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Someone posted a Worldbuilding proposal on the Codidact incubator. The topics allowed on such a site are very similar to the topics allowed on this site; for the most part Scientific Speculation i...
I once had a question Somewhere Else about an economic stipulation and how its imposition would affect the world. I didn't think it to be a good stipulation and expected to be skewered by answers p...
Do posts like (What would X Sport look like in space?) belong in this community? It has nothing to do with science, some physics at best, and even then, only to a certain degree.
Hey everyone, new user here, I've already seen a couple of people complaining that the name isn't accurate, or it doesn't represent what is asked here, is there a pool to vote on whether to change ...
We try to hammer these things out during the proposal phase; really we do... but in the last day or two we've seen some objections to the name "Speculative Science", and if we're going to change it...
I suggest alteration of the name from "Scientific Speculation" to a more appropriate "World, Speculation". Why? Most questions they seek to answer are somewhat based on science, but rarely take s...
I'm a little disappointed that How can Single Vision lenses slow myopia for adults too? was deemed off topic. Can anyone explain to me why? It is indeed science speculation, it should be on rigoro...
When we launched this community, we did not yet have the ability to set different reputation grants for different categories. We've had this for a while but we failed to follow up before now, sorr...
I feel like science fiction doesn't have many sports, other than the occasional laser battle or fantasy sword duel. I'd like to start a discussion series about sports in a low-gravity/no-gravity e...
I've noticed that some questions have a mismatch between the number of answers showing in the question list page, and the number of answers showing on the specific question page. For example, the R...
This is based on a question in Writing about revitalising the community and is pretty much a blatant copy-paste of Monica's answer there. Essentially, it's been suggested that we remove all mass-i...
Codidact's communities have a lot of great content that is helping people on the Internet. Our communities are small, though, and sustainable communities depend on having lots of active, engaged p...
I took the tour and was told that questions about magic wouldn't find a place here. That's when I started looking around. There are 500+ tags, apparently not a single one of them has a summary...
I have some interest with this site, but if I want to ask something, I'll need to properly figure out if it's suitable to post it in SciSpec CD. Considering that this site is different from a site...
A now-deleted question involved archaeology, linguistics, and history. There were some downvotes and critical comments, and the author deleted the question. I don't know whether the downvotes wer...
Two months ago the question was asked: Do we want to keep the [science-based] and [reality-check] tags?. A month ago the same user asked: Are there tags we should remove from all questions...
In the "Scientific Speculation FAQ" page, at the section "What are the different categories for?", the categories are described as: Q&A is for general questions. Researched Q&A is for que...
Some time ago, I wrote a comment to this question. I don't remember the details, but something in the question needed to be fixed. I downvoted and left a comment saying I'd undo the downvote when...
I received a notification saying that there's a new answer to my question: But when I clicked it, I saw no answers. I can think of 2 possibilities about what happened: There wasn't an answer and ...
When we did the initial import from Worldbuilding SE, we also inherited the tag set from there. This leaves us with some tags which are (should be) redundant on Scientific Speculation. I primarily ...
To replace using the like of the 'hard-science' tag on Worldbuilding SE, we have the 'Rigorous Science' category. As evident in the name, this involves 'research' of some form, but what does this m...
Before launching the site, we had a discussion on Codidact Meta about naming the category we currently called "Researched Q&A". Other possibilities we explored included "Hard science", our sta...
For those who don't know: while this site was being proposed, I raised some issues about not importing questions with the [magic] tag. After some discussion, I feel like we reached a consensus that...
Welcome to the Codidact home for the Scientific Speculation community, an outgrowth of the SE Worldbuilding community. Please use it, report problems and make requests on Meta, and collect your th...
It looks like something went wrong during the import, causing imported posts to get the wrong character encoding. I fixed one at https://speculative-science.codidact.com/q/225476, but have come ac...
When we did the initial import from Worldbuilding SE, the [hard-science] tag was handled specially and routed to the Researched Q&A category while removing that tag, but its siblings [science-b...
Some topics may be good for a more general worldbuilding site, but are not appropriate for SpecSci. For example, How can my vampires hide in public? or How can I prevent the creation of fruit-sal...
