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What reason is there to delete half a conversation in comments?
Far too often a moderator will delete comments from one side of a conversation while leaving comments from the other side of the conversation in place.
If it were a series of stand alone comments and ...
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State/Province Tags
Should tags that are about a state/province include what country they are part of? As an example the iowa tag did not mention what country it is part of and people who do not know all the US states ...
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Editing a question which has been edited by a moderator and then locked
I have posted the following question on the law exchange: For copyright determination purposes, how can AI-generated content (eg.lyrics) be proven as such rather than human generated?
This has ...
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How should we discuss unpalatable legal opinions?
Context: The USA is currently partway through a well-understood, well-documented reactionary backslide, eroding democracy and rule of law. In anticipation of an electoral victory later this year, The ...
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Is there a good way to clarify between theoretical "what exactly does the law say" and "what could practically happen in the real world" questions?
I have asked a question about the law wrt police and fraud. I tried from the start to make it clear that I was asking a theoretical about the law, rather than a practical question about what would ...
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Is it off-topic to ask whether the legal community considers law a form of technology?
In Slate's Slow Burn podcast, Linda Hirshman says:
A big achievement for feminism was to bring the social technology of law into the single-family dwelling.
Elsewhere, I have adopted this ...
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Could we change which question is linked to this duplicate question?
I asked this question, and it was proposed that it be closed as a duplicate of this question. I accepted the proposal because the answer to that question indicated the specific statute related to ...
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I'm tired of the answers in comments and down votes, so the community will now be deprived of the answer post because I'm deleting the question
I'd asked What is a special verdict form, and what is the basis in law for this jury to be able to develop their own theory and not have to disclose it?
There are several helpful and thoughtful ...
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Retag single-tagged [any-jurisdiction] and [multiple-jurisdiction] Questions
This community has reached a consensus to remove the [any-jurisdiction] tag and the [multiple-jurisdiction] tag from Law SE.
Because there are over 250 questions with those tags (combined) we are NOT ...
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When an existing question raises for you an additional question about the law, please ask that as a new Q&A
Sometimes when reading a question, you will realize there is a gap in your own legal knowledge.
Instead of using a comment to ask that the question author explain the law to you, you should ask your ...
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Merge [tag:vaccine] and [tag:vaccination]
The tags vaccine and vaccination seem synonymous. Let's merge them?
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In the future can the people behind the law branch of Stack Exchange support HTML tags `<u>...</u>` for underlining?
In the future (e.g. next year) would the people behind the law branch of Stack Exchange be willing to support HTML tags <u>...</u> for underlining?
An example is shown below:
<u>...
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Are we perhaps going overboard with the "request for legal advice" closures?
It seems that editors and moderators have grown increasingly aggressive in the last year or two with the votes to close questions because they "clearly ask for specific legal advice."
I have ...
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Is [us-constitution] a useful tag?
Is there any purpose for the us-constitution tag, considering that US-specific questions should also be tagged with united-states, and us-constitution does not provide any information not given by the ...
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Who can edit questions?
Some dude with less than 5k reputation edited this question of mine: Is there a definition/test for "lack of merit" (legal arguments)?
I don't want that modification. Of course I can edit it ...
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