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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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When to use tag:publications vs tag:journals
When should I use publications vs journals? They overlap a lot, and people often use them for general question on how to write a paper. Should we have a policy on when one is appropriate rather than t …
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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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On answers to reference requests that do not provide references
Downvote and add a comment to make it clear what the problem with that answer is.
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Should we focus on having more objective answers?
Academia.SE is more of a discussion forum. Opinion-based questions, as well as non-questions flourish. …
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Academia Community Polls
How many professional societies are you a member of? (Motivation: this question.)
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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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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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Who decided for these elections?
As you probably know, moderator elections on SE are held "periodically", where this confusing word is used in the sense of "from time to time", and not "at regular intervals".
Just for information: t …
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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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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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Do we need a tag for classroom behavior/etiquette/discipline?
Do we need a tag for classroom behavior/etiquette/discipline? When retagging What to do about a professor who doesn't seem to grasp the concept of e-books?, I was unsure of what to use.
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Why was this closed ("Do I have to sit again for TOEFL")
What is the motivation behind the close votes to Do I have to sit again for TOEFL?? It seems like a perfectly reasonable question to me. Please explain.
"The answer to this question strongly depends …
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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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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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Deciphering status in manuscript handling systems
We keep getting questions in which we are asked to decipher the status messages in some online submission management system (latest one).
I find it slightly annoying that we have to do the job of Els …
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