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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2014 Community Moderator Election
The 2014 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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Why is my question on hold?
I asked a question here. https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/20410/idea-for-proving-that-p-neq-np-implies-one-way-functions-exist
I would really like to know the answer to it, but it is on ...
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Are question asking for resource recommendation on-topic?
I have seen that questions asking for book recommendation are considered to be okay/on-topic on this site.
Is the same stance adopted for other sorts of resource recommendations?
If so, why are such ...
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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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Should we have a tag for old open problems that have been resolved on this site?
There are several relativity old open problems that have been resolved by our community members. One such case is this answer which resolved an open problem that was originally posed in 1998.
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What to do with too localized questions?
There used to be a "too localized" close reason.
What should we do with question which are really unlikely to be of use to any one except the OP?
E.g. consider the following question:
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Community Promotion Ads - 2014 [duplicate]
It's the time of the year again, namely it is December 2013, and so we shall now refresh our Community Promotion Ads for the new year.
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads are ...
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Should we participate in the Stack Exchange Winter Bash?
taken from the promo email
Winter Bash is an annual event that can run on any Stack Exchange site that chooses to participate. Users earn “hats” for their gravatars by completing certain tasks (...
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Protocol for migrations from CS.SE
Sometimes (maybe once a month if it's a busy month) we have a tough question in theoretical science on Computer Science Stack Exchange that nobody can answer.
After a while we tend to presume that if ...
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In which way this question is a research level?
I flagged this question as needs moderator attention and in my reason I wrote, is not a research level, but moderator rejected the flag. I want to know in which way someone can consider it as a ...
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Can we get rid of automatic conversion to CW?
Here is a recent example. Can we get rid of automatic conversion of questions to CW?
https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/19222/constant-factor-approximation-of-hypergraph-maxdicut
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Is this question suitable for CS theory
I posted this question on cs.stackexchange but didn't get any answers. I was wondering if this is suitable for this site?
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When should I use cstheory versus cs?
There are two stackexchange sites that seem to have a bit of overlap: CS and CSTheory. CS states that it is for:
"programming language semantics, formal methods ... or any other topic in theoretical ...
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Drive-by downvoting on new user's questions.
I just noticed this question, asked by a new user, which has two downvotes with no comments. I don't think this question is bad—it could use more explanation, and more demonstration of the OP's having ...
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Is there any way to make a question about a P=NP "proof" on topic?
I am new to this site, and have deleted a question I asked regarding a "proof" of the undecidability of P=NP as it was not considered on-topic. Doing what I should have done prior to posting, I ...
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Coauthors for questions or answers
A number of papers in TCS have coauthors. It would be nice to allow coauthors to ask a question or to give an answer. Is is just technically too difficult or are there other reasons not to have this ...
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Please don't migrate bad questions to CS.Stack Exchange
I have a request. It would be nice if the moderators here would avoid migrating low-quality questions to CS.SE.
I noticed recently a few low-quality questions that were migrated to the Computer ...
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Assuming good faith for naïve questions
It's standard practice here to close questions that are too elementary to be considered "research-level". But I think people have been too quick to label some questions as "too elementary", when in ...
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More prominent indication that this site is for research-level questions?
I noticed that we get a fair number of non-research-level questions. This is not too surprising, since if someone comes here and just looks at the title of the site, they might get the wrong ...
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MathOverflow is on SE2.0
MathOverflow is now on SE2.0.
Would we like to open the migration path from/to MO?
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Our custom closing reasons
We have to decide what should be our custom close reasons. We can have 3 custom close reasons. Each can be up to 400 characters.
The default format of a close reason as follows:
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FAQ has been replaced with Help
It seems that SE has replaced FAQ with help. So we need to find a replacement to referring new users to FAQ or directing them to the front page of the help page can be confusing since the scope is not ...
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Question regarding applications of formally verified software: CS or CSTHEORY?
I have a specific question that in as a summary, or in broad terms, I would describe as "about the application of formally verified software".
Does this fit better in cstheory (this site) or in CS (...
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Is there any guidance re flagging as "very low quality" beyond its description?
While I was reviewing, I flagged
https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/17571/context-free-language as
"very low quality", although I was somewhat hesitant about doing so.
Was I correct to ...
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Suggestions for our about page
I just noticed that we can edit some parts of
the about page.
If you have a suggestion how to improve it please post it as an answer.
The parts we can edit are:
I. Introduction.
II. The example ...
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Peer review papers
I'm new to this forum and wanted to ask if there is forum where I can post my term paper for peer review/critique sort of thing. This particular topic happens to be on quantum computing.
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Can someone migrate [specific question on main]?
Can someone migrate this question to either cs.stackexchange or stackoverflow?
10 or so hours ago I flagged it as off topic because I wasn't allowed
to suggest cs.stackexchange as a migration target,...
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Can I ask questions on Algorithms,Asymptotic Analysis,Complexity Classes,Compiler Design in this forum?
This is my first question on this forum so please bear with the content of this first question.Can I post questions about the above topics on this forum?
And it will be really nice of you if you can ...
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When flagging as off topic why is cs stackexchange not available? [duplicate]
I was trying to flag a question as off topic and it seems to be more suitable for cs.stackexchange. However, only stackoverflow was available and not cs.stackexchange. Why is that?
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Useful database queries
This post is for keeping interesting queries about cstheory.
Related meta questions:
Useful UserScripts?
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May I ask interdisciplinary questions?
There are some very interesting problems which are not solely Computer Scientific. Rather, some of their aspects are within another field like biology.
To give a concrete example, let me bring my ...
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Offering cash prizes?
TCS SE contain many old questions without any answer. I think it is a good idea to allow offering cash-prizes for those questions.
Should we allow offering cash prizes for solving problems without ...
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Should the question about structure of resolution proofs be closed?
This is request for comment from the community regarding the following question:
in SAT resolution proofs, are all DAGs possible?
Is the question in its current form suitable for the site?
If it is ...
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What is "Theoretical Computer Science"?
What exactly is "theoretical" computer science? I just saw this site as part of the Stack Exchange and wondered what this meant. I couldn't get a solid understanding by looking at the trending ...
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How to ask for a clearer answer to an old question
Below I am mainly talking about the recent question “Counting number of increasing subsequences of length k” by orryowr, but I want answers which are not specific to this question.
Suppose that a ...
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promoting TCS/stackexchange
have tried to hold my tongue as long as possible to get a feel for this site culture. however, is it just me or does it feel like mass entropy has set in? there is a dribble of new questions daily, ...
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Help answering the "CS applications of logic" question
I was quite happy to see the question Pointers for CS applications of logic. Scott Aaronson in his blog sometimes uses the scenario of super-intelligent alien beings having a discussion with us to ...
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Changing name to eliminate non-research questions
I am noticing lately that there are many questions being rejected because they are not research level questions. It is obvious that most of these questions are asked by people who never posted any ...
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What are the avatar's supplements (hats)?
I noticed a new feature of various amusing added features for your avatar (hats). Theis seems to be a new feature. What is the origin of this feature?
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What is the `reference-request ` tag?
I noticed the reference-request tag. Can I ask something like ...
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Why has the 'Automata-Enlightment' question received so many up-votes?
This question has got abnormally large number of votes in just two days. The question is favorited by many 'members' who have joined in the last few days. Many of the accounts look funny since they ...
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How can I find reviewers for a (complexity theory) book I help editing?
I help editing a new edition of the Gacs-Lovasz: Complexity of Algorithms book. What is the best way to find some experienced people who would proofread some parts of it? E.g. is there a way to post ...
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How to propose for the P.hd Scholar in part-time? [closed]
I have completed my M.Sc Information Technology (5 years integrated) from Anna University on 2012. I'm interested in Higher Studies.
Whether i have to go for the MS/P.hd, Where could i search. For my ...
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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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TCS community on Google Plus
This is more an announcement than a question. There's a new TCS "community" on G+ that some of you might be interested in participating in. Moderators have to "approve" membership, but there's no ...
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Can we write a research paper from stackexchange collaboration?
I was wondering if (let's say for example) someone come out with a certain problem found in a certain domain. The problem is divided into subproblems. Each of them is given as a stackexchange question....
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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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cstheory.SE fellows add me in their Google+ circles
In the last couple of days, three cstheory users added me in their Google Plus circles. I don't mind to have these people in my circles, I was just wondering: is there some automatic thing that makes ...
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What to do about general comments by non-experts which do not add any new information/knowedgle?
Some of the comments on Gil's recent question are flagged as not-constructive.
They are not literally offensive or rude, they are not irrelevant to the question, but honestly they don't seem to ...
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