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What to do about question posts requesting answers to multiple questions?
How do I write a good answer? advises avoid trying to answer questions which... request answers to multiple questions.
I left a comment to this effect under a question post from a new user.
It felt ...
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Is it appropriate to ask to check exercises from Dragon Book here?
I am studying the Dragon Book about compilers and it has exercises which I try to solve. Unfortunately, there is no-one nearby who could check my solutions. Is it appropriate to post my solutions here ...
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cross posting when no answer
I have asked this question on math stack exchange
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4853922/michell-fpl-2-3-5-observable-types,
but there has been no answer.
The math stack guidelines are ...
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Moderator Election
In the "featured on meta" on the site I find a reference to the question
"What would you like to change about the moderator election process?".
In the recent past we had a ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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Should we allow extremely low-effort homework questions?
I found this question which appears to be a copy-paste of a homework problem.
Certain sites such as Physics say that homework questions must focus on the underlying concepts as opposed to the specific ...
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How can effectively signal that a question should be closed?
The obvious answer is to flag them as Needs improvement. However this appears to be ineffective because all this does is push the items into the Close Votes queue and there do not seem to be any ...
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Are questions asking for the rationale or purpose of something on-topic?
On Software Engineering, questions that ask for why something is the way it is are often closed as opinion-based and/or too-broad. For example, asking why a certain language has or lacks a certain ...
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Flagging many comments that are no longer needed?
While clarifying a question, a trail of comments is typically left behind. Many of these comments are not needed after the post is edited. These comments are deleted sometimes by moderators since they ...
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Dark mode for CS.SE
Following this post, and in particular :
We will not be updating any individual site themes
I wondered if it would be possible to update cs.stackexchange's color themes to add a dark mode. I am not ...
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2023 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #4 on Computer Science has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:
They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for ...
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Feature Request: use `<br># ... # <br>` for large text inside of a Table
A Feature Request Regarding Markdown Tables
I was hoping to find a way to insert text of the same size as headers inside of markdown language tables.
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2023 Community Moderator Election
The 2023 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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2023 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Computer Science Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next ...
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Why do MathJax piecewise function (case blocks) not render correctly?
When using MathJax I thought that \begin{cases}...\end{cases} would have each case printed on a separate line.
Instead, the separate cases all all listed on the ...
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