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Change of policy: Make reasons for suspensions public
There have been a couple of controversial suspensions or bans now on this site. Current rules prevent the moderators from giving details of suspensions. This is bad, because it raises suspicions and ...
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Why exactly are big-list questions discouraged? Shouldn't the FAQ say this prominently?
A recent question of mine got quickly migrated to maths.SE, partly for being mathsy and partly for being a big-list question. I'm not contesting the fact, but I must say that - having been warned by ...
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Just to be clear, we do support the homework tag, right?
I stumbled across this recent meta question on the computational science site. What struck me was one of the community associates pretty much declaring that the homework tag should be abolished, since ...
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What's with the low quality posts in perpetual limbo?
Having just crossed the 2k rep milestone, I decided to help out by using the new reviewing powers someone thought to grant noobs like me. "Perhaps," I said to myself, "I can help relieve that enormous ...
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Do we agree with Ron's suspension? [closed]
Some hours ago, there were some heated discussions in meta and in chat since Ron Maimon was worried about Larian LeQuella probably becoming a moderator of Physics SE. Our site got immediately flooded ...
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User constantly registering and unregistering
The question "Are “here” and “now” diffeomorphism invariant concepts?" is being bumped from time to time by new users.
I suspect users Multiverse Philosopher, Nonsensical ranter, Naughty problem ...
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Abuse of our Meta by people from other SE sites
I`m just noting that since about yesterday, a number of people from other SE sites (philosophy, ect) who are not in the slightest interested in physics, abuse the meta part of physics.SE to persecute ...
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Citations are the 'source code' of physics stackexchange
The Stack Overflow faq says:
We feel the best Stack Overflow
questions have a bit of source code
I think the Physics Stack Exchange faq should say:
We feel the best Physics Stack
...
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Can voting anonymously and without comment lead to “consensus science”?
Why is voting without a comment justifying the vote allowed ?
I can see the usefulness of having a graded and changing answer list ( though sometimes it is a bit funny, getting an answer before the ...
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The canonical homework question.
Many communities must deal with this question sooner or later, might as well get the ball rolling.
How should we deal with homework questions?
I find that the Mathematics.StackExchange site is ...
