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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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The return of the homework question
It has become a ritual: three times a semester (around 2nd week, midterms and finals) there is a flow of simple, homework-like questions (mostly in the field of automata theory; US education system is ...
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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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Questions encouraging a myriad of answers
How do you view a question asking for many different answers to one problem?
As a simple example, there are many interesting ways of proving
1+2+...+n = n*(n+1)/2
and I know several. How would ...
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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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When is a question for resources/references in Q&A format?
I am puzzled if it is appropriate to ask for resources/referemces for good exercises for an introductory TCS course. I personally think that this is a very precise question, but I see the danger that ...
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What should we do with questions without effort?
Here someone asked a question about finding median, with a simple google search "median of unsorted array in O(n)" all first three results are about correct way to do it. But there is no policy to ...
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Closing questions that are too broad
I voted to close How does branch prediction work?
This is a broad question, asking for an overview of a whole subfield. While the answers do provide some adequate perspectives on the subject, I found ...
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No own research effort
I like to quote the tooltips of the UP- and DOWN-vote buttons here:
UP: “This question shows research effort; ...”
DOWN: “This question doesn not show any research effort; ...”
I interpret ...
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How to promote inclusive behavior?
I asked a question that has a tricky answer, which I saw explained in some dark corner of the Internet a long time ago. I did so after seeing another question that was posted by someone who knew the ...
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Policy on stocking the beta with “easy” questions
This is my first time to be involved in a site beta, and I would like to gauge the community's opinion on this subject.
Certainly, there are many kinds of questions which we could expect to ...
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Are questions on introductory undergraduate CS theory appropriate here?
This is my first time to be involved in a site beta, and I would like to gauge the community's opinion on this subject.
On StackOverflow (and possibly Math.SE), questions on introductory formal ...
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Will homework questions be allowed?
Since the current FAQs say this site is for students as well as professionals, what will the policy on homework be?
What are the guidelines that a homework question should follow if it is to be ...
