Questions tagged [discussion]
A tag for questions that may not necessarily have a clear-cut right or wrong answer and are often subjective. If it's not a bug, feature-request or request for assistance, it is probably a discussion.
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Are non Amateur Radio discussions allowed?
In Area 51, there were questions as to if GMRS and CB radio should be allowed. The overwhelmingly most popular answer was that they should be allowed, but not encouraged. Commercial radio was strictly ...
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Topic of the Week
(Copied from Space.SE, modified to fit here)
One of the things that Stack Exchange in general has found effective is to devote a week to a specific topic in which members of the site feel is lacking. ...
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We'd like math support enabled
Some Stack Exchange sites, such as Math and Physics, allow LaTeX equations for rendering in questions and answers. For example, writing
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How can we improve the activity on this site?
I don't know about you all, but I'm quite grateful to have this site as a resource. I feel like it is starting to enter a decline, which has me worried. I see fewer good questions being asked, and ...
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Please welcome your new moderators
I'm Pops, a Community Manager at Stack Exchange. I'm here today to announce two new moderators for your community, replacing two long-serving mods who have stepped down. Please welcome:
Please join ...
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Is anything ever closed?
I've noticed that basically nothing gets closed, ever. If something does get closed, it's by a diamond moderator, not by community voting, and even then, it's hit and miss.
There also seems to be ...
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What should the help center read about on-topic and off-topic questions?
Each Stack Exchange site has a Help Center page What topics can I ask about here? detailing the scope of the site in question.
Ours is still a default stub:
Please look around to see if your ...
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How to encourage specifying one's locale?
This is peripherally related to What about 'localized' questions?, but I have a feeling that the answer will be somewhat different so am asking it as a separate question.
There has been a fair number ...
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Questions that aren't off topic shouldn't be moved
There is a difference between a question that could be answered on another site, and a question which is off-topic for this site.
For instance, I'm probably going to start asking questions about Go ...
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To what extent are "recommend a solution" questions allowed
Obviously a question like "where can I buy X" is not on topic, but there is a valid question right now of chinese-brand vs established-brand HTs. This is more of a continuum than an easy ...
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Proposed close reason: impossible HF propagation questions
I asked this one:
How can I know over what distance or at what speed I can communicate?
and it was closed as "too broad". However: this was not closed:
What bands and modes will give me ...
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Since when are questions related to physics off topic on HR SE?
The subject at hand is related to this question in particular: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/131619/how-does-ohms-law-apply-to-superconductors
If technologies are only on-topic if they ...
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Do SDR questions belong here too?
A LOT of (or maybe a few of) ham operators these days also use Software Defined Radios to gain more than what the physical hardware gives, or to monitor multiple devices simultaneously, or to modify ...
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Are US Test Pool questions fair game for the community and/or for the beta?
Given that the answers are already known to the community, is it helpful to ask questions which are already part of the test pool? How can we get more technical questions going?
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Please post questions!
I can post six unlimited questions a day, and so can you. Please try to post as many good questions as you can think of each and every day. The site activity will only increase if people know that ...
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What tags to use for questions concerning someone's shack
Currently we have ham-setup and installation. Currently the questions are about someone's shack.
Do we want to use a shack tag for these?
There are 582,000 google hits for: "Amateur Radio" shack
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Should questions on broadcast radio be specifically off topic?
We have had a few questions that deal specifically with broadcast radio. That is, some form of one-to-many transmissions, occasionally on frequency bands specifically assigned to broadcast radio as ...
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Later this year, hamSE may no longer be a beta site. What will happen?
Per this answer in a related question, we might come out of beta in late October.
What will happen then?
Will there any advantages, etc. of no longer being a beta site?
We need to prepare a logo or ...
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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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Will we come out of "beta" ? ... ever?
Current status is:
so, what do we need to do to come out of beta ?
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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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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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Is there a Plan for driving more traffic to the site?
I've noticed the steady decline of the number of unique users / day over the last few weeks. The holidays (at least in the US) aside, it seems like we need about 5x as many users/questions/answer to ...
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How about list questions?
How should we feel about list questions? For example, there's already How can I protect equipment against a lightning strike? which seems to beg for incomplete answers at best (because I doubt anyone ...
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beta status as of February 2020
I saw the question Will we come out of “beta” ? … ever? from November 2017, and I wondered how we're doing now, over two years later. So I looked up our site statistics on Area 51 here, and here's ...
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What is popular around Amateur Radio forums?
A quick survey of the top four ham radio forums via google search shows that that are a number of very popular topic categories. Here are the top common subforums with the most threads (not posts, ...
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Should we use short or long tags for regional/country tags?
I've seen people using united-states and usa, similarly I've seen uk and wouldn't be ...
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Are questions concerning commercial business-band radios allowed here?
The hamSE What-topics-are-allowed-here help page does not specifically disallow questions about non-amateur-band business radios, business repeaters, antennas, etc. in such a way that the majority of ...
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Regional tagging rules?
Amateur radio invites users worldwide, but the rules and usage differ region to region, sometimes significantly.
On most Stack Exchange websites, regional tags are avoided in preference to generic ...
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How is this site moderated, and what can ordinary users do?
This site seems to have lots of rules, written and unwritten. Of course spammers and trolls are pretty rare, and discussions usually stay on-topic. This must take a lot of moderation. Who does the ...
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Contesting this closure
Carrier phone system adaptation
This a question is a concept stemming from a radio engineering handbook and my handbook talks about phone patching.
I have made conections to the radio, the only ...
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"Core Users" Posting leading questions and answering themselves
I'm new to both Amateur Radio (licensed ~4 months) and the ham.stackexchange.com site. However I am well experienced on StackOverflow and understand the site format very well.
Of concern to me is ...
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What about 'localized' questions?
Other sites have close reasons such as 'too localized' which basically means that a question is not likely to help many other visitors aside from the OP, and this is also generally used for timebound ...
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Have a tag for every single device?
As seen in
How do I replace the Li-ion battery in a Kenwood TM-741A?
we've got device-specific tags.
Now, I'd like to think it'd be a good idea to have a guideline on whether to tag with the ...
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