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Welcome to Academia.SE!

35 votes
5 answers
1k views

What do we want Academia.SE to be?

33 votes
1 answer
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Do we need a 'women' tag?

31 votes
1 answer
477 views

Canonical Q&A suggestion: "I've been admitted to multiple graduate programs, how to choose between them?"

27 votes
11 answers
720 views

I have just discovered that I can edit other users' posts! Is there anything I should know before I start some serious editing?

20 votes
3 answers
395 views

POLL: Should we participate in the 2016 “Winter Bash” Holiday hats promotion?

16 votes
4 answers
457 views

POLL: Should Academia.SE participate in the 2014 “Winter Bash” holiday hats promotion?

12 votes
4 answers
432 views

What are we generally looking for in answers?

11 votes
3 answers
292 views

Are questions about conduct in university-level coursework on topic?

10 votes
3 answers
216 views

Use of very general tags like "professors", "students", and "university"

10 votes
2 answers
459 views

Under what conditions should "thank you" comments be deleted?

9 votes
7 answers
737 views

Should moderators delete comments that are about moderation, once they become obsolete with respect to the question they're posted on?

9 votes
3 answers
284 views

Flag declined on "rude or offensive" comment

8 votes
3 answers
213 views

Are questions about professional non-research degree programs (law, business, medicine) on-topic?

8 votes
4 answers
164 views

Should we have both a "teaching" and "pedagogy" tag?

8 votes
1 answer
147 views

How should a user with a problem contact a moderator?

8 votes
4 answers
184 views

How to make users of other SE sites more aware of what Academia.SE is about?

8 votes
3 answers
254 views

How to fix the "lecturer" tag?

7 votes
1 answer
148 views

New feeds in chat from relevant tags on other SE sites

7 votes
6 answers
336 views

On-topic-ness of questions on legal issues related to academia?

5 votes
2 answers
263 views

Questions that say "I'm looking for a degree program that meets requirements X,Y,Z"

5 votes
2 answers
123 views

Can I ask a question I read on a blog?

5 votes
1 answer
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Usefulness of the "contribution" tag

5 votes
2 answers
182 views

Suggestions for avoiding disruption when retagging?

3 votes
3 answers
296 views

Is adding clickable links to widely known sites useful?

3 votes
2 answers
206 views

Question just like this one was marked duplicate, but I disagree; what action to take?

3 votes
1 answer
243 views

Proposal to merge 'cheating', 'fraud', and maybe 'plagiarism' into 'academic-dishonesty'?

3 votes
0 answers
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Question about BSc in preparation for research career closed as "undergrad" question?

3 votes
4 answers
168 views

Should we specify that questions where "expert" answers are from experts outside of academia are off-topic?

2 votes
0 answers
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Proposal to narrow the scope of 'paper-submission'