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18 questions linked to/from Can answers be off topic? - How to deal with answers that address legal issues
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What to do with answers that aren't related to interpersonal skills?
There are fourteen answers on this question: How to write a note that will convince an unknown person to not urinate next to my garage door?
The "Question" part of the question states:
If we were ...
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Should we be more strict about one-line answers?
There have been a lot of one or two line answers (very brief) on the main site. Most of them, almost all of them IMO, only suggest one or two things to do and never explain why they would work. Though,...
A JMod
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What to do with questions about "getting around" peoples' boundaries / autonomy
Sparked by this question:
https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com/questions/1537/how-can-i-tactfully-ask-if-someone-is-expecting-or-not
Since it's a well known faux pas to ask, I'd like to find a ...
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Questions about how to respond to illegal activity
These questions don't seem like they are a good fit for the site, as the only valid answer is to call the authorities. There are no interpersonal skills involved in that.
Should they be closed as ...
user2921
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Unpinning accepted answers, or not?
There's been a change on Stack Overflow: Accepted answers are no longer pinned to the top of the list of answers. They ran a test on Stack Overflow, and the results of that are mentioned in this post. ...
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"Just the facts, ma'am." OR Reining in answers
Should we hold answers to just the question asked?
We have many questions here that we endeavor to limit so that the question isn't overly broad. We encourage users to address where they are in the ...
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Why was my answer deleted last night?
Why was my answer to this question deleted?
How do I effectively get people to look past my age when considering my abilities, if they know how old I am?
My answer is below, for reference. I ...
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When should one recommend deletion for a Low Quality Post in the queue?
When I first got enough reputation to review the queue, I had no idea how to use my new "powers". I had the hardest time understanding when I should "Recommend Deletion" for the &...
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Are We Striking a Good Balance Between Accomodating Askers and Accomodating Answerers?
We've had a few meta posts asking about how we treat questions and the users who ask them here, and those are good and valuable. But I feel that we might have an imbalance with our concern for those ...
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When is an answer 'not an answer'?
The 'Not an Answer' Flag has the text
This was posted as an answer, but it does not attempt to answer the question. It should possibly be an edit, a comment, another question, or deleted ...
user9837
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What do we delete, and what not?
I had an interesting chat with @Catija yesterday. She stated:
This is something I've argued with the Cooking mods for over a year. If an answer has even a whiff of an actual answer, they decline ...
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What counts as an "Interpersonal Solution?"
I can't seem to find a solid definition of an "Interpersonal Solution" anywhere on the site (if I'm wrong, please drop a comment!).
I've seen complaints that we delete everything except answers ...
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Should we re-tag closed questions?
You may have noticed that I tend to re-tag a lot lately. However, I only re-tag questions that aren't closed.
But now I'm wondering, should I also re-tag closed questions? Is this useful? If it's ...
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Some questions, many answers, seem to be off topic; how can we keep the site focused?
A good percentage of the answers on this site seem to be off topic.
Very often, the answers analyze the situation instead of providing useful advice on how to deal with the people involved.
What I ...
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How can we treat equally two answers giving the same advice when one was flagged as LQP?
I just ran through this answer in the review queue. It was flagged as Low Quality.
It gives this advice: "Shopping in LGBT-friendly stores [...] has the added benefit of potentially catering directly ...
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