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How can I stop users from changing the content of my question?
I recently asked a question where I was asking how to solve a context of type A using a context of type B.My question was how to use context B.I didn't explain the exact context A because my question ...
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Questions about challenges on Interview Street and similar sites
A number of questions have been asked about the programming challenges on the website Interview Street. For example, this, this, this, this and this.
What should our policy be for these? To me, ...
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Should we allow list questions taged as **big-list** for now?
As far as I understand it, the policy regarding list questions is an ongoing discussion (see here and here). The idea is that we should built up a community first, and then discuss how to handle this ...
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Homework policy
The accepted answer on this question is our homework policy, adopted by a community poll.
The poll rules and outcome are retained below for historical purposes.
Rules
Below, you will find three ...
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Towards a homework policy
The purpose of this thread is to determine what our homework policy should be, if any.
In previous discussions, we saw:
Will homework questions be allowed? → Homework questions are allowed, but we ...
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What should our policy on research-level theoretical questions be?
This site encompasses computer science at all levels. This includes research-level questions about theoretical computer science which are also on-topic on our sister site Theoretical Computer Science.
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Answering exercise questions from textbooks where the authors explicitly ask other not to post solutions on web
I am troubled by this. The authors of the book explicitly ask others not to post solutions to the exercises in their book on the web (Arora and Barak, "Computational Complexity", page vi):
We ask ...
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How to capture all levels of difficulty
I previously asked
Should CS.SE authorize any level of difficulty?
The answer is yes, but it feels hard to ask an easy question: we expect that all questions should have been the object of ...
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Deleting questions with upvoted answers
Gilles has deleted a closed questions with +20 total vote and answers with similarly number of upvotes. I suggest the following polciy:
Moderators should not unilaterally delete closed questions:
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What is a good reference request?
We have 16 reference-request questions.
Reference requests are generally disliked on Stack Exchange, for many good reasons:
They have the potential to grow forever, with everyone and their ...
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Should we discourage users from answering off-topic/bad question?
There have been questions that received answers before being closed, e.g. this one. I feel like there have been more, but I might be wrong.
Should we discourage people from providing answers to ...
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Should questions about other sciences for computer scientists be on topic?
Consider the question Introductory books on nature sciences behind bioinformatics. Beside the fact that it is a book question and those are arguably always problematic, it seems to be more about ...
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Should questions about CS-related standards be allowed?
We have had the question What are local networks's ip? and it has been closed (as offtopic). It has an accepted answer, though.
Abstracting from the fact that the specific question at hand is not a ...
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What are our minimum requirements for good answers?
There are plenty of resources that "define" good questions, e.g. every site's FAQ, here and here. The heuristic seems to be that good questions correlate with good answers.
That does not seem to be ...
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Our first list question
We got our first list question. We need a policy how to deal with this and similar questions.
Also, how to tag it? Not everybody likes soft-question.
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Should we have tags for series of questions?
@Patrick87 proposed the concept of heap automata (here) which has lead to three follow-up questions (1, 2, 3) so far. It is not unlikely that more will follow.
Should we create a tag heap-automata in ...
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Discussions about tags [closed]
I suspect we will have to discuss tags and their usage on a regular basis. Let us do so here; I propose one answer per instance and discussion in the comments.
Note that you can link to tags using a ...
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Usage of Community-wiki
In some other communities, there have been discussions about the use of the "Community wiki"-function. The policies seem to differ from site to site, so before it comes to any problems here about what ...
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Question titles: do we encourage $\LaTeX$ in titles?
This question related to writing titles and editing posts. It is well-understood that titles should be expressive and tell about the content of the post, i.e., about the specific question being asked. ...
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How to deal with questions about crank-heavy topics?
It was bound to happen and thankfully, it did now rather than later: we received the first question about a claim regarding P?=NP.
Some topics, in particular this, attract lots of public attention ...
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How to behave during beta?
How should we behave and what behaviour should we encourage during beta specifically in order to make our site successful?
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What about list questions?
I know we have some very useful ones on cstheory.SE and I have seen some amusing ones on Stackoverflow. On other sites such as scifi.SE they seem to be banned.
What is our stand?
