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Nifty PDF snippets

In addition to the internal functionality of your PDF viewer, you may also try a screenshot tool. There are a lot of free/commercial tools you can use. I use a commercial one named Snagit. It is very …
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"Claiming" the Answer [closed]

A problem in answering questions arises when several people try to independently answer a question, and in the middle (or the end) one understands the situation. The case happened to me, and several …
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Where to Ask Too Basic Questions?

This discussion has recently gained momentum on Area51; here are some links: Two level model (MO/Math.SE) vs one level model (SO) What problems does the two-level split solve And even proposals like …
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Policy on editing questions ?

I have seen a number of my (and many others') questions edited by you. You've been pretty serious at keeping this forum up and tidy, and we should all appreciate your work. However, I have a problem: …
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Why is our LaTeX math support so different from that of MathOverflow?

The answer is provided by KennyTM here: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/67258#67261.
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Dealing with user issue

Just a suggestion: If a question/answer is down-voted enough, mods can delete it. I specially suggest it for answers. The enough part should be decided upon; I suggest: Questions: -10. Answers: -5. …
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Policy on deleting incorrect answers?

I would like to cite a quote from Edison here. Part of it is taken from another website: Thomas Edison tried a thousand ways to get a light bulb to work and all of them failed. Some didn't work. Some …
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Reference requests and the like

First of all, I believe your comment is not harsh, yet it can be improved to become a friendly advice. In addition, I believe you must be a moral person to ask this question. Unfortunately, it is ver …
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What is cstheory.stackexchange.com lacking?

I like questions regarding "foundations of cryptography" (see Goldreich's book regarding the topics it covers). Apart from the questions I personally asked, I practically saw no one else asking such …
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How Much Time before Closing a Question?

Sometimes, the community can help the questioner clarify/elaborate the question, or make it on-topic by changing it appropriately. In such cases, closing too soon---specially, by mods, and before any …
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Why is our LaTeX math support so different from that of MathOverflow?

As far as I learned from this topic, both CSTheory & MathOverflow use MathJax. In addition, when I checked the version, I noticed that both use v1.0.1. However, the math rendering experience is quite …
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Adding Tag Wikis

This is more a suggestion than a question, though answers and comments are welcome. In question What should the tag wikis contain?, Robin suggests the preferred content for tag wikis. Unfortunately, …
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[Informational] The Way Voting Works

This is not really a question, but an informational message. Stack Exchange (SE) uses a method of election called Single Transferable Votes (STV). AFAIK, this mechanism is recently incorporated into S …
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Flagging and Community Wiki

A few weeks ago, the community wiki check box was removed, and only moderators can now convert a question to CW. Users should flag a post to notify the mods. However, I noted that it requires 16 flag …
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Guideline on Trimming Long Titles

I think questions whose titles are like: How I can find a recent papers on the subject of Turing machine which exhibit computational power beyond blah blah blah... Can we have a policy (or at least …
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