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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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Broadening the scope of questions
As a Theory B person, I feel the site really lacks Theory B questions. To make matters worse is he previously active Theory B people are now much less active. More generally, the questions here seem t …
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Migrating to cs.SE
As one of the moderators, I'm in favour of migrating questions that we see fit. I think the policy should be different for the reasons you mention: we understand the forums a lot better and we are act …
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Promoting TCS.SE at FCRC
Someone could make a flyers which could be either squeezed into the conference goody-bag (unlikely unless you know the organisers) or left lying around for people to spot and pickup.
This would requi …
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Questions about compilation errors in Coq
This question is about proof assistants and verification tools. The level of knowledge required to use such tools is much higher than for regular programming. In some areas of TCS, such as type system …
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Should we allow this type of question: "Evaluating a doctoral program/institute of CS"
The question as it is phrased, or as it could be phrased, asks only for criteria for judging candidate institutions/programs. If only criteria are given, then no one gets hurt (directly). As soon as n …
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Who would you like to become the new moderators?
Andrej Bauer
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Question “How do you call a subsequence of consecutive elements ?”
By popular demand, I reopened the question.
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Are my questions acceptable here
I'd say that they do not fit within the scope of the site. The first is purely about implementation issues. The second, as it is phrased, asks for a purely descriptive account of the language features …
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What does the "accept rate" mean?
This is the percentage of questions asked by the user that have an accepted answer.
For example, I have asked 9 questions and accepted only 5 answers, so my acceptance rate should be 55%.
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What to do about general comments by non-experts which do not add any new information/knowed...
I agree that these comments are not constructive and too chatty. Either the perpetrator should write a proper answer or keep the comments to a minimum.
General comments like these should not be okay …
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What is cstheory.stackexchange.com lacking?
This question asks about the highlights of cstheory.stackexchange.com. Indeed, there have been many. What I'm interesting in knowing is what the non-highlights are. What is lacking from the site? What …
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Does this question belong here?
Curiously, someone took inspiration from your question and has made a variant of it for this site:
Minimum weight subforest of given cardinality
Therefore it seems reasonable that it belongs on this …
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Dealing with user spam
Your actions were perfectly reasonable. The user in question surely knew (s)he was posting junk, so would have expected such a response. I would not necessarily email such offenders – presumably the c …
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Choosing an answer amongst too many different good answers
I don't think there is any need to make an answer that summaries the other answers. Certainly editing one of the existing answers would not be good, as it will change the original author's intentions …
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We should stop claiming that this website is “research-level”
For the question under discussion, the community seems to have decided in favour of keeping the question. …