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20 questions linked to/from How best to leave comments on questions and answers in the review queue?
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Create template comments/answers [duplicate]
Expecially when reviewing First Posts or answers which are flagged as Low Quality because they are too short, I need to rewrite more or less exactly the same comment every time. Hi, welcome, read the ...
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Top $k$ List of Reasons to Close a Question Immediately
This is intended to be a "humorous and friendly thread on how to ask a horrible question" (amoeba) which can help new users understand how to write good questions.
We hope you will ...
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We have a very large & widening gap between questions and answers. How do we fix it?
Cross-validated is a question-and-answer site. I think it's worthwhile to ask "How well does this website serve people who ask (on-topic, answerable) questions?"
To answer this question in a ...
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2017 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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Are we closing questions too fast?
It seems to me that we have been closing more and more questions, and that we are moving them into the close votes review queue very quickly. This seems to have evolved naturally, but I wonder if we ...
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"Help I have some data and need to analyse it what do I dooo?"
I have been on this stackexchange long enough now to see there is quite a lot of questions along the lines of:
Help, I'm a data science intern/amateur statistician and I've been given a load of ...
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Instructions on how to use LaTeX on CrossValidated
Questions formatted in LaTeX are easier to read, but not everyone who has permission to review a question/answer knows how to do it.
Are there any instructions on CV about how to use LaTex?
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Should I add the self-study tag to a question that is copy-pasted from a book?
This question was asked earlier today https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/239640/simulation-problem-in-r#comment455733_239640.
The text is copy-pasted from an Exercise from Introduction to ...
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How can we encourage new users to edit their closed posts?
New or inexperienced users are sometimes faced with their question (or answer) being closed without any detailed feedback, or even without any comments on their post.
While this is definitely the way ...
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My upvoting policy
Some time ago I decided to employ a policy for upvoting the questions:
When I answer the question, it means that it was worth answering, so I automatically upvote it. There are some minor exceptions ...
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FAQ: Best Practices for Searching CV
Over the course of almost nine years, we have amassed a body of good answers to many clearly stated questions: one of our site's principal goals. To be useful, though, these answers have to be ...
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Should new users be allowed to provide questions similar to others?
Recently on CrossValidated I have found that new members may not have studied all the rules prior to asking their first question. I find that moderators and other users will quickly vote to close ...
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Answering a question other than the one that is asked
There are a few topics on this site (unbalanced data, up-weighting, accuracy, F1 score, precision/recall etc) that whenever a user asks a question regarding one of these methods/metrics, a few high ...
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How specifically should we "provide hints" to self-study questions?
We get quite a number of self-study questions, and one common comment says that
We'll provide hints to help you get unstuck.
So... how specifically should we provide these hints? Should we write ...
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Why do time series questions get such a low response rate?
I know the response rate on this site is lower than most SE sites, but even taking that into account, the response rate to time series and forecasting related posts seems abysmal. Is there are reason ...
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