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Let's get critical: May 2013 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love Computer Science Stack Exchange, 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, ...
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What constitues an appropriate check-my-proof question?
I've read this, and also run into the unpleasant situation of having my proof that I wanted to get checked closed as "not constructive."
I realize that a lot of people consider P vs. NP a "crank ...
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Agressively Migrate old SO posts to generate search traffic
I had an idea for promoting this site, and I was wondering if it was feasible.
Basically, I think we should migrate old theory/CS questions from StackOverflow to this site. I often end up googling ...
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Users asking too many questions in few time period
What should we do with users asking too many questions in a little time period? I see similar question on meta.SO, but here I think we should have another policy, because we expecting more effort by ...
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Other Computer Science communities?
Are there any other Computer Science communities you would recommend?
So, please give me some recommendations.
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What would a proper answer of the form “no, what you're describing doesn't exist” look like?
I asked this earlier question about whether there is a pumping lemma for DCFLs and it looks like the answer is "no."
If the answer were "yes," an authoritative answer might have the form "yes there ...
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Reference: templates for common comments
The purpose of this post is to aggregate several templates for comments useful for the daily moderating of the CS site, e.g., informing the user (usually, new user) when their question is off-topic / ...
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Belongs on stackoverflow close reason
I currently only see belongs on meta.cs close reason, when you choose to close as off-topic. Is it possible to add stackoverflow to it?
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What is appropriate is mysterious
I recently posted this question on cs.stackexchange.com. In the question, I am essentially asking about whether anyone can point me towards references on ARM programming. It was closed as off-topic ...
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Logical circuits
When it comes to logical circuits, where does computer science stop and electrical engineering start? Computer architecture studies logical circuits, logic gates and so on in an abstract way. If you ...
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Why the low voting rates?
Compare CS.SE to Academia.SE, which is more or less at the same state as CS.SE: about a year in beta, ~1500 visits/day, 3300 user (CS.SE has 5k users)
Look at the question on the front page of ...
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Bug with mathjax
Recently, after I perform an edit, it seems the mathjax rendering takes more space than it is given, resulting with overlapping with the text after it. Example (from q10437, right after editing it):
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Questions that seem too simple - close, comment or answer?
Inspired by this question, and Ran G.'s comment, what is the "best" practice (in terms of the maintenance of the health of the site) for questions that appear too simple to be correctly asked, but ...
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Should we merge check-my-proof and check-my-algorithm?
Should we merge check-my-proof and check-my-algorithm into a new tag check-my-answer?
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Reference answers to frequently asked questions
Why am I here?
If you were sent here, somebody thought that your question lacked depth or displayed ignorance of basic knowledge and/or techniques one would learn in undergraduate courses. This is ...
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What to do when the answer is already part of the question
We have recently had this question and this one.
Both questions practically contain an answer within the question and ask "is this correct".
Assuming the answer they give is correct (like in the ...
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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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Can/should we have a tag for questions where OP suspects fallacy in question?
One of the things I like about the Computer Science site over StackOverflow in general is that if you mention you are not sure of what you are asking people here people will tend to help you ...
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Let's get critical: Feb 2013 Site Evaluation
We all love Computer Science - Stack Exchange, 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 ...
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What's exactly the difference between Computer Science and Computational Science in SE?
I've just discovered another site in SE that looks basically the same than Computer Science SE:
http://scicomp.stackexchange.com
What's the real difference between them? From what I read from ...
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A guide to moderating Computer Science Stack Exchange yourself — close voting
We've had complaints in the past that too many questions were closed by moderators. And as the site grows, we have more questions in need of closing. We have a growing number of users who can cast ...
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Merging the tags complexity and complexity-theory
There are lots of questions tagged complexity-theory and only two tagged complexity. Presumably we should merge the latter into the former.
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non-research level algorithm problems
I'm taking an undergrad course based on Cormen, which includes allot of "prove the correctness of the algorithm" type problems. These are generally not research level problems, so they don't belong ...
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How do I subscribe to weekly newsletter?
I have subscribed to weekly newsletter of SO & Mathematica, but I don't see such option is CS forum. Is there any to know best questions of the week ?
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1answer
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Closed questions listed as “Possibly related”?
When looking at a question, at the right I see related ones. But often folling one of the links leads me to closed questions, and I understand that that means that the question isn't (very) relevant. ...
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questions that have been migrated to TCS.se
Ive seen quite a few questions migrated from TCS.se to cs.se. however:
am wondering about cases of the opposite, ie migration of questions on cs.se to TCS.se. does anyone know of some cases of ...
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what can I do to clean up my question?
What piece am I missing to turn this idea into a programming language?
Reading over it now, I can't help but completely agree with the last comment that it isn't clear what I'm asking. And I admit ...
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“Answer the Un-answered” Event! (27 January 2013)
Following the discussion in Percentage of answered questions, we organize an event which is dedicated to answering the (~200) un-answered questions we have on CS.SE.
We'll be coordinating the event ...
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Questions more suitable for “Computational Science” instead of “Computer Science”
I noticed that there are quite some "simple" questions with the tag "numerical-analysis" or "linear-algebra", which haven got a "good" answer so far. Of course, I could try to write good answers to ...
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Tag merge: should we merge “computer-vision” with “vision”?
There are two tags that seem to be referring to the same subject:
computer-vision
vision
Should we merge these? If I remember correctly from the previous discussion, we decided to drop the ...
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What is stopping cs.stackexchange from graduating
I was wondering what are the criteria where we are lacking before we go full public/graduate. The term "critical mass" is used often but is not properly defined. From the FAQs and other questions, it ...
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Do we want hats?
In 2011, the Gaming Stack Exchange hosted an event called Hat Dash, where users earned "hats" for their gravatars by completing certain tasks (analogous to badges):
Certain actions would trigger ...
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Do not automatically expire single-use tags
There is an automatic job that deletes single-use tags after 6 months. No attempt is made at determining whether the tags are good and should remain, or whether the tags are a variant name of another ...
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Protocol for self-answered, abandoned, or purposively unanswered questions
As a follow-up to Is it all right to cleanup "comment-answered questions"?
How should we approach these types of questions (both as they happen, and with prior ones)?
Self-answered (in the question)
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Questions about network protocols
Response for IP Record Route Option is a question about a concrete network protocol (the TCP/IP family). Are such questions on-topic here?
If the question was about the implementation of the protocol ...
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Is it all right to cleanup “comment-answered-questions”?
I am looking at some older questions that are left unanswered, and I see some examples where the question is well and fully answered in the comments. Is it all right for me to basically copy/paste or ...
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How to avoid long comment threads for discussion with new members?
I recently got into a really long comment thread with a new member, in this post. It was eventually locked by Gilles, because we are not supposed to use comment threads for discussions.
I actually ...
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Analysing this site's traffic
A while ago it was asked
How to increase our traffic?
It seems that we have a steadily growing number of visits recently. At this site I was able to generate a plot of the traffic over time:
I ...
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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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Duplicate on other SE site
It turns out that this question
What is tail recursion?
has an answer at
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33923/what-is-tail-recursion
It is not possible to vote for closing as exact duplicate, ...
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Encouraging multiple answers to questions
As a follow up to Yuval's post about the percentage of answered questions probably we should do something to encourage more answers to questions to increase the answer ratio of the site. Any opinions ...
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Are questions about Chernoff bounds and Lovasz local lemma good fit here?
On math.SE, I have asked some questions about Lovasz local lemma
Understanding the condition in Lovasz local lemma
Two definitions of independence of an event and a set of events
independence ...
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What to do if someone asks my assignment question?
It seems that a student has posted a question I have given my students as an assignment on this site.
Is there a policy regarding this?
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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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Viewing single answers in math-heavy threads takes too long
MathJax is applied from top to bottom. That is often okay, but in cases like this one it disrups the experience; you have to wait quite a while (depending on your CPU) until a lower-ranked answer (you ...
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Missing MathJaX in the duplicate subtab of the close review queue
When I review a question with a vote to close as duplicate, I see MathJaX formatting for the question body, but not in the tab that shows the proposed duplicate. Chrome 23.0.1271.17 beta in case it ...
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Percentage of answered questions
For a long time now, the statistics of the number of answered questions has been standing on 88%, slightly below the golden standard of 90%. That might be due to a lot of early questions which have ...
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Is it OK to ask a question whose answer we already know?
Recently, a user has asked a question whose answer he pointed out in a comment. One of the moderators voiced his opinion that "[i]t is fine to post interesting material even if you know the answer. ...
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“References to CS in pop culture” on topic or not?
The question References to CS in pop culture asks for about the role of CS in popular culture, including which CS personalities have made some kind of appearance to the more general public.
On one ...
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Should the question on what is the most efficient known priority-queue be closed?
The question What is the most efficient known priority-queue? asks for the most efficient priority-queue. The question is obviously badly phrased: what is the "most efficient" data structure? The ...
