Questions tagged [best-practices]
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Why don't we require proper citation, particularly of textbooks?
Anyone else miffed that these posters didn't automatically cite their books formally? similar question. How to combine linear and quadratic inequalities? Unclear step in a math book for entertainment
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Is it okay to ask for tutoring in a chatroom?
There is a particular user who has helped a lot of a niche area of questions on this website. I am preparing for a competitive exam in a couple of months and I do have some more questions which may ...
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Suggestion for dealing with a comment if it contain the Answer to the question (w/o other answers)
Suggestion for dealing with a comment if it contain the Answer to the question (w/o other answers) If I try to flag a comment there are the following alternatives: harassment / unfriendly / obsolete / ...
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Prompt OP to answer their own question?
Sometimes I find questions (e.g. this one) where after some back-and-forth in the comments OP answers their own question and appends their final answer to their question. In the interest of minimizing ...
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Is the "hint" approach creating a perverse incentive?
Recently, there has been a crack down on enforcing quality standards for both people asking questions and those answering them. The idea (I think) has been to reduce the rather significant influx of ...
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How do I find the right questions to answer?
I'm not sure if this is on-topic for meta; I apologize if it isn't, but I think it's OK because it's somewhat the opposite of this. My question is about how I can improve as a contributor, not about ...
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Should I feel upset because I have accepted few answers over the years? [duplicate]
First off, I want to make clear that I have read this question beforehand thus to avoid duplicating the question. I changed it in such a way that it describes best my current feeling about this ...
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Why Coloured parts of questions are removed?
Out of curiosity, after I learnt the use of mathjax if I thought necessary (obviously may be not for others) I use the $\color{red}{colour }$ code to mark any point of my question, but some users ...
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If I ask a question and it gets a lot of down votes, should I delete it or leave it up?
If I have 3 downvotes on a post should I delete it or should I edit it? What should I do?
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I'm reviewing many first posts by leaving a comment. Is it OK?
Well, as the title says, I'm reviewing some first questions with a comment saying basically ''improve your question by adding details (effort, context, etc.)'' and I'm a bit worried. In one hand, I ...
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Where to post for feedback
I had difficulty finding a single, concise treatment online of the construction of numbers from the naturals through the reals. I have collected my notes in a document (<1,200 words) and before I ...
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Should I award a bounty early if there is a satisfactory answer?
Recently I asked this question. It originally received very little attention (and only one cryptic-to-me answer in a comment), so I placed a bounty on it. It now has an answer which I like; hence I ...
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Do we have a "How to write a good answer" post? If not, can we have one?
Today I suggested to a new user that the style of his answer was not very appropriate for MSE. In searching for links of suggestions on how to write a good answer, I did not find an authoritative ...
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Should we discourage bounties that encourage "clever" but unclear answers?
According to its comment (which may be a joke, but I assume not), this answer was posted in response to a bounty offered to the best answer that does not contain the letter "e". I think that these ...
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