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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 a poster disclose oneself as a Wikimedia executive?
My opinion is that full disclosure of this potential conflict of interest is necessary in the answer itself.
The question is "would use of Wikimedia images be considered unprofessional"; it is a subj …
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My "Then fix it dear Henry"-type answer get massively upvoted
In Physics.se, an enlightened discussion on the fine points of quantum field theory will attract much less attention than a simple explanation on "why does a feather fall slower than a ball". …
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Should a poster disclose oneself as a Wikimedia executive?
In this recent answer, user Aubrey speaks about the use of images from Wikimedia in posters.
I think that she should disclose the fact that she is president of the Italian branch of Wikimedia; this b …
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Moderators can now exclude questions from the HNQ list – when should we use this?
Why not "all of them"?
I'm not sure myself that this is the perfect solution, but take this answer as a way to think about the benefits of HNQ.
What good comes to our community from a question being …
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Resigning and leaving SE
I'm adding an answer to point out the last interaction here, in case you missed it; it is now buried in the edit history. On April 2, @Wrzlprmft added the tag status-review to this question, which (af …
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Accepted
A question with a lot of non-answers
can we do something about all those answers not meeting [the criteria]?
Just click on that button with a triangle pointing down. That's the Stack Exchange way.
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Disclosing one's field and privacy issues
SE offers a feature to disassociate your account from a question upon request, as mandated by the CC-BY-SA license it uses. However,
the procedure is rather cumbersome (you need to contact support, …
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One-line answers
Here aeismail comments:
One-line answers aren't allowed per our FAQ's. You should either expand your answer, or it'll have to be converted to a comment
Is it true? I have skimmed through the FA …
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How does one appeal an account suspension?
It is described at the end of this meta.se post:
How do I escalate my individual suspension/conflict with a moderator?
There are, I think, three options:
Reply to the moderator message directly. Thi …
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Adding emphasis with blockquotes
In my opinion, the biggest issue here is that misusing blockquotes as a form of emphasis happens because:
they look too emphatic. The yellow background is too flashy. The black-on-grey used here on …
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Sorting according to the score introduces an unwanted bias
It has been suggested that a better sorting criterion is the lower bound of the Wilson score confidence interval for a Bernoulli parameter. Apart from the sexy-sounding statistical name, it's the syst …
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Is there a name to define "conferences are publications" fields?
When asking for clarifications in this question, it occurred to me that, fundamentally, many customs pertaining conference abstracts depend actually on a single yes-no bit: there are some fields where …
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Do we need a canonical question for "bailing out of accepted position"?
Every now and then people ask whether it is appropriate to leave a (phd, postdoc, tenure-track...) position they have accepted for a better one that became available later, or in any case how to behav …
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What are the limits of "shopping" questions when it comes to software?
(Disclaimer: I am the author of Alternatives to big-name proprietary remote-lecturing tools )
First of all: we make the rules
We are free to consider on-topic whichever questions we deem answerable …
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Academia Community Polls
How many professional societies are you a member of? (Motivation: this question.)