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2016/10/05 | 721 | 2,852 | <issue_start>username_0: In [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/77827/what-rights-do-students-in-the-u-s-have-re-gender-pronouns?noredirect=1#comment190504_77827), Cape Code says:
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> I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it's about the legalese of a specific geographic regio... |
2016/10/05 | 1,346 | 5,447 | <issue_start>username_0: A [recent Meta question](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3484/73) noted:
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> 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—... |
2016/10/06 | 713 | 2,845 | <issue_start>username_0: Few days ago my advisor shared on social media this platform, and also recommended for everyone at my uni to use it as a source of information and how something should be done in academia.
I am wondering how safe my private data and locations are here? do I need to delete my account? Is someon... |
2016/10/24 | 1,149 | 4,203 | <issue_start>username_0: I have used (stalked?) the StackExchange family of websites, and until recently, couldn't find a need to register: I usually found a similar question to mine, with an answer much better than I could think of. MUCH better.
I recently asked a question [How can I get the key to my professor's lab... |
2016/10/27 | 600 | 2,277 | <issue_start>username_0: A user is experiencing high anxiety about an academic issue. He has expressed clearly, multiple times, that (a) he is in agreement with everyone who has tried to reassure him, but that (b) his anxiety persists and is acute. He states that he has posted his question and deleted it twice and now ... |
2016/11/17 | 955 | 3,909 | <issue_start>username_0: We've had a few cheating-related questions lately ([this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/79732/73), [this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/78853/73), tangentially [this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/73597/73)). Almost all of these end up yielding a number of answers to the ef... |
2016/11/28 | 773 | 3,273 | <issue_start>username_0: Here's a specific example: I wrote an answer to this question: [How to professionally handle sexist remarks by a student?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/80561/would-you-call-a-student-out-on-being-sexist/80565#80565)
The OP only included one tag. I can think of at least one more... |
2016/11/29 | 6,506 | 27,123 | <issue_start>username_0: I find the reaction to [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/80561/10643) quite unreasonable. The responses were overwhelmingly negative and focused on trying to prove that OP is wrong in assessing whether a given situation was possibly sexist or not. The reaction was similar to ... |
2016/11/30 | 722 | 2,518 | <issue_start>username_0: In 2016, Stack Exchange will continue its tradition of the ["Winter Bash"](http://winterbash2016.stackexchange.com). 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 (analogous t... |
2016/12/05 | 2,001 | 8,373 | <issue_start>username_0: Regarding: [Am I being a "mean" instructor, denying an extension on a take home exam](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/80951/am-i-being-a-mean-instructor-denying-an-extension-on-a-take-home-exam)
Discussion has been extensive and the tone has been ramping up. But that's not what mo... |
2016/12/05 | 1,819 | 7,440 | <issue_start>username_0: Stemming partially from this meta thread: [Why are we challenging the premise rather than answering the question (question on potential sexist remarks)?](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3549/why-are-we-challenging-the-premise-rather-than-answering-the-question-question)
And e... |
2016/12/08 | 508 | 1,850 | <issue_start>username_0: For this question, [When referring to races, should 'black' and 'white' be capitalized? (MLA)](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/81218/32436), please restore the "ethnicity" tag which a moderator removed. As my answer shows, this question will be viewed and answered in different ways dependi... |
2016/12/09 | 849 | 3,257 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is motivated by an interesting [answer](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3562/32436) to another Academia Meta question.
My question is, if I see "dogpiling" going on, i.e. more and more people are jumping on a bandwagon, ganging up on a user, may I flag the answer? If so... |
2016/12/09 | 1,959 | 8,210 | <issue_start>username_0: A controversial [question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/80561/32436) was substantially rewritten, but not before a number of answers were posted and discussed at great length. Is it appropriate now to flag the existing answers that don't answer the question in its rewritten form (i.e. f... |
2016/12/14 | 755 | 2,715 | <issue_start>username_0: I've noticed that there are two tags: [code](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/code) and [software](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software). Could someone please explain what is the difference between them? Wouldn't it make sense to merge them?<issue_comm... |
2016/12/21 | 708 | 2,487 | <issue_start>username_0: On [my answer](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/81220/12454) to the question [When referring to races, should 'black' and 'white' be capitalized? (MLA)](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/81218/12454), another user has posted an up-voted (5 at present) [comment](https://academia.stackexch... |
2016/12/23 | 1,678 | 7,000 | <issue_start>username_0: Allow me to ponder on the future of Academia(.SE):
I don't claim to be an integral or representative user of this site, but I've noticed I personally haven't been using Academia as much lately. This is probably a natural phenomenon for many users across the SE sites, and isn't necessarily a pr... |
2017/01/14 | 864 | 3,396 | <issue_start>username_0: As you probably have noticed, the question [What to do with a student coming to class in revealing clothing, to the degree that it disrupts the teaching environment?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/83082/what-to-do-with-a-student-coming-to-class-in-revealing-clothing-to-the-degree... |
2017/01/16 | 1,460 | 6,089 | <issue_start>username_0: Following up [a recent meta post](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3616/how-sustainable-is-academia-se) wondering about the direction this site is taking, I wanted to discuss the possibility of changing one of our current habit, which is to close "technical" questions as off-to... |
2017/01/17 | 1,115 | 4,540 | <issue_start>username_0: How can someone ask a question regarding research in academia without being accused of "shopping"? To my knowledge, academia is a broad category that covers many topics with education. Dedicated to research, education, and scholarship. So it would seem to be a reasonable conclusion to post a qu... |
2017/01/23 | 1,220 | 4,967 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to know why there is intense focus on not offending people? Sure, people should not go about intentionally offending people, but someone will be offended by something somewhere, someday, even if we don't intend it.
I have seen this occur in everything from questions ranging from p... |
2017/01/27 | 502 | 1,712 | <issue_start>username_0: A particular old [question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/77464/32436) was bumped to the homepage by Community. Was this done automatically by the software? Was it a person? Why was it bumped? It makes no sense to me.
I read a Meta [outline](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/a/127... |
2017/02/02 | 1,238 | 4,531 | <issue_start>username_0: It is a bit late into this new year, being that we're already in the second month, but we are now cycling the Community Promotion Ads for 2017!
### What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right si... |
2017/02/06 | 584 | 2,352 | <issue_start>username_0: The question ["How to deal with instructor forcing me to do an uninteresting optional exercise?"](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/84437/how-to-deal-with-instructor-forcing-me-to-do-an-uninteresting-optional-exercise) has been locked recently. The question is kind a of mirrored ques... |
2017/02/21 | 1,176 | 4,359 | <issue_start>username_0: Academia gets quite a few questions from people in academia who want to communicate something to someone, but are just not sure how to say it. Often this is a student trying to tell something to a professor.
* [What sentence is suitable for thanking a professor?](https://academia.stackexchange... |
2017/02/24 | 2,211 | 8,937 | <issue_start>username_0: The [March for Science](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/52641/scientists-march-on-washington) is an event/protest/rally being held on April 22 2017. The main march will occur in Washington DC, but there will likely be marches all over the world. There is an [SE chat room](http://chat.stacke... |
2017/03/20 | 2,145 | 8,405 | <issue_start>username_0: Probably half of the question have some sort of bickering on what's appropriate. There are questions as open ended as "What should I do with my academic career" being up voted, when there's an infinite number of potential answers, and no one can guarantee that the response is going to be helpfu... |
2017/03/25 | 1,117 | 4,281 | <issue_start>username_0: We get a considerable amount of questions, where the asker submitted a paper to some journal and gets impatient because it appears to be stuck at a some stage:
* [What to do when you have not received a response three weeks after submitting minor revisions?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/... |
2017/05/03 | 1,423 | 6,075 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, [my question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/88915/which-academic-conferences-have-more-4-000-attendees) was closed for shopping. However, how shopping is [described](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2038/defining-shopping-questions) on meta does not see... |
2017/05/12 | 561 | 2,454 | <issue_start>username_0: The question [How do academics with teaching responsibilities, etc. find the time to do research?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/89362/) was originally asked on mathoverflow in the context of the working life of a professional mathematician, and was then migrated to academia.SE. ... |
2017/06/06 | 726 | 2,867 | <issue_start>username_0: Here's a [question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/90483/32436) written by a newcomer with a small starting rep. It currently has a total negative score of -7, and four close votes (including the one I just cast). It was written 13 hours ago and has not yet been closed. Jeesh!
Granted, t... |
2017/06/14 | 715 | 2,956 | <issue_start>username_0: the question came up to me when seeing following answer: <https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/90807/74774>
This is edited by the mod Eykanal, removing over half of the (I admit, quite funny) post. I do understand the reasoning, as the sarcasm didn't add anything and last portion of that post ... |
2017/06/17 | 607 | 2,211 | <issue_start>username_0: In this question, [How to withdraw an under review manuscript from a journal when you decide you want to submit to another journal with a higher impact factor?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/90898/how-to-withdraw-an-under-review-manuscript-from-a-journal-when-you-decide-you-wa), ... |
2017/06/22 | 729 | 3,041 | <issue_start>username_0: Perhaps this is a meta meta question, but I wonder whether experience and reputation on other SE sites should not be taken into consideration when granting certain privileges, such as those to review close votes, for example.
Consider, for the sake of argument, a relatively new member of Acade... |
2017/07/07 | 903 | 3,290 | <issue_start>username_0: Following on from this [answer](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1499/929), I think a discussion of our custom close reasons would be helpful. We can currently only have 3 custom close reasons. If we want more we would have to ask/beg the SE team to [create more](https://meta.askubuntu... |
2017/07/18 | 591 | 2,276 | <issue_start>username_0: In academia.SE the upvotes of the questions and answers have some points associated. However, there are no points associated with the comments on the questions or the answers.
Why am I asking this question?
* Few answers just combine the ideas mentioned in the comments and those answers keep ... |
2017/07/21 | 439 | 1,619 | <issue_start>username_0: Subject line says it all -- I do not recall seeing any questions here about K-12 education here, but I also do not know if there is a better Stack Exchange site for that purpose.<issue_comment>username_1: No. Per the [help center](https://academia.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic), only universi... |
2017/07/23 | 932 | 3,661 | <issue_start>username_0: I have seen multiple questions and comments deleted, closed, and moved without much justification. Why can't the moderators etc. just let the people ask and answer the questions peacefully and without censoring unless there arises a serious problem? Just let people talk. Look at how the New Yor... |
2017/07/24 | 1,311 | 4,707 | <issue_start>username_0: ### Statistical background
*The following is extracted from the [question close stats](https://academia.stackexchange.com/tools/question-close-stats) (10 k only).*
In the last three months:
* the *undergraduate* close reason¹ was used 18 times (that’s only about 3 % of all closures).
* 84 qu... |
2017/07/31 | 827 | 2,889 | <issue_start>username_0: An ad that one of my advisors shared contains a sentence that is against law and working ethic, and I am surprised to see an associate professor request from a postdoc to stay more than 10 h per day.
I need advice how to report this behavior and what legal consequences this professor can face. ... |
2017/08/06 | 650 | 2,231 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been trying to publish my Master's thesis, I am sure It's an idea that what spreading. I would like to know if i can publish the thesis here on this site, and if so please how can I go about it?<issue_comment>username_1: This is a question-and-answer site, not a publishing platform.
If ... |
2017/08/23 | 1,465 | 5,435 | <issue_start>username_0: ### Proposal
Currently [the definition of our scope](https://academia.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic) with respect to undergraduate questions is:
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> [do *not* ask questions about]
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> * Undergraduate-specific issues that could not apply to graduate or post-graduate academicians
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2017/08/25 | 706 | 2,824 | <issue_start>username_0: I was going to flag [Is it considered normal to publish job offers inviting candidates to apply based on their gender and / or race in academia?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/95011/) for moderators' attention, or attempt an edit myself, but then I wasn't sure if I would be actin... |
2017/08/25 | 490 | 1,814 | <issue_start>username_0: A couple of flags have been raised [on this answer](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/95065/929) that suggests that the OP's example title is not appropriate. I have edited the title which I think conveys the same information, but in a more appropriate way. The OP has rolled my revision back... |
2017/09/29 | 1,216 | 4,780 | <issue_start>username_0: After reading some popular comments on this site it seems that many users consider students (students as a group, not individuals) to be irrational \*\*\*holes:
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> [*students cannot reasonably expect* - I see you're applying logic to an illogical group, a common rookie mistake.](https://ac... |
2017/10/07 | 823 | 3,274 | <issue_start>username_0: The community has recently put the question [Post-doc priorities: “Laundry list” vs. “Research trumps all”](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/96998/post-doc-priorities-laundry-list-vs-research-trumps-all) on hold. The given reason was that the question depends strongly on individual ... |
2017/10/24 | 473 | 2,078 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently posted a [question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/97792/how-precise-should-data-methodology-be) on methodologies and data reproducibility. After finding my answers, I wondered if I was in the right to delete my question given its duplicate nature.
**Should people who ... |
2017/10/24 | 708 | 2,912 | <issue_start>username_0: Every now and then people ask whether it is appropriate to leave a (phd, postdoc, tenure-track...) position they have accepted for a better one that became available later, or in any case how to behave when multiple positions have incompatible deadlines. The last example is [Swap Postdoc positi... |
2017/10/31 | 364 | 1,488 | <issue_start>username_0: According to this [meta post](https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/302609/300001), the SE staff has implemented for a couple of communities a post notice for sensitive, possibly controversial topics.
The notice recites:
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> Controversial Post — You may use comments ONLY to suggest improvements.... |
2017/11/01 | 421 | 1,642 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a high school student from India, I got a question regarding SAT Subject Tests but I'm not sure if I can post it on the main site. Is there some other site where I can get help? My post is below:
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**NOTE:** *I do not have any intentions to offend anyone. I'm in no way trying to insult ... |
2017/11/04 | 329 | 1,245 | <issue_start>username_0: [Is there a (text)book on how academia works?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/98282/14341)
I agree that it looks like a shopping request as its current form, but it is stemmed from the question "how to have a systematic understanding on how science and academia work (without having to br... |
2017/11/06 | 1,300 | 4,951 | <issue_start>username_0: <https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/98458/958> ? I don't see any outstanding reason for deletion. It's been downvoted, but that doesn't mean it has to disappear from the website.<issue_comment>username_1: This answer is [not nice](https://academia.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice) to:
* the as... |
2017/11/07 | 670 | 2,539 | <issue_start>username_0: The posting [How to find a gap in knowledge, for my PhD?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/98469/the-gap-of-knowledge-how-can-we-find-it) asks "How to find the gap of knowledge" (denoted by `Q` in the following). [The posting](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/98509/80454) (denot... |
2017/11/13 | 767 | 3,218 | <issue_start>username_0: Very recently moderator ff524, deleted a question that I would agree was in bad taste after very negative commentary from the OP.
<https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/98902/is-it-a-good-idea-to-take-several-summer-classes-have-a-tutor-after-school-sinc/98903#98903>.
But despite the... |
2017/11/13 | 1,543 | 5,400 | <issue_start>username_0: In a [short discussion](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3873/allowing-questions-that-warranted-a-deletion-but-has-an-answer-that-addresses-t) between myself and moderator ff524 about a [deleted question](http://There%20are%20other%20sites%20that%20are%20not%20as%20strict%20abo... |
2017/11/16 | 343 | 1,449 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently my uncle passed away and left me with a rather large inheritance, much of which I do not anticipate ever having a need for. How can I donate money - in USD - to Academia Stack Exchange - its employees, top contributors, and moderators? Note that I desire my donation to be specific to t... |
2017/11/17 | 720 | 2,827 | <issue_start>username_0: First, a definition, from Wikipedia:
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> During the Cold War, lack of reliable information about the country
> forced Western analysts to "read between the lines" and to use the
> tiniest tidbits, such as the removal of portraits, the rearranging of
> chairs, positions at the reviewing sta... |
2017/11/27 | 760 | 2,997 | <issue_start>username_0: [How to prevent students from using modified calculators to cheat on exams?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/99417/how-to-prevent-students-from-using-modified-calculators-to-cheat-on-exams)
We had a (now-deleted) answer to this question that was at +28 with the author requesting t... |
2017/12/07 | 541 | 2,135 | <issue_start>username_0: The guidelines state:
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> As a general rule, if you're asking about a particular institution...it's likely your question is too limited in scope
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Can this rule be made more precise? In particular, can questions be asked about some particularly large institutes? E.g., CNRS, which [em... |
2017/12/09 | 1,597 | 6,301 | <issue_start>username_0: [My question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/100104/in-how-much-detail-should-one-describe-their-past-and-projected-future-work-for) about the application process at the CNRS has been "put on hold" for being "unclear". I am truly at a loss regarding what is supposedly unclear abou... |
2017/12/14 | 1,051 | 4,021 | <issue_start>username_0: In this [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/100431/access-to-scientific-articles-that-cite-mine-after-leaving-academia), <NAME> wrote an answer:
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> You can write an e-mail to the authors and ask for a copy of their published paper. Almost everyone will be happy to se... |
2017/12/15 | 1,546 | 6,355 | <issue_start>username_0: This question [Should I answer this question about diversity?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/100314/should-i-answer-this-question-about-diversity) got both positive ("Use the opportunity") as negative answers ("Leave it blank").
Now comments sections have been replaced with
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2017/12/17 | 882 | 3,263 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a question about my Academia Stack Exchange post: [Is "Assistant Professor Position (Tenure Track) for a female Researcher" illegal in Austria?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/100529/is-assistant-professor-position-tenure-track-for-a-female-researcher-illegal/100709#100709)... |
2017/12/21 | 921 | 3,762 | <issue_start>username_0: Some folks considered the prior installments of the question [Worst cover-letter mistakes of continental-European applicants for tenure-track assistant professorship positions in CS in USA](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/100907/worst-cover-letter-mistakes-of-continental-european-a... |
2017/12/22 | 2,446 | 9,680 | <issue_start>username_0: I posted an answer to this question: [Writing ads to attract female PhD candidates](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/100884/writing-ads-to-attract-female-phd-candidates/), which boiled down to "How do I write job ads to attract female PhD candidates".
My answer was as follows:
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2017/12/23 | 299 | 1,099 | <issue_start>username_0: [I am familiar with the privilege.](https://academia.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/protect-questions)
But for users without the rep, is the 'flag' function a viable means to recommend to a Moderator that a question should be protected, or is this not the right method?
[What do I do if a t... |
2017/12/31 | 210 | 852 | <issue_start>username_0: Where can I ask to help me to look for resourses like books, scientific articles and so on?
For example, if I want resourses on a specific topic (Does oxygen induce coagulation?), what tag I have to use? Maybe literature-search and literatue?
Thank you so much for your time.<issue_comment>use... |
2018/01/02 | 812 | 3,203 | <issue_start>username_0: I know [this user](https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/56935/leon-meier) was argumentative and seemed to be not-so-subtly trolling the site in many ways but his profile says he was suspended for "voting irregularities". What does that mean? Does that mean he created sock puppet accounts an... |
2018/01/02 | 657 | 2,582 | <issue_start>username_0: Although rare, account suspensions can happen to users on SE sites. In most cases the reason has been discussed in length by the defendant, site moderators, and SE team admins. With details privy to the parties involved.
However for those who are interested in how the appeal process works, I ... |
2018/01/03 | 1,328 | 5,282 | <issue_start>username_0: The help center provides some [guidance about deleting answers](https://academia.stackexchange.com/help/deleted-answers)
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> Answers that do not fundamentally answer the question may be removed. This includes answers that are:
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> * commentary on the question or other answers
> * asking a... |
2018/01/19 | 483 | 1,831 | <issue_start>username_0: We already have a question that outlines [the US admissions process](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/38237/how-does-the-admissions-process-work-for-ph-d-programs-in-the-us-particularly) for students with a weak background.
However, I’m beginning to wonder if we need a similar ques... |
2018/01/28 | 1,408 | 5,331 | <issue_start>username_0: Sometimes I read questions here on the site which require thought, and empathy, and are helped much by varigated experience. And if I have an answer for those, I'm glad to get some upvotes (and I often do).
But quite a few questions on the site really seem to me like "There's a hole in the buc... |
2018/01/29 | 1,201 | 4,550 | <issue_start>username_0: It's almost February in 2018, which isn't supposed to be the proper time to cycle these, but for this year it'll be once again, so we'll be refreshing the **Community Promotion Ads** for this year now!
### What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertis... |
2018/01/29 | 550 | 2,206 | <issue_start>username_0: The original version of this question [How will the academic boycot of Israel (BDS) infulence my career if I get a PhD in Israel](https://academia.stackexchange.com/revisions/102886/1) received two close votes (among the other votes) for the following reason:
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> ""Shopping" questions, which ... |
2018/01/30 | 820 | 3,300 | <issue_start>username_0: While going through the review queue, I just noticed two questions back-to-back that were flagged as "unclear". [These](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/103009/what-are-the-most-credible-rankings-of-us-computer-science-departments) [questions](https://academia.stackexchange.com/ques... |
2018/02/05 | 468 | 2,049 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I was browsing through the "unanswered questions" section, and I found many questions which had good answeres - but those were given as comments.
Some of them are very short, but still a valid and sometimes satisfying answer, so maybe the original commenter did not want to post a one-... |
2018/02/10 | 589 | 2,246 | <issue_start>username_0: A second ago I was one click away from commenting on a question from 2012, because I did not notice it was so old. Incidentally, I stumbled upon it via the side bar.
As far, as I understand, "late answers" (and, by extension, comments) are frowned on. I would not suggest *disabling* commenting... |
2018/02/25 | 1,609 | 6,109 | <issue_start>username_0: In a question asking [How to stop sexual harassment by teacher?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/104497/how-to-stop-sexual-harrassment-by-teacher) there was a lot of down-votes so I asked why. A comment was made that
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> (1) We do not handle high school problems. (2) The post con... |
2018/02/26 | 1,224 | 5,087 | <issue_start>username_0: Academia is scheduled for an election [next week, March 5th](https://academia.stackexchange.com/election/2). In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of modera... |
2018/02/27 | 1,525 | 5,818 | <issue_start>username_0: [This question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/32317/what-leverage-do-universities-have-over-sexual-violence-in-fraternities) is predicated on the now-debunked ["A Rape on Campus"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rape_on_Campus) *Rolling Stone* article.
As user Ben [points out](... |
2018/03/01 | 434 | 1,927 | <issue_start>username_0: For the question [Should I report a PhD student’s incompetence to their supervisor?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/104704/46184) I gave [an answer](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/104720/46184) based on an assumption that the OP and a supervisor were based at the same institution - ... |
2018/03/05 | 7,280 | 28,367 | <issue_start>username_0: In connection with the moderator elections, we are creating a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected [from an earlier thread](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4008/2018-moderator-election-qa-question-collection) have been compiled into this one, which shall now serv... |
2018/03/12 | 1,204 | 4,806 | <issue_start>username_0: Example: The [question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/105236/how-to-review-bogus-science-without-hurting-feelings) and my [answer](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/105236/how-to-review-bogus-science-without-hurting-feelings/105240#105240). I was writing a lengthy post... |
2018/03/15 | 803 | 3,345 | <issue_start>username_0: This question may not be well fitted here. But I am wondering why someone is perhaps intentionally down-voting my old low-scored questions asked here?
I wouldn't surprise if the down-votes appears at the time I asked the question. But the down-voter is targeting my old low-scored questions. I ... |
2018/03/16 | 1,713 | 6,351 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been struggling recently with the use of "ethics" on this site - I think it's overused to the point of the tag itself being much less useful than it could be (it's currently our 12th most popular tag) as well as answers and comments being bogged down by disambiguating "Is X ethical..." are... |
2018/03/17 | 687 | 2,722 | <issue_start>username_0: It would be interesting to learn what is the viewpoint of Academia.SE community on the following situation.
[There is an Area 51 proposal for Paranormal Phenomenons.](https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/114464/paranormal)
Please follow the links from this question to read further deta... |
2018/03/20 | 444 | 1,427 | <issue_start>username_0: Academia's [second moderator election](https://academia.stackexchange.com/election/2) has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the moderator is:
[](https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/7734)
They'll be joini... |
2018/03/21 | 971 | 4,031 | <issue_start>username_0: I have asked a question. In [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/106754/how-to-know-a-community-of-researchers-in-order-to-be-more-successful-in-researc?answertab=active#tab-top), I provide details about what I mean and even a link to the content I am talking about. Some... |
2018/03/21 | 1,257 | 5,166 | <issue_start>username_0: We have at least one old unclosed question asking to evaluate some commercial online services: [Is Academia.edu useful?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/44632/7734)
This was cited in favour of questions going into the same direction: [Is Peer.us useful?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/... |
2018/03/24 | 841 | 3,369 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been thinking of writing this for a while. It doesn't happen frequently but, yes, it happens: a user answers a question and also votes to close it.
Though not forbidden by the system, I think that such kind of behaviour is bad in two ways:
1. It confuses the questioner, especially when t... |
2018/03/27 | 1,607 | 6,716 | <issue_start>username_0: I frequently see questions from this stack in the Hot Network Questions list (the network-wide list of questions in the right sidebar) that I find interesting. I sometimes answer them and have acquired a small amount of rep from a couple of upvotes per answer.
However, I'm not a scientist, stu... |
2018/03/31 | 246 | 903 | <issue_start>username_0: Not sure how unique it is to Academia.SE but it didn't show up in MathOverflow. To get rid of it, I had to click on it which involved giving it access to the microphone. How do I know this website has relinquished this access after I dismissed the duck? I think the duck should go or at least be... |
2018/04/26 | 2,466 | 9,504 | <issue_start>username_0: The title of my question exaggerates a bit to stress its point, but it concerns a class of questions where the OP seeks advice on basic human communication with a professor. I have seen many many question on academia.SE where the OP has some basic inquiry to make and is seeking advice about how... |
2018/04/27 | 562 | 2,177 | <issue_start>username_0: I haven't found a subreddit with dense source of data on Indian academia (career, education, research education questions) in reddit or in other sites. Sites related to academy (like <https://academia.stackexchange.com/>, i.e. this one) seem to be more general, and non-local. This new subreddit... |
2018/04/29 | 1,994 | 8,579 | <issue_start>username_0: In light of the recent [Stack Overflow post](https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/04/26/stack-overflow-isnt-very-welcoming-its-time-for-that-to-change/?cb=1) on being more welcoming to newcomers, I believe it is worthwhile for us to explore what we can do to help new visitors ease into the site.
W... |
2018/05/01 | 1,069 | 3,581 | <issue_start>username_0: There was recently a [deleted answer](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/108950/19607) to a [question of mine](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/95176/19607) based on a blog post I read, to which I also attached a bounty. The answer in question is just a verbatim copy-paste from the blog p... |
2018/05/03 | 3,857 | 13,169 | <issue_start>username_0: There was a [recent SE blog post](https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/04/26/stack-overflow-isnt-very-welcoming-its-time-for-that-to-change/) about promoting diversity and niceness at SE, and an associated [SE Meta question](https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/309645/287826).
Food for thought for us a... |
2018/05/13 | 1,450 | 6,221 | <issue_start>username_0: I noticed that [this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/109343/slept-through-final-professor-is-giving-me-a-zero-and-failing-me-is-there-any) question was marked as a "controversial post." The text says:
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> Controversial Post — You may use comments ONLY to suggest improvements. Yo... |
2018/05/15 | 3,696 | 14,783 | <issue_start>username_0: The question [What was offensive about the "ladies lingerie department" joke, and how can I avoid offending people in a similar way?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/109789/7734) has caused a lot of controversy in comments and answers, in particular with respect to whether it shall be open... |
2018/05/16 | 259 | 1,037 | <issue_start>username_0: For some reasons I need to know about the level of research conducted in a certain university (**not because I want to study there**: I got my Ph.D. years ago). Specifically, I'm interested in a certain department. I did some due diligence, such as looking at the Google Scholar profile of one o... |