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Has there been a noticable downturn in the quality of questions on Writing SE?
I can't say I'm an incredibly active user here on Writing, but I do drop in most days to see if there are any interesting new questions. However, lately I feel like there's been a big drop in the ...
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Roughly half of answered questions have no accepted answer, is this normal?
Unless I screwed up this query somehow, there are a lot of missing check marks here.
Is this normal for SE these days? If not, why is the Writing site different? I tried this query on a handful of ...
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Best way to connect existing answers to new questions?
I've noticed several instances where an answer for one question can apply equally or nearly as well to another question with some modification.
For instance, there are multiple questions by men ...
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On topic: "How do I teach [whatever writing concept]?"
A lot of the information I have is mostly lesson-plan-ish. (Collegiate, so more informal than many public schools require.) When I was a new instructor, I was always googling for good ways to ...
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Suggestion: Continue question pushes?
Since we only have 23 tags that have over 200 questions (but 4 that are close to that) and about 3 close to bronze-tag-possible status (100 questions), perhaps we have a "Theme" of the week, to push ...
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10 question per day, now what?
In an awesome effort from out amazingly effective contest we have passed 10 questions per day. See the great screenshot below!
Now that we have passed this milestone, what do we do next?
How do we ...
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Follow up question on questions about feedback
In the answer to my previous question it was suggested that I ask questions about very specific types of feedback. In that vain I am considering asking about short stories and novels separately. ...
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Topicality of question on how to give feedback
Would a question on how to give good constructive feedback to other writers fit this Exchange? Would it be too broad? That would be my main concern, but I believe that we could give a list of ...
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Should we answer questions about homework assignments?
Over the past few days, we have run into the same disagreement over two different questions: How to write an introduction letter as a professor? and College Essay - Thesis and Topic - Hard to ...
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Posted an answer to an on-hold question
This question has been put on hold at 18:36 server time. I have posted an answer to it at 18:59 server time. Which should not be possible.
I have started writing an answer when the question was still ...
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Elaborating on questions of the "what is X" style
I wrote earlier a q&a-style question (that is, I asked a question providing my own answer): What do we mean by "Inevitable Narratives"?
The question was downvoted (though the answer was ...
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Canonical questions in general, and mine in particular
Here, I proposed a general canonical question, because we were getting a large number of more specific variants of it. Comments and answers were all-round positive - "yeh, we should have that for this ...
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"Is my story too similar to story X" questions
I have seen several times questions of the following format:
"This is my idea for a story, is it too similar to existing published story X?"
For example here and here.
In their core underlying ...
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Downvoting question because OP has accepted an answer too early?
Referencing this comment:
Is it justifiable to downvote a question if the OP has accepted an answer right away?
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How can I Remove the 'Possible Duplicate' Status on my questions?
I've asked two questions recently, both of which were similar to, but also different from, previously asked questions.
The first question received a comment from Lauren Ipsum, saying it was a ...
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Questions about how to write
I noticed some questions that were at the bottom line a 'how to write' or 'instead of using my imagination should I ...' questions. I would have to guess that these questions are on topic so not ...
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Should these questions about creating a pen name be asked together or separately?
I'm looking for a list of advices and factors to take into account when choosing a pen name, both out of curiosity and necessity.
The main points that interest me are the following :
When should a ...
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I want to start my question over. What can I do?
I recently asked a question here. I didn't get a satisfactory answer, and upon reflection, I think that's because I didn't word my question the way I should have. I wasn't clear enough in what I was ...
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What to do with questions from writers who cannot write?
I see a lot of questions on Writers Stack Exchange that contain basic errors of grammar and punctuation, or consist of one long rambling run-on sentence, or discuss an intended translation into ...
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How can one avoid spoiler effects in critique questions?
When asking about whether an example text has a particular desired effect, it seems like it would be helpful to present the text before specifying the effect to allow an unbiased first reading. ...
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How can one evaluate a question's usefulness/research effort?
The title/hover text for the upvote icon for questions reads "This question shows research effort; it is useful and clear". While clarity is relatively easy to evaluate from the post itself, ...
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Question That's Answer Requires Knowledge From Users In History and Writers StackExchange
My question I want to ask needs knowledge from users aware of Writing and History. My question is, should StackExchange have some way of allowing overlap to multiple sites that overlap ( not like ...
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Community Wiki, The One Item per Answer Thing, and Lists of X
As most of you know, the whole community wiki for questions idea has been thought and re-thought. Polls and lists of also have. The one item per answer policy has been up for debate. Right now as ...
