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veiled racist question?

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“we tried to fix it”

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Community Promotion Ads - 2015 [duplicate]

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Should answers-as-comments be flagged? [duplicate]

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History of punctuation with adverb clauses

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Can't search for a question about “that” and “which”

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Removal of both the [grammar] tag and its mention in the ELU tour and help center pages

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Warn people of the rules for [Single-Word-Requests] before posting

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Community Promotion Ads — 2019

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New theme: Color of visited links

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Website to see frequency of use of words together

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Do we want to cultivate sixth graders or cut them off?

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Why do we allow a question to be marked duplicate when the “duplicate question” is much wider in scope than the original?

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Where is the limit for posting filth in the name of creativity?

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Why is my question on the usage of and/or not about English language and usage

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answered Jan 30 at 18:38 Mari-Lou A 62.6k

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Why can I edit someone else's post?

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Should we allow Google NGrams to be presented as statistical evidence without qualification? Should we define a set of standards for their usage?

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How can I rekindle interest in an old question?

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answered Jan 22 at 18:37 Christophe Strobbe 1,836

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Can we delete and re-post unanswered questions?

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Is it possible to have closevote limits increased for EL&U?

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Tips for finding interesting questions?

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Show the tour’s summary on the left menu

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What good reference works on English are available?

support faq on-topic-off-topic general-reference resources

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Can we do anything about abandoned “on hold” questions?

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Has traffic on ELU decreased recently?

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We cannot ask questions about parallelism?

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How does this website earn money?

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modified Jan 14 at 7:45 Laurel 32.9k

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Naming vs. Single word requests

support on-topic-off-topic single-word-requests

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Annoying tag description popup

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How to see the most recent questions?

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modified Jan 12 at 0:01 Community♦ 1

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Fix [correlative-comparitives]

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Can we get a bit stricter on SWR combo and antonym requests?

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How to compare frequencies of words over time between British and American English on the same graph

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modified Jan 10 at 3:27 Mitch 52.1k

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What about an “etymological section” on ELU?

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answered Jan 9 at 13:42 Lawrence 31.3k

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English Dictionary in one text file

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Are “poor questions based on flawed assumptions” acceptable on this site?

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Has anyone thought about changing the name of this site?

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On Answering Word Requests

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Election candidate statistics overlap candidate's user card, plus sprite CSS problem

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Why were the past flaggable questions not flagged in EL&U?

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modified Jan 4 at 9:18 Ahmed 3,652

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2018: a year in moderation

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modified Jan 1 at 20:27 Glorfindel 8,185

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Should “What Does Mansplaining Mean?” be reopened or migrated? (Reopened)

discussion closed-questions migration vote-to-reopen

modified Dec 29 '18 at 15:30 Tonepoet 3,642

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Community Promotion Ads - 2016

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modified Dec 28 '18 at 23:51 Glorfindel 8,185

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Help center links to a “closed as off topic” question

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modified Dec 28 '18 at 23:51 Glorfindel 8,185

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Where did the help pages go?

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Background of long OP username looks ugly in comments

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Possible database problems!

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modified Dec 26 '18 at 20:34 Glorfindel 8,185

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