Questions tagged [support]
This tag should be used on questions about assistance with tools and features of Biology Stack Exchange. It also includes how they work and why they work that way, or how to better use them.
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Updating statement on closed reason for no work shown
The statement for closing based on no work shown I believe shouldn't include the word homework. Not everyone posting a PSQ (problem statement question) is actually doing homework. When they read:
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Stack Exchange experimentation sandbox
This is a sandbox post for users to experiment with various Stack Exchange features. This question (and all answers) is a community wiki so that the reputation required to edit is lower.
Also, the ...
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Flagging incorrect answers
Related post
What is wrong with flagging answers that are grossly incorrect? Why should flags "not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer"?
I understand that it is ...
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Information about coronaviruses (how to ask, and external resources)
Stack Exchange Biology receives many questions about the outbreak of a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV/SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19) that has spread worldwide. This is understandable. However, ...
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Hello graduation, goodbye moderator privileges?
So a full site has privileges associated with more reputation points needed:
Users with 15 rep can flag posts.
Users with 500 rep can review posts from new users.
Users with 2,000 rep can edit any ...
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Want to know commands (codes) for following formatting tasks
Want to know commands (codes) for following formatting tasks.
Degree Centigrade.
Subscripts and superscripts like CO2, 14N , (6C13)6H12O6.
Greek letters.
a portion of text, with special characters ...
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Homework questions?
I am really against this policy of not answering homework questions. .StackE is supposed to be a community of helpers ans not those who arrogantly delete questions. While preparing for our exams we ...
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Re-tagging questions based on the answers
It often happens that a quite ill-posed question uses tags that are relevant to the question, but that the answer(s) lead(s) to the question core, which is often a different field of Biology.
Take ...
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What to do with incorrect answers?
The title looks like this question on meta How to deal with posters of consistent poor quality/incorrect answers but mine is more straightforward.
What to do with incorrect answers? Often they can be ...
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Abbreviations used in Stack Exchange
I see that many short forms of words are used in Stack Exchange such as VLQ, POB, VTC, etc. When I search for them in Google , VTC gives Vocational Training Council, Virtual Training Company, etc. VLQ ...
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Are there any guideline about species-identification questions?
In this site are there any guideline about species-identification questions? Or any instructions about how to capture some important features of the organism (plant/animal/fungus/whatever)? How much ...
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Is there a list of generic help comments?
Is there a list of generic comments available to users with higher rep to use in instances of reviewing and general site moderation?
I've seen some users re-use the same moderation comments (e.g., ...
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what to do with obsolete comments
Suppose I place an answer comment (e.g. elaborate your answer, don't provide only a link bladibla) and the person adjusts the answer and it's worth a +1. Meanwhile, my comment has been upvoted as well,...
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How to remove or substitute a tag
I am wondering if the tags should be cleaned up. I made a few several unsuccessful attempts, because I don't know how to delete or merge tags.
For example experiment is a tag with 5 hits or so, but ...
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What are non-community and community wiki answers?
I was going through the Badges and stumbled upon 'non-community wiki answers' in the Tag Badges section.
What does it mean?
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How do i fully delete my Biology Stack-exchange account?
I want to delete my account, is that possible?
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