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Voting down answers because you don't like the question

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Do we need/want an overarching books question?

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answered Jul 13 at 14:41 David 19.6k

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Why is this question on blood supply in tendon downvoted?

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answered Jul 6 at 1:32 Bryan KrauseMod 30.1k

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Withdraw or edit an upvoted and accepted answer?

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modified Jun 23 at 7:12 AliceDMod 50.2k

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Are palaeontology/palaeobiology questions allowed?

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How to tag questions about animals or other living things surviving being frozen for a long time? Is a new tag needed or just adjust cryonics tag?

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Tag bug: Replication

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Community Promotion Ads — 2020 [duplicate]

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Is it possible to see the comments of a deleted answer?

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Is “Not applicable and here's why” valid as an answer?

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answered May 15 at 14:40 Bryan KrauseMod 30.1k

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Why did a downvote ended up on my question?

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

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Earth Day 2021: thinking about our planet, biology, and sustainability

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Problematic criteria related to “homework questions”

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Where is a question on Radiobiology and Dosimetry going to best be answered?

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More about closed/deleted questions and how to improve them

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This website is incredibly unfriendly to interdisciplinary discourse

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Is there a clash between numerical citations and automatic image numbering?

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Why was my recent question downvoted?

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Should this question be moved?

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How come my question is opinion based and this question is on topic?

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Where there are so many downvotes on this question?

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Is there any way I can improve my question and get the answer?

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Would this site welcome an influx of technical synthetic biology Q&A?

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What's wrong with this question that was edited to include research?

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High number of closed questions

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Is this not considered evidence of effort?

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Why was my question downvoted?

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modified Jan 22 at 18:34 theforestecologistMod 23.9k

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2020: a year in moderation

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Are questions getting deleted too easily?

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answered Jan 13 at 23:17 Bryan KrauseMod 30.1k

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Where should I ask questions related to biology but need explanation in chemistry also?

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Drive for the use of correct English on Biology SE

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No answer on my SE question, posted it somewhere else, got an answer there: what should I do?

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Downvoting and recommending closure

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Why are questions about whether research without direct experience is scientific or not subjective?

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Are questions about language interpretation on-topic?

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What to do about polarizing questions?

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modified Dec 7 '20 at 9:25 Roger Vadim 2,319

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Question get closed (with misunderstanding)

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Why was my post flagged as spam by a bot?

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answered Nov 19 '20 at 22:10 ChrisMod 47.8k

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How are species accurately identified?

discussion species-identification

modified Nov 5 '20 at 4:18 theforestecologistMod 23.9k

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Expert opinion and answers to species identification questions. Why not?

discussion reputation primarily-opinion-based

answered Nov 3 '20 at 2:57 theforestecologistMod 23.9k

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Help developing question about fishing and the carbon cycle

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Can we do something about the one-line “interesting” questions?

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Am I blocked? I am getting am image with a fish

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answered Sep 30 '20 at 0:12 Bryan KrauseMod 30.1k

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Why am I still blocked to ask questions?

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modified Sep 14 '20 at 14:08 Deschele Schilder 898

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Why was I suspended for 30 days for “plagiarism”, when I linked to and blockquoted a Reddit comment?

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answered Sep 7 '20 at 18:43 Mad Scientist 9,040

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Should we have a unified format for references?

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answered Aug 26 '20 at 14:46 David 19.6k

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