Unanswered Questions
21 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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How should we celebrate our birthday?
In three weeks, History of Science and Mathematics Stack Exchange will turn one year old. Congratulations on everyone who worked hard to make our first year in beta a success.
How should we mark the ...
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Let's make our own site promotion ad!
This is a spin-off of ManishEarth's earlier meta post,
Make some community ads!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will
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Blacklisted [history] tag has reappeared
Based on this answer, [history] (as well as any other tag beginning with the word "history") is supposed to be a blacklisted tag on the main site. However that has apparently failed. This ...
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Our totally unofficial official-and-rather-belated 100-day checkup
Two months ago, I wrote up this post:
Our totally unofficial 30-day checkup
In it, I gave our site stats (available here). We're at about the same levels, 70 days later. That might seem discouraging....
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Is asking questions related to the statements in (religious) scriptures allowed?
There are many facts in scriptures across the world. They are mentioned very earlier compared to their formal verification with modern science.
Assume that a fact has been proved by the modern ...
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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Feeds for suitable questions from other sites in chat?
Could perhaps adding feeds from hsm-related questions from other Stack Exchange sites into chat be useful? I could, for example, imagine ho.history-overview tag from MathOverflow, math-history tag ...
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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Is this question no longer 'too broad'
I have edited my question How did prisoners of war discover scientific breakthroughs while interned?, which currently has 3 close votes as being 'too broad'.
The question now focuses on how ...
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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Criteria for considering questions 'duplicates' seem to need improvement
Repeatedly I have noticed that questions on HSM stack exchange are getting closed as 'duplicates' when it is at least highly arguable that they are anything but duplicates.
The need for improved ...
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Event suggestion: A history of mathematics and future direction panel discussion?
So recently, I was pondering about historical connections of subjects, such as how concepts, ideas and experiments done in history change the course of humanity as they open new doors to exploration ...
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Tag suggestion: natural history
I have a question about my History of Science and Mathematics Stack Exchange post: What are other ancient encyclopaedic texts like Pliny's “Naturalis Historia” that were available to medieval ...
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Is there something that needs to be done when the main chatroom is frozen?
If you look at the chat rooms associated with HSM you can see that there is a room called On the way to Damascus. The room On the Shoulder of Giants has been frozen. (As far as I can tell, this ...
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Looking for a general academic term on “technology trees” and related research and not sure where to ask best
I'm not sure whether this question is well on topic at History of Science and Mathematics?
My question:
From computer games like Civilizations, we know the concept of the
technology tree, i.e. ...
