
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Astronomy/Astrophyiscs related question here? [duplicate]
I'm doing Astronomy as a GCSE (at high/secondary school) and the teacher often goes above the course, and we (the students) often ask above what the course requires. But because its a GCSE there's a ...
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Are "Puzzle" Questions Appropriate?
May I ask questions that I know the answer to, but are puzzles? For example, can I ask whether the level of water in a cup of ice water goes up or down while the ice melts? This is a standard ...
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Shall we force to use SI?
It seems a lot users here will be from USA, but still SI units are standard in science-level physics and may encourage broader participation. What do you think?
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Wikipedia like questions
My feeling is that we will have a lot of "Basic explanation of xxx [theory | principle | ..." questions.
What is your opinion about that ?
Mine is that we should not hesitate to point to wikipedia (...
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Can I ask several related questions in a single thread?
I have several physics questions, all of which are about the sloshing mode of water. Should I ask all the questions in a single thread, or create separate threads?
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Physics subfield tags and general tag rules
Since we have a fairly broad definition for what is allowed for discussion, we'll probably end up with a number of variations on the standard physics subfield tags. What are some general rules we ...
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What to put in the FAQ (the "on-/off-topic" section)?
Half a section of the FAQ can be edited (just copied the image from math.SE):
It was recommended we just include the on- and off-topic stuff, e.g. copied from Super User:
Super User is for ...
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How basic is too basic?
My own daughter asked - only two days ago - "What is physics"? While that may be a little too simple - there's plenty of definitions easily available - how simple can (or should) we go on this site?
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