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2023: a year in moderation

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Are Questions involving long history not ON-TOPIC on HSM?

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Should the examples and big lists tags be the same?

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What is HSMSE policy on ChatGPT?

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2022: a year in moderation

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Do we want to change the link about MathJax help?

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Do we need the mhchem MathJax extension?

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MathJax Greasemonkey script

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Do we need MathJax?

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Any objections to adding a [sophie-germain] tag?

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Request to let [reference] reference [reference-request]

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What to do after a question is partially answered and/or new information is available?

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Do we have a recommended limit on edits per day?

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Those who do not know [history] are doomed to recreate it

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Blacklisted [history] tag has reappeared

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I pointed out definite science mistakes in an answer, but my comments were deleted without a trace. Why?

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2021: a year in moderation

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What is the purpose of the "social history" tags?

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Why was my suggested edit to remove irrelevant stuff rejected?

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Will our Beta label be removed?

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Strategy to edit my "Plato 5040" question in order to get it reopened?

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Please help remove a spam post on the main site

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Make questions about counter-factual history off-topic

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Why has my question been closed as "Opinion Based"?

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Why can't [kepler] and Kepler get along?

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Is it ok to ask whether a person is a descendants of a scientist?

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Are questions about the logistics/administration/practical matters in past research on-topic?

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Is here okay to post a question about computer science lore?

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Why is this question called opinion-based?

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Bounties on my question

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Let there be [contributions]

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Where is Gottingen?

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Two tags for Middle Ages

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Why was my answer deleted?

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This tag is [history]

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Is there something that needs to be done when the main chatroom is frozen?

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Are questions about the history of pseudoscience on-topic?

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2020: a year in moderation

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Looking for a general academic term on "technology trees" and related research and not sure where to ask best

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Two tags for the 18th century

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Erroneous red button on "review queues" and "suggested edits" icons

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Is asking questions related to the statements in (religious) scriptures allowed?

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Should we reduce the criteria for gold badges?

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Why was my answer regarding the history of the concept of a tensor deleted?

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Criteria for considering questions 'duplicates' seem to need improvement

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2019: a year in moderation

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Suggestion of tag removal

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What is meant specifically by "history" in history of science and mathematics?


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