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491 | In my opinion, [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/9604/5851) and its answer [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/9606/5851) are inviting speculations, comments without proper backing of evidence, and argumentative discussion over an Institute being good or mediocre (again, based on the opinions... | [
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"text": "I disagree that the question and corresponding answer is argumentative, but I do agree that it is not a good question... | 2013/04/25 | [
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494 | [Here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/9667/958) aeismail comments:
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> 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
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Is it true? I have skimmed through the FAQ, and it doesn't seem like there is such a restriction. Besi... | [
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"text": "I think that if one-liners are not explicitly forbidden in the FAQ, then we should forbid them explicitly. The only... | 2013/04/27 | [
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500 | Currently questions closed as duplicate are what I will refer to as singly linked. A link appears on top of the closed duplicate question pointing to the original question. Nothing is added to the original question. Sometimes the duplicate question has useful answers and comments. By definition, we marked it as duplica... | [
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"text": "My first thought is \"that sounds like a lot of work\".\n\nMy second thought is, \"what's the point?\" The whole poin... | 2013/04/29 | [
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503 | The question <https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9794/importance-of-going-to-university-in-the-21st-century> was closed on the main site, and identified as non-constructive, although it has received 5 different answers.
How could this question be changed to be more constructive? | [
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"text": "If you're looking for an alternative location for discussion, there are a number of places you can try:\n\n* [Quora](... | 2013/05/03 | [
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509 | This [question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9818/international-variations-in-addressing-academics) essentially asks: In my country we do things like X, how do they do them in your country. That seems like the definition of a big list question to me. I have wanted to ask a similar type question, and I ... | [
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513 | The new display at the bottom is not very good, in my opinion: I would expect to see "Acafitoa" under "Professional," but that's not even in one of the categories shown in the display below—you have to click through to get to a site where you then have to hunt around to find it. That's not a very good system in my opin... | [
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"text": "It looks like the full list of categories are:\n\n* Technology\n* Culture/Recreation\n* Life/Arts\n* Science\n* B... | 2013/05/12 | [
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517 | There is an abundance of questions relating to Computer Science, which is great.
However, when a question is discipline-dependent, IMHO it is crucial to advertise this fact in the title (unless it's otherwise clear) AND in tags (in this case: [computer-science](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/compu... | [
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524 | There has been several questions recently about tags, and topic related tags in particular. I was wondering: **how do you use tags? Why do we care about them?**
Personally, I don't use them at all, I only search for questions through the search bar. It would therefore be helpful to see what kind of usages the communit... | [
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"text": "I think the usefulness of tags varies across different SE sites. Besides StackOverflow and Academia, I am active i... | 2013/05/21 | [
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532 | I noticed that there are quite a few users with questions that are little open-ended, which is not a good fit for the Q/A format that we have on SE sites. I suppose a lot of us, grad students, would like to have a medium of communication where we can *discuss* matters and questions about previous experiences of the mor... | [
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"text": "I think this is an interesting idea. However, I'm pretty sure that this is something that would need to be community... | 2013/05/27 | [
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534 | I accidentally noted that [a particular question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/10247/why-are-cs-researchers-reluctant-to-share-code-and-what-techniques-can-i-use-to) does not appear on the list of questions when I am not signed in. The question comes up in the top five once I am logged in. Why is this s... | [
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"text": "The ordering of questions when unlogged seems to be quite different from that observed when logged in. I can observ... | 2013/05/27 | [
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541 | We all love [Academia Stack Exchange](http://academia.stackexchange.com), but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what will their first impression be? Let's try to look at this site through the eyes of so... | [
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544 | Given that the consensus here has become "undergraduate questions are off-topic unless relating to graduate admissions", we need to support the proposed Undergraduates.SE so that these questions have a place to go.
>
> [Undergraduates SE](http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/49571/undergraduates)
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551 | There's only been one such question so far, but, depending on weather this question is accepted as a good one or not, it could set up future standards for the site, so I feel it is important:
<https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/10735/en-shs-comment-participer-a-la-grande-conversation-scientifique-sans-renonc... | [
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"text": "This question has been [answered by Jejf Etpiod on the Stack Exchange blog](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/non-... | 2013/06/24 | [
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553 | In many fields (traditionally, Medicine but also increasingly the social sciences), applying for IRB approval is an integral part of being an academic. Are such questions on topic, and if so under what parameters (e.g. focusing on standard procedures vs. slippery ethical questions)?
The IRB has been the subject of [an... | [
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561 | Recently, the question [How often should one evaluate a plan for an academic career?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/10928/how-often-should-one-evaluate-a-plan-for-an-academic-career?noredirect=1#comment20098_10928) has been closed without a single comment explaining why it should be closed, while there w... | [
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"text": "Expecting users to offer justification for why they're closing questions is part of the spirit, if not the letter, o... | 2013/07/04 | [
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563 | About this question:
<https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/10959/96>
Which asks:
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> I'm hoping to enroll onto a PhD program. I've heard that twitter might help me find a PhD program. This question is inspired by this video in the British Ecological Society Careers YouTube channel: <http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature... | [
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572 | This is quite discouraging. Why was my answer to [this thread](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/11165/how-to-respond-to-someone-plagiarizing-my-work/11173#11173) deleted?
It says converted to comment, but I do not see it anywhere. This is the 2nd time (according to my reputation record) that an answer of m... | [
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577 | Why do I get a yellow “0 flag” alert on the top bar, on Academia, where I am not a moderator? It links to the “tools” page, where there is nothing for me to do:
Same situation exists on Meta:
![enter image description here](https://i.stack.... | [
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581 | There is a lot of spam in the replies [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/5170/what-systems-are-most-effective-for-monitoring-student-attendance), the reply from Ian Pack is a blatant one as a quick search shows he works for the company that he is "recommending", I would not be surprised if more are spa... | [
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"text": "I'm not sure it is our responsibility to \"report them to their company bosses\". \n\nWhat you did was I guess the ... | 2013/07/24 | [
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584 | I wanted to either vote to close or flag <https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/11360/form-get-method-prints-viewstate-value-in-addressbar> as suitable for SO.SE, but I could only suggest it belongs on ac.meta.se (which it doesn't). If something belongs on another SE site how do I vote to close for that reason? | [
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586 | Following on the question [What's the policy regarding localized (read: country specific) questions?](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/q/415/4394) and [Are US-specific questions OK?](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/q/188/4394) My own opinion is that country specific questions are fine. But, I think that ... | [
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"text": "To riff off of Einstein, \"SE questions should be as specific as possible, but no more specific!\" \n\nWe don't want... | 2013/07/24 | [
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589 | When recently voting to close an off-topic undergraduate question, I saw this screen:
with the phrase:
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> Questions about **problems facing undergraduate students** are off-topic unless they can also apply to graduate or post-graduate academicians ... | [
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596 | I found [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/11411/is-there-any-scientific-rigor-in-scientometry) interesting so I took a few minutes to remove a variety of typos ("gouvernemental", etc.).
I saved the edits, double-checked the question and closed the page.
Later I come back to check responses... | [
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600 | I am unable to understand the comments and the down-votes on [this question of mine](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/11470/5851).
[The question is deleted now, original text reproduced below]
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> I realize we do not have a definitive answer/guideline on the purpose of pre-print archives. I guess it will be us... | [
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603 | I understand that questions on AC.SE are going to be "softer" in nature than the programming questions typical of SO.SE, but I think our answers often are "softer" then needed. I often read answers and think "Citation Needed". Are we answering questions based on our personal experience when we could be providing answer... | [
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610 | There are several questions with with the words "high school" and teaching on academia.
Can a public school teacher be considered an "academician"? I haven't found any other stackexchange site that is likely to allow for questions about teaching, much less at the secondary level. Has anyone found another site that all... | [
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622 | I was under the impression that URL shortners were either discouraged or outright banned. I recently edited a question to replace a bit.ly link with a direct link, and that edit suggestion was rejected. What is the official policy of this site for URL shortners? Certainly there's no need for them. | [
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626 | We all love [Academia Stack Exchange](http://academia.stackexchange.com), but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what will their first impression be? Let's try to look at this site through the eyes of so... | [
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629 | The question would have to be very specific and answerable, but would hypothetical (and realistic) questions be permitted?
What I mean by this is, would situations that do not necessarily happen to the person asking the question, but could happen (and may have happened) be permitted? | [
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631 | I rejected an edit suggestion to that post: <https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/12489/49>.
However, just after my click I realized that I should keep some parts of the edit, as they improve the answer (my quick reject was based on edit on a quoted material).
1. Does comment justifying the rejection reaches the edi... | [
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640 | Say, a question that is not a perfect fit for the site was posted - mostly some consider it to have some merit, some do not.
What if said question generates some very useful answers (not just upvoted, but generate comments that indicate the usefulness). Will the question (hence, useful answers) still be deleted eventu... | [
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645 | We have some [tag synonym suggestions](https://academia.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms) that have not been voted on, despite being quite old. I'd like to suggest people visit the [tag synonym page](https://academia.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms) and vote on existing suggestions:
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647 | I voted to close [this question on programming](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/12854/in-c-programing-a-single-variable-cannot-take-a-character-to-it-continuously), and wanted to vote to send it to StackOverflow, but noticed that I couldn't choose to do that:
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652 | Some Stack Exchange sites, while enforcing regular policies/limits, allow for a little fun now and then, either by letting some “fun” soft big-list questions exist, or by prompting them on specific occasions (I think the site on Judaism has regular fun/soft session near Pessach, but I cannot find a specific reference f... | [
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657 | User [All](https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/406/all) has been asking a lot of questions. I am starting to get the feeling that they fall under the
>
> you are asking an open-ended, hypothetical question: “What if \_\_\_\_\_\_
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>
>
>
part of [don't ask](https://academia.stackexchange.com/help... | [
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666 | In [this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/13342/is-it-a-good-practice-to-choose-my-undergraduate-research-topic-on-my-own-can-i) question, JeffE says that academic research questions are firmly on topic. However, [this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/13368/what-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-choosi... | [
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681 | This post is provided so that people can, in the answers and comments below, test formatting features of Academia Stack Exchange. | [
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683 | In the post [What does the “application” tag mean (and what should it mean)?](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/q/169/4394) a brief exchange indicates that the [application](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/application "show questions tagged 'application'") tag should concern applications for, ... | [
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686 | I recently added the new tag 'student-evaluation' to the question [Is it appropriate to include additional materials in an academic job application?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/13669/), but this was quickly removed. However, from what I could find, there are no tags describing this subject, even thoug... | [
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689 | I wanted to vote to close [Creating an central multi-purpose dictionary / database](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/13711/creating-an-central-multi-purpose-dictionary-database), but under "off-topic" I only find the following pre-canned motivations:
* cannot be generalized to apply to others in similar si... | [
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697 | I have been trying to locate a particular answer but couldn't find it, even when using every bit of information I remember from the answer in question (in my case: it was an answer about dealing with the impostor syndrome and contained lots of links, if I remember correctly written by F'x)
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711 | In [my answer to "How to write a white paper for a non-academic"](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/14659). I mentioned that I know a true story, an example of such a situation with a "happy end". Now, it was requested that I relieve more information about this, which I originally didn't want to.
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731 | I'm not sure if this is the appropriate place to raise this issue, but:
The stated purpose of the forum seems to be that the questions should benefit both undegraduates, graduate students and academicians.
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740 | Should we have MathJax support on Academia?
I think it would be useful if questions about math in academic writing are common here.
I just asked [this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/15559/referencing-non-equations-see-eq-15-see-ineq-15) question and there it would have been nice (but not necessary). | [
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744 | I am worried that the rep system is leading to careless moderators coming into power. Part of my answer was:"What is unclear to me is whether someone like you who feels somewhat unsure is even less likely at all to graduate with a PhD than someone who goes in thinking R1 Tenure or death. Your waffling MIGHT even be a s... | [
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752 | In this [question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/15783/re-typesetting-an-old-paper-what-to-do-with-the-result) the OP links to a nature paper that s/he is interested in re-typesetting. The link appears to be to an illegal copy of a non-open access paper that is available (presumably behind a paywall). Sh... | [
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756 | I asked five question and two of them are being put on hold by viewer. Seriously, there are really no right to judge other people's question as no question is stupid. If you have no interest in my question or opinion conflict with mine, just go away please? I have no idea why ppl like bad fire work so much. | [
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765 | I am unsure about the appropriateness of the question <https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/16215/modafinil-for-academics>.
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769 | I've now seen a series of questions from [user10694](https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/10694/user10694) that paint a picture of a completely dysfunctional advisor-advisee relationship (Rather than list them here, it might be easier just go to the user page: all of this user's questions are on the same general to... | [
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776 | Layla has asked a question on [advice for starting a research group](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/16618/how-to-start-a-small-research-group-in-a-institution). While such a question at first does seem too broad, it also strikes me as exactly the kind of question that should be a "community wiki" question... | [
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779 | Working in academia is not just navigating university politics. It is also about conducting research and teaching one's field to students.
Academia already has an explicit policy of accepting questions on "university pedagogy". This covers the teaching part of a university employee's life.
But research is as least ... | [
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787 | Today I tried to flag a [question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/16851/how-the-gap-of-5-years-after-my-graduation-going-to-affect-me-in-job-hunting) as off-topic, because it has nothing to do with academia.
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789 | In [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/16969/2692), the OP believes that studying by MOOC should be on-topic since it deals with the idea of gaining knowledge from a teacher in a more-or-less formal way. However, the question was closed as off-topic by several, including myself, who believe academia to... | [
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795 | I recently deleted a few comments (mods, you can see them [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/admin/posts/17053/comments)) which had been flagged as off-topic. Briefly, the OP had [asked a question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/17050/acknowledging-the-discussion-with-someone-in-the-paper-but-exclu... | [
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"text": "Yes—and no. \n\n**Yes,** you acted inappropriately in the sense that the discussion was still very much ongoing at t... | 2014/02/17 | [
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800 | I was reading [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/17085/why-do-professors-sometime-hide-the-book-from-which-they-are-really-teaching) which was migrated from Mozh.SE. Although this question was closed as a rant it made me wonder about migrated questions.
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805 | Fellow Users of Academia.SE,
Recently on academia.SE and meta.academia.SE, I wrote that I was unwilling to have longterm participation in a site for which content -- specifically comments, although my own perspective is more of a blanket one -- which is on-topic for the site are being deleted. My feeling is that this ... | [
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819 | I read a few (OK, too many) academic blogs. Often, readers write in asking the author of the blog to post a question they have about academia. Then the readers of the blog answer and discuss in the comments.
These are often very interesting questions that are on-topic for academic.SE, and I think that this community w... | [
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822 | We all love [Academia Stack Exchange](http://academia.stackexchange.com), but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what will their first impression be? Let's try to look at this site through the eyes of so... | [
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823 | I am confused by the instructions about [editing](https://academia.stackexchange.com/help/editing)
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834 | I have recently noticed a trend in the answers on academia.se to question the situation about which OP is asking because *not every single detail* is provided, instead of answering what is being asked.
Most recent examples from a few days ago include:
[Should professors intervene if a student is wearing offensive clo... | [
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838 | I am currently a sophomore, but just looking for some statistics on graduate school admissions, and if possible chances tailored to my own statistics. | [
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842 | As I already mentioned, [some questions provide too much detail](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/a/831/49), making it a multi-thread open-ended requests for life advice.
However, in some cases the question lack enough details, and people are confused or ask for more details. Especially things dealing with soci... | [
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850 | There seems to be some disagreement about whether professional non-research degree programs (law, business, medicine) and entry into such programs is on-topic.
One the one hand, in a comment on [York Undergraduate student looking to get into medical school?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/18055/york-unde... | [
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855 | We currently have 76 questions tagged [research-undergraduate](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/research-undergraduate "show questions tagged 'research-undergraduate'"). By the definition of the site scope, either:
1. these questions are about research that's not applicable to postgrad students and ... | [
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866 | We've recently had a few questions that say, "Does anyone know of a degree program that meets requirements X,Y,Z."
For example, [Where can I take online MBA courses without being admitted?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/18289/where-can-i-take-online-mba-courses-without-being-admitted):
>
> Next year I... | [
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874 | I tried to write a response to [I believe I have solved a famous open problem. How do I convince people in the field that I am not a crank?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/18491/i-believe-i-have-solved-a-famous-open-problem-how-do-i-convince-people-in-the-f) that mentioned an achievement of my own that I ... | [
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882 | There was an interesting discussion at the stats Cross Validated site about [(mis)use of statistics in academic papers](https://stats.stackexchange.com/q/92213/5739). I think the audience of Academia will benefit from it, but I am not sure what the best way is to link to that discussion. | [
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891 | I’m Stéphane, senior product designer at Stack Exchange. First, I wanted to congratulate you because this site is now starting the process of moving out of beta to become a fully-graduated site! Well done!
### Graduation and Your Site Design
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907 | You guys have gotten your own design and graduated, hurrah! And with that, you now have the opportunity to setup Community Promotion Ads for your own site, not just to apply to other sites.
### What are Community Promotion Ads?
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914 | 
I think it's a bit unpleasant, lots of wasted space... is it a bug or a feature?
Using Chrome on OSX Mavericks, btw.
**EDIT:** I double checked with Lafere and FF, it looks ok. Also Chrome running on Mint 14 looks fine as well. The problem seems t... | [
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917 | Now that we're out of beta, will we get access to the full set of stackexchange sites for migrations ? | [
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922 | A nitpick but with the new format, when I'm reading answers, I keep seeing the answer below as a comment. I scroll down and I get the realisation "oh it's an answer, not a comment".
To give an idea of what I mean:
(Screenshot from [this question](h... | [
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927 | I was checking out the recent questions and came across [this one](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/19881/should-teachers-be-entertainers), which is essentially an opinion poll regarding the role/attitude teachers should have in class.
As I wrote on my comment, I do like what the question is going after b... | [
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932 | In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation. Participation is completely voluntary.
>
> **The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the qu... | [
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933 | The 2014 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
1. Nomination phase
2. Primary phase
3. Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are.
Please visit the official election page at
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937 | This applies to a few questions out there, especially the ones asking for personal career advice.
Was this function removed during graduation of the site? Or is it just me who can't access it anymore?
**Edit** My guess is that when the site graduated I lost the moderation privilege due to my low reputation. This op... | [
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949 | In a comment to [this answer](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/20399/10094), rocinante wrote:
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> And while I get that the site is heavily skewed to ignore or shut down any hint of criticism of professors in academia, rosy pictures of idyllic collaborations do not serve anybody who is not in that ideal position. ... | [
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954 | So I've embarked on something of a tag wiki editing project, and as I'm working through my list, I've hit `reference-request`. This appears to be used in two different cases, rather than just one:
1. Requests for citations, references or documents to support a question
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975 | If we have a meme on this site, it's "**Don't walk. Run.**" It is like an inside joke for the community ... but the joke might not be clear to newcomers.
If we could get past the semantic satiation for a minute, somebody quitting their real-life position and looking for employment/studies elsewhere is a serious issue... | [
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983 | I have a question that is not a problem, but rather something that I'm curious about and could elicit a good answer. I would like to know the reasons for what I believe is a trend relating to the kinds of facilities offered by campuses.
It's not about academia per se, but I think it *could* fall under the [allowed top... | [
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987 | I wrote this question: [How should academics handle communication with the media?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/20532/10643) and think it would benefit from people editing it by adding their personal experience so that we can cover more aspects of this issue.
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990 | In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected [from an earlier thread](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/932/2014-moderator-election-qa-question-collection) have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as the space for the cand... | [
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992 | Retu Zlerc recently asked a question which is, essentially, a [list of things](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/20901/compiling-ethical-standards-for-coauthorship-across-academic-fields-and-regions). In the past, we've had differing thoughts from the community on this topic ([for](https://academia.meta.stac... | [
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1,005 | The accepted answer to [this question](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/987/how-and-why-should-a-question-be-made-a-community-wiki) suggests that community wiki is deemed sort of a *legacy feature* that serves no real purpose anymore, as people are supposed to just edit additional information into exis... | [
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1,016 | One of my questions—[Topical tag cloud generator for researchers/academics](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/21005)—was [migrated](https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/4160/topical-tag-cloud-generator-for-researchers-academics) to a site I'm not a member of and have no intention of signing up for. Thus ... | [
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1,020 | [This](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/21095/5674) question here is practically asking whether or not a particular scheme used at his/her school is fair/ethical. Specifically the heart of the question says (emphasis mine):
>
> Do you ***think*** this is ethical? Is this a wise way to deal with cheating?
>
>
>... | [
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1,023 | There has been much discussion recently over when to to migrate questions away from the site. A while back, I found a question on meta.stackexchange which outlined the criteria one should use to make that decision. I can't find the question, but the process is as follows:
1. **Is the question on-topic at your site?** ... | [
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1,026 | I flagged a [comment](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/1363/women-in-academia/21219#comment44343_21219) because it referred to somebody as a
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> known, rabid male-hating feminist
>
>
>
which seems rather rude and offensive to me.
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1,038 | The entries in the question listing on Academia.SE are much bigger vertically than other SE sites. There appears to be a lot more spacing above and below each question entry.
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1,049 | I am not an academic, I am however a regular SE user. I see several Academia.SE questions in the "hot questions" sidebar. It seems that many of these questions go something like:
* "Is it appropriate to... ?"
* "Is it polite to... ?"
* "Is it normal to... ?"
Why are there so many etiquette and protocol type questions... | [
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"text": "Your 14% figure is quite misleading—it includes all questions and answers containing a variant of the term \"appropr... | 2014/05/28 | [
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1,053 | Since graduation, I've observed that quite often, the number of tasks in the review list is not consistent. For instance, in the attached screenshot, the top-menu bar displays 3 tasks to review, while I can't see any to actually review.
I've tried to open the site in a new browser, to avoid any cache issue, the probl... | [
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"text": "This is by-design. From the [SE meta](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/233535/review-counts-in-top-bar-an... | 2014/06/02 | [
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1,057 | I'd like to draw your attention to this question:
[Is it bad for one's future career prospects if the PhD thesis topic is broad?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/21888/is-it-bad-for-ones-future-career-prospects-if-the-phd-thesis-topic-is-broad)
My concern is that we're rather quick at jumping to serious ... | [
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"text": "This question and the answers is really hard to follow, due to too many comments deleted, making other comments ob... | 2014/06/04 | [
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1,066 | As it currently stands [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/23897/challenge-the-caste-based-reservation-policy-system-in-supreme-court) is off topic and not a good fit for our site since it is mainly about legal issues. That said, it sounds like the Indian university system has some issues. I th... | [
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"text": "I think one way to salvage the question is to ask how other universities have dealt with similar situations. ... | 2014/06/24 | [
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1,071 | I found this [question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/24028/how-should-a-student-act-towards-a-prejudiced-instructor). The titular question is "How should a student act towards a prejudiced instructor?" This seems like a great question for us. Looking at the question itself, the OP seems to be suggesting... | [
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"text": "If you don't see evidence of reverse sexual discrimination in this scenario, you can write as much in your answe... | 2014/06/27 | [
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1,080 | My question is about how the moderators decide on the questions and comments.
Every person has the right to express his opinion. In case of the questions posted on this site, the opinions can be either in favor of a comment or question or they may not be.
Moderators have that much access that when they feel that a ... | [
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"text": "There is a lot in your question and I am only going to tackle a bit of it now. There is a big difference between... | 2014/07/02 | [
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1,087 | One or two questions of mine are correctly marked as duplicate in the community.
How can I find the duplicate of my question before I post the question in the site?
Because it is not easy to find similar questions by simple search in the community. | [
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"text": "Unfortunately, it's really just mostly searching. You can limit your search using tags—just include the tag name, sur... | 2014/07/06 | [
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1,093 | Inspired by talking to a fellow Academia user at SciPy:
Every SE site seems to have a particular genre of questions that are essentially unanswerable. I've come to believe that the questions we get wherein someone asks, with an accompany tale of their career, coursework to date, interests, etc. "How do get into a top ... | [
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"text": "The fewer unique criteria and guidelines we have, the better, in my opinion, If questions can already be handled un... | 2014/07/08 | [
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1,101 | By a review on the tags lists, we see that some of the tags do not have any wiki or excerpts. I just want to know, which one is more prefered, a tag without any wiki or excerpt; or a tag with a wiki excerpt that just says "{topic}: this tag is for questions about {topic}" is better than nothing? | [
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"text": "The fewer unique criteria and guidelines we have, the better, in my opinion, If questions can already be handled un... | 2014/07/11 | [
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1,106 | In [this question of mine](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/25754/should-professors-help-masters-research-students-to-find-a-research-topic?noredirect=1#comment53330_25754), something is asked which I strongly believe that it is not opinion based and can be precisely answered by members of academia. However... | [
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"text": "\"However, one of the users thought this question is basically opinion based and became so angry with it.\" ... | 2014/07/12 | [
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1,116 | Many of my tag edit suggestions are rejected. Despite the fact that some of them are correctly judged, for many of those rejections I can not find any good reason. Could you please explain your reasons for rejecting some of them?
* [education](https://academia.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/12334)
What is... | [
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"text": "I think there are two issues at play here:\n\n* None of the above edits are substantial. They are all adding very ge... | 2014/07/15 | [
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