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626	<p>We all love <a href="http://academia.stackexchange.com">Academia Stack Exchange</a>, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what will their first impression be? Let's try to look at this site through ...	[ { "answer_id": 627, "author": "Community", "author_id": -1, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1", "pm_score": 2, "selected": false, "text": "<p>I think we are doing very well, with a very good quantity and quality of contributions from many people from man...	2013/09/03	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/626", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/" ]
629	<p>The question would have to be very specific and answerable, but would hypothetical (and realistic) questions be permitted?</p> <p>What I mean by this is, would situations that do not necessarily happen to the person asking the question, but could happen (and may have happened) be permitted?</p>	[ { "answer_id": 630, "author": "F'x", "author_id": 2700, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/2700", "pm_score": 5, "selected": true, "text": "<p><strong>I don't see any reason why they should not be permitted, and judged by the same measure as all questions.</...	2013/09/05	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/629", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/" ]
631	<p>I rejected an edit suggestion to that post: <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/12489/49">https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/12489/49</a>. </p> <p>However, just after my click I realized that I should keep some parts of the edit, as they improve the answer (my quick reject was based on edit on a quoted ...	[ { "answer_id": 630, "author": "F'x", "author_id": 2700, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/2700", "pm_score": 5, "selected": true, "text": "<p><strong>I don't see any reason why they should not be permitted, and judged by the same measure as all questions.</...	2013/09/05	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/631", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/49/" ]
640	<p>Say, a question that is not a perfect fit for the site was posted - mostly some consider it to have some merit, some do not.</p> <p>What if said question generates some very useful answers (not just upvoted, but generate comments that indicate the usefulness). Will the question (hence, useful answers) still be del...	[ { "answer_id": 641, "author": "StrongBad", "author_id": 929, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/929", "pm_score": 2, "selected": false, "text": "<p>Ignoring duplicate questions, I believe the SE philosophy was that there are two fates for closed questions (e...	2013/09/13	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/640", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/" ]
645	<p>We have some <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms">tag synonym suggestions</a> that have not been voted on, despite being quite old. I'd like to suggest people visit the <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms">tag synonym page</a> and vote on existing suggestions:</p> <p> ...	[ { "answer_id": 646, "author": "eykanal", "author_id": 73, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/73", "pm_score": 3, "selected": false, "text": "<p>To use this question as a discussion on the proposed synonyms, the <a href=\"https://academia.stackexchange.com/qu...	2013/09/16	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/645", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/2700/" ]
647	<p>I voted to close <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/12854/in-c-programing-a-single-variable-cannot-take-a-character-to-it-continuously">this question on programming</a>, and wanted to vote to send it to StackOverflow, but noticed that I couldn't choose to do that:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack...	[ { "answer_id": 648, "author": "Oded", "author_id": 5978, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/5978", "pm_score": 2, "selected": false, "text": "<p>That question would have gotten closed on Stack Overflow.</p>\n\n<p>It is a <em>bad</em> question - OP is asking ...	2013/09/20	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/647", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/4461/" ]
652	<p>Some Stack Exchange sites, while enforcing regular policies/limits, allow for a little fun now and then, either by letting some “fun” soft big-list questions exist, or by prompting them on specific occasions (I think the site on Judaism has regular fun/soft session near Pessach, but I cannot find a specific referenc...	[ { "answer_id": 653, "author": "F'x", "author_id": 2700, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/2700", "pm_score": 3, "selected": false, "text": "<p>I wanted my question to be relatively neutral, so I'm posting here (as an answer) one argument I can think of for ...	2013/09/25	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/652", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/2700/" ]
657	<p>User <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/406/all">All</a> has been asking a lot of questions. I am starting to get the feeling that they fall under the </p> <blockquote> <p>you are asking an open-ended, hypothetical question: “What if ______ happened?”</p> </blockquote> <p>part of <a href="https:...	[ { "answer_id": 658, "author": "aeismail", "author_id": 53, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/53", "pm_score": 2, "selected": false, "text": "<p>They don't quite fall under that category—yet. However, if you start to feel that way, the solution is to downvot...	2013/09/27	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/657", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/929/" ]
666	<p>In <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/13342/is-it-a-good-practice-to-choose-my-undergraduate-research-topic-on-my-own-can-i">this</a> question, JeffE says that academic research questions are firmly on topic. However, <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/13368/what-are-the-pros-an...	[ { "answer_id": 667, "author": "aeismail", "author_id": 53, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/53", "pm_score": 3, "selected": false, "text": "<p>I think that I would not be nearly so categorical as Jeff—or perhaps I'm viewing what he perceives as \"academic ...	2013/10/15	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/666", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/2692/" ]
681	<p>This post is provided so that people can, in the answers and comments below, test formatting features of Academia Stack Exchange.</p>	[ { "answer_id": 682, "author": "F'x", "author_id": 2700, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/2700", "pm_score": 1, "selected": false, "text": "<p>Hеllo</p>\n\n<p>And this is a community wiki answer, so people can try things out.</p>\n\n<p>Test est Test</p>\n" ...	2013/10/25	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/681", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/2700/" ]
683	<p>In the post <a href="https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/q/169/4394">What does the “application” tag mean (and what should it mean)?</a> a brief exchange indicates that the <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/application" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'application&#39...	[ { "answer_id": 684, "author": "aeismail", "author_id": 53, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/53", "pm_score": 3, "selected": true, "text": "<p>A single tag should have one primary purpose. However, there are enough similarities between different kinds of ap...	2013/10/27	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/683", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/4394/" ]
686	<p>I recently added the new tag 'student-evaluation' to the question <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/13669/">Is it appropriate to include additional materials in an academic job application?</a>, but this was quickly removed. However, from what I could find, there are no tags describing this subje...	[ { "answer_id": 687, "author": "StrongBad", "author_id": 929, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/929", "pm_score": 1, "selected": false, "text": "<p>I think a fairer search is to limit yourself to questions and not questions and answers.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"h...	2013/10/28	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/686", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/7223/" ]
689	<p>I wanted to vote to close <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/13711/creating-an-central-multi-purpose-dictionary-database">Creating an central multi-purpose dictionary / database</a>, but under "off-topic" I only find the following pre-canned motivations:</p> <ul> <li>cannot be generalized to appl...	[ { "answer_id": 690, "author": "aeismail", "author_id": 53, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/53", "pm_score": 2, "selected": false, "text": "<p>This is probably a SE-level limitation; we don't have control over how the \"close\" reasons are populated. Howev...	2013/10/29	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/689", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/958/" ]
697	<p>I have been trying to locate a particular answer but couldn't find it, even when using every bit of information I remember from the answer in question (in my case: it was an answer about dealing with the impostor syndrome and contained lots of links, if I remember correctly written by F'x)</p> <p>I figured that cou...	[ { "answer_id": 690, "author": "aeismail", "author_id": 53, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/53", "pm_score": 2, "selected": false, "text": "<p>This is probably a SE-level limitation; we don't have control over how the \"close\" reasons are populated. Howev...	2013/11/27	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/697", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/5674/" ]
711	<p>In <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/14659">my answer to "How to write a white paper for a non-academic"</a>. I mentioned that I know a true story, an example of such a situation with a "happy end". Now, it was requested that I relieve more information about this, which I originally didn't want to.</p> ...	[ { "answer_id": 713, "author": "F'x", "author_id": 2700, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/2700", "pm_score": 4, "selected": false, "text": "<p>I don't think anyone <em>requested</em> details… but people are curious, especially went it sounds like a good sto...	2013/12/10	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/711", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1471/" ]
731	<p>I'm not sure if this is the appropriate place to raise this issue, but:</p> <p>The stated purpose of the forum seems to be that the questions should benefit both undegraduates, graduate students and academicians. </p> <p>A question about writing a cv for an internship was put on hold on vote because it was deemed ...	[ { "answer_id": 732, "author": "aeismail", "author_id": 53, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/53", "pm_score": 3, "selected": false, "text": "<p>I changed the title of the question because the issue is not one of \"moderation.\"</p>\n\n<p>Stack Exchange site...	2014/01/04	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/731", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/" ]
740	<p>Should we have MathJax support on Academia?</p> <p>I think it would be useful if questions about math in academic writing are common here.</p> <p>I just asked <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/15559/referencing-non-equations-see-eq-15-see-ineq-15">this</a> question and there it would have been ...	[ { "answer_id": 741, "author": "aeismail", "author_id": 53, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/53", "pm_score": 3, "selected": false, "text": "<p>I believe Stack Exchange's position on MathJax support is on an \"as needed\" basis. First we have to demonstrate...	2014/01/10	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/740", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/10633/" ]
744	<p>I am worried that the rep system is leading to careless moderators coming into power. Part of my answer was:"What is unclear to me is whether someone like you who feels somewhat unsure is even less likely at all to graduate with a PhD than someone who goes in thinking R1 Tenure or death. Your waffling MIGHT even be ...	[ { "answer_id": 745, "author": "eykanal", "author_id": 73, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/73", "pm_score": 1, "selected": false, "text": "<p>Using my Super Sekrit Mod Tools, I can assure you that this is something that happens to everyone; old mods, new m...	2014/01/12	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/744", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/10739/" ]
752	<p>In this <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/15783/re-typesetting-an-old-paper-what-to-do-with-the-result">question</a> the OP links to a nature paper that s/he is interested in re-typesetting. The link appears to be to an illegal copy of a non-open access paper that is available (presumably behind ...	[ { "answer_id": 753, "author": "aeismail", "author_id": 53, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/53", "pm_score": 4, "selected": true, "text": "<p>We shouldn't be posting unauthorized links, if at all possible to avoid doing so. I don't want to say \"absolutely...	2014/01/17	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/752", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/929/" ]
756	<p>I asked five question and two of them are being put on hold by viewer. Seriously, there are really no right to judge other people's question as no question is stupid. If you have no interest in my question or opinion conflict with mine, just go away please? I have no idea why ppl like bad fire work so much.</p>	[ { "answer_id": 757, "author": "earthling", "author_id": 2692, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/2692", "pm_score": 2, "selected": false, "text": "<p>I only see one of your questions put on hold and that appears to have supporters who want it re-opened. Whil...	2014/01/21	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/756", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/10694/" ]
765	<p>I am unsure about the appropriateness of the question <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/16215/modafinil-for-academics">https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/16215/modafinil-for-academics</a>. </p> <p>For background, Wikipedia informs us that modafinil is better known in the US by its bra...	[ { "answer_id": 766, "author": "aeismail", "author_id": 53, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/53", "pm_score": 1, "selected": false, "text": "<p>This is an example of a <a href=\"https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/14470/what-is-the-boat-programming-mem...	2014/01/27	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/765", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1010/" ]
769	<p>I've now seen a series of questions from <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/10694/user10694">user10694</a> that paint a picture of a completely dysfunctional advisor-advisee relationship (Rather than list them here, it might be easier just go to the user page: all of this user's questions are on the s...	[ { "answer_id": 770, "author": "StrongBad", "author_id": 929, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/929", "pm_score": 3, "selected": false, "text": "<blockquote>\n <p>The problem here is the sequence. It's not at all clear to me that the\n answers are being ta...	2014/01/28	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/769", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/346/" ]
776	<p>Layla has asked a question on <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/16618/how-to-start-a-small-research-group-in-a-institution">advice for starting a research group</a>. While such a question at first does seem too broad, it also strikes me as exactly the kind of question that should be a "community ...	[ { "answer_id": 777, "author": "eykanal", "author_id": 73, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/73", "pm_score": 2, "selected": false, "text": "<p>Just asked about this in the mod chat room, they linked to <a href=\"http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/the-fut...	2014/02/06	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/776", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/53/" ]
779	<p>Working in academia is not just navigating university politics. It is also about conducting research and teaching one's field to students. </p> <p>Academia already has an explicit policy of accepting questions on "university pedagogy". This covers the teaching part of a university employee's life. </p> <p>But rese...	[ { "answer_id": 780, "author": "earthling", "author_id": 2692, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/2692", "pm_score": 4, "selected": false, "text": "<p>I believe the linked question (and other similar questions) is on-topic and if it is not, then it should be....	2014/02/07	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/779", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/103/" ]
787	<p>Today I tried to flag a <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/16851/how-the-gap-of-5-years-after-my-graduation-going-to-affect-me-in-job-hunting">question</a> as off-topic, because it has nothing to do with academia. The three options given to me for the reason for this were,</p> <ul> <li>cannot be ...	[ { "answer_id": 788, "author": "StrongBad", "author_id": 929, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/929", "pm_score": 0, "selected": false, "text": "<p>This is not the behaviour I see. When I click flag>>it should be closed>>off-topic I get:</p>\n\n<p><img src=\...	2014/02/12	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/787", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/8394/" ]
789	<p>In <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/16969/2692">this question</a>, the OP believes that studying by MOOC should be on-topic since it deals with the idea of gaining knowledge from a teacher in a more-or-less formal way. However, the question was closed as off-topic by several, including myself, who belie...	[ { "answer_id": 790, "author": "Layla", "author_id": 6144, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/6144", "pm_score": 2, "selected": false, "text": "<p>If I can say something:\nMOOC courses are followed by people not only in their undergraduate degrees, but also a...	2014/02/14	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/789", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/2692/" ]
795	<p>I recently deleted a few comments (mods, you can see them <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/admin/posts/17053/comments">here</a>) which had been flagged as off-topic. Briefly, the OP had <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/17050/acknowledging-the-discussion-with-someone-in-the-paper-but-e...	[ { "answer_id": 796, "author": "aeismail", "author_id": 53, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/53", "pm_score": 4, "selected": false, "text": "<p>Yes—and no. </p>\n\n<p><strong>Yes,</strong> you acted inappropriately in the sense that the discussion was still...	2014/02/17	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/795", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/73/" ]
800	<p>I was reading <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/17085/why-do-professors-sometime-hide-the-book-from-which-they-are-really-teaching">this question</a> which was migrated from Math.SE. Although this question was closed as a rant it made me wonder about migrated questions.</p> <p>This question was ...	[ { "answer_id": 801, "author": "aeismail", "author_id": 53, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/53", "pm_score": 3, "selected": false, "text": "<p>My gut answer is: <em>no</em>, you shouldn't. </p>\n\n<p>A user who wants to follow up with a migrated question c...	2014/02/18	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/800", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/2692/" ]
805	<p>Fellow Users of Academia.SE,</p> <p>Recently on academia.SE and meta.academia.SE, I wrote that I was unwilling to have longterm participation in a site for which content -- specifically comments, although my own perspective is more of a blanket one -- which is on-topic for the site are being deleted. My feeling is...	[ { "answer_id": 806, "author": "Community", "author_id": -1, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1", "pm_score": 3, "selected": false, "text": "<p>SE is an information system, which means that information is structured in certain way. It's by nature different...	2014/02/18	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/805", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/938/" ]
819	<p>I read a few (OK, too many) academic blogs. Often, readers write in asking the author of the blog to post a question they have about academia. Then the readers of the blog answer and discuss in the comments.</p> <p>These are often very interesting questions that are on-topic for academic.SE, and I think that this c...	[ { "answer_id": 820, "author": "eykanal", "author_id": 73, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/73", "pm_score": 3, "selected": false, "text": "<p>Personally, I say <strong>yes</strong>.</p>\n\n<p>The problem with asking questions you <em>don't</em> face is tha...	2014/02/28	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/819", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/11365/" ]
822	<p>We all love <a href="http://academia.stackexchange.com">Academia Stack Exchange</a>, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what will their first impression be? Let's try to look at this site through ...	[ { "answer_id": 831, "author": "Piotr Migdal", "author_id": 49, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/49", "pm_score": 3, "selected": false, "text": "<p>In general, I like shape of Academia.SE. And I am still being surprised, that with so many subjective questio...	2014/03/02	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/822", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/" ]
823	<p>I am confused by the instructions about <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/help/editing">editing</a></p> <blockquote> <p>Edits are expected to be substantial and to leave the post better than you found it. Common reasons for edits include: To fix grammar and spelling mistakes ...</p> </blockquote> <p>Th...	[ { "answer_id": 824, "author": "aeismail", "author_id": 53, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/53", "pm_score": 3, "selected": false, "text": "<p>Not all typos and misspellings are created equal.</p>\n\n<p>Typos in question titles should always be fixed, in m...	2014/03/04	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/823", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/929/" ]
834	<p>I have recently noticed a trend in the answers on academia.se to question the situation about which OP is asking because <em>not every single detail</em> is provided, instead of answering what is being asked.</p> <p>Most recent examples from a few days ago include:</p> <p><a href="https://academia.stackexchange.co...	[ { "answer_id": 835, "author": "Piotr Migdal", "author_id": 49, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/49", "pm_score": 2, "selected": false, "text": "<p>Answers questioning the question are ultimately non-constructive.</p>\n\n<p>Such things should be dealt with ...	2014/03/06	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/834", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/4249/" ]
838	<p>I am currently a sophomore, but just looking for some statistics on graduate school admissions, and if possible chances tailored to my own statistics.</p>	[ { "answer_id": 835, "author": "Piotr Migdal", "author_id": 49, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/49", "pm_score": 2, "selected": false, "text": "<p>Answers questioning the question are ultimately non-constructive.</p>\n\n<p>Such things should be dealt with ...	2014/03/07	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/838", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/12655/" ]
842	<p>As I already mentioned, <a href="https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/a/831/49">some questions provide too much detail</a>, making it a multi-thread open-ended requests for life advice.</p> <p>However, in some cases the question lack enough details, and people are confused or ask for more details. Especially thi...	[ { "answer_id": 843, "author": "aeismail", "author_id": 53, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/53", "pm_score": 1, "selected": false, "text": "<p>Question posters should provide as much useful detail <strong>as they feel comfortable sharing</strong>. If peopl...	2014/03/07	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/842", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/49/" ]
850	<p>There seems to be some disagreement about whether professional non-research degree programs (law, business, medicine) and entry into such programs is on-topic.</p> <p>One the one hand, in a comment on <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/18055/york-undergraduate-student-looking-to-get-into-medical-...	[ { "answer_id": 851, "author": "Suresh", "author_id": 346, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/346", "pm_score": 2, "selected": false, "text": "<p>I think the cited question should be closed for being too localized, but NOT for being about med school. </p>\n" ...	2014/03/12	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/850", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/11365/" ]
855	<p>We currently have 76 questions tagged <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/research-undergraduate" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'research-undergraduate'" rel="tag">research-undergraduate</a>. By the definition of the site scope, either:</p> <ol> <li>these questions a...	[ { "answer_id": 858, "author": "Pete L. Clark", "author_id": 938, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/938", "pm_score": 2, "selected": false, "text": "<p>I certainly agree that \"undergraduate research\" is a subset of \"research\". But \"research\" is so bro...	2014/03/12	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/855", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/96/" ]
866	<p>We've recently had a few questions that say, "Does anyone know of a degree program that meets requirements X,Y,Z."</p> <p>For example, <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/18289/where-can-i-take-online-mba-courses-without-being-admitted">Where can I take online MBA courses without being admitted?</...	[ { "answer_id": 867, "author": "aeismail", "author_id": 53, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/53", "pm_score": 2, "selected": false, "text": "<p>Such questions are usually poor fits, but there's not a single canonical reason to reject. For instance, they mig...	2014/03/20	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/866", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/11365/" ]
874	<p>I tried to write a response to <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/18491/i-believe-i-have-solved-a-famous-open-problem-how-do-i-convince-people-in-the-f">I believe I have solved a famous open problem. How do I convince people in the field that I am not a crank?</a> that mentioned an achievement of ...	[ { "answer_id": 875, "author": "Community", "author_id": -1, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1", "pm_score": 3, "selected": false, "text": "<p>Your answer received multiple flags from the community indicating it as <em>\"not an answer\"</em>, and was ther...	2014/03/30	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/874", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/11992/" ]
882	<p>There was an interesting discussion at the stats Cross Validated site about <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/q/92213/5739">(mis)use of statistics in academic papers</a>. I think the audience of Academia will benefit from it, but I am not sure what the best way is to link to that discussion.</p>	[ { "answer_id": 883, "author": "eykanal", "author_id": 73, "author_profile": "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/73", "pm_score": 4, "selected": true, "text": "<p>What you've done here is probably the best way. The Stack Exchange sites are set up to answer questions, not really...	2014/04/04	[ "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/882", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com", "https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/users/739/" ]