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Species Identification tag warning proposal
Ok, I've read people's comments and made what I thought were necessary updates:
The text was likely too long. As a result, I copied the detailed version from my original question post above to the ...
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Permanent Off-Topic criterion: Questions based on religious/mythical stories and intelligent design
No. As I have already said here, in my opinion, such questions should be welcome here as long as they are good questions by the standards of SE. In my experience, such questions fall into two broad ...
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15
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Redesigning Biology Stack Exchange (extended)
Species ID question template
Problem:
Being especially focused on species ID questions here, I notice I spend a lot of my time asking for addition/ clarification of specimen details (e.g., better ...
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This website is incredibly unfriendly to interdisciplinary discourse
My overall experience has been unfriendly and negative. Lots of negative reinforcement, no positive reinforcement.
It looks like you have seven active answers and one question. These all have a net ...
Bryan KrauseMod
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Redesigning Biology Stack Exchange (extended)
Ability to search Species ID posts using pictures
Problem:
Most people coming to Bio.SE to have their unknown specimen identified have two options: either browse through dozens (or hundreds) of old ...
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10
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Redesigning Biology Stack Exchange (extended)
Make it clear that basic and trivial questions are off-topic
It seems obvious that if this site has any pretensions to quality, basic and trivial questions should be pulled. When I gained enough ...
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9
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Redesigning Biology Stack Exchange (extended)
Little bit improvement in fonts
At-present the font being used for output / executed forms, creates some confusions places to places; such as the small-letter-L (EL) (l) and capital-letter-i (Aye) (...
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Change homework policy to disallow Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
As answers are supposed to be well researched and citing sources, a bad multiple choice question might still prompt an interesting, well structured answer explaining not only which is the right choice ...
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Functionality Request: Community Voting for Answers: Citations Need Banner
I think the current banner is too ineffectual, and should
i) Be more strongly worded
ii) Answers with the banner should be faded out (the same as highly downvoted answers) to highlight to other ...
- 16k
6
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Redesigning Biology Stack Exchange (extended)
Some more button for the Visual editor tool-bar
(for improved visual editor support for the formatting task).
In a list form; some features that are important, so requires visual support. (Also the ...
5
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Redesigning Biology Stack Exchange (extended)
Greeting Bot
How about having a bot that greets new users and provides them all the valuable information about the site in a short summary so that users tend to read it and post on-topic questions ...
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Redesigning Biology Stack Exchange (extended)
Improve Migration options
This suggestion relates to those with sufficient reputation to vote to close, who see a ‘close’ link under a question. On clicking the ‘close’ link one gets a set of ...
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5
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Are there search tools for answers?
That is an easy one!
Under Activity on your profile, click on the tags menu:
Then from there click on any one of the tags you are interested in and it will show you only your posts related to that ...
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May be time for a flag to Cognitive Sciences SE
We should have a consensus here. I do not think flagging every neuroscience related question cogsi.se is a great idea. There are specific areas that that suit cogsci.se better. I think we can migrate ...
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5
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Can we see the predominance of certain tags along time?
To query tag popularity or any other public data you can use StackExchange Data Explorer.
Here is one query, as an example, that can show you the popularity of current top tags over time:
Top tags ...
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tag proposal: "c.elegans" or "caenorhabditis elegans"
I am in general not a fan of tags for particular model organisms.
From my perspective, the point of model organisms is that they are models - the relevant tags are to the biology being studied. ...
Bryan KrauseMod
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Communication with moderators over posts needing citations
Nice update on the post! The banner is removed. Next time, you can simply flag your question for mod attention.
AliceDMod
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How do I find Biology.SE's vital statistics?
You can find some basic statistics about all sites on http://stackexchange.com/sites
If you have at least 25k reputation or are a mod, you can see detailed site statistics at https://biology....
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4
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Any way to embed sounds?
There is no such feature. You can upload the file somewhere and share the link.
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Communication with moderators over posts needing citations
I agree with the other answers, but let me expand a bit for future users:
Simply flag the post (selecting "in need of moderator intervention") and request that a moderator look at it to consider ...
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3
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Redesigning Biology Stack Exchange (extended)
Making comment mandatory with Downvote
Many a times people just go on and give a downvote to a question or answer, with absolutely no intention of giving a reason for it. Although SO already gives a ...
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3
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Redesigning Biology Stack Exchange (extended)
Improve support for subscripts, superscripts and special characters
This is a major annoyance which, in my opinion should have high priority in our wish list.
There are three aspects to this:
In ...
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3
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Redesigning Biology Stack Exchange (extended)
Want a countdown clock for comment-editing and chat editing.
While comment-editing we get an indication about how many character-spaces remaining; but not the time. Though times in minutes passed ...
- 2,659
3
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Impossible to flag question for migration to Cross Validated
General answer on flagging for off-topic
The off topic reasons are limited to Chemistry. Perhaps because of a long gone meta post or something, who knows. One way or another, if you wish to close vote ...
AliceDMod
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Feature suggestion: queued homework answers
In my opinion, these questions (poorly researched one-liner questions that nevertheless explore an interesting issue) are sufficiently rare that normal channels for improvement can be used to tackle ...
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Why are opinion based questions not allowed?
Opinion based posts are those that cannot be rationalized with either logic or references. We cannot have vague discussions; it is impossible to contain them. If a topic is precise then it should have ...
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3
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Redesigning Biology Stack Exchange (extended)
Make the Question/Answer Preview Editable
It often happens that I (or anybody) write long answer and put some MathJax (or image or something) at the end. Then I have to scroll down and check whether ...
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3
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Can more options be added for flagging for migration?
Normal users can only vote to migrate to sites which have graduated, but moderators can.
Out of your examples, all the sites are in Beta except Chemistry.SE, so I think it could be added but there ...
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Communication with moderators over posts needing citations
Unfortunately there is no way to to see any changes automatically when this flag has been used. It is used regulary, so it simply happens that the removal is forgotten. I also don't have a look at ...
ChrisMod
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3
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Can we have the option to recommend moving a post to se.bioinformatics?
You can raise a custom flag (flag for moderator attention).
Migration paths aren't allowed with beta sites and really haven't had much attention in a long time across all of SE, as far as I know.
...
Bryan KrauseMod
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