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Should I leave multiple comments to say thank you to professors who commented on my question?

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Completely wrong answers (in my opinion) and wrong advices written with an assertive/threatening/intimidating tone

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modified 2 days ago Dilworth 2,428

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What should we call our chat room

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modified 2 days ago StrongBad♦ 55.3k

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What is our stance on questions that can be used for legal and illegal purposes?

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modified Aug 17 at 16:26 StrongBad♦ 55.3k

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Unjustified trend of labelling too many questions as “duplicates”

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How does someone ask a good question on StackExchange Academia?

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answered Aug 16 at 19:30 ff524♦ 68.8k

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Closing questions?

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modified Aug 15 at 15:01 Ébe Isaac 6,915

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Softness of the closing criteria

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modified Aug 15 at 14:58 Ébe Isaac 6,915

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How opinion-based is too opinion-based?

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modified Aug 15 at 14:54 Ébe Isaac 6,915

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Accommodation questions

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modified Aug 15 at 14:31 Ébe Isaac 6,915

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Why is my post receiving a hoarde of downvotes?

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asked Aug 15 at 14:21 Ébe Isaac 6,915

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“Attitudes of academics towards X?” On or off topic?

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answered Aug 9 at 9:05 einpoklum 3,870

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Obviously insincere posts – how should users/reviewers react?

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modified Aug 4 at 15:34 StrongBad♦ 55.3k

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Why was my question put on hold for depending on individual factors?

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modified Aug 2 at 13:46 Wrzlprmft 17.3k

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Why did many simultaneously earn the generalist badge?

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modified Aug 2 at 7:41 Wrzlprmft 17.3k

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Edit/Delete timeout on chat

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modified Jul 30 at 6:11 Nate Eldredge 52.7k

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Is my question about which degree best fits my non-academic career goal appropriate for this site?

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modified Jul 27 at 7:26 Cape Code 16.3k

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Does an unbalanced focus on “appropriateness” and “offensiveness” suggest educating has become a lesser priority?

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I have just discovered that I can edit other users' posts! Is there anything I should know before I start some serious editing?

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modified Jul 20 at 22:04 Brian Tompsett - 汤莱恩 5,401

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Question predicated on the OP being a well known contemporary person

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modified Jul 16 at 15:29 StrongBad♦ 55.3k

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Has the stance on questions pertaining to legal issues changed?

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modified Jul 15 at 16:21 Franck Dernoncourt 11.7k

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What is our stance on questions asking about MOOCs?

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answered Jul 12 at 16:38 ff524♦ 68.8k

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Please consider supporting arXiv trackbacks on the mother Meta

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Would this question about data storage be on-topic?

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modified Jul 6 at 7:39 Wrzlprmft 17.3k

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Usage of 'Queries' or 'Questions' in Academia Tag Wikis?

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answered Jul 6 at 4:34 ff524♦ 68.8k

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Question I answered was closed, should I transfer my answer to referenced question?

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modified Jul 5 at 18:01 J. Roibal 949

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Why is that question too broad?

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Shall we close Brexit-related questions as not answerable?

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modified Jun 29 at 10:05 gerrit 19.2k

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Questions comparing publications between different field of research?

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answered Jun 26 at 9:55 jakebeal 111k

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Why was the erection question summarily deleted?

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modified Jun 16 at 11:13 jakebeal 111k

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Should we have a Deferral tag?

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answered Jun 13 at 20:50 aeismail♦ 107k

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Is asking for guidance in completing a thesis on-topic?

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answered Jun 12 at 19:36 Wrzlprmft 17.3k

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Scooping content from Academia SE - is that ok?

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Why cannot I post this question?

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How to select an answer to a question that I recently asked?

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The line between graduate student and undergrad questions

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answered May 29 at 4:05 ff524♦ 68.8k

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Should we make country tags visually distinct?

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answered May 24 at 16:49 marts 857

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Why was my question about fighting junk science so poorly received?

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Asked question with wrong account, deleted, and now can't repost

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Is backup of a scientific book on-topic?

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answered May 10 at 1:55 eykanal♦ 32k

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Appropriateness of promoting political content via the community promotion ads

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answered May 9 at 16:31 eykanal♦ 32k

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Welcome to Academia.SE!

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Are Science Fair Questions On-Topic?

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answered May 7 at 16:10 jakebeal 111k

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is this question for academia or linguistic part of SE?

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Difference between 'evaluation' and 'evaluation-criteria' tags

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modified May 5 at 12:12 Ébe Isaac 6,915

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Can this kind of question be asked here?

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answered May 5 at 6:42 ff524♦ 68.8k

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