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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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My "Then fix it dear Henry"-type answer get massively upvoted
Sometimes I read questions here on the site which require thought, and empathy, and are helped much by varigated experience. And if I have an answer for those, I'm glad to get some upvotes (and I ofte …
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Academia.SX-like question(s) on Slashdot
https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/11/06/1452238/ask-slashdot-how-to-fix-an-outdated-college-tech-curriculum
An anonymous reader writes:
As a student, what's the best way to bring change to an ou …
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I'm annoyed by what I feel is a farce of question
"Is it acceptable to shoot people if they annoy you?"
Well, that's not exactly what was asked, but it's pretty close. And then people write serious answers saying "No, that's not ok at all" - as if i …
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A user is pushing personal beliefs about legality without referencing debate
In accepted answer to this question:
A free papers search engine
@Allure states that:
Your friend is probably thinking of Sci-Hub. Warning: it's likely illegal, including to use the service (as oppos …
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"Attitudes of academics towards X?" On or off topic?
If X is part of academic life or relates very closely to academia (e.g. X = "The notion that the US federal government should should more/less of the budgestary burden of higher education"), then on t …
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Do questions become unclear if the asker rejects the answers given?
Do questions become unclear if the asker rejects the answers given?
By definition, no; rather, they lose some false clarity. Without the rejection people have apparently mistaken the question to …
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Spamming the front-page for the purpose of creating a tag
Creating a new tag is reasonable, front-page effects are a byproduct
I'll provide a (biased) response as the person who created the tag.
Occasionally on one of the StackExchange websites, the idea f …
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About "Preparation for a non-academic career"
I was just about to ask a question having to do with "Preparation for a non-academic career". Specifically, I was going to ask how an academic can tell what's the salary range for a potential research …
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How is this offensive?
I think your answer was removed for the wrong reason. I agree that it requires quite a stretch to claim it's offensive, but - it's true that "this seems to be more of a ... comment than a ... answer". …
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POLL: Should we participate in the 2016 “Winter Bash” Holiday hats promotion?
I'm voting yes because there don't seem to be any downsides and the hats are funny. But frankly it seems targeted mostly at the super-hard-core users. "Mere mortals" seem to get 2-3 hats and perhaps a …
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Academia.SE Moderation Strike
Much respect and full support to @cag51, to @wrzlprmft and to @BryanKrause.
A strike song for you :-)
It's preposterous for SE Inc. to enact this policy - and this just illustrates how the mechanism o …
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Handling of off-topic content in an answer
I believe the answer is on-topic. Questioning the premise of a question, with additional context information, is an accepted on-topic answer in many academia.SE questions. It's true that OP did not pr …
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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 the very …
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