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13 questions linked to/from Let's not close questions as homework except for blatantly obvious cases (at least for a while)
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2019 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.
Chemistry is scheduled for an election next week, April 29. In ...
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2016 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
Chemistry is scheduled for an election starting next week, October 3rd. In connection with that election, we will be hosting a Q&A here for candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of ...
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2016 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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A new policy of closure: November 2016
What's the current homework policy?
The current HW policy is laid out in this post. In essence, only blatant homework copy-pastes should be closed. These often get closed unilaterally by moderators.
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2019 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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Can we please be friendlier at least in the beginning?
I am a PhD in Chemistry, who graduated from a top 20 university in the US, failed to find a job in the field and moved to CS. Chemistry field doesn't have much of job security, so that was a good ...
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Let's decide on what we should close as homework
The homework close reason is a thing I click on often these days.
Recently, we're close-voting questions as homework that are from a broad range of scope. Unlike what's being seen in that screenshot, ...
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What *is* a 'homework question'?
This is going to be a bit of a long post, please bear with me. (And no TL;DR's ಠ_ಠ)
A decaffeinating story
Once upon a meta post, a legend from the realm of Manly soil rose and said: Let's ...
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Feedback on The Experiment
The experiment is over. Here are the stats, beautifully crafted with heavy MathJax with stats topping$^1$.
Here's my take. Nothing really changed where we worried about change. You can play with this ...
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The policy of excessively closing questions
Nowadays I find more and more of my questions being closed and I don't understand why. I've got the impression that acquiring knowledge isn't the priority here anymore, but rather following some ...
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Recent close statistics
The data speaks for itself:
$$\begin{array}{c|c|c|c} \hline
\text{Time span} & \text{Number of questions} & \text{Number of questions closed} & \text{Close percentage} \\ \hline
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Is "Lack of Research" enough reason to close a question?
As everyone who's spent a couple of minutes moderating Chem.SE knows, the bread and butter of the close reasons is homework. I really want to stop this, for reasons discussed and agreed upon before.
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Why is this homework question still closed?
The question What mass of water is present as a liquid when equilibrium is established? clearly is a homework question. The homework tag has been added to the question within two minutes after it was ...
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