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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Do we need the tag graph-algorithms? [duplicate]
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How should the tag [graph-algorithms] be used?
Do we really need the graph-algorithms tag? Isn't ds.algortihms and graph-theory sufficient?
Note:
Currently there are ...
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Is a question about research level practices appropriated to this community?
this is my first post here (at this community, although I know Kaveh from CS).
Since this is related to CS and Research I would be very much interested as an undergraduate and researcher assistant to ...
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Migrating to cs.SE as a “flag” option
Currently non-moderators can flag off-topic posts and suggest that it either belongs in meta or on stackoverflow. It seems that cs.SE is a target that makes at least as much sense as stackoverflow for ...
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Migrating to cs.SE
We have a few questions where it seemed like cs.SE might be their natural home. For example,
Learning Automated Theorem Proving (just migrated)
Is there some other way to describe a formal language ...
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When should I really flag or vote down?
Sorry if this has already been asked, I could not find an appropriate answer and I want to make sure that I understand these features.
Question: what's the most correct way to use flags and ...
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Computer Science Stack Exchange
Update:
The Computer Science - Stack Exchange has entered public beta.
The Computer Science proposal is almost there and only needs 12 more commitments. You should commit soon if you are ...
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Flags with more colors?
Related question.
When you flag a question as "it does not belong to this site", you end-up in the following menu.
The question is, could it be useful to include some more choices in this menu ...
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Unanswered Question Statistics
Do the moderators have monthly (or, daily, yearly) statistics for the number of new questions on TCS, and what fraction of questions remain with 0 answers?
Every time I visit TCS I get a weird ...
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Request For Comment: the scope of Computational Sciences proposal
While checking computational science meta today, I noticed that my perception about the proposal/site might not be true. mbq, the original person behind the proposal is not that much involved anymore ...
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Do we need both the [career] and [employment] tags?
We seem to have two tags career and employment about career advice in TCS. Currently, career has 21 questions, and employment has 3 questions where each one has also been tagged as career.
Do we need ...
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Project topic questions and tag
There is a recent posts about project topic that has already generated 3 answers:
Advantages and specific applications of massively parallel programming thesis idea
I thought this was against our ...
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arXiv trackbacks
I just noticed that TP.SE now gets arXiv trackbacks.
Should we also ask for it? What do you think?
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Consolidating answers? What's the best practice?
On this question I posted an answer, which points to a survey paper which could answer his question, but I didn't have the time or expertise to fully answer the question myself. Later, another user ...
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The trouble-with-paper tag
I think trouble-with-paper is not a useful tag. I suggest that we remove it (by merging with tag-removed).
update:
Tags for non soft questions are mainly used for subject classification and for ...
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Cstheory meetup at SODA?
Anyone going to Kyoto next week? How about a Cstheory meetup there? I'll be there for the 3 days of SODA, not analco/anelex. I happen to live near Kyoto, in Nara. So I know the place a little bit. We ...
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Moving relevant but possibly-below-level questions to chat ?
A main source of reasonable closed questions that we have are questions that are just below research-level: maybe they're really advanced undergraduate questions, or intro grad-level questions that ...
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Simple questions during reading papers
Currently I'm reading some few papers, sometimes I think something is wrong or I can't understand it, So I'll ask it in CSTheory, but simple comment helps me to find out my problem, after that I'll ...
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On conventions for citation, acknowledgement and authorship
Is it worth editing this question to make it less provocative and more TCS-centric ? In other words, if such edits (what kind?) were made, would the question be valuable ?
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Community Promotion Ads - 2012 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Community Promotion Ads - 2013
We're hitting the start of the new year, and that means a new iteration of the Community Promotion Ads!
What in the Wide, Wide World of ...
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Promoting Theory Stack Exchange in FSTTCS conference (India)
I'm one of the organizing committee members of FSTTCS. Since CS Theory is not so popular in India, it would be a great venue to promote the site. We are expecting about 220 attendees.
I would like to ...
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Why does Kaveh seem to edit almost every question being asked here?
Are they really so bad that so very many of them need editing?
The real problem I have with this is the side-effect this has of changing the date and author on the main page - not that Kaveh seems ...
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Help us call for proposals for the SE Fellowship on your blog, site or listserv
The SE Research Support and Fellowship Program launched recently with our very own experienced and highly respected users reviewing fellowship applications.
To make the program a success, we need ...
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Deleting comments
What is the right policy on deleting one's comments ?
I made some bone-headed comments without thinking the problem through, and now out of sheer embarrassment if nothing else would like to remove ...
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Support vector machines in target motion analysis: relevant to CS theory?
We have a question on Physics, Target motion analysis (TMA), zig-zag navy maneuvers & Suport vector machines (SVM), which is off topic there, but a couple people have suggested it might fit here. ...
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Battle of the sites - cancelled
In response to the community's feedback on this contest, we've decided
to cancel it. We never intended to favor quantity over quality, but we
can see how this contest missed the mark. We ...
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Theoretical CS Birthday Celebration?
Did you know the Theoretical Computer Science SE's birthday is coming up on November 30th? Congratulations!
How about a contest or some other fun activity to stir things up a little? After a year of ...
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About my currently active bounty
I have a current bounty on this question of Noam Nisan. Unfortuantely, this question appears to be the Bermuda Triangle for Bounties, as mine is the third bounty being offered which seems likely to ...
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Upcoming journals and conferences: read 'em and ask on the Stack (and get prizes)
As the new monthly issues of your favorite journals are published and conferences approach, we want to remind you to ask those burning questions that pop into your head as you read through novel ...
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Choosing an answer amongst too many different good answers
Recently I asked this question on the main site.
In every answer I received there was something that I found interesting and bringing something to the question.
How should I answer this question, ...
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Scientific investigation is not by voting. If you want to vote down, why not answer the question? [closed]
What does voting down mean? Should I have a bad feeling when being voted down? Did I do anything wrong? Should I desire the favor of the community? This is not science. Science is not democratic. If ...
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About user Anonymous Coward
This user seems to be the same one on MO which has posted several questions on MathOverflow without following them up and the questions are left there.
Now the user has started doing the same thing ...
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Is it ok to ask such a question?
I have a question in my mind, I want convert a problem to logic order 2 representation, but I can't, Also I don't know is it good to ask it in cstheory or not? I don't know can I say it's research ...
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About some criticisms against down-votes without explanations
I am worried about the attitude of some people who claim that down-voters must always explain the reason for down-voting or who criticize the users who vote down posts without explanations. (Here is ...
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Community wiki about PhD
Lots of people come on this site asking (often) similar questions about PhD.
Shouldn't we create some sort of "Master" question which would appear as 'to read before putting PhD in your title' ...
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SE Theoretical CS Pizza Ambassador Program: Sponsored discussion groups
Stack Exchange is looking for students and teachers interested in a new pizza ambassador program. Stack Exchange would like to sponsor university students (and external academic/study groups) who are ...
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Introducing Stack Exchange Research Support and Fellowship Program
The mission of Stack Exchange is to make the internet a better place to get expert answers to your questions. The Stack Exchange Fellowship Program aims to support students conducting research in ...
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Comment templates
This post is inspired by answers to this question and a similar list on TEX.SE.
The idea is to make a bunch of templates for commonly-used comments, like comments explaining that a question is out of ...
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Your question does not meet quality standards
How does the software make this decision? I find it frustrating to try to help (I wrote a post about merging two tags) and then have my attempt blocked.
Maybe none of you have seen this message:
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“Research” Level
This question is on rewriting of the automata theory question.
I am at a loss to understand this extensive rewriting of the question to make it look "research" level. In the process a certain ...
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Aggressive closing of questions?
I've recently noticed a troubling trend of "attacking" questions that seem to be too elementary. In some cases that is translated to closing a question, and in some cases the aggressive tone of the ...
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Referring questions to crypto.SE
Consider the following two questions:
Information leaking of simulation based security
Why SHA-224 and SHA-256 use different initial values?
There's already a scope clash between crypto.SE and us, ...
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The number of questions and closed questions
After reading a post by user Gopi in the chat room, I wrote a query on Data Explorer which lists the number of questions posted in each month and the number of closed questions among them (although it ...
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Can anyone weight in on this area51 proposal on Computer Science?
Doing a bit of canvassing here, specifically this:
http://discuss.area51.stackexchange.com/questions/3021/is-computer-science-a-duplicate-of-theoretical-computer-science
Opinions would be greatly ...
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Should we provide example questions in the FAQ?
I am not sure how many of the new users read the FAQ, but for those that do a list of good questions that capture some of the best practices might help them make better questions themselves.
Do you ...
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Next steps for blog design
First, let me point out that a viewer's needs and actions are fundamentally different when viewing CSTheory and when reading the blog. Most of the questions posted on CSTheory are a few short ...
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Polyglots for theoretical research like what is usage and definition
I asked about a test for what is a polyglot i.e. valid code in many programming languages. I got the comment "compile it" and OK I understand but do you have a more serious comment or also for strange ...
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Next steps in building the blog
My point in posting this question is to talk about increasing daily/weekly views, and general TCS community presence. The quality of posts so far has been excellent, from a diverse group of people, ...
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A better tag name for soft-questions?
We have a rather clear idea about what we call a soft-question, but it seems that the name is not as expressive as we would like it to be, in particular a new user or a person just visiting the site ...
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Less visible editors?
If I edit a question, my name appears very prominently right below the question, before the name of the original poster. Especially if the editor is a regular, and the OP is a new user who has not yet ...
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The end of reference-request ? [closed]
Over at the newly minted theoreticalphysics site, Dori mentions that as part of a year-old effort to clean "meta" tags, she's going to start removing the reference-request tag.
While I don't have ...
