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Such a discussion is to me an important source of information, much more helpful than mere up and down votes. … This is why comments are such an important feature of SE: discussion is an indispensable tool in the formation and communication of knowledge. …

In no way did I say that native speakers who pronounced the r had a "bad accent", which would be a silly statement anyway, in a serious discussion. …

Sometimes I might want to ask a question and present several possible answers to it. Presenting these answers as official answers has the advantage that it is easy to see the numbers of votes - as opp …

Interesting. You may not believe it, but yesterday I was thinking about asking a similar question. I wanted to ask how common it is to use the word "nigger" in certain contexts. I am a bit afraid to a …

I propose suspension. The main damage done to this website is the wrong impression a new user gets when he stumbles upon a closed question asked by this guy: he will think "huh, why do people here rea …

That's just what I was looking for! I was sure there was such a tag when I was going to browse all wikis on the website, but then it turned out there wasn't. I say we make such a tag. It would be a bi …

I see your problem. I think there are two underlying issues here. Our trust in authority. Just because, for example, the Encyclopaedia Britannica says something, we take that as a strong argument. P …

I presume you need a recording specifically because your question cannot be answered otherwise. Then you can phrase the question thus, and suggest that a recording would probably be the best (or possi …

What Andrew and Reg say. I'd like to add that a user who is unaware of our local regulations is by no means "rude". This mode of thinking is known as the Bureaucrat's Trap. His question may be undesir …

You don't need to do anything. The problem is that closing a question looks like punishment, but it is really not intended to be as aggressive as it looks: all it means is that five people on this we …

What I do is add the source, which can be lot of work to determine if many websites have copied the same text from one another, and/or add a comment "please mention your source if you quote verbatim". …

What you wanted to know is specific enough and perfectly fine on this site: whether big and huge are too colloquial in the context of that sentence. At any rate, it does not concern proofreading. How …

Minor improvements in general: yes, please! Like typos. However, the big caveat is: only change something if you feel confident that the poster would agree that it is an improvement, or if it is truly …

The answer is "an infinite number", because you can do something like this (I will explain how in these brackets (but the brackets can be repeated ad infinitum (even though it is totally unreadable))) …

This discussion could be taken to a different place, but then I'd still know nothing about the opinions on this website. Is there a solution? P.S. This is the first question I ask on this website. …