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The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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What is the purpose of downvotes on questions?
To emphasize, this question is about downvotes on questions, not answers. Downvotes are great, e.g., for answers that are coherent and well-written, but are factually wrong. The utility of downvotes …
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Is [site-cleanup] (Meta tag) worth having?
In this Meta question I went ahead and applied the new Meta site-cleanup. Is this a good Meta tag to have?
It seems like it would be a useful category to be able to search over. In particular, I'm aw …
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This is a TEST QUESTION, examining MathJax scopes
\require{begingroup}
\begingroup
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\require{begingroup}
\begingroup
\text{begingroup Jax}
\def\ce#1{\Huge\color{\purple}{\mathrm{I~love~chemistry!}}}
$
This is the body of the test question. There …
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Should we be more worried about [corrosion]?
Just came across this question on the main page, and noticed that we haven't specifically been paying attention to corrosion on the site.
I'm concerned that we may be overlooking a major maintenance …
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Should we try to tune the level of detail in answers to the level of knowledge of the questi...
Somewhat related to this meta question, discussing the proper mix of high-level and common-knowledge level content on a technical SE site, I'm wondering about how we might best go about answering ques …
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Should I have accepted a trivial add-homework-tag edit on this old question?
I just rejected a suggested edit on this question, where someone had proposed adding homework but making no other changes. Since the question was two and a half years old, I rejected the edit with th …
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Did someone (a mod, I guess?) delete one of my comments for no apparent reason?
At one point, I had posted two comments on this answer. As of this meta question, one of those comments, the later one, is now gone.
What happened here? The comment was (I thought) a germane and inno …
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Should we develop nomenclature to indicate the level of sophistication on which we're answer...
In thinking about Ben Norris's answer to this question, asking about whether answers should contain a level of detail appropriate for the estimated knowledge of the asker, a subsequent question came t …
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What to do about rudimentary questions?
Invite the questioner to chat, to allow for more free-form explanation & discussion?
If vote to close, what reason should be used? …
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Canonical Q&A – Proposing A Patronage System
The below is a draft proposal of a patronage concept for encouraging authorship of canonical Q&A posts. Comments on it are welcomed as non-RFCP answers.
We get a lot of questions on Chem.SE that are …
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American vs British spelling: Is there a standard? Should there be?
The only mention of this that turned up in a quick search was a passing mention three years ago. I've just encountered a pending edit on this question where the editor tidied up the question with Math …
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The Homework Close Reason: Another example of over-zealous closure, and a proposal to scale ...
There's been a lot of discussion about what to do about HWVTC, with little action actually resulting. …
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What are some basic guidelines for good edits on Chem.SE?
I came across a post on the main site just now that I think could use some changes. I found the editing help page in the Help Center, but its write-up is pretty cursory and high-level.
What makes fo …
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Perhaps let's eliminate [classification]?
classification has 14 questions right now, most of which would either fit neatly under terminology or could just have classification stripped off.
Of the 14, two actually do deal with classification …
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