Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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If I "contact support", who do I actually contact?
If I submit this, do I reach the mods of this site, or Stack Exchange staff? If this reaches SE staff, can I get a private chat room with Academia.SE mods?
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Is a trivia about a university or academic institution considered as off-topic?
I wonder if not-so-academic questions about academic institutions are allowed here.
For example, there are such questions like:
Why is the logo of DBLP (a computer science bibliography) written in ...
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Can this question be re-opened?
I edited this question to make it as less opinion-based as possible. I think this question would really be helpful for users more generally, and although the answers do have some opinion attached to ...
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May I ask this question or will it be closed?
I'd like to know if I can get more specific than a checklist to understand whether or not my research paper (at the graduate level for getting my M.Sc.) is good enough to publish anywhere. It's been ...
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Can a mod redact the edit history of this answer?
I think I put too much information into an answer originally (the mods know which one), and would like to redact the journal names + fields from the edit history.
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Can a controversial post become an HNQ later?
There is a post on "Possible Grading Discrimination" on the main site which has been marked "Controversial Post"
Controversial Post — You may use comments ONLY to suggest ...
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Why was this offensive?
Why would I ever create a new exam when I can just re-use an old exam and then accuse any student of obtaining a copy as cheating? was deleted as rude or abusive. Why?
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How to lift an "answer ban" / why banned at all?
I am new to this Stack, though I have been participating in other stacks before. I answered a couple of question but have got constantly bad reactions, which for some reason are not very well liked.
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Tag Wiki review. Help wanted
I've taken a pass over all of the current tags on this site and provided some wiki for many of those that were without any. Unless I missed one or two, I think every tag now has something. For a few, ...
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Created [supplementary-information] tag then discovered [supporting-information] (it didn't show up in the autocomplete). What next? Synonymization?
I created a supplementary-information tag and attached it to this question. I then discovered that there is a supporting-information tag with 29 questions already.
The earlier tag did not show up in ...
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Is there a way to easily propose tag deletion except by making a meta post?
This post had the tag t on it - I have edited the post and deleted the tag. But once created, the tag continues to exist. From the looks of it, this tag was created by mistake and should thus be ...
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How to word my question so it won't get closed?
Earlier today I posted a question asking for links to examples of 45 minute presentations for the defense of an MSc in maths. This post was later closed for being a "shopping question". So I ...
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Are baseless allegations of racism allowed here?
Recently I have posted this answer to this question. I was accused of racism (source: "And, expecting everyone in the world to accept western ideas and practice is also racist/classist and there ...
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Voting for just one candidate in Mod election
It does not seem possible to vote for just one candidate in the current election.
How can one do this?
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How to deal with a question that contains a false premise? How do I make a frame challenge?
Somebody posted a question that makes an assumption I disagree with or think might be wrong. How do I best inform the asker of this? Do I post a comment or an answer, or should I vote to close the ...