Unanswered Questions
223 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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2017 Moderator Election - We need more candidates!
In about 6 hours, the nomination phase of the moderator elections is scheduled to end. However, in order for the election to proceed, it is necessary to have at least one more candidate running than ...
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How can we encourage askers to provide context?
When browsing unanswered questions, I very frequently find myself wanting to request the user who's asking a question to provide more context. Specifically, I often want to ask some form of "What are ...
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Introducing CrossValidated.SE Pizza Ambassadors Program: calling students and teachers
StackExchange is looking for students and teachers who might be interested in helping us kick off/formalize a pizza ambassador-type program. CrossValidated.StackExchange would like to sponsor ...
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Request for information on top users --- name, profession, institution, title
SE users,
Request for information on top users --- name, profession, institution, title
I am currently writing an academic paper on statistics education using CV.SE, which is expected to be published ...
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Some tags need better names
I think that some tags need better names, and want to start out, but will ask here first about opinions and ideas.
Distribution tags should have names ending in -distribution (there might be ...
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My question (on R/C/C++ libraries for a specific task) wrongfully put as off-topic
My question Libraries for Siamese networks put on hold as off-topic because, as gung claims, "questions asking for software, libraries, or code are off topic here".
There is no sentence "questions ...
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What should we do with HW questions where the person says "I have no idea how to start"?
Our guidelines for homework question say to use the self-study tag and tell what you've tried. But what about when a person says, "I have no idea where to start?"
Should such questions be closed? ...
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How to encourage people to upvote new answers to old questions?
I have the impression that many new answers to old questions often do not get the number of upvotes they deserve. What can we do so that these answers are also upvoted?
"Old question" in this ...
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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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2023: a year in moderation
Itβs that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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Is it possible to access the review queue from the mobile app?
I made a New Year's resolution of making more reviews π as a way of giving back to the community. As per object, is it possible to make reviews from the mobile app? I haven't been able to access the ...
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Customize criteria for automatic population to review queue?
I think we could dramatically improve the review queue process if we could auto-populate the queue with questions that are suspect for more refined reasons than currently exist. In the same vein as to ...
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How not to miss interesting answers?
By now there are so many new questions on Cross Validated that "active" topics disappear from the front page in around 8 hours. This is fast. This means that if I check the website once per day, I ...
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Flagging very old questions
I have today been flagging some very old questions that are very low quality. The reason I'm doing this is because they still show up in the "unanswered" section of the site, but they are very ...