Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Targeted troll comments
I have been receiving some troll comments in some of my older posts. Now, I have been busy with work stuff, so couldn't care less about this. So, I flagged these comments and moved on. Today I see for ...
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How are we detecting AI answers?
I've seen a lot of talk on the SE metas (metae? metapodi?) about AI answers, but I haven't seen any methodology for detecting it. I've run a few answers (that looked suspicious: really well-written ...
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Textual description of complex reaction schemes involving organic compounds on Chemistry.SE
I came across a question with this figure:
The image was not described. I would like to edit these questions such that the image or even the question itself has some text describing what's in the ...
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Why was this user's question downvoted?
I noticed that this question received a lot of downvotes.
It seemed like a sincere question with a reasonable amount of effort and thought put up although there was a clear scientific gap which got ...
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An autoban that's not yet lifted - what can I do? (FIXED)
Thank you all for all of your help in refining the questions I had and reopening a lot of them.
The edits were done to such an extent that I couldn't have seen better versions of those.
I shall ...
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Let's fix broken links!
I have a database of broken links on chem.SE. Would anyone like to take a stab at replacing the links and better describing the links (if needed) so that if they break again it's easier found?
If this ...
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How can we be friendlier?
We've often discussed the lack of friendliness in chem.SE whether it's just something a few of us notice and specifically call out, or unfriendliness is something a new user laments about.
While it's ...
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ECHEMI.com - Site that blatantly copy the contents from Chem.SE
The site called ECHEMI.com blatantly copy the contents from chem.SE without any attribution. The latest one was this post where one of the comments mentions the scraper site: https://www.echemi.com/...
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Duplicate Profiles - DUDE_WITH_J
DUDE_WITH_J - Profile 1
DUDE_WITH_J - Profile 2 (changed to just DUDE)
DUDE_WITH_J - Profile 3
These two users have the same name, with different DPs and different rep values. Profile 1 is new here, ...
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Hello Big Brother. I mean, Google
Unless you've been in hibernation during the past year and a half you've probably heard of changes roiling the IT world, including due to the launch of new generative AI products sucking all attention ...
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Handling questions that deal with verification of content in external sources
Many questions on the site share the feature of seeking clarification regarding content found in a third source that seems authoritative, such as a printed textbook or online site. An example is this ...
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Edits by Anonymous user and approved by Community Bot
This is again regarding this post. If I see the history, there are many suggested edits:
I can see there is involvement of a moderator who rolled back the edit. Even after rollback, multiple edits ...
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UPDATE: Poll to choose level of restiction on Artificial Intelligence-generated answers and associated warning banner
UPDATE - 19th March
This update is to inform all parties concerned that the banner change has been implemented and it will show up on the answer tab as a reminder. The tag status-completed is ...
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What's the point of users commenting the URL of the question itself in the comment section?
I have seen instances of (spam) users commenting the link of the question itself in the comment section and they are of course flagged and deleted. But I found a weird explanation of this in this post:...
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The banner warning against Artificial Intelligence generated answers
Sites can now request to enable a banner to warn about their policy on AI-generated content
This is a policy introduction on the Meta of all Metas, and given how ChemSE has an anti-AI (as in, use AI ...
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