date stringlengths 10 10 | nb_tokens int64 60 629k | text_size int64 234 1.02M | content stringlengths 234 1.02M |
|---|---|---|---|
2015/06/17 | 425 | 1,721 | <issue_start>username_0: Are questions about journal statistics on topic here?
e.g.
* what is the impact factor of *journal x*? (probably shouldn't need to ask it here as this info is widely available)
* what is the average review time for *journal x*?
* what are the average times from submission to acceptance/publi... |
2015/06/22 | 587 | 2,598 | <issue_start>username_0: A [recent question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/47519/22733) is wondering whether there exists any good forum for getting peer feedback on academic job application material. It was closed as a "shopping question," which I really do not understand.
I think that shopping questions are ... |
2015/06/26 | 601 | 2,296 | <issue_start>username_0: I am still unsure why this question:
[List of 2013 US National Merit Scholars](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/46914/list-of-2013-national-merit-scholars/46915#46915)
was closed.
Here's the close reason used.
>
> "Shopping" questions, which seek recommendations or lists of ind... |
2015/06/29 | 829 | 3,601 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm Max (<NAME>), and I've not used the chat for a long time.
Well, maybe it's just me, but I have to admit that I find the SE chat pretty annoying from the point of view of the user experience (if it's just me, apologies to whoever designed the chat), and I find it hard to follow the threads ... |
2015/07/02 | 1,043 | 4,239 | <issue_start>username_0: I have noticed a tendency on this site for people to post answers as comments. I don't know why this is, but it happens often, and then the comment gets many "up-votes" as an "answer."
My approach to this has been to ask people to convert their comment into an answer, then once this is done vo... |
2015/07/08 | 1,497 | 5,696 | <issue_start>username_0: Somewhat over a month ago I flagged a posted by Dr. <NAME> and explained that he had been stalking and harrassing me and had posted an irrational and dishonest ad hominem attack against me in extraordinarily rude language in comments under a question.
The user called "StrongBad" later wrote th... |
2015/07/09 | 618 | 2,581 | <issue_start>username_0: Compared to other Stack Exchange website, we do not have many questions under the [FAQ tag](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/faq) (only 3 posts, compared to 17 FAQ posts on [TeX.SX](https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/faq) or [Mathematics.SX](https://math... |
2015/07/09 | 565 | 2,325 | <issue_start>username_0: This is just a general question. How can I avoid an academic question (that I’ve posted in this forum) form turning up on google and similar search engines? I would think that if I code the text then it would
be impossible to get it from a google (or similar search engine search)?
Thanks for ... |
2015/07/11 | 1,085 | 4,664 | <issue_start>username_0: In some questions on Academia, it happens that some questions should be closed for more than one reason. For instance, a questions is about undergraduates, and at the same time it should be closed because of it's content for asking a shopping question. Which one do you choose, being off-topic b... |
2015/07/11 | 451 | 1,934 | <issue_start>username_0: It happens when I open the review page of the website, there is a question which is in both lists of *First Posts* and *Close Posts*. The problem here is that, if somebody first opens the *First Posts* review page, and he raise a vote to close to that specific question; when he continues his re... |
2015/07/21 | 196 | 676 | <issue_start>username_0: I was hoping we could start a [gradcafe](http://thegradcafe.com/survey/index.php?q=computer%20science%20&t=a&o=) style post for STEM Graduate Applications including:
School (or Description):
GRE: Q/V/W
GPA:
Major GPA:
Accepted/Denied:
Extracurriculars/Research:<issue_comment>username_1: I disa... |
2015/07/29 | 1,092 | 4,293 | <issue_start>username_0: I have observed the following on several occasions:
* New user posts a very broad, subjective, and/or open-ended question (and not the "good subjective" type, either).
* When the question is closed, the user says something like, "But they told me on X.SE that X.SE is only for questions about X... |
2015/07/29 | 628 | 2,677 | <issue_start>username_0: I already know, that META Academia is not the perfect place to start, but my original question which I did not post yet is related to academia - to the specific research I need to make. The Academia is about the process of making the research, not the research content itself.
I would consider... |
2015/08/02 | 516 | 1,779 | <issue_start>username_0: [A link get to a 404 error page.](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/25721/is-there-a-reason-to-prefer-one-country-over-another-for-phd-study/25733#25733)
A sinuous wave coming from the pedal. The bicycle is lacking its first wheel, its last ... |
2015/08/06 | 711 | 2,812 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently asked this question [Knowing that most students submit assignments right around the deadline, is it advisable not to set deadline that is very late at night?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/50035/knowing-that-most-students-submit-assignments-right-around-the-deadli... |
2015/08/08 | 653 | 2,564 | <issue_start>username_0: [Academic systems and cultures vary widely between countries](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1212/7734), and answers will depend heavily on this context.
I have come across many questions, where the country has not been stated – presumably because it had not occurred to the poster t... |
2015/08/09 | 1,031 | 3,732 | <issue_start>username_0: When you try to edit the tags when asking a question (or edit the tags of a question when having less than 2 k), a box *how to tag* appears on the right, showing some general help on tagging. The content of this box is site-specific, for example it is individualised on [Anime & Manga](https://a... |
2015/08/13 | 430 | 1,688 | <issue_start>username_0: *Academia* says **For academics and those who enrolled in higher education**.
I just wanted to know that if I can ask a question related to **How** and **Why** to pursue a course (country specific) ?<issue_comment>username_1: Unfortunately "how" and "why" questions about a particular course ar... |
2015/08/16 | 3,262 | 12,070 | <issue_start>username_0: Introduction
------------
In another discussion, a Stack Exchange employee [indicated](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1873/how-can-we-encourage-posters-to-mention-their-country-of-study-work?cb=1#comment7785_1876) that we might get so-called tag warnings, if we want them.
T... |
2015/08/16 | 963 | 4,048 | <issue_start>username_0: I believe this question about wanting to have a undergrad humanities course requirement exemption to be off-topic as it is primarily about undergraduate life.
* [Is it reasonable to request an exemption from certain degree requirements?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/51529/is-it... |
2015/08/16 | 1,162 | 4,678 | <issue_start>username_0: Moderator aeismail cast one of two reopen votes for the following question:
[Is it reasonable to request an exemption from certain degree requirements?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/51529/is-it-reasonable-to-request-an-exemption-from-certain-degree-requirements)
In my view, th... |
2015/08/18 | 980 | 3,665 | <issue_start>username_0: It is interesting to learn what is the viewpoint of Academia.SE community on the following situation.
There is an [Area 51 proposal for OpenScience](http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/65426/open-science) which recently went into the private beta. As we have learned today, [it will be c... |
2015/08/26 | 579 | 2,450 | <issue_start>username_0: Hope that my question fits to this site (as it is the first time that I ask a question here.)
I feel guilty when I don't say thanks to a very good comment or answer given by users on academia.stackexchange.
I know very well that some questions are protected for saying thanks, me too ! etc.
But... |
2015/09/09 | 401 | 1,690 | <issue_start>username_0: I was drafting a question entitled, "How to make a group or department women-friendly?" when I noticed that the wonderful "Questions that may already have your answer" feature was pointing me helpfully to a related existing question: [What is being done to make the academic environment more wom... |
2015/09/10 | 1,199 | 4,608 | <issue_start>username_0: From time to time my comments get deleted (sometimes right after being posted). For me it is very frustrating - I feel chaotic in an environment in which my things change without a notice. I refresh things a few times, double check if I posted a comment on the right post, question my sanity for... |
2015/09/11 | 1,032 | 4,146 | <issue_start>username_0: >
> For the reasons above, I have locked this question. If anyone wishes to dispute the lock please feel free to discuss on Academia Meta. – eykanal♦
>
>
>
In reference to [this thread](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/2113/how-can-we-make-the-academic-environment-more-women-fr... |
2015/09/14 | 1,150 | 4,482 | <issue_start>username_0: Josh from The Winnower (thewinnower.com) here. I wanted to reach out and see if users of Stack Exchange Academia would be interested in permanently archiving and assigning Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to top threads with The Winnower. We’ve begun to offer DOIs and permanent archival to blo... |
2015/09/15 | 741 | 2,926 | <issue_start>username_0: Not all the SE sites are in the option when flagging a question as off topic. It would be nicer to suggest the exact SE site when flagging off-topic questions. Or am I missing something? Is such an option available in addition to notifying it in the comments section?<issue_comment>username_1: T... |
2015/09/25 | 1,108 | 4,242 | <issue_start>username_0: Hello one and all academics. I'm Sam and I work at Stack Exchange Overflow. I come here before you because I'm not sure where else on the network to go! There isn't a Stack Exchange site for K-12 teachers, and I think they could benefit massively from one.
I think this because I live with a te... |
2015/09/25 | 955 | 4,019 | <issue_start>username_0: On several occasions, moderators have suspended an account (your's truly) for making mere *questionable* comments or providing answers that are not with convention. Now, SE has a voting model, yes? What is the legitimacy for scolding other users when it can only result in the inbreeding of alre... |
2015/09/25 | 2,682 | 10,753 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to discuss the comments to <https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/54888/958>.
I am a bit puzzled by the way the discussion has evolved. In my view, aeismail's comment is sloppy, since it just claims that this is not "correct usage", without backing up the claim with a reference. It... |
2015/09/25 | 629 | 2,493 | <issue_start>username_0: **UPDATE**: I have edited my question and have added more specific details.
I have posted [this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/54976/what-information-to-share-and-what-to-hide) question today. It is on hold saying
>
> There are either too many possible answers, or good answer... |
2015/09/26 | 1,190 | 4,981 | <issue_start>username_0: We often get questions from people who are not aware how a journal works and do not understand some step in the editiorial process[¹](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/48446/7734), think some step takes too long[²](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/23655/7734) or are just very worried[³](... |
2015/10/01 | 391 | 1,445 | <issue_start>username_0: Title says it all, and I don't have privileges to post on the meta forum. If there's a better place to post this, it'd be really helpful to hear about.<issue_comment>username_1: If the "beginner" questions are within the scope of the site as defined in the [help center](https://academia.stackex... |
2015/10/03 | 1,071 | 4,543 | <issue_start>username_0: On [the "unethical restaurant research" question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/55314/22733), a new user made a low-quality answer consisting entirely of:
>
> No!!!!!! No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>
>
Obviously, this is a poor answer and needs to be either improve... |
2015/10/10 | 914 | 3,562 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm struck by the willingness of some contributors to this site to express, either consciously or unconsciously, views about the U.S. higher educational system that are little more than thinly vailed anti-American rants. For a specific example, see some of the comments left under the recent pos... |
2015/11/06 | 585 | 2,332 | <issue_start>username_0: The question ["What are some good ways to keep students coming to lectures?"](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/57619/what-are-some-good-ways-to-keep-students-coming-to-lectures) has been posted here at Academia.SE and simultaneously over at [Matheducators.SE](https://matheducators.s... |
2015/11/09 | 1,647 | 6,153 | <issue_start>username_0: A [recent question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/57676/how-to-deal-with-gpa-related-questions-in-standardized-job-application-forms-if) of mine was apparently put on-hold with the following motivation:
>
> "The answer to this question strongly depends on individual factors su... |
2015/11/10 | 1,495 | 5,820 | <issue_start>username_0: Can someone please explain the philosophy of stackoverflow and why [such questions](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/57903/should-i-tell-the-instructor-that-i-will-miss-the-next-class) get upvotes?
Is it appreciated that people shut down their brains and get totally paralyzed until... |
2015/11/16 | 701 | 2,502 | <issue_start>username_0: When googling to understand a recent question better, I came across a web site whose entire focus is to scoop from Academia SE; [here](http://newtips.co/academia/questions/56389/job-advertisement-liaise-professionally.html) is an example for the question I looked into. It's attributed (if somew... |
2015/11/22 | 746 | 2,860 | <issue_start>username_0: The [lecturer](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lecturer "show questions tagged 'lecturer'") tag is supposed to be for questions about the job of lecturer, a specific academic job title that exists in some parts of the world.
However, users keep applying this tag to question... |
2015/11/22 | 753 | 2,975 | <issue_start>username_0: [research](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/research "show questions tagged 'research'") is frequently used for almost all sorts of questions only marginally related to research, such as publishing a research paper.
In hope to reduce this misuse, I suggest to rename it to [r... |
2015/11/27 | 318 | 1,205 | <issue_start>username_0: I asked a question
[picture on the academic page of a PhD candidate seeking postdoc](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/58955/picture-on-the-academic-page-of-a-phd-candidate-seeking-postdoc)
and it got many downvotes soon, without any comment.
I don't know the reason.
Is my question ... |
2015/11/29 | 2,164 | 8,684 | <issue_start>username_0: Occasionally we get questions that *are* about the on-topic areas listed in the [help center](https://academia.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic), but that are considered off-topic here because an expert answer to such a question would come from an expert in something else (not academia.)
For ex... |
2015/12/05 | 1,390 | 5,671 | <issue_start>username_0: For example:
* [Student doesn't want to take credit for his own extraordinary paper](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/59403/7734) – 269 views and +9/−0 votes in 11 hours.
* [My paper was too revolutionary - reviewers at a top journal rejected it "by simply reading the title". What now?](ht... |
2015/12/07 | 593 | 2,529 | <issue_start>username_0: In a question ([Can I write a paper on a method that is novel but yields similar results compared to existing methods?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/59389/can-i-write-a-paper-on-a-method-that-is-worse-than-existing-ones)), someone edited the title and introduced the word "wrong"... |
2015/12/12 | 757 | 2,678 | <issue_start>username_0: Some members expressed concerns and criticized RG network,
is it alowed to open special topic about Researchgate, and to discuss about this problems?
Examples:
>
> There is actually an old ResearchGate question about this suggestion.
> – agold yesterday
>
>
> Why would you prefer Research... |
2015/12/13 | 311 | 1,305 | <issue_start>username_0: [Should a dismissal from PhD in graduate application be listed as academic misconduct?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/15067/14341)
I find the background part in this question doesn't give useful information, or at least the answers don't use it. Should I delete the whole part to make th... |
2015/12/15 | 1,357 | 5,411 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently there are two tags that have the same function, however they are not set as synonyms:
1. [statement-of-purpose](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/statement-of-purpose "show questions tagged 'statement-of-purpose'")
2. [personal-statement](https://academia.stackexcha... |
2015/12/21 | 901 | 3,678 | <issue_start>username_0: I tend to lack coherence and get stumble when talking in thoughtful topics. Unless I really take note, cat always got my tongue, even thought I know what to say. My writing is, nonetheless, not having that problem.
Is it on-topic here? Since most thoughtful topics I meet are in academic settin... |
2015/12/28 | 1,007 | 3,919 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently there are two tags that have the same function, however they are not set as synonyms:
[europe](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/europe "show questions tagged 'europe'")
[eu](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/eu "show questions tagged 'eu'")
Shoul... |
2015/12/30 | 1,964 | 7,222 | <issue_start>username_0: The following questions seem to be on topic and some are highly upvoted:
[IEEE vs ACM membership](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/44461/ieee-vs-acm-membership)
[Is Academia.edu useful?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/44632/is-academia-edu-useful)
[ResearchGate:... |
2016/01/10 | 1,379 | 4,897 | <issue_start>username_0: [On-topic-ness of questions on legal issues related to academia?](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1340/452) seems to say questions pertaining to legal issues are on-topic.
However, the question below got closed on the grounds that it is a legal question.
Has the stance on questions ... |
2016/01/15 | 2,701 | 9,012 | <issue_start>username_0: It's 2016 now, and we've [made some changes to the sidebar size](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/272563/were-standardizing-the-sidebar-width-at-300px-on-all-sites). As such, we can now restart the Community Promotion Ads for 2016!
Keep in mind, we have updated some of the guidelines c... |
2016/01/16 | 873 | 2,994 | <issue_start>username_0: When I read questions like [this one](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/61749) I wonder if we are aware of the fact that Academia.SE, and the whole Stack Overflow network, might be totally unknown to a large fraction of the academic world, especially outside fields like computer science or m... |
2016/01/22 | 1,131 | 4,810 | <issue_start>username_0: I have the very strong suspicion that [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/62129/where-can-i-find-academics-who-need-statistical-help) is essentially a thinly veiled promotion for the OP's business. That is, it seems to me that the OP is not primarily looking for an answ... |
2016/02/02 | 1,932 | 7,238 | <issue_start>username_0: In [this answer](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/62646/is-it-appropriate-for-an-undergrad-student-to-ask-a-professor-to-sign-a-non-disc/62658#62658) I used the blockquote markdown syntax to emphasize the few sentences that contain the gist of the answer. <NAME> commented that this ... |
2016/02/08 | 955 | 3,620 | <issue_start>username_0: I noticed some users like to ask opinion-based or discussion-like "questions" and systematically use the [reference-request](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/reference-request "show questions tagged 'reference-request'") tag to prevent them from being closed as such.
I'm ta... |
2016/02/09 | 226 | 978 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm planning the curriculum for my first graduate level computer science course. Are questions related to appropriate expectations for incoming knowledge and course coverage allowed here?<issue_comment>username_1: I believe that such a question could be entirely within scope. Some key informati... |
2016/02/14 | 1,880 | 7,345 | <issue_start>username_0: Are questions on features offered by a website related to academic research on-topic?
Some are closed, some are open, so I wonder what the scope of this Stack Exchange website is on that kind of questions.
Examples:
* [Is there a more user-friendly way to download multiple articles from arXi... |
2016/02/29 | 2,118 | 8,331 | <issue_start>username_0: Based on earlier [discussions](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1902/shopping-questions-revisited) on [defining shopping](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2038/defining-shopping-questions) (in a specific case), I suggest that the Shopping needs to be expanded. ... |
2016/03/03 | 1,098 | 4,666 | <issue_start>username_0: [A recent question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/64430/22733) received a number of rapid down-votes, which I guess was likely due to annoyance of voters because it was the third in a sequence of effectively duplicate postings by the same author with different new accounts. The first two... |
2016/03/14 | 579 | 2,081 | <issue_start>username_0: I suggest to use an *h-index*-style to indicate SE users performance. As with publications, it gives a direct indication of activity level and users interest.
The *h-index* for answers (for example) is calculated by arranging the answers in descending order and stopping at the answer that has ... |
2016/03/16 | 1,503 | 6,224 | <issue_start>username_0: **Premise**
I recently posed [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/65062/getting-a-pet-during-a-phd) asking whether or not it is advised to get a pet during the PhD process. The major premise was if the time/energy-cost of raising a puppy, let's say, is too detrimental t... |
2016/03/19 | 547 | 2,293 | <issue_start>username_0: I have posted a couple of questions on this website. Based on this small dataset, there seem to be a trend that hard-to-answer questions get downvoted, and even closed for some random reason (too broad, opinion-based, etc.). Even though from time to time there actually exists a good answer, whi... |
2016/03/21 | 1,884 | 7,103 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is potentially related to [Should seemingly hard-to-answer questions be downvoted (and closed)?](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3249/should-seemingly-hard-to-answer-questions-be-downvoted-and-closed)
Our help center [don't ask section](https://academia.stackexc... |
2016/03/24 | 251 | 974 | <issue_start>username_0: Where can I ask a question about arrangement of numbered lists of axioms in a mathematical manuscript?
* tex.stackexchange.com? (i think no, because it is not specific to TeX)
* academia.stackexchange.com?
* writers.stackexchange.com?
* other?<issue_comment>username_1: What is the thing that y... |
2016/03/28 | 889 | 3,424 | <issue_start>username_0: We seem to get a lot of questions that seem to boil down to this: "My professor is bad. Right?" Two recent examples:
[Expecting students to use a code base that is known to be buggy?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/65749/expecting-students-to-use-a-code-base-that-is-known-to-be-b... |
2016/03/30 | 358 | 1,358 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a pretty uncommon scenario here, but it appears that [someone has posted what looks a lot like a homework question to the site](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/66007/73). The twist here is that the question itself is very relevant to the site, and if the OP would have put any effor... |
2016/04/09 | 1,417 | 5,301 | <issue_start>username_0: I've seen a lot of posts on here where someone is in a PhD programme, and they're very stressed and unhappy, and want to know if they should quit. Typically, there are a number of complicating factors, such as: They're away from home, and haven't made any friends yet AND they suffer from depres... |
2016/04/13 | 544 | 2,132 | <issue_start>username_0: [According to this question,](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/66687/why-is-discrimination-based-on-citizenship-allowed-in-phd-funding-in-the-uk)
UK is not providing funding for international student, which is malicious and not true, all my advisory team, mentor and two co-mentors, ... |
2016/04/13 | 1,368 | 5,086 | <issue_start>username_0: In my mind, this [comment](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/66824/is-there-any-obligation-for-authors-of-a-paper-to-provide-the-dataset-used-in-th#comment161781_66824)
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CcQFI.png)
is suggesting that gender s... |
2016/04/22 | 781 | 3,133 | <issue_start>username_0: A remarkable point of this community is that it makes people realize that [*academia varies more than you think it does*](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1212/20058).
One of these variations is the structure of the different education levels. While the PhD level has a somehow clearly... |
2016/04/29 | 205 | 814 | <issue_start>username_0: There's a new tag called `wetlab`. There seems to be only one (but rather popular) post tagged with this tag. I don't suppose it could generalise to any other question asked so far in Academia.SE.
Is such a tag necessary?<issue_comment>username_1: Personally, I do not find that the tag 'wetlab... |
2016/05/03 | 1,799 | 6,969 | <issue_start>username_0: A few weeks ago I have asked a question that I believe is about a major challenge that academia faces today and will increasingly face in the future (I deleted it since then because of the reactions it got):
[How can we fight junk science? [closed]](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions... |
2016/05/08 | 391 | 1,419 | <issue_start>username_0: Sometimes, malicious (usually new) users post
* a question that is obviously not about a real situation or even a hypothetical situation that the asker is honestly interested in (note that I am not talking about [possibly made-up clickbait](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2085/7734) ... |
2016/05/09 | 754 | 3,112 | <issue_start>username_0: [One of our community promotion ads](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2158/10643) redirects to a website listing people who have strong opinions against a publisher. This ad pops up frequently on the homepage, alternating with useful, fun and politically neutral ads, and could give the... |
2016/05/11 | 891 | 3,648 | <issue_start>username_0: Higher ed systems differ quite substantially between countries, and we have country tags like [united-states](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/united-states "show questions tagged 'united-states'") or [germany](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/germany "show... |
2016/06/12 | 422 | 1,797 | <issue_start>username_0: Imagine a graduate student who is struggling to complete a thesis. The subject of his/her thesis is a relatively new subject in the field and is yet to be discussed widely. It even lacks a scientific model.
Is it alright for him/her to turn to Academia.SE to ask for guidance on where to begin t... |
2016/06/15 | 623 | 2,481 | <issue_start>username_0: There are a number of questions related to Brexit on this site. I have lots of questions related to Brexit, but I don't ask them because nobody can answer them. I propose we close those questions, because:
* Although the electorate voted to leave the European Union, it is still not formally ce... |
2016/07/05 | 518 | 2,085 | <issue_start>username_0: I don't understand what the following question got closed as too broad. It simply asks for some studies on a specific question. Since no close voter left a comment regarding the "too broad" issue, I am asking here.
---
[Research studies covering the reasons why faculty applicants accept or re... |
2016/07/05 | 722 | 3,113 | <issue_start>username_0: I provided an answer to this question ['Consequences for publishing final version PDF, in violation of publisher policies?'](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/72321/consequences-for-publishing-final-version-pdf-in-violation-of-publisher-policie) which was closed for being a duplicate... |
2016/07/06 | 1,844 | 7,642 | <issue_start>username_0: What advice do you have for users who have just discovered the edit capability? What makes a "good edit" on Academia.SE?
*Note: I have made one suggestion per answer, so that people can vote on them individually. This way we can measure (to some degree) how strongly the community feels about e... |
2016/07/12 | 344 | 1,366 | <issue_start>username_0: What is our stance on questions asking about MOOCs? Are they on-topic or off-topic?
To put it otherwise, are MOOCs regarded as part of academia by this Stack Exchange community? (or do you prefer to wait a few years before?)<issue_comment>username_1: It depends on what the question is about. Q... |
2016/07/14 | 732 | 2,877 | <issue_start>username_0: Should the "Black Nodes Matter" question, which mocks the Black Lives Matter protesters, be removed?
Here's the link:
[Is it appropriate to make a pun that references a highly charged topic in current events, in a lecture on an unrelated subject?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions... |
2016/07/14 | 1,159 | 4,075 | <issue_start>username_0: On the sidebar of this page, just now I saw 3 of the 6 "hot topics" were about "appropriateness" or "offensiveness" (image attached).
A search in this site for questions containing "methodologies" returned 539 results. "Appropriate" returned 2,397 results. "New research" was behind "approprit... |
2016/07/30 | 1,161 | 4,356 | <issue_start>username_0: Is a "*What are the attitudes of academics towards X?*" question on or off -topic?
The question in question:
[What are the social norms associated with stealing free coffee?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/73477/what-are-the-social-norms-associated-with-stealing-free-coffee)
OP ... |
2016/08/15 | 1,185 | 4,736 | <issue_start>username_0: I'll keep this very short: I believe there is a tendency here to label every similarity between questions as "duplication". This seems to harm the intention of this site and is overall unjustified. Questions that are "similar" can still vary in a very substantive way.
Recent example:
[Publish... |
2016/08/16 | 194 | 661 | <issue_start>username_0: I like asking questions on random sites to figure things out and pick other people's brains, but I'm new to this site so I'm trying to figure it out so I don't get my questions shut down all the time.<issue_comment>username_1: 1. Go to top questions.
2. Sort by votes.
3. Read the highest rated ... |
2016/08/16 | 1,155 | 3,835 | <issue_start>username_0: Our [chat room](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/2496/academia) has the default name of *academia*. Some sites have come up with [creative names](http://chat.stackexchange.com/?tab=all&sort=active) for their chat rooms. It was suggested that we [rename our chat room](http://chat.stackexchang... |
2016/08/18 | 1,658 | 6,136 | <issue_start>username_0: I am sorry for this contentious question, but I couldn't help but noticing lately that many answers and comments here are, to my perception and understanding and experience in academia, completely wrong :) If the answers were a bit modest and reserved it would be mildly okay. But it seems that ... |
2016/08/21 | 570 | 2,198 | <issue_start>username_0: Or is this considered "noise" on the SE network and should be avoided?
For example, my last question on Academia.SE, I got very candid and useful comments and suggestions from at least four professors. I want to say "thanks, professor X" to each one of them in the comments section. Should I re... |
2016/08/29 | 1,638 | 6,492 | <issue_start>username_0: My expectations for how the reference-request tag should be used are based on how the same tag is used on mathoverflow:
>
> This tag is used if a reference is needed in a paper or textbook on a specific result.
>
>
>
Academia.SE currently has this somewhat vague definition:
>
> Question... |
2016/09/02 | 403 | 1,677 | <issue_start>username_0: How come I lose reputation points for downvoting?
Is reputation sort of like a "currency" and that it "costs" me reputation points to downvote an answer?
I currently upvoted back that answer, since I don't have that many points to squander :(<issue_comment>username_1: [Here's the FAQ on how r... |
2016/09/17 | 598 | 2,444 | <issue_start>username_0: Why are questions on citation style on topic? They are mechanistic rules that only tangentially have to do with academia.
Whether you choose to have sentence capitalization or word capitalization, use a comma instead of a colon, or have the citation inside the quote or outside -- the answer i... |
2016/09/20 | 622 | 2,495 | <issue_start>username_0: It's the second time in less than a week that a question attracts only junk content and youtube-quality comments war. We failed to close this one soon enough:
[If you're black, how do you answer "Oh you're a professor? So you teach African Studies?"](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/77024/... |
2016/09/20 | 1,064 | 4,264 | <issue_start>username_0: This question <https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/76733/6526> presents the problem where the OP has a problem with his teacher telling him to crack software despite the fact that he knows it's illegal.
One of the more highly upvoted answers encourages him to use the cracked software despite... |
2016/09/21 | 1,141 | 4,523 | <issue_start>username_0: Yesterday I posted a comment on an answer to [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/77123/what-is-the-purpose-of-women-only-meetings-panels-conferences-etc-in-academi) questioning moderator ff524's behavior of selectively moving comments to chat. My comment was in no way i... |
2016/09/25 | 788 | 3,021 | <issue_start>username_0: I propose to rename the tag [sexual-misconduct](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sexual-misconduct "show questions tagged 'sexual-misconduct'") to [sexual-conduct](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sexual-conduct "show questions tagged 'sexual-conduct'"), wi... |
2016/09/29 | 2,739 | 11,409 | <issue_start>username_0: One of the community members has approached the moderators with a concern about gendered pronoun usage amongst our Academia members. Specifically, this individual felt that calling out gender in discussion—e.g., "he said…" or "as she commented…"—risks introducing bias and may affect the quality... |