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Should we react when somebody says they're contemplating suicide?
I really wanted to avoid posting this on meta and avoid drawing too much attention to it, but I've flagged the question in question yesterday and no action was taken. I checked the moderation rules; ...
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Do we need a 'women' tag?
A new tag: women has been created and applied to several questions. The tag wiki excerpt says:
Questions specifically about gender issues in higher education and those involved in academic ...
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Canonical Q&A suggestion: "I've been admitted to multiple graduate programs, how to choose between them?"
This question is now live: I've been admitted to multiple PhD programs, how should I choose between them?
In March/early April, we often get (highly specific) questions from students who have been ...
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How sustainable is Academia.SE?
Allow me to ponder on the future of Academia(.SE):
I don't claim to be an integral or representative user of this site, but I've noticed I personally haven't been using Academia as much lately. This ...
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Do we want a canonical question for general journal workflows?
We often get questions from people who are not aware how a journal works and do not understand some step in the editiorial process¹, think some step takes too long² or are just very worried³. We also ...
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Why do people on academia.SE often suggest courses of action that are very different from what most people would do in real life?
When browsing this site, I see a lot of questions like
Should I let a senior student/professor/etc be a coauthor on my paper when he didn't do any work/made only negative contributions to the ...
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I have just discovered that I can edit other users' posts! Is there anything I should know before I start some serious editing?
What advice do you have for users who have just discovered the edit capability? What makes a "good edit" on Academia.SE?
Note: I have made one suggestion per answer, so that people can vote on them ...
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Question predicated on the OP being a well known contemporary person
I have flagged this question and voted it for closure. It purports to be about an older incarcerated felon asking tips for how to get into law school. My issue with the question is that the OP ...
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The code of conduct has been changed
The SE Code of Conduct has been changed in regards to the use of pronouns when referring to users.
There is a fair amount of discussion at MSE What does the Code of Conduct say about pronouns? and on ...
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Should this site take an official position on answers generated by ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is a human assisted AI that can be used to generate reasonable looking answers to questions. It seems to have been used for at least one answer here (now deleted). However StackOverflow has (...
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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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Undergrad research is on topic?
In this question, JeffE says that academic research questions are firmly on topic. However, this question is about undergrad research and it seems the question could just as easily relate to graduate ...
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After a month of moderator strike, is there any update on the situation?
It's been more than a month now that the events that led to a moderator strike here on academia SE and other sites on the network took place. Is there any movement towards a resolvement of the ...
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What should we do with questions that are out of scope but apparently of great interest to the community?
Following the suggestion of @Davidmh, I want to start a discussion about this recently holded question.
First of, the facts (as I see them):
The question has been put on hold (with 5 community votes,...
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POLL: Should we participate in the 2016 “Winter Bash” Holiday hats promotion?
In 2016, Stack Exchange will continue its tradition of the "Winter Bash". Winter Bash is an annual event that can run on any Stack Exchange site that chooses to participate. Users earn “hats” for ...
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Is this sort of blatant trolling common on Academia SE?
There was recently a deleted answer to a question of mine based on a blog post I read, to which I also attached a bounty. The answer in question is just a verbatim copy-paste from the blog post with ...
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"How do I engage in rudimentary-human-interaction when dealing with this Professor?"
The title of my question exaggerates a bit to stress its point, but it concerns a class of questions where the OP seeks advice on basic human communication with a professor. I have seen many many ...
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Obviously insincere posts – how should users/reviewers react?
Sometimes, malicious (usually new) users post
a question that is obviously not about a real situation or even a hypothetical situation that the asker is honestly interested in (note that I am not ...
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How do we attract people from all research areas?
I have noticed a lot of computer scientists, physics, and a few more subjects but I think there is a lack of people from a lot of other major fields, for example Biology.
How do we attract people to ...
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Is "US" the default location here?
Edit: In the question I linked to, the dublicate was accepted by the OP. However, there are other questions like this one How do academics (faculty members, PhD students, etc.) balance their work and ...
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Was the edit removing religious aspects OK?
I was reading an answer to a question (https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/160520/15446) when it got edited to remove the religious aspects.
The answer is very poor and does not bring anything new (...
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Questions that are non-anonymous rants/accusations against specific individuals [duplicate]
I'm a bit concerned about a recent post (now deleted, link for 10 k users only) which was a pretty aggressive accusation with both the specific supervisor and accuser clearly identified.
I think most ...
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Would you be interested in becoming a moderator?
We're thinking of running a moderator election. The moderation workload for this site is not too burdensome, but having one more moderator on the team would allow a better redistribution of the ...
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My reason to quit
I closed my account and it will be effectuated within 24 hours. I received an indirect personal attack on my posts. I also do not like how quickly sincere questions of (new) participants are downvoted ...
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How to proceed with the lingerie–elevator question?
The question What was offensive about the "ladies lingerie department" joke, and how can I avoid offending people in a similar way? has caused a lot of controversy in comments and answers, ...
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Do we have any data (or general idea) on how much Academia.SE is known in the academic world?
When I read questions like this one I wonder if we are aware of the fact that Academia.SE, and the whole Stack Overflow network, might be totally unknown to a large fraction of the academic world, ...
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Getting out of beta
Is there any sense of when we'll be able to leave beta ? I've been watching the stats, and while the number of questions/day bounces around the magic 5.0 mark, all the other markers seem quite strong (...
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Evidence based answers
I understand that questions on AC.SE are going to be "softer" in nature than the programming questions typical of SO.SE, but I think our answers often are "softer" then needed. I often read answers ...
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Why can another user edit my answer to a completely different content without my review or permission?
A user with a much higher reputation just edited my answer. That's okay, a lot of others have changed posts from me e.g. to correct spelling/grammar (I'm no English native speaker).
But now ...
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Should we discourage simultaneously answering a question and voting to close?
I've been thinking of writing this for a while. It doesn't happen frequently but, yes, it happens: a user answers a question and also votes to close it.
Though not forbidden by the system, I think ...
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Third "excellent" on Area 51 - congratulations to all - nearly ready for graduation
Over on Area 51, this site has just achieved its third "Excellent" category, having just passed 150 users with a score of at least 200.
We just need to get questions per day up above 5 (currently 3.8,...
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When did DOI questions become off-topic here?
My question on DOIs for time series was migrated to Open Data. That's annoying. If I'd wanted it there, I'd have asked it there myself. I have an account there.
But instead of being here, where it ...
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Being nice when closing questions
I think we need to be nicer when closing questions. I think of new people look at having their question closed as being a slap in the face and a real turn off for the site. The automated messages are ...
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Please vote for synonym suggestions
As I post this, we have ten outstanding suggestions for tag synonyms, some of them for more than four years. I therefore think it is more than time to urge a decision on these.
This is the first part ...
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Should we have a canonical question about changing fields after PhD?
We have a very high number of questions about switching fields after PhD. Most of these are duplicates except for the fields in question. Here are some examples (by no means a complete list, I just ...
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Just how high is "higher education"?
By looking at the site today, it seems that "higher education" is an euphemism for "doctorate". The definition stage however doesn't imply that (1 2 3...)
Is Academia only about PhD, postdoc and ...
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POLL: Should we participate in the 2015 “Winter Bash” Holiday hats promotion?
In 2015, Stack Exchange will continue its tradition of the "Winter Bash". Winter Bash is an annual event that can run on any Stack Exchange site that chooses to participate. Users earn “hats” for ...
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Should we request a banner to warn about our policy on AI-generated content?
As announced here, sites are allowed to request a banner that would remind answerers about our policy on AI-generated content. The text would say something like:
Reminder: Answers generated by ...
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New chat room for the HNQ list
Since we have had the ability to track the hot network question (HNQ) list, we have been doing this in a private moderator room. The idea being that it would help us stay on top of potentially ...
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Should we have a canonical question about degree revocation?
A first draft of the requested canonical question is now live here. Please help us out by editing the wiki and adding information.
Can public political criticism of my alma mater result in my BA being ...
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Can we have some fun?
Some Stack Exchange sites, while enforcing regular policies/limits, allow for a little fun now and then, either by letting some “fun” soft big-list questions exist, or by prompting them on specific ...
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2018 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
Academia is scheduled for an election next week, March 5th. In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose ...
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How can we encourage posters to mention their country of study/work?
Academic systems and cultures vary widely between countries, and answers will depend heavily on this context.
I have come across many questions, where the country has not been stated – presumably ...
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Sudden influx of close votes on old questions
There is a sudden (I only noticed it today) influx of “close” votes on questions of the site. I opened my browser this morning, and got this:
I reviewed all of them, and half a day later this:...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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Lack of a tag related to social media on Academia
When one is asking a question related to social websites on Academia like the cases which are found by searching keywords like Facebook with almost 85 results, LinkedIn with 53 results, etc. s/he has ...
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Could we please reopen these questions about salary and treat all salary questions in a uniform way?
This question and this other one have been recently put on hold for being strongly dependent on individual factors.
I think that the closure of the above questions is unfair and unwarranted, given ...
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Undergrad course exemption with interest in grad school
I believe this question about wanting to have a undergrad humanities course requirement exemption to be off-topic as it is primarily about undergraduate life.
Is it reasonable to request an exemption ...
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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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Under what conditions should "thank you" comments be deleted?
Users of this site sometimes flag comments that say
Thank you
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+1, good answer
for moderator deletion as 'too chatty.'
There are varying opinions on MSE as to when such comments should ...
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