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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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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Policy on suspending users
We will soon have temporary moderators from within the community, and so I wanted to initiate a discussion on policies for suspension/blocks/bans. Right now I'm thinking mostly of cases where users ...
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big-picture vs soft-question
What's the intended difference between these two tags ? My question is motivated by the comments on this question. I tried trolling MO to discern the difference, and have failed so far. And no, "you ...
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Using "flag as spam"
Right now very few members use the flagging feature. We can use "flag as spam" to clean up the front page. If a question is marked as spam by enough users it will get closed and will not appear on the ...
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Are brain teasers and CS puzzles valid questions? What if they involve advanced techniques?
Over at MathOverflow the community accepts math puzzles, and in fact even has a couple tags devoted to them. Of course, puzzles can be illuminating when they require that one makes some creative ...
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When are areas of pure math that are used in CS considered on-topic?
My motivation for this question is the response to my question here, which garnered a vote to close for being too mathy. Supportive comments and upvoting seemed to have saved that particular question ...
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Is asking a bunch of questions in a short period of time appropriate?
A recent example is 6 questions posted by turkistany.
Right now when I look at
https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=newest
I see the following 11 questions posted by him among the newest ...
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How are we doing?
We are in our tenth day. We're coming up to the time that our moderators will be chosen. It seems like a good time to get opinions on how the site is progressing. Some questions that might help ...
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Are discussions about the field of TCS off-topic?
This has been raised several times and we should make a group decision. Raised before:
Developing a CW policy.
Are list questions such as about conferences on-topic?
Places to look for articles and ...
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Are applied questions off-topic?
I wanted to raise this question based on the discussion here. An example would be "What are some real world applications for genetic algorithms?"
The decision here should be added into our FAQ.
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Our domain scope, specifically defined
There have been many independent questions about whether things are on/off-topic, but I think that we should be explicit at this point about our scope. The wikipedia article on TCS could provide a ...
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What level and types of questions are appropriate for Theoretical Computer Science?
As a starting point, I was interested in András Salamon's answer to a question about the need for a TCS Stack Exchange.
Now, as a software engineer, there are a number of topics in theoretical ...
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cstheory vs AI stackexchange site
Is it ok to ask artificial intelligence related questions on the site?
There is a proposal already for an AI site: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/6607/artificial-intelligence but it seems ...
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Ethics of upvoting own answer.
I've noticed that a lot of brand new answers have already been upvoted by the time I get to reading them (presumably by the author of said answer). I have not been upvoting my own answers. ...
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Places to look for articles and discussions
In accordance with this, I'm asking this question here.
So, I've recently found a social network for scientists, and would like to know, if there are more such networks, where scientists and phd-...
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How should we hyperlink books?
When a question or answer refers to a book, does the following descending preference-order for link destinations make sense? If not, what would be better?
Book's site if the full text is freely ...
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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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What sort of community feel are we aiming for?
Despite using the same platform, the sites in the Stack Exchange family have different personalities. On Stack Overflow, people go out of their way to be friendly and helpful—to the point that FGITW ...
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How do we edit the FAQ
we have a number of questions to add to the official FAQ for this site. How do we edit it ?
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Close these questions? [closed]
update: since we now have moderators, should we close this thread, using separate threads for each discussion, or should we keep it, appropriately reworded ?
Update II: This question is now closed, ...
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Which metaheuristic methods are admissible for discussion ?
This question is prompted by this post on genetic algorithms, but I think the matter applies more generally as well to other metaheuristic methods like annealing, neural networks and the like.
Are ...
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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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Repeat a question from Math Overflow ?
If one have asked a question on MO, is it correct to ask it again on CSTheory ?
In my case, my question is more than one week old, and even if it had some interesting answer, there was not any real ...
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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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How to promote the site?
As the site comes into public beta, we should start to consider how to promote it amongst the relevant communities.
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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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Deleting Your Own Question
I imagine it's often a good idea to delete a closed question or perhaps a heavily down-voted one. But are there any other circumstances in which it's good to delete your own question?
The reason I ...
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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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Reputation points for upvoted questions compared to MO
It seems MO awards +10 for each vote a question gets, as opposed to the +5 we get here. Is this intentional? (Have I made an error?)
Other than this, is the point system the same as on MO? Should it ...
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Community Wiki Etiquette
Is it proper for to mark an "accepted answer" for a community wiki question.
On the one hand, it seems okay to do as the site allows it. On the other hand, we seem to be marking questions that ...
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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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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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Should we add a technical tutorial to the FAQ?
I arrived here yesterday, and I am new to the StackExchange sites. What I miss is a technical tutorial about the site features. In particular, the following isssues have me confused:
The difference ...
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Compiler Design and PL Theory questions ?
This question on the main site is stated as being well within the realm of programming language theory. However, it has a -2 score and votes to close. Is it within scope, and in general are we to ...
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subdomain: cs, cstheory, or compsci ?
Longer term (60 to 90 days) the goal is for the site to have a unique domain name, if it survives.
However, until then, it will be on a *.stackexchange.com ...
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Scope of questions ?
I was waiting to get some examples of questions that might illustrate a lower bound on the kinds of questions we want to field. Here are some examples:
What does the theorem of Rice help to prove?
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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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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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The MO vs SO question
Over at the TeX SE site, there's been a fair amount of meta discussion about whether the site should be closer to the StackOverflow or MathOverflow model for discussions. The linked post has a good ...
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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 ...