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34 questions linked to/from Reference: templates for common comments
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Standard replies to common issues (and macros for them) [duplicate]
Do we have a list of standard replies to common issues? E.g. what to reply when no attempt is shown, when the question is in an image, etc. D.W. seems to be already using their own list, but I think ...
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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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The return of the homework question
It has become a ritual: three times a semester (around 2nd week, midterms and finals) there is a flow of simple, homework-like questions (mostly in the field of automata theory; US education system is ...
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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 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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Towards a policy for hint-only answers
This question is getting old, but the matter is still unresolved. Please contribute by voting on the answers here, or by voicing your opinion if you have something to add to the existing answers!
Our ...
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What to do when the answer is already part of the question
We have recently had this question and this one.
Both questions practically contain an answer within the question and ask "is this correct".
Assuming the answer they give is correct (like in the ...
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What about list questions?
I know we have some very useful ones on cstheory.SE and I have seen some amusing ones on Stackoverflow. On other sites such as scifi.SE they seem to be banned.
What is our stand?
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Should we close as many questions on algorithm analysis as duplicates as we do?
It seems that questions on analysis of particular algorithms are deemed superfluous in the view of the community. Although many of them are probably routine, some are not, and the reference function ...
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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 ...
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How to deal with questions about crank-heavy topics?
It was bound to happen and thankfully, it did now rather than later: we received the first question about a claim regarding P?=NP.
Some topics, in particular this, attract lots of public attention ...
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New close reasons: unclear, too broad, opinion-based, and custom sub-reasons off-topic
There will be changes in close reasons in the next few days:
“not constructive” and “not a real question” are replaced by
“unclear what you're asking”
“too broad”
“primarily opinion-based”
“off-...
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Should we do anything about questions that are just a scan of a problem in their textbook?
I have seen an increasing number of questions where the author takes a scan/screenshot of part of their textbook and includes this image in their question. Typically, the image contains some exercise ...
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Why can actual code not be pseudo-code
In my answer to the question Determine missing number in data stream I have a comment which indicates C++ is not a valid form of pseudo-code. Lacking a formal definition of what pseudo-code actually ...
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Code vs pseudo-code
What will the policy on providing code be?
In my question it was commented that it might not be on topic as it seemes like I was asking for working code. I wrote my algorithm in pseudo-code because ...
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