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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Official FAQ for Theoretical Computer Science
This is the official site FAQ for Theoretical Computer Science. This question will contain a list of questions, with each question linking to a single answer. If there is prior discussion on an answer,...
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How to ask a good question
The moderators spend considerable time on editing badly written questions. A possible way for reducing the number of badly written questions is writing down some guidelines (similar to the MO ...
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Is it ok to ask about the correctness of preprints on crank-friendly topics?
See this question in which someone asked for an update on the status of an arxiv preprint on graph isomorphism. It was downvoted, with a comment "Are this kind of discussions on-topic here? I think ...
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Material to supplement the FAQ
Since many of the visitors here are new to the Stackexchange environment, it might be useful to collect questions and answers here to add to the official site FAQ. In addition, it would be useful to ...
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Is there Really a Need for Theoretical Computer Science SE Site?
I thought the all QA here should be covered by mathoverflow.net?
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Is "theoretical" computer science too narrow?
The CS Theory Stack Exchange is humming along nicely. It's a terrific, robust, and growing community that is clearly making an increasing contribution to the state of CS Theory research.
Something we ...
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Original proofs generated on the parent site
Not a question, but I thought it would be a useful indexing tool to have a meta big-list of proofs whose first appearance "in the literature" was on this site.
Idea: each answer links to an answer on ...
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Aggressive closing of questions?
I've recently noticed a troubling trend of "attacking" questions that seem to be too elementary. In some cases that is translated to closing a question, and in some cases the aggressive tone of the ...
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How will you cite a discussion on this site in your paper?
Should we just provide the link or write down the names of users whose responses were most useful?
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What should our site/domain name be? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Write an Elevator Pitch / Tagline
Note:
We are closing this domain naming thread. It is asking the entirely wrong question. See this blog post for details: Domain Names: Wrong ...
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Nominations for publicity poster at FOCS ?
Aaron Sterling had the nice suggestion (in comments here) for site promotion at FOCS: his idea was:
a poster with a few "best questions"
in large print on it: representatives
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Community Promotion Ads - 2013 [duplicate]
As it is December 2012, we are now going to reset our Community Promotion Ads for the new year.
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that ...
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Using at least one top level arXiv tag
MO advises the questioner to add at least one top level tag for his/her question:
Please try use at least one tag corresponding to an arXiv subject area (details about what each tag covers):
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Official interim procedure for doing retagging.
Background.
For purpose of discussion, let A and B be tags, and let the goal be to convert B to A. There are two independent methods for doing this:
(Looking forward): Creating a tag synonym A $\...
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Beta period progress
We're currently two-thirds of the way through the beta period. As I understand it, the site will get shut down at the end of that period if it's not considered successful. This blog post says:
We’...
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How can we collaboratively investigate open problems?
This question builds on a comment of Shane's in a previous meta post on what can be achieved using a theory Q&A site.
I've spent a good deal of time on Jeff Erickson's lovely problem about ...
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Flood of homework questions
Is it just me, or is there a major burst of homework questions popping up ? Fall semester automata theory, anyone ? Unfortunately, we still have people answering questions instead of voting to close. ...
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What should our logo be?
Another one of the 7 essential meta questions- what should our logo look like?
Edit: This was originally a discussion both about the logo and about the theme, but now the theme has a separate ...
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Are specific questions about Theorem X in paper Y fine?
See this question about an origami paper for example. It's a very specific question about a particular theorem the poster did not follow (or in this case the answer did not match that of the paper).
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Highlights of cstheory.stackexchange.com
To promote this site, it would be useful to have a collection of our highlights. Hence this question:
What are the best technical questions that have been asked and answered on cstheory....
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Status of Our Community Blog
What is the status of our community blog? There haven't been any new posts in about 5 months.
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Conventions on downvoting
I have recently been reflecting on my voting patterns. The discussion on this answer suggests that different people have different views on downvoting. I thought it would be good to figure out what ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2012 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Community Promotion Ads - 2013
We're hitting the start of the new year, and that means a new iteration of the Community Promotion Ads!
What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports ...
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Developing a CW policy.
In the discussion on this meta question, I made a comment in passing that I thought there were too many CW questions on the site at present.
While this may be a transient phenomenon while the site ...
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On modifying our scope: A proposal
There's been a lot of chatter of late about our scope, the declining number of questions being asked per day, and whether we're being excessively strict about question scope.
This question is ...
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On using actual names
Over at MO, it's been asserted that one of the success stories in getting the site to work well is strenuous effort by the moderators to get people to use their real names when posting. I'm ...
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References to cstheory in the literature
This is a placeholder question to collect instances where cstheory has been cited in papers. Hopefully as time goes in, this list will get longer.
Please answer in the format:
Question (and ...
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Vote early and often!
[Below is Scott Morrison's post from tex.se, reproduced here because it's good advice we need to see early.]
I'm a moderator from MathOverflow, and this "question" is actually unsolicited advice, ...
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Promoting TCS.SE at FCRC
The last time we did an IRL (in real life) promotional event for TCS.SE was at FOCS 2010. I don't unfortunately have any data on whether that event worked to draw more people in. We also had the ...
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Promotion T-Shirt Design
According to the current discussion about the promotion of this site there come up the idea of a t-shirt with advertisement.
I want to collect some design ideas of a promotion t-shirt.
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Who should the moderators be?
Update: This post is now closed since the temporary moderators have been selected. Please see this announcement for details.
Important: if you're nominated and accept the nomination, please add the ...
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Why was "All pairs shortest path in undirected and unweighted graphs" closed and migrated?
The question (which was "banished" to Math.SE) asks if there is a better solution to APSP than running BFS from each node. That is equivalent to asking if there is an algorithm that runs in less than $...
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Limiting non research level questions
In order to limit the number of "non research level" questions asked on cstheory (that cause annoying downvotes/see-the-FAQ comments/migration/closing), I think that a good idea would be to add a ...
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Latex math and "show N more comments"
If I click the "show N more comments" link (in any question or answer with more than 5 (?) comments), my Firefox displays the comments without MathJax rendering.
I can easily guess why this happens, ...
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Should there be a protocol to notify authors if we find an error in a paper?
This question seems to have found an error in a computational geometry paper on CoRR, and David Eppstein in an answer confirmed the error. I haven't checked it myself, but I wanted to ask if we ...
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Moderators: Please be very careful when migrating questions to other Stack Exchange websites
I ask moderators to be very careful when migrating questions to Stack Exchange websites. When in doubt, please close questions as off topic, possibly with a comment suggesting one or a few candidates ...
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Are list questions such as about conferences on-topic?
We should decide whether to allow questions such as this one:
Complexity Theory conferences?
My feeling is that they should be on-topic as community wiki, because they provide a means for the ...
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arXiv tags vs not?
Many people seem to be using arXiv-style tags, e.g. cs.cc.complexity-theory instead of just complexity-theory. I saw Suresh change some of these to non-arXiv style, but is that something we might ...
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Write an Elevator Pitch / Tagline
We closed the domain naming thread (click for details).
Instead, let's start with a killer "elevator pitch!" Joel will be blogging about the elevator pitch approach to naming, but to get you ...
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How Long Are Moderator Terms?
Does anyone know how often elections are held; how often moderators are re-elected?
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Does our name and domain name have to be the same?
This question came up while discussing this question. Since we've chosen our domain name to be cstheory.org, does this mean that our site's name will have to be cstheory? All the other SE sites I've ...
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machine learning vs learning theory vs both?
This has been bothering me for a bit -- we have a machine learning tag and a learning theory tag. Now given that this site is a theory site, every ML question should also be a Learning Theory ...
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The reason to close too elementary questions
Update: I gave up trying to convince other people to use “too localized” instead of “off topic” when closing too elementary questions. It seems that most people disagree, and I started to feel that ...
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To migrate or not to migrate (just close)
Assume that we have a question that is off-topic on cstheory and is getting closed, and it is on-topic on some other SE site.
We have two options,
1. we can migrate the question to the other site, ...
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On the Feasibility of Homework Questions
Current policy is to close all questions that "feel like homework" to at least five (high-reputated) people. Those more militant even downvote answers given by others even if those were hints rather ...
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Community blogging
The SE folks are providing the opportunity to create a community blog to showcase discussions on the site. They've outlined a number of steps that a community could take in order to get this going, ...
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About some criticisms against down-votes without explanations
I am worried about the attitude of some people who claim that down-voters must always explain the reason for down-voting or who criticize the users who vote down posts without explanations. (Here is ...
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A cstheory website for beginners
It seems that overzealous folks at Area 51 closed the proposal without giving it a fair chance. (Dave Clarke)
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mathoverflow.net is for mathematicians.
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What TCS-stackexchange is for and what is *your* aim in participation?
Q1: What is your view on the purpose, aims and benefits of TCS stackexchange?
Q2: What are your specific aim, targets and benefits in participation at TCS stackexchange?
Comment: I asked a similar ...
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Useful UserScripts?
I am experimenting with some UserScripts to provide additional functionality that the StackExchange sites currently do not support.
In particular, two have proved highly useful:
https://math.meta....
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