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How can we nip immigration questions in the bud?
Maybe it's a coincidence or maybe it's the tip of an iceberg, but a couple of new immigration questions have appeared in the last couple of days and are receiving up votes despite not being about ...
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Are expat questions on-topic?
The story so far: although the subject of expat questions has been raised in the past, we haven't really given much thought on them and the issue is still controversial.
So let's have this debate. ...
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Can I ask a question about a way to connect
I'm planning to do a trip only with my tablet and an external HD. As everybody knows, a normal tablet doesn't has enough space to store all pictures and videos I'm planning to take.
So, I'd like to ...
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Localized Questions
On most SE style sites, localized questions are generally closed. However, that is not the case here... The questions must be localized.
I just asked a questions regarding diving/ecotourism in ...
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Questions such as "Where can I find [one thing]" too localized?
After answering 2 questions now about museum pieces I am wondering how far those are on or off-topic, specially being too localized, or in these cases too itemized.
The most recent one is the ...
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About those tipping questions...
asalamon74 asked:
Where can I find information about tipping etiquette in different countries?
That question was closed, mainly because Stack Exchange is not a search engine... we're here to ...
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Questions about local food and restaurants
Recently, we have received a number of questions about "restaurants that serve local food" and "what's a traditional dish in country X". We have one about Leipzig, Reyjkavik, Chicago, Budapest, Japan ...
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What about these cellphone questions?
Sorry to bother you again. After pointing out some inconsistencies, I found the following questions, quite close to each other on the main page. They are about cellphones:
Usable cell phone network ...
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Some hints on how can I improve the question on safety issues
Yesterday I a question, which sounds to me 100% practical. I expected to get some advice on what places are considered to be relatively unsafe (like Ramblas in Barcelona), which kind of activities I ...
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What do I need to do to make this question acceptable for the site?
This is the question:
What is overbooking (of flights), and why do airlines all seem to do it?
I was a bit surprised that it was closed. It was about travelling, it was about a "practical" everyday ...
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Can we add something about outdoors to the FAQ?
We've been getting numerous questions recently that would probably fit better at The Great Outdoors SE, but get asked at Travel Answers because Travel Answers is more visible and it's tangibly on-...
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Are activities on-topic?
From the FAQ:
customs & border crossing, visas and other travel documents such as permits
accommodation: camping, hostels & backpackers, guesthouses, B&B's, hotels, renting a villa ...
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Is being answered a reason not to migrate?
I flagged two questions for migration to The Great Outdoors: https://travel.stackexchange.com/q/14711/2509 got migrated, but Do I have to expect snow at 3900 meters above sea level during summer? did ...
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Biggest, highest, fastest — are superlatives tourist attractions or geographic factoids
What do we do with biggest, highest, fastest questions? Under what criteria are they on-topic?
The factoids tag gathers quite a few, e.g.:
World's fastest ferry route (8 up-votes)
Fastest public ...
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Travel vs. Outdoor SE, or, do we need the [outdoor-activities] tag?
I was just writing a tag wiki for the outdoor-activities tag. This led me thinking about the question:
How should we distribute questions between Travel.SE and The Great Outdoors (beta)?
Not all ...
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Are questions about sending stuff abroad on-topic?
The question "How can I cheaply transport lots of cargo overseas?" is the reason why I'm raising this issue. It kind of feels off-topic as the OP won't be accompanying his goods, but it's potentially ...
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Should we accept Immigration refuges?
I know, I know, expat questions are off topic here. But with the closing of Immigration, they currently have nowhere to go! There's a proposal to give them a permanent home in Expatriates, but until ...
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Expat questions
I am toying with the idea of relocating to a new country. As such I will have maybe a lot of questions not closely related to "travel" but more on the target country (setting myself up, living, ...
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Are questions about "controversial" practices allowed?
I've been looking at the Featured Friday questions, and I wanted to ask this preemptively to avoid lengthy discussions after the fact.
It really depends how you define "controversial", but some ...
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Posting alternative site recommendations as comments for closed questions
I hate to send off a [soon-to-be] expat empty-handed; since there's currently no StackExchange site for expats (obligatory link to expats proposal), I've taken to leaving comments on immigration ...
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Are questions that will go out of date "on topic" for this site?
Are questions that will go out of date "on topic" for this site?
For example, the answers to the question Is it safe to travel to Japan due to the nuclear situation? could conceivably become ...
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Do we really want all these “best phone for country X” questions?
We have a lot of questions asking what the best phone plan is for country X or Y:
In the US, what's a good prepaid GSM SIM card without a phone?
How well do foreign cell phones work in Japan?
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Are plane spotting questions in the scope of Travel SE?
Today I created a new tag, plane-spotting for my question about identifying aircrafts and flights. Are these kind of questions in the scope of Travel SE?
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Reaction to Jeff's blog on "guessing games"?
We have two tags here that might qualify as "guessing game" tags - identify-this and where-on-earth. I think they're pretty popular, I like reading them, and I have asked at least one of these kinds ...
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Are destination selection questions on topic?
Are questions about destination selection on topic?
I can think of a few examples:-
Which ski resort in Switzerland is best for a 7 day stay if we are novice skiiers?
Which island in Thailand would ...
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"Code Golf" equivalent on Travel.SE?
On stackoverflow a 'code golf' started, where people had questions like 'write this program in the shortest lines of code' or whatever. After getting an answer to my question:
Name this church in ...
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Cold weather questions. (Are they on topic?)
It feels like we are getting the same questions over and over about how to deal with cold weather.
What clothing should I bring to Chicago for New Years' Eve?
How to cope with dry hands and ...
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What is the difference between question regarding flight simulators and deepest underwater world tour?
At one point we want to attract more people to this forum, at the other point there is a very restrictive policy regarding closing question. In my opinion these points are contradictory to each other. ...
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Scope tags: "on-topic" vs "off-topic" vs "scope"
Funny but I thought I had been using a scope tag here like on other SE sites I use but it seems not to exist after all.
We do have an on-topic tag but I don't think this is great since discussions of ...
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Are identify-this questions on topic?
I just asked a new question:
Help remembering name of hotel in near Łódź, Poland?
But I'm not really sure if this kind of questions are/should be allowed here. What do you think?
I personally ...
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Are food availability questions on-topic on Travel-SE?
I am kind of a food appreciator and amateur cook, so I always look forward to try samples of local cuisine everywhere I go. Sometimes, though, finding where a particular dish is served is not very ...
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Are 'recommendation' questions on topic?
Specifically, questions of the type, "what's a good hotel in xx", "what's a good tour company in xx", "what's a good cruise in xxx". Looking at the definition phase on area 51 it seems pretty split as ...
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Are questions asking for recommendations along a route on-topic?
To the letter of SE it seems questions asking like "what is there to do between A and B" or "where should I stop on my way from A to B" are broad, subjective, and without "one right answer".
Let it ...
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Do Jeopardy style questions belong here?
I can see on most other sites how Jeopardy style questions fit very well and provide an opportunity to share knowledge with the community, but I'm not sure how well they would go down here.
From what ...
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Help design our first-draft FAQ
If you look at the FAQ for Money, Gaming, or English SE, they have a basic (but effective) format for describing the scope of the site. If you want to help define the basic tenets of this site, I'll ...
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Why is this question off topic?
Does the Disney Dining plan impose any restrictions on the food I can order?
it's about travelling experience to disney world
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Should questions using superlatives (best, easiest) always be regarded as subjective?
We have a few topics ongoing about subjective questions and what is and is not on-topic.
We also have lots of questions coming in that specifically ask for the "best", "easiest", etc?
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Keep travel headed in the right direction.
There's a sporadic influx of questions that aren't travel related appearing on the site.
Example: Are there any standard clothing restrictions when visiting mosques?
There's another about safe ways ...
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What should we do with "What should I see..." questions?
There are a number of questions along the lines of "What should I do/see in [place]?". Are these on-topic?
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Inconsistent treatment of open, list, or subjective questions.
While some quested have been summarily executed, received close votes, or received down votes as being off topic based on being too open, not specific enough, no "right" answer, and open to list ...
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Specific flight pricing questions
So I wondered - I love helping people find better flight prices. But I wondered if this is suitable for travel.SE - to have a question like:
"The cheapest flight from ULN to LON on xx/yy/zz I can ...
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