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13 questions linked to/from A look at question quality
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Is EL&U succeeding?
What with all of the hubbub lately, I want to focus on asking one specific question that I think is at the core of the problem/drama: Is EL&U succeeding?
This is fairly open-ended and I think ...
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Are questions about ununderstood English-language jokes on-topic?
In a song video made by an American acquaintance, there is a joke that I don't understand.
I am not a native speaker, and I guess most English speakers would understand what makes his joke funny.
Is ...
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Waning gap of acceptable questions
After a couple days of break I revisited EL&U to find about a third of questions on the main page marked [closed].
It appears anything that can be looked up in more or less obscure source (NOT ...
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Problem with faq: EL&U audience - experts only or students too?
The fine list of frequently asked questions and answers has in its opening paragraph two contradicting notions:
The English Language and Usage Stack Exchange is for linguists, etymologists, and (...
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Basic questions are not so basic
It has come up in other threads that we have a lot of "basic" or "lowest common denominator" questions. However, a few myths about this need to be put to rest.
First, we do have a general reference ...
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Who is EL&U's audience?
I previously asked if EL&U was succeeding. The responses there (mixed in with other answers, comments and chats on the subject) lead me to feel that one of the big questions our community has ...
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Is English Language & Usage highbrow?
What level of discourse are we aiming for here? What does our audience expect and desire? What are we capable of providing?
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A simple proposal towards improving question quality
Encouraging Better Questions
I would like to encourage the asking of better, more substantial questions.
Every day we receive many brief, low-quality questions that are unlikely to elicit anything ...
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Can we have some guidance as to what is on- and off- topic on this site?
This site has an FAQ. However, recently it has been made clear that the community-created definition for this site, as expressed in its FAQ, does not always determine which questions are valid and ...
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Examples of "Great subjective questions"
From EL&U Helpcenter about asking:
Some subjective questions are allowed, but “subjective” does not mean “anything goes”. All subjective questions are expected to be constructive. What does ...
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Rewriting the Question Box Sidebar
Recently, a user brought up the issue of questions that could seemingly be answered by looking in a dictionary and the responses given to those questions.
Andrew Leach posted an answer that had a ...
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Priority on Close-reason votes
I'd like to give my contribution to the effort of some users in order to solve the current situation on the English SE. I asked this same question to Waiwai933 in his "A look at question quality" as a ...
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FAQ - prescriptive or descriptive?
I understand why this may be considered to overlap with What should our FAQ contain?, but I think I'm trying to address a specific issue related to that which doesn't really fit in the original (which ...
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