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12 questions linked to/from What are the limits of "shopping" questions when it comes to software?
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Why was my question put on hold for shopping?
My question was put on hold for the following reason:
This question is what we call a shopping question. It is currently not accepting answers.
What does this mean?
Why are shopping questions not ...
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How to deal with a question that contains a false premise? How do I make a frame challenge?
Somebody posted a question that makes an assumption I disagree with or think might be wrong. How do I best inform the asker of this? Do I post a comment or an answer, or should I vote to close the ...
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Is a question about a specific web service, relating to academic integrity, a shopping question?
I asked and suggested an answer to this question about whether instructors should use a newly-presented academic-integrity web service from the Chegg company (the "Honor Shield"). The ...
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Can we help support faculty suddenly thrust into online learning?
I don't know how much help I can be, but I've created a chat room where people who suddenly find themselves in a situation where they have to entirely change their teaching toolset in the next few ...
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New audience-specific texts for our custom close reasons
Background
With recent changes to the closing system, we can now tailor the texts for custom close reasons to different audiences:
One text that informs close flaggers, voters, and reviewers when ...
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Why was my question ("Any way to sync my Papers 2 library to my newer iPad?") closed?
My question (Any way to sync my Papers 2 library to my newer iPad?) was closed as off-topic today. To be honest, I hesitated before posting it because it felt not quite like an exact fit for this SE ...
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What to do with questions asking to evaluate commercial online services?
We have at least one old unclosed question asking to evaluate some commercial online services: Is Academia.edu useful?
This was cited in favour of questions going into the same direction: Is Peer.us ...
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Questions on drawing software
Questions about drawing software appear periodically on this site, and get either closed as off-topic or closed as duplicate of this one, which is again closed.
I think that this state of affairs is ...
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Can I ask questions regarding products related to academia?
I am in search of a height adjustable hands free book holder in my country and searched a lot.
My search is unsuccessful. I can get height adjustable orchestral stands, height adjustable laptop stands,...
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Defining shopping questions
I understand there is already a fair amount of discussion on shopping questions on meta and I've read through most of it, but the motivation for closing shopping questions is still opaque to me. This ...
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Shopping questions revisited
This question arises from the discussion on OpenScience and Academia Q&A sites. In particular, looking at the possibility of migrating some questions from OpenScience to Academia, one could ask ...
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I asked for a software solution, question was closed as "shopping" - legit?
I asked this:
How can I generate an elegant (academic) static CV web page?
which got a couple of answers, including a very relevant one. The question was closed as a "shopping question", but ...
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