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Tag words should be hyphenated
We already have two tags freedomofspeech and criminallaw that were created without the traditional hyphen-delimiting of words. Who can fix that?
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How should troll questions be handled?
We occasionally get "questions" that ask absurd, bad-faith questions with some legal hook.
For example (I hate to feed a troll by giving the question attention, but I figure doing so once to ...
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Appropriate tag for civil-code (Napoleonic code, et al.)
The civil-legal-system tag is described as:
Civil law is a legal system based on a codified set of principles that serve as the primary source of law. Not to be confused with [civil law] claims, ...
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Should Moderators be able to use their privileges for self-promotion?
Recently useful comments on questions are being moved to chat because they were marked as "extend conversation" More information here, even comments that contain open questions, are still ...
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Why banned from asking in law?
I have been posting questions in law that generally are well structured and address a relevant political issue. But some get voted down because they are “politically charged”.
My last question was on ...
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Can I withdraw my vote?
I down voted an answer to someone else's question, but then I realized I shouldn't have done so. As it stands right now, I can only take back my "down" vote with an up vote.
Is it just my device? Or ...
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How could I have improved this question?
I asked a question recently about a hypothetical scenario where one suspects an individual is a pedophile. It was downvoted several times, with a number of comments accusing me of attempting to get ...
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titled, mistitled, titled, mistitled, post clarified, what next?
Am I applying the right procedure? I asked a question and gave it a subject. Someone edited the title to something irrelevant (I assume unknowingly). I replaced the title with something similar to my ...
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Improper removal of an OP's contract-law question
This question was removed by one of our new moderators. It indicates being "marked as spam or rude or abusive", which by itself sounds ambiguous. The revision history is here.
Besides the reason for ...
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Are you only able to have no more than 2 or 3 tag edits pending?
I have submitted a couple of edits to tags only to find there were some boiler-plate languages previously used which I then tried to incorporate in my previous edits as well as submit new ones in ...
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Why us there an "Undelete" button if it does not work?
An answer (https://law.stackexchange.com/a/82351/45195) had been deleted by a moderator.
I cannot comment on that (until I undelete) the answer it seems.
However when I click on "Undelete", ...
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Where is the site chatroom?
I can no longer find it here.
I think every site has a site chatroom? (And FIRC was called "the courtroom"?)
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What is the proper place to voice my dissatisfaction with moderator behaviour?
I’m dissatisfied with what I consider to be shocking displays of arrogance by a certain moderator and would like to express my objections. What is the right way and place to do this?
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Can I accept an answer if my question has been marked as duplicate?
Can I accept an answer if my question has been marked as duplicate?
If so, how? I noticed there is no "check mark" next to the answer that I found usefull (more so than the similar question where I ...
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When will the next moderator election be held?
When, and how frequently are moderator elections held on law.SE?
Can users nominate anyone for moderator other than themselves?
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Question closed without any real information why?
My question was closed as being off-topic, but no explanation was given. Please help me. The question is here.
It asked about the law on fence heights. As of now the council have failed to reply ...
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How should the EU related trespass questions be asked or more generally how to deal with jurisdiction-duplicates?
Asking a non-jurisdiction specific or several-jurisdiction question typically result in answers that are hard to accept if one is actually interested in the full range of jurisdictions defined in ...
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How did this SE user get 100 reputation points?
I looked this user up who commented on my post here on Law.SE and he has no history but does have 101 reputation. How is this possible?
https://law.stackexchange.com/users/426/matthew-read
Can women ...
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Find a moderator to move my question to another community
I have asked a question in law community and now I noticed that there is a more specific community for this question (Expatriates).
I am wondering where I can find a moderator to move my question to ...
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Proper Question Structure
I was scrolling down to Math Stack Exchange, and saw how they have the requirements to post a question, where you have to properly present the background of a question since they are not a "...
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Is my question acceptable for this site?
I don't know if my question is philosophy, law, history, ethics or none of it, but I imagine a scenario where an obviously evil and criminal act with the intent of malice has the result of utility and ...
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Could someone create these tags?
Could someone create tags for roberts-rules and parliamentary-procedure possibly parliamentary-rules?
Specifically referring to this question: Appointment and Elected Offices of an Assembly under ...
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Mentioning a different Stack Exchange in a comment
If I want to write a comment that refers to a different stack exchange, what syntax do I use?
The exchange I would like to refer to is https://academia.stackexchange.com/ and I only want to refer to ...
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Politically incorrect tag: North-Korea -> DPRK
The country commonly called north-korea is actually the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea". That is too long for a tag, which only allows 35 characters. The proper shorthand would be ...
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Why was my question downvoted, with no explanatory comment?
I wrote a question (Filling out an affidavit of personal service) which received a helpful answer. I upvoted it and accepted it.
My question was downvoted but there was no explanatory comment.
Why?
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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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Is this question on topic?
I am unsure whether this question would fit better here or on worldbuilding. Since the worldbuilding aspect is almost incidental, I figured I would try here first.
The question
This is a hypothetical ...
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Struggling to find a recently seen answer for the life of me; what could be the problem?
I recently read an answer to one of my questions on law. SE which mentioned (and linked to, on legislation.gov.uk) the tenant fees act 2019 (in one way or another, not sure, for example, if it ...
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Vanished question about cars and copyrights/trademarks
I remember quite well that someone with a music-related name had asked a question about cars and photos - and now almost the same question - even referencing the same site as origin of photos - ...
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Is this question acceptable?
Was the damage that BP paid for the damage in Mexican Gulf the largest amount ever paid for a damage? What was the second largest amount?