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2023/04/07 | 557 | 2,222 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently writing a `printer.cfg` Klipper file for my Tronxy VEHO-600. It is quite a challenge as there is not much info regarding this printer online.
Is recovery velocity something that I have to tune while the printer is operational, or can I give it an arbitrary value?
I have a CFG f... |
2023/04/08 | 443 | 1,678 | <issue_start>username_0: Hypothetically, if one has a print consisting of very simple shapes at some z-heights but very complicated shapes at other z-heights, it seems like it might be a good idea to run the overall mesh with different layer heights at different parts of the print.
Is there a common way to convince sl... |
2023/04/12 | 484 | 1,833 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm using a 65W heater cartridge and T-D500 type NTC thermistor. This setup has been working fine since I installed it sometime last year. Suddenly today, the temperature reading started jumping around 5-25° below the set temperature, but only while printing. It holds temperature solid at idle,... |
2023/04/20 | 724 | 2,682 | <issue_start>username_0: After encountering an issue where the original heater cartridge (~40 W) for my generic MK6 hotend was unable to reach/maintain stable temperature at ~260 °C (for PETG) I replaced it with a higher wattage heater (60 W). The new heater heats up faster and can maintain temperature, but I noticed t... |
2023/04/22 | 681 | 2,426 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been facing an issue with my 3d printer for the past couple of months: My inner layers are not sticking together when I print something vertically.
I'm trying to print white PLA at 200ºC with the following Cura settings on an Ender 5 Pro:
[ and what kind of filament is recommended for individual LED diffusing?
The issue is that I am using a WS2812B-2020 LEDs (2mm x 2mm) so the size of my prints are quite tiny.
I am looking for a semi-opaque/frosted finish like on an LED strip diffuser.... |
2023/04/24 | 726 | 2,987 | <issue_start>username_0: for my graduation project I have to compare cells in a 3D- Model to one another in regard of their volume, side faces and the corresponding forms and their numbers.
First, I have about 300 Tif-Files of microscopic planes of cells (black and white) that I want to create a 3D-Model orientating on... |
2023/05/03 | 579 | 2,391 | <issue_start>username_0: Ever since I got this printer for my 15th birthday the cooling fan has made a grinding sound when the nozzle was near the wall. I thought it was just the clear wall vibrating but now when I start a print it makes the sound all the time and it's getting really annoying. How can I fix this?<issue... |
2023/05/03 | 1,180 | 4,324 | <issue_start>username_0: This is kind of hard to explain but I have a 2 mm disc that has text on the top, it's a stamp effectively. I want my text to start right on the top after the top layer of the base (if that makes sense), but it's starting the text a few layers down into the top which is making the infill lines a... |
2023/05/04 | 970 | 3,649 | <issue_start>username_0: I replaced the nozzle on my S1 Pro with a Tungsten nozzle, but the issue is that the nozzle is too high. I think the nozzle I bought is a tad shorter than the stock nozzles. The CR touch sensor touches the bed before the nozzle does. The bed is level, and the gantry isn't quite square (differen... |
2023/05/11 | 626 | 2,814 | <issue_start>username_0: I've recently gotten into Resin 3d printing with a refurbished Elegoo Mars 1 but I've run into a weird bug where the printer would not expose any resin to the LCD.
I tested it by taking off the build plate and basin and looked at the LCD when it was exposing the layers. I've tried updating the... |
2023/05/11 | 938 | 2,973 | <issue_start>username_0: My printer is the Creality Ender 3 V2 Neo printer. Firmware is factory new.
You can see the problem below:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/KZemP.png)
As you see, the long rectangle on the bottom is getting cut off when printed. O... |
2023/05/15 | 423 | 1,470 | <issue_start>username_0: A small [7 cm long x 5 cm high x 10 cm deep] hard plastic piece of my old luggage broke (see attached). The manufacturer does not have spares for this old model.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vsvl2.jpg "Broke... |
2023/05/17 | 572 | 1,981 | <issue_start>username_0: Sorry this is kind to embarrassing to post compared to other images but this is our first attempts. It starts out roughly acceptable then does this waffle thing. I tightened the belts and leveled the plate.
I have a Creality Ender 3 which I use together with UltiMaker Cura slicer. I print in P... |
2023/06/04 | 895 | 3,856 | <issue_start>username_0: Is 3D printing progress (the one you check on the display of a 3D printer) linear or not?
By linear I mean that equal differences in percentual progress will take the same clock time.<issue_comment>username_1: There are lots of ways in which one could interpret this question, but in pretty muc... |
2023/06/08 | 736 | 2,801 | <issue_start>username_0: I have PrintrBot Simple Metal and over the course of today's use, I managed to get a piece of filament stuck in the hotend, just below the extruder gear. There's not really much to grab at, and my tweezers aren't that strong. How should I go about getting the filament out of the hotend? If it m... |
2023/06/11 | 1,465 | 5,589 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I've been noticing what looks like under extrusion. My first thought was a clogged nozzle, but it only occurs in some places:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1VvYB.jpg)
My printer is a PrintrBot Simple Metal, using [MH Build S... |
2023/06/28 | 1,238 | 4,968 | <issue_start>username_0: From day one I've always had my spool so that filament comes off "the top", but recently I wondered if it mattered, or there were any advantages/disadvantages to which side of the spool the filament came from. I did find [this](https://forum.prusa3d.com/forum/original-prusa-i3-mk3s-mk3-general-... |
2023/07/06 | 1,137 | 4,653 | <issue_start>username_0: I have managed to strip the threads on the mounting holes of the motor.
The extruder motor doesn't stay in place of the Bowden mount. It kinks to the left-hand side when the motor is extruding.
I was wondering if could I repair the stripped hole or do I need a new motor?<issue_comment>username_... |
2023/07/08 | 1,172 | 4,841 | <issue_start>username_0: When printing with basic budget PLA, what are the consequences of having it slightly over temperature. For example 5-10 deg above the recommended temperature for the brand, or significantly over temperature such as 50 deg?
How will this be seen on the print, and what are the inherent risks - i... |
2023/07/18 | 1,719 | 6,816 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a Creality Ender 3 S1 Pro that I'm trying to figure out.
I was able to make 3 solid prints using white Creality-branded PLA without issue and with just an initial auto-level pass, but after that, I had problems with small parts de-adhering halfway through my prints; the first 5 or 6 lay... |
2023/07/25 | 1,103 | 3,852 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently installed the CR-Touch onto my CR10-V3 printer. I updated my firmware to Marlin 2.1.2M and set my probe offsets and selected level bed which checked 81 points on the print bed and it said bed leveling was complete.
I tried printing something that I had already created G-code for fro... |
2023/07/25 | 345 | 1,390 | <issue_start>username_0: We need to move our Formlabs Form 3 printer to a new room and I would like to remove the resin from the resin tank. Is there a standard way to do this and can I reuse the resin once I remove it?
Thanks<issue_comment>username_1: when moving the printer to a new room I would just remove the tank... |
2023/08/09 | 881 | 3,384 | <issue_start>username_0: Relatively new to 3D printing but have learnt a lot, I just need some help on the finishing process. I currently have some print-in-place PLA figures I need to sand down and some have holes I need to fill in (we made a bit of a mistake on layer thickness). I have a fair amount of hands-on exper... |
2023/08/22 | 965 | 3,149 | <issue_start>username_0: How do I add a base to the surface I'm trying to print?
Target machine is a Creality Ender 3 Pro.
I'm using numpy-stl and surf2stl to come up with the desired surface in python:
```
def SOquestion():
pᵢs = [i / 100 for i in range(50, 96, 1)]
pⱼs = pᵢs
X, Y = np.meshgrid(pᵢs, pⱼs)
... |
2023/08/26 | 559 | 2,217 | <issue_start>username_0: I have just purchased the Creality Ender 3 Printer and tried to print the model that comes with it on the SD card and the print was completed successfully with amazing quality details. So far, so good. After that, I downloaded Cura 3D printing software and installed it on my machine, and then t... |
2023/08/31 | 956 | 3,267 | <issue_start>username_0: So I'm having a bit of a strange issue where I'm getting gaps between perimeter walls, but only on part of the print. Even more strangely, it doesn't happen with every print, though it will happen consistently on the same model if I print it more than once.
I know the go-to answer for an issue... |
2012/02/14 | 624 | 2,438 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to open the meta discussion on the criteria for closing.
I think we should be a little more open than the rest of the SE community when it comes to questions that are
* **Localized**: academics travel a lot. Something that is localized today may not be localized for us tomorrow. ... |
2012/02/15 | 901 | 3,608 | <issue_start>username_0: In reference to [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/49/what-are-the-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-being-a-professor) about being a professor, this is impossible to answer within the context of how SE wants us to answer questions. There's no definite answer, and even m... |
2012/02/15 | 1,192 | 4,982 | <issue_start>username_0: This particular SE has the significant problem that many answers will be "soft" in nature; there's no real literature on much of this, making many questions answerable only through "in my experience..." answers. [This answer](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/90/73) is a fine example of this... |
2012/02/15 | 731 | 2,505 | <issue_start>username_0: By looking at the site today, it seems that "higher education" is an euphemism for "doctorate". The definition stage however doesn't imply that ([1](http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/16617/academia/16618#16618) [2](http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/16617/academia/16618#16618) [3... |
2012/02/16 | 1,153 | 4,586 | <issue_start>username_0: Based on my answer in [this question](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13/73), I propose that we modify the tag placeholder text (currently "at least one tag (graduate-school note-taking science), max 5 tags") to strongly encourage the poster to provide a tag identifying the field of r... |
2012/02/16 | 440 | 1,798 | <issue_start>username_0: I would vouch for accommodation questions to be on-topic, as long as they are clearly focused for academic hosting (that is, "Channels for accommodation for 6 months at VU-Amsterdam" is on-topic, "Looking for accommodation in Centralia, Pennsylvania" is not). Also, direct "Does anybody here hav... |
2012/02/16 | 1,054 | 4,406 | <issue_start>username_0: This site should be pretty easy to publicize; simply post flyers around the various departments. Would someone with design skills be willing to throw together a flyer to be around the various campuses by Academia SE users?<issue_comment>username_1: I have some design skills. I suggest that peop... |
2012/02/21 | 704 | 2,390 | <issue_start>username_0: In order to promote the site, it would be good to post a notification on some of the existing online forums where academics congregate.
* What online forums exist?
As side points
* What community does the forum contain? How big is the community?
* What rules exist regarding promoting other s... |
2012/02/22 | 955 | 3,809 | <issue_start>username_0: We have a new user who is being more disruptive than helpful:
[First question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/323/what-makes-an-undergradute-in-computer-science-with-a-1-2-degree-more-employable)
The initial question was not ideal for SE, so people voted it down and to close it.... |
2012/02/22 | 1,167 | 4,863 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm wondering whether we should loosen the criterion for "too localized" in this forum. My intuition is that many questions on this forum will be very localized, but the answers will be more general in nature. For instance, [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/363/career... |
2012/02/24 | 1,231 | 5,194 | <issue_start>username_0: When I saw this new StackExchange site, it first reminded me a lot of a tool that's being used in an increasing number of college-level courses called [Piazza](https://piazza.com/). Each "instance" of Piazza is a single semester of a single course offered at a university where students can ask ... |
2012/02/26 | 1,020 | 4,200 | <issue_start>username_0: I was wondering whether we should allow questions about academics searching for industry positions. [This question on jobs outside of academia](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/441/what-opportunities-exist-in-the-industry-for-a-researcher-in-computational-astro) was closed, based on... |
2012/02/26 | 1,451 | 5,688 | <issue_start>username_0: I've noticed that it's only possible to mention another SE user using the "@" symbol in a comment thread where the user appears, and I was wondering if it was a feature or a bug. In particular, I couldn't find any easy to refer to another member, or just to draw the attention of another member ... |
2012/03/04 | 549 | 2,109 | <issue_start>username_0: Many of the current answers begin with "It depends on your field" / "There is no one answer".
Indeed, each field is unique, although they share common grounds.
For questions that depend on the specific field, I would expect to see **many** answers, each for its own field, rather than having an... |
2012/03/06 | 762 | 3,178 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm relatively new to Stack Exchange, so I'm not sure if there is a universal policy for closing questions across sites. But I've noticed here that there are questions with low or negative scores or questions that are similar to ones asked and answered before, and they're left hanging on the fr... |
2012/03/07 | 349 | 1,479 | <issue_start>username_0: Since we're about two weeks into the public beta now, I would think that it would be time to start considering adding more moderators (right now, I believe Anna is the only moderator, and she's with SE, as opposed to being a member-moderator.
Is it time to begin the process of adding [*pro tem... |
2012/03/23 | 301 | 1,236 | <issue_start>username_0: How can we fix [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/842/should-a-postdoc-obey-when-is-asked-to-do-things-she-knows-little-about) to be more focused on helping postdocs and less argumentative and provocative?<issue_comment>username_1: **Yes**. This community, while still ... |
2012/03/27 | 420 | 1,796 | <issue_start>username_0: I note that this question implicitly prefers questions with a general topic but in fact very localized content (one's life story + a question of type 'What should I do?').
For example, one I asked a general question (i.e. if one can use his/her personal e-mail instead of institutional) then it... |
2012/05/04 | 1,843 | 7,138 | <issue_start>username_0: We've had a couple questions since the dawn of Academia.SE asking for advice about undergraduate-related topics, the most recent being [this well-formulated and generally pretty solid question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/1407/73). In the past, we've [discouraged these kinds of questio... |
2012/05/08 | 428 | 1,760 | <issue_start>username_0: I would love to ask a question on the tenure system that is in vogue in US. I see a few publications in Google, and also a few blog posts talking about the pros and cons of the system.
I wish to know the following:
* Is the tenure system efficient as such?
* Is it likely/probable/possible th... |
2012/05/10 | 758 | 3,106 | <issue_start>username_0: I was looking over our stats on area 51, and we're doing poorly on two counts: #questions/day and number of visits. I'm more concerned about the latter than the former for now (because fixing the latter will probably fix the former).
I was hoping this could become an open thread for ideas on ... |
2012/05/24 | 1,103 | 4,057 | <issue_start>username_0: You love your site and we love your site, but there is a whole world of people out there who might not even know it exists. When they do find it, their first impression will either scare them away or keep them around. Given this, let's take a hard look at the questions and answers here and make... |
2012/06/12 | 2,418 | 9,831 | <issue_start>username_0: I've noticed that many of the [recent questions asked by newcomers to the site](https://academia.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts) are low quality and/or off-topic, dealing with "what's the best university for discipline X?" and "how can I get into field/program X"? On a similarly worrying ... |
2012/06/24 | 213 | 847 | <issue_start>username_0: Well this question is bound to be controversial. What should we do?
[What is being done to make the academic environment more women friendly?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/2113/319)<issue_comment>username_1: My feeling (mentioned in comments) is that the second part of the question (as... |
2012/06/27 | 390 | 1,641 | <issue_start>username_0: As a followup to DQdlM's [question about pedagogy](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/104/are-questions-on-pedagogy-on-topic), are questions about student recruitment, success, or retention on topic even if they are not related to curriculum development or instructional design?
... |
2012/07/04 | 631 | 2,470 | <issue_start>username_0: I've just been to the stats of travel.SE and I found their stats phenomenally better than ours. While 8 questions and 1800 visits per day is excellent, I do think that some part of this has to do with the objective of the site: academia is much more exclusive than travel; in other words, all ac... |
2012/07/23 | 821 | 3,555 | <issue_start>username_0: In this [answer](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/2545/929), the user has decided to provide a evidence for what makes him qualified for answering the question. While I can see it as potentially useful, I am not sure it is needed or desirable. Has the practice of prefacing answers with qual... |
2012/08/03 | 333 | 1,321 | <issue_start>username_0: I was going to ask a question about graduation and I didn't find the tag I was looking for. I was thinking that an "events" tag would be useful for questions about different events that academics go to (e.g., graduation, new student invocation, thesis defenses, fund raising).
**EDIT** In respo... |
2012/08/12 | 368 | 1,527 | <issue_start>username_0: I am thinking specifically of [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/2772/are-there-any-specific-teaching-techniques-to-handle-virtual-classroom-session#comment4504_2772), where my answer would be wholly different based on the type of virtual teaching environment. I would ... |
2012/08/23 | 168 | 622 | <issue_start>username_0: I know that the site stats (on the left side of the front page) include visitors/day. I'm guessing that is averaged over some time frame. Is there a place that I can see the number of visitors on each particular day?<issue_comment>username_1: Unfortunately, they don't make that data public. The... |
2012/08/31 | 522 | 1,888 | <issue_start>username_0: Are questions on software on topic?
This question on [writing software](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/3054/openoffice-vs-libreoffice-vs-msoffice-for-academic-writing) seems almost identical to questions on [poster](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/1880/software-to-us... |
2012/09/05 | 856 | 3,280 | <issue_start>username_0: In [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/3086/opportunities-in-industry-after-a-phd-in-organic-chemistry), the OP wants to know the opportunities in industrial R&D after a PhD in organic chemistry. In general, industry vacancies and requirements do not have anything to do... |
2012/09/05 | 500 | 1,931 | <issue_start>username_0: I saw [a question](https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/190453/is-it-morally-right-and-pedagogically-right-to-google-answers-to-homework) on the ethic of googling one's homework. The questioner, though having posted it on Math.SE, asks about the "pedagogical" merit of doing the same. This q... |
2012/09/14 | 239 | 1,053 | <issue_start>username_0: Are questions that are US-specific on-topic on this site? (i.e., only relevant to academia in the United States)
(Do people want to see those kinds of questions tagged or marked in any particular way?)<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, these questions are fine. As of now we're not tagging these q... |
2012/10/02 | 382 | 1,524 | <issue_start>username_0: Some users create tags while adding question; some are highly useful and some are simply meaningless. Do SE have any mechanism to encourage users to add tag wiki as well, on creating tags?
Esp. see this question [In conference review process, what do “author response” and “author notification”... |
2012/10/14 | 2,696 | 10,520 | <issue_start>username_0: **What is this community’s take on deleting closed questions? What are the criteria for deletion?**
In the past few days, I have voted on deleting some of the closed questions that seemed to have absolutely no value to the site ([way off-topic](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/3203... |
2012/10/16 | 392 | 1,450 | <issue_start>username_0: Following up on our recent discussion [on closed questions](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/205/what-should-happen-to-closed-questions), I'm wondering if it might not be a bad idea to create a tag for closed questions. This might help us to "corral" them a bit better.
Thought... |
2012/10/16 | 754 | 2,869 | <issue_start>username_0: There has been some discussion recently here about deletion. What I could suggest, in order to avoid having one question here for each content we might want to delete, is to post as an answer to this question any other questions, answer or comment one would like to delete.
**If you have at lea... |
2012/10/21 | 971 | 3,227 | <issue_start>username_0: Stack Exchange sites that have graduated run so-called “Community Promotion Ads”: these run in the right sidebar of each page, and are designated according to votes on the Meta of each site. For example, see [on Physics.SE](https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/980/community-promotio... |
2012/10/23 | 691 | 2,644 | <issue_start>username_0: When tagging this question: [How can I apply to be an adjunct faculty?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/4930/344), I came across four tags that could either be synonyms or at least have more distinct definitions.
To be clear, I think that these could either be merged into two or even one ... |
2012/10/27 | 574 | 2,475 | <issue_start>username_0: As a community, where do we want to draw the line between editing old off-topic closed questions and changing them completely? This [recently edited question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/1525/how-do-you-avoid-favoritism-and-personal-relationships-from-affecting-grading) has rec... |
2012/10/28 | 615 | 2,078 | <issue_start>username_0: Along the lines of "[Third excellent..."](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/178/third-excellent-on-area-51-congratulations-to-all-nearly-ready-for-graduat), we now have [no more "needs work" categories](http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/16617/academia), having just bumpe... |
2012/11/10 | 805 | 3,378 | <issue_start>username_0: What all we know, we (i.e. academia.SE) are hacking the system for objective verifiable Q&A for the purpose of advise questions. (And, IMHO, we have hacked it successfully).
However, I have some doubts when it comes to accepting answers. On StackOverflow it's obvious if an answer solves your p... |
2012/11/10 | 1,435 | 5,711 | <issue_start>username_0: Informally watching our stats on Area 51 leads me to the conclusion that our number of users and visits per day have increased faster than our questions per day. We use to be averaging a question per 100 visits and now we are averaging a question per 200 visits. I am concerned that we do not ha... |
2012/11/12 | 2,450 | 6,212 | <issue_start>username_0: Moderators have a view of the site's statistics, but they cannot share the specifics. So, I'm starting this post to keep track of the evolution of our statistics over time. Please feel free to update it every now and then:
```
Date Qs/day Visits/day A. ratio Total users... |
2012/11/14 | 439 | 1,801 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently in my grad program in CS, and I am interested in studying software engineering processes, project management, and metrics in a PhD program.
Can I ask here or on the main Academia site which universities are currently focused on researching the areas in which I am interested?<iss... |
2012/11/17 | 1,540 | 6,214 | <issue_start>username_0: I have noticed a lot of computer scientists, physics, and a few more subjects but I think there is a lack of people from a lot of other major fields, for example Biology.
How do we attract people to contribute to the website from less computer-centric areas?<issue_comment>username_1: Maybe ore... |
2012/11/17 | 406 | 1,713 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently, most of questions here are very general. It also reflects in upvotes per question (which is very, very high, compared to any other SE site I know.)
It is good that we are able to produce high-quality content, appealing to a broad audience.
But... maybe it means that we are too unfo... |
2012/12/03 | 1,250 | 5,037 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently acquired moderator privileges. Academia is the first SE site where I do so, so I was curious to see what they are like.
One thing that struck me is how quickly some questions get deleted. For example, [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/5495/1033) (only visible... |
2012/12/20 | 825 | 3,412 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there any sense of when we'll be able to leave beta ? I've been watching the stats, and while the number of questions/day bounces around the magic 5.0 mark, all the other markers seem quite strong (and the number of visits/day is steadily increasing).<issue_comment>username_1: A site graduat... |
2012/12/20 | 772 | 2,994 | <issue_start>username_0: [Here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/5879/any-suggestions-to-create-and-maintain-a-good-research-atmosphere "here") I got a close vote. I have no issue with it **but** how can I know the intention behind closing voters. How to get their attention. Are voters required to explicitl... |
2013/01/20 | 381 | 1,487 | <issue_start>username_0: (I don't know if it fits better to meta or nor meta.)
As we see very often, many problems in/about academia are not suitable for close-ended questions. Also, some important things involve polling questions, like software, university, scholarship, conference or journal recommendations.
(For ex... |
2013/01/23 | 951 | 3,832 | <issue_start>username_0: Sometimes we get [questions](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/2113/how-can-we-make-the-academic-enviroment-more-women-friendly) which can be deemed too broad. Broad not precisely because the question is too general and thus would have many specific partial answers, or be subjective,... |
2013/01/24 | 831 | 3,561 | <issue_start>username_0: I think we need to be nicer when closing questions. I think of new people look at having their question closed as being a slap in the face and a real turn off for the site. The automated messages are informative, but not that nice. I don't think they suggest welcoming edits to improve the quest... |
2013/01/24 | 1,104 | 4,280 | <issue_start>username_0: I think we down vote too often here. SE has some reasonable guidelines about when to down vote.
>
> Use your downvotes whenever you encounter an egregiously sloppy,
> no-effort-expended post, or an answer that is clearly and perhaps
> dangerously incorrect.
>
>
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Our answers and questio... |
2013/01/25 | 896 | 3,728 | <issue_start>username_0: We've got another [question with a background in humanities](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/7455/what-is-the-factor-that-made-us-higher-education-system-so-potent-and-popular) which was closed almost immediately. Another such is discussed [here](https://academia.meta.stackexchange... |
2013/01/25 | 228 | 963 | <issue_start>username_0: We currently have two separate tags for [publications](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/publications "show questions tagged 'publications'") and [papers](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/papers "show questions tagged 'papers'"). As far as I can tell, they'r... |
2013/01/28 | 445 | 1,815 | <issue_start>username_0: [This question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/7508/4227) had certain comments by 2 users( JeffE , and scaaahu ) which although were not strictly on-topic, but nonetheless added to the discussion by providing a different viewpoint. Why were they removed ?<issue_comment>username_1: Comment... |
2013/01/29 | 680 | 2,780 | <issue_start>username_0: I find that the [writing](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/writing "show questions tagged 'writing'") and [scientific-writing](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scientific-writing "show questions tagged 'scientific-writing'") tags are used interchangeably in... |
2013/02/05 | 575 | 2,315 | <issue_start>username_0: I see a trend among some members to shoot down questions they *presumably* not have an straight-out answer for. I don't think this makes much sense. Nobody has answers to all thinkable questions, besides we don't all think (and express our thoughts) alike. Shooting down questions that you might... |
2013/02/06 | 1,163 | 4,537 | <issue_start>username_0: [This question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/7817/representing-experimental-data?noredirect=1) about representation of experimental data was migrated to [CrossValidated](http://stats.stackexchange.com), the SE site for “statisticians, data miners and data analysis”. Below, I mak... |
2013/02/11 | 923 | 3,499 | <issue_start>username_0: Continuing with my push towards more liberal stance on deleting questions (we are developing here some [deletionists vs. inclusionists](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deletionism_and_inclusionism_in_Wikipedia) issues, I guess), let me ask the following:
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2013/02/27 | 1,096 | 4,431 | <issue_start>username_0: I noticed [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/7231/what-is-tvl-13-position) which made me wonder what the policy here is regarding localized questions. There seems to have been a discussion of "too localized" questions based on research area specific questions, but only... |
2013/03/07 | 1,151 | 4,445 | <issue_start>username_0: I flagged a question as off-topic but it was declined, with the comment:
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Close votes require 500 reputation, correct? Why would this be declined if I **can't** do that? What is the purpose of being able to vote as off-topic if I a... |
2013/03/14 | 1,202 | 5,016 | <issue_start>username_0: There is a lot of questions asking for life advice, e.g. describing a problem with their PhD advisor (or the head of the department). It's very common that there is a list of possible decisions and the asking person wants to pool what do people advise?
On one hand side, they are not good ques... |
2013/03/14 | 471 | 1,914 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, someone posted the question "[Fee surcharge for international students](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/8565/73)", which was an undisguised rant. Someone mentioned this in the comments, and the user tacked on a question. To me, the question as added is likely off-topic here; it's... |
2013/03/27 | 616 | 2,721 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's get real here. Academics in mathematics ARE different from acedemics in medicine. We should embrace the real world !
This is not to prevent general questions.
For example a general tag of tenure promotion could have multiple questions in different fields. Just like on StackOverflow que... |
2013/03/29 | 926 | 3,832 | <issue_start>username_0: My understanding of the answers and votes on the [question whether software-related questions are on-topic](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/174/are-questions-on-software-on-topic) is that indeed, questions on software as tools for work in academia **are on-topic**. Now [this q... |
2013/04/02 | 1,395 | 5,412 | <issue_start>username_0: I was reading [this post from the main site](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9039/phd-at-a-low-ranked-university-leading-to-frustration) and found myself confused why there are four votes to close. As my comment there says, I think the underlying question (though it could have been... |
2013/04/04 | 472 | 1,823 | <issue_start>username_0: [This question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9105/whats-the-best-researchers-could-do-for-their-native-country) on what's the best researchers could do for their native country was closed. It reads like a sentimental question and may even lead to chatty answers, but doesn't it h... |
2013/04/04 | 643 | 2,507 | <issue_start>username_0: Over the last few days, we have had rapid closing votes on [a question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9039/how-to-deal-with-the-frustration-of-doing-phd-at-a-low-ranked-university), followed by reopening. Even in questions which are ostensibly off-topic, but not on careful though... |
2013/04/04 | 1,266 | 4,905 | <issue_start>username_0: Welcome to the academia.SE Community Poll thread! (shamelessly stolen from [TeX.SX](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1564/tex-community-polls))
This thread is used for opinion and usage polls around Academia and academia.SE. The poll questions are added as "answers" to this "questi... |
2013/04/04 | 1,805 | 7,153 | <issue_start>username_0: Please discuss any ideas and issues about [Academia Community Polls](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/467/academia-community-polls) in this thread to keep it tidy.<issue_comment>username_1: Regarding the question "Are you currently working in Academia (i.e., employed by a unive... |