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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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Abusive content
As a side note: when users flag content as abusive (which is a different checkbox than “needs moderator attention”), it can be destroyed without moderator action (enough “abusive” flags will simply de …
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Why aren't more questions being asked?
“Seeding” can happen very naturally, by the regulars simply asking more questions. It is good to ask questions, even hypothetical, that come to your mind or come up during lunch discussions with colle …
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Getting out of beta
I'll answer to highlight some of the differences that there are between non-beta and beta sites. For starters, graduated sites can launch promotional operations and get some financial support from Sta …
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Being nice when down voting
Okay, I first thought you were thinking about “heavily downvoted newcomer questions”. I asked for specific examples because I think, overall, Academia is doing quite well in leaving nice and helpful c …
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Being nice when closing questions
I'd like to bring to everyone's attention the AutoReviewComments userscript, which I understand is exactly done for this purpose. It gives you (editable) templates for the most typical comments one ca …
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Which of these posts should be deleted?
https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/7722/2700
This question has been closed because it's not really answerable. Clearly, the level of difficulty for studies is something very subjective, and it w …
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Does not having an answer to a question make the question(s) any less valid?
We expect answers to be supported by facts, references, or specific expertise, but this question will likely solicit debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion. …
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If a personal situations question is generalizable, is it on-topic?
Apparently, there have been many people to comment, enough people to vote to close, not enough to vote to reopen, and none have edited it into better shape. That's sad.
If you want to see that questi …
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What's the official policy on URL shortners?
I was not aware of a specific policy. Links shortener are not a good idea in general, because they might be shorter-lived than their targets… however, there are cases where they are useful, including …
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Can't seem to find a particular question/answer, what do i do?
Probably not by me: the only post I ever wrote on the issue is that one, and though it contains a few links it's very short.
I can also confirmed that there is no such post among our deleted answers, …
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Is right to hold a question being abused by viewer?
Questions are put on hold when the community deems that they do not adhere to the site's rules and format. It gives time for you and other people to improve them, if possible, into a more fact-based a …
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Upcoming graduation
Here's a short update on my earlier comment on Meta regarding the future of the site, including our graduation…
The SE team decided, a few months ago, that Academia Stack Exchange is ready for gradua …
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Sudden influx of close votes on old questions
who has entered a close-voting spree should post on Meta to start a discussion about such a large-scale project. Also, so that mods and users are aware of this (possibly destructive) situation. …
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What makes a question a "poll" and are they ever okay
I'll explain in a bit more detail what I meant by my comment. All questions ask for answers, and many questions asks for solutions, procedures, software, etc. These are fine questions to have. To me, …
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Community promotion ad to run on other SE’s
Okay, I'll add an answer to keep track of the other sites’ meta where ads were posted for voting. Please go there and upvote!
Physics (now running; check stats here)
Mathematics (now running; check …
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