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Questions that may not necessarily have a clear-cut right or wrong answer and are often subjective. If your question isn't a bug report, feature request, or request for assistance, or question with a concrete answer, it's probably a discussion.

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Should this site take an official position on answers generated by ChatGPT?

I believe we should have a firm policy that things like ChatGPT are not allowed. For most of our questions, the personal experiences of humans are critical to a good answer. Some auto-generated pablum …
Jon Custer's user avatar
2 votes

Is the [wetlab] tag necessary?

Personally, I do not find that the tag 'wetlab' is necessary. A main point of a tag is to be able to search through questions more easily. I'm not sure that a future searcher would necessarily link th …
Jon Custer's user avatar
3 votes

Why questions about race is on topic, but about LGBTQ not?

After some thought, I think that there is a core issue here that Academia should be interested in. That issue closely parallels concerns about under representation of (females, Hispanics, ...) in high …
Jon Custer's user avatar
3 votes

Would asking about the rigor of the CDC fall under the "inner workings of research departmen...

I do not think that question falls under our scope. Those CDC pages are advice for broad public consumption - they are not journal articles that would use citations. Further, how a US Federal agency c …
Jon Custer's user avatar
4 votes
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modification date / date asked

Requests to change how the machinery of the site work are handled on Meta.stackexchange. Now, not surprisingly, this has been requested before over there, such as this question. The answer there poin …
Jon Custer's user avatar
2 votes

When to use tag:publications vs tag:journals

journals says, with 2306 questions currently: Online or printed academic periodicals in specific subjects to which the research papers in various topics are sent by the authors and are published afte …
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Why was the "monetary benefit for winning grants" question closed?

The question, even in its current form, is asking us to give insight into why somebody has made certain life choices that the OP deems inadvisable or incorrect. It invites uninformed speculation into …
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