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Should a question about human gene restoration be cut into several questions?

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Recent rejected edits - request for clarification

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2019: a year in moderation

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Why require at least 6 characters when improving answer?

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“support” tag on meta

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When a user knows several different answers to one question

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Do we want to experiment with changing the close/reopen vote threshold?

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Proposal for rephrasing the “homework” off-topic explanation

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Ethical considerations on use and abuse of animals

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User comments on my username, starting off-topic discussion - flag declined

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Why is my post labelled “Homework”?

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Why can't I (and never could) add a bounty to my question?

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Why has my reputation increased?

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Does a question about vehicle catalytic converters environmental effect fit?

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What are we currently doing with old highly upvoted but kind of bad questions?

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Are questions about creationism or intelligent design on-topic here?

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Are Fermi questions welcome?

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Spirit behind the term “biological concept” in the Help Center

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Are users allowed to edit questions to better suit the answer they can provide?

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Why was the question “Is the morphology of the insertion of the gluteus minimus acquired or innate […]” closed as unclear?

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Where can I ask about the behavior of a snake?

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Asking a Microtaxonomy question

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In the Biology SE I have posted a question on may 31,2019.After some days it got deleted by community◆mod(system).Please,can you undelete it?

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Would this be a good community for SBOL Q&A?

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Should I simplify answers for people who are not biologists?

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What are some good, informative comments I can leave for new users?

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Retrieving answers from deleted questions

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Migration back?

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Should there be a writing tag or similar?

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What is our stance on edits that only add one or several tags?

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Should we close questions that do not provide evidence of prior research?

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Finding a deleted question without enough rep

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I see the Biosphere has frozen

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Tidying up questions in a particular subject area

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Synonyme tags `sterilization`/`sterilisation`

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Asking Homework like questions

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cross-post question is deleted. why not to close instead?

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Is it bad to mention if a specific article is open access or paywalled?

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answered Apr 9 '19 at 16:21 David 15k

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Who is mucking about with the appearance of this site and why?

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Small style and grammar edits to (still) poor questions

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Do we have a beauty troll?

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answered Mar 26 '19 at 7:29 AliceD♦ 47.1k

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Spam questions that aren't promotional

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modified Mar 22 '19 at 17:57 De Novo 8,312

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Should this question about the proportion of biologists who believe x be re-opened?

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answered Mar 13 '19 at 17:01 David 15k

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New moderators, please be more reserved with your close hammer

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Can more options be added for flagging for migration? [duplicate]

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Please (no longer) downvote this post

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