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Should we provide guidance warning not to trust ChatGPT?
These days one often finds questions that include stuff along the lines of, “and ChatGPT tells me blah-blah,” where blah-blah is some utter garbage. Correcting the misapprehensions that stem from ill-...
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How is it determined whether or not to display the year an achievement was earned? It seems inconsistent [migrated]
What I would expect is that any date within the current calendar year would display with day/month only, while all dates from previous years would have the full day/month/year format.
This is not ...
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Why does the `register` tag get converted to `formality`?
I wanted to indicate that the phrase got a steal is in a very informal register:
I just got a steal on a lawn mower down at the hardware store. They're going out of business.
I edited a question to ...
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What can I do to improve the following post to get a better acceptance?
How can I fix this linked question so that it'll get a positive response? What is wrong with this question?
Question to fix
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Can the site fix the auto-capitalization error for I.e.?
I find the auto-complete/auto-correct feature of the site quite a pain, especially when it introduces errors. The abbreviation I.e. [sic] shouldn't be capitalized if it's used as it is below. I don't ...
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A test to decide whether we should consult AI-generated writing or not
I know mentioning AI often triggers people here. I totally understand that because I've seen AI answer my questions in the worst way possible; it provides, with confidence, incorrect information in ...
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What happened to the image in answer feature?
I used to be able to add an image to a question or answer. Is this broken? Now I just get a little blue and white thumbnail and a link usually saying 'enter image description here'. When I click on ...
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The similar-question panel is sometimes missing on Stack Exchange
The similar-question panel is sometimes missing on Stack Exchange. This makes it much harder for me to find old posts of mine or others' related posts. Is there any way to solve this?
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Can I find words with similar spelling using regular expressions or wildcards?
I would like to find words that look similar in spelling. Is there a tool (document, web site/application, and/or software) that can allow me to do that by using wildcards or regular expressions? For ...
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The tag “confusing” should be deleted
I found that on Ell Stack Exchange, there is a tag called confusing and I found that this tag was used by 1 question. That question actually asked about the prepositions after the word “confusing”.
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The tag “simple” should be deleted
NB: the tag no longer exists.
I found that there is a tag called simple in Ell Stack Exchange. For me, this tag is useless, and I don’t know who created this tag.
Maybe the user want to create the tag ...
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Why my flag was declined as “without evidences”?
I’m new to flagging questions and answers and maybe not familiar with the flagging on this site.
So, I reported the question last week Who is the feds, and I flagged with the reason "need ...
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One question-editing policy to rule them all
There is some dispute about editing questions here on ELL, specifically correcting grammar and spelling. Multiple Q&As exist, with different and mostly incompatible answers:
When should I correct ...
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Should we encourage dialects?
Just a thought. Some questions on ELL get asked about pronunciation in various songs, spoken works, films, radio broadcasts etc, where the main problem is the dialect of the speaker. We are asked to ...
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What makes a question earn your upvote?
I did a quick edit to "I see" versus "oh really" and noticed that while four people had answered it, it didn't have a single upvote (until I added mine). I think that is a bit odd ...
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