Questions tagged [faq]
These questions are the most frequently asked and answered questions on Meta.
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How do I ask a good homework question?
I'm doing some computer science homework and I need help. How should I ask my question here?
The existing discussions about homework tend to center around how to answer them and how to moderate them. ...
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Latex best practices
I inserted Latex in 15 questions from other users and I'm being called attention for two of them.
Then I ask:
What are the best practices for Latex Edit?
When can I use?
And when I can not use?
Any ...
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A guide to moderating Computer Science Stack Exchange yourself — editing
Editing posts is a basic feature of Stack Exchange: everybody can edit everything (edits may be audited if you have low reputation). Since our site lives and dies with the amount and ratio of useful, ...
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How to handle spam
What is spam?
I saw a spam post, what should I do?
I saw a spam edit, what should I do?
How can I help fight spam most effectively?
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Reference: templates for common comments
The purpose of this post is to aggregate several templates for comments useful for the daily moderating of the CS site, e.g., informing the user (usually, new user) when their question is off-topic / ...
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Reference answers to frequently asked questions
Why am I here?
If you were sent here, somebody thought that you posted your question too early, that is you don't know facts and/or techniques one would learn in undergraduate courses. This is not ...
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A guide to moderating Computer Science Stack Exchange yourself — close voting
We've had complaints in the past that too many questions were closed by moderators. And as the site grows, we have more questions in need of closing. We have a growing number of users who can cast ...
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Homework policy
The accepted answer on this question is our homework policy, adopted by a community poll.
The poll rules and outcome are retained below for historical purposes.
Rules
Below, you will find three ...
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Short reference for LaTeX/MathJax commands
Some users are not familiar with the LaTeX notations, which is perfectly fine, but it would be better if we could have an FAQ/help page that explains the basic commands, in a similar way to the ...