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.
650
questions
-1
votes
1
answer
66
views
Why was my question about tyre smoke viewed 2k times and upvoted 5x in just 24 hours?
Yesterday I posted this question about tyre smoke of big and small airplanes. I got answers very fast which is great. Then, I closed the tab and went to do something else.
When I checked my SE inbox ...
- 1,394
-1
votes
1
answer
41
views
Please re-check my question which has been closed as duplicate, I do not agree it is a duplicate
Once upon a time I was challenged to "post an example on Meta" when I found a similar, but different, question being blocked as a duplicate.
My question, "Why would it be logical to call clearance ...
- 8,822
-1
votes
1
answer
65
views
Why is this question closed as a duplicate?
This question, What are winglet and endplate? And how is their functioning?, asks regarding both winglets and endplates. Neither of the supposed duplicates address endplates whatsoever.
I understand ...
- 16.6k
-1
votes
1
answer
24
views
Why was this new user's answer deleted within 1-2 hours of posting by "Community" bot, and then locked?
What happened here? https://aviation.stackexchange.com/posts/104618/revisions Seems a rather unwelcome reception for a new user.
Under that answer Do GPS coordinates of a fixed point in space ever ...
- 22.6k
-1
votes
1
answer
42
views
Are questions about airport's naming schemes and markings on topic here?
Following this comment and the fact that corresponding question is marked as off-topic, can someone tell me, if questions about airport's internal design, naming schemes and markings are on topic here?...
- 4,152
-1
votes
1
answer
28
views
Should there be a new tag for Airman Certification Standards?
We have an "Airman-certification" tag, but with the new distinction of the old "Practical Test Standards" currently being phased out, and the new "Airman Certification Standards" which seem to be ...
- 8,822
-1
votes
1
answer
93
views
What is the most appropriate way on ASE to advance an argument that a topic not be closed as a duplicate?
What is the most appropriate way on ASE to advance an argument that a topic not be closed as a duplicate, and invite votes to re-open?
Specifically, where should such an argument be posted? As ...
- 22.6k
-1
votes
2
answers
91
views
Why was my flag for the "Three endorsements before solo" question declined?
I am here again for the second time in a week to ask about what types of questions are on-topic here. My recent flag for this question with a current net score of -3 was declined recently. The ...
- 2,263
-1
votes
1
answer
42
views
Need help with a question
I thought this was a good question. Spinning wing heat dispersion dynamics? but is down voted. Can someone please help me make this question better?
user20435
-1
votes
1
answer
31
views
Does the stackexchange network allow for crowdsourcing of answers?
Does the stackexchange network allow for crowdsourcing of answers?
There are four questions of particular interest that would benefit the Aviation Stackexchange community, but the answer would be an ...
- 1,710
-1
votes
1
answer
38
views
how can i logout from this website (http://aviation.stackexchange.com/)?
I don't have can detailed version of this question. All I want to know for now is how to logout from the current website in which I have asked this question.
user15889
-1
votes
2
answers
78
views
Can I interest anyone in voting to reopen a question?
I'm trying to get this question reopened. It's closed as a duplicate and it is pretty close to one of the linked questions. But I think it has a slight difference.
Honestly I'm just frustrated ...
- 28.5k
-1
votes
1
answer
38
views
What form of English do we use for grammar and spelling edits? [duplicate]
Which version of English grammar and spellings do we use for edits on this community American-English or British-English?
- 12k
-1
votes
1
answer
57
views
Marked an edit as Rejected, what happens next?
On this question, an edit was proposed which I reviewed and marked to reject, as I didn't see any improvement while it introduced something entirely outside of all English grammar/vocabulary that I'm ...
Ralph JMod
- 51.4k
-1
votes
1
answer
39
views
Is a survey possible on meta?
Is it possible to do survey on meta? I would like to hold a survey of what kind of aviation experience each member have.
Maybe a list will be
GA pilot
private or BizJet pilot
airliner pilot
atc
...
- 8,128
-1
votes
1
answer
89
views
Why can a bounty created to "reward an existing answer" not be awarded immediately?
At least twice now, I've created a bounty on a question for the specific purpose of rewarding an answer that is really excellent. The system then lets the bounty sit out there, not awarded, for a ...
Ralph JMod
- 51.4k
-1
votes
1
answer
68
views
What is "burnination"?
What is "burnination"? I have never heard this word before.
Related-- The [procedure] tag is very vague
- 22.6k
-1
votes
1
answer
42
views
Can votes to close a question as a duplicate ever be over-ruled by moderators?
Can votes to close a question as a duplicate ever be over-ruled by moderators, if a sufficient argument is provided that the question is not a duplicate?
This appears to be a related question -- ...
- 22.6k
-1
votes
1
answer
79
views
Why aren't people trying to answer my questions?
I mean for my past few questions, people have been correcting my mistakes but no one offers to help. I get it I made mistakes but people just criticise my questions rather help me solve a problem. I ...
- 437
-1
votes
1
answer
64
views
Any of you aviation enthusiasts here interested in personal use of Drones? [closed]
If you are, please support the Drone Stack Exchange Proposal!
Then we can start sharing information on cool aviation tools such as this:
-1
votes
1
answer
32
views
How to ask about material to study aviation related topics?
Since reading Aviation SE I noticed that I have a huge interest in everything related to aerodynamics so I'd like to know the whole topic in more depth. This led me to nearly asking about what the ...
- 3,849
-1
votes
1
answer
172
views
Kegworth air disaster - Example of 'How can passengers help in the cockpit in an in-flight aviational crisis?'
I accept the rarity of such events, but still, does this event counter or negate the negative feedback aimed at How can passengers help in the cockpit in an aviational emergency? I'd also be ...
user128
-1
votes
1
answer
67
views
Should we have a [light-ga] tag?
Exactly as the title asks: should we have a light-ga tag for questions pertaining to aircraft with a maximum certificated takeoff wage of less than 12,500 pounds, and requiring only one crew member?
...
- 68.4k
-1
votes
2
answers
55
views
Should we have a hypotheticals tag/questions? [duplicate]
Apparently we have a hypotheticals tag <😱>, which has been used 8 times. Most recently today.
But aren't those questions opinion-based?
Many good questions generate some degree of opinion ...
user14897
-2
votes
2
answers
127
views
Is Stack Exchange reduced to nothing when compared to Quora?
Here are 2 exactly same questions:
Why don't aircraft fly over Tibet - 395 Views, Asked on 19 August 2016.
Why don't planes fly over Tibet - 45,160 Views, 1017 Followers, Asked on September 9 2016.
...
- 11.5k
-2
votes
1
answer
114
views
Should we start accepting more answers?
The tooltip that appears over the accept button (only visible to the asker) states—
... or was the most helpful in finding your solution
So if I ask something, and an answer is incomplete or even ...
user14897
-2
votes
2
answers
127
views
What is the intended public for the aviation stackexchange site?
I'm truly surprised at all the enthousiasts pooh-pooing this question Evidently, my question attracts a lot of aviation wisecracking.
Who is the aviation site intended for? We're not anticipating any ...
- 61.7k
-2
votes
1
answer
178
views
Can it be possible to ask certain carefully-scoped questions about UFOs here? (Wait! Please read before downvoting.)
2023-01-14 update: from the newly released 2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena unclassified summary:
However, ODNI and AARO acknowledge that a select number of UAP incidents *may be ...
- 5,848
-2
votes
1
answer
76
views
Would it be appropriate to set up a ASE chat room specifically to discuss whether an answer is a duplicate?
Would it be appropriate to set up a ASE chat room specifically to discuss whether a question is a duplicate?
Also, in a case where there is some legitimate case for the argument, would this likely be ...
- 22.6k
-2
votes
1
answer
71
views
Can someone look over an answer I gave?
@JanHudec (I just noticed you were on, sorry for bugging you) or anyone else, Could you look at the answer I gave to this question and correct anything that is off. I think I got the concept right but ...
- 28.5k
-3
votes
1
answer
129
views
Why the down vote on my last 3 question?
I have noticed on my last few questions that they got a down vote and close vote. Are they that bad and how can I make them better? Are they by the same person?
What is the highest a helicopter can ...
- 1
-3
votes
2
answers
69
views
Tag modification A350 vs A350XWB
The current tag airbus-a350 refers not to the old Airbus A350 project but to the current A350XWB model in operation since 2014.
I propose to rename the current tag to airbus-a350XWB and create a new ...
- 3,913
-3
votes
1
answer
195
views
Election Time: Do new moderators change questions strictness like penalty time?
I asked this question back during election before I fully understood how the SE system works. I still do not have a full comprehension because each SE seems to have different limits.
I understand ...
user20435
-3
votes
2
answers
105
views
Trolley weight savings "question"
This post asks a very clear question in the title, and then proceeds to perform the rough arithmetic to estimate an answer. The math itself seems fine, and the question seems perfectly appropriate, ...
- 2,238
-3
votes
3
answers
89
views
What should we do about answers that are 1-2 line+picture?
Recently there has been an influx of new users coming to our site and posting answers that consist of one or two sentences and possibly a picture of some sort.
Example answer: here
Is there ...
- 2,263
-3
votes
1
answer
217
views
Synonym [phraseology] -> [terminology]
There are currently 2 tags with the same meaning, with approximately 20 questions in each: phraseology and terminology.
Can these be merged into terminology and a synonym added from phraseology?
- 16.6k
-3
votes
1
answer
81
views
Should we have a new reason for close votes which encompasses a case where the question is so sloppy that it obviously contradicts itself?
Should we have a new reason for close votes which encompasses a case where the question is so sloppy that it obviously contradicts itself?
I don't see that any of the existing reasons to close ...
- 22.6k
-3
votes
1
answer
38
views
Why does this book have Indian version and is there anything more interesting in USA version ? [closed]
I am finding a good book about aircraft and had found this one:
But I have few questions: Why does it have Idian version ? the texts in red circle are: "For sale in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh,...
- 990
-4
votes
2
answers
49
views
Should we have easily searchable questions here?
Area 51 metrics suggest that we should have over 90% traffic from search engines. Now, suppose that you are a user, who is not associated with Aviation.SE in anyway. You search for something like "How ...
- 11.5k
-4
votes
1
answer
80
views
My question was closed and deleted because of its humoristic phrasing
I've asked this question:
What can I do with my pimped 767-300ER, which I'm no longer using
regarding a public dilemma in Israel today (Note: linked article is in Hebrew) in Israel today: What to do ...
- 546
-4
votes
2
answers
192
views
How OK or not OK is it to consequently delete correct answers
I couldn't help noticing a small group of players very consequently deletes all my answers, leaving questions with heavily biased answers only.
Aside from it being annoying to have players launch ...
user55607
-5
votes
2
answers
144
views
Please reopen: 'How can I search online for pilot transgressions and wrongdoing, by airline?'?
The comments to https://aviation.stackexchange.com/q/33416/128 demonstrate some like (e.g. these 4 upvotes and 1 supportive comment) and mislike of it, and so should it be reopened?
I reply to some ...
user128
-5
votes
3
answers
224
views
Should we enforce comments when downvoting?
In the Last few weeks, I saw some posts (questions and answers) downvoted without any comment, especially for posts coming from new comers. I agree some posts don't reach the quality standard we want ...
- 16.5k
-5
votes
1
answer
89
views
Proposed [specific-incident] / [specific-accident] tags
There are currently a few tags in use relating to specific incidents, e.g. mh370-incident, us1549-incident, tam3054-incident and lot16-incident.
There were also a number of others that I created and ...
- 16.6k
-6
votes
1
answer
81
views
Merge takeoff and landing tags
I propose that we merge the takeoff and landing tags into one takeoff-landing tag with a tag synonyms that is reversed. I can't really see someone wanting to follow just one or the other and they are ...
- 58.9k
-10
votes
4
answers
210
views
People that downvote everything
For some reason, people downvote my decent questions for nothing
Can you admins/mods do something for this by monitoring decent questions and reprimand the people that downvote for fun or for that "...
- 3,957
-11
votes
3
answers
118
views
Should we penalise people who vote to close questions that should not be closed?
The power to close questions is prone to abuse in this SE, seems people with the power to close questions have more power than everyone else, ie those that want to answer questions, those that would ...
- 8,529
-12
votes
1
answer
208
views
Should mods be deleting answers that address the question? [closed]
As expected in a stack exchange site, there are always those "this is off topic" purists that discourage new users.
Even worse when the mods are going as far as deleting answers.
In my case I asked ...
- 275
-14
votes
1
answer
217
views
What can we do about users asking bizarre, inappropriate questions repeatedly?
Consider the questions of User Danny Beckett:
He asks if he should bring parachutes and oxygen canisters on planes to increase his chances of survival.
He asks about the meal-details of the crew, to ...
- 30.7k
-15
votes
3
answers
338
views
A humble request to the highly reputed users of network!
Seeing the amount of questions that we get every hour (which is not very much), I would like to request all the highly respected and reputed users to relax for sometime, after a question is asked! ...
- 11.5k