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Why does this question generate so much traffic?
Oh boy. Did you take a look at the title? 8.5 billion searches take place per day on google. 10 to 20% are related to you know what… And that title has it all!
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Is direct criticism of another answer in your own answer ok?
There are many posts on this site where users write something along the lines of "this extends SoAndSo's answer" or "this complements SoAndSo's answer," so it seems reasonable that ...
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Is direct criticism of another answer in your own answer ok?
Is direct criticism of another answer in your own answer ok?
I think such references should be avoided (and are often annoying to me). They should be avoided for the same reasons that any distraction ...
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Etiquette for reposting a question deleted by original poster
If someone doesn't want something associated with their name, then don't recreate that thing and associate their name with it. We never know why people delete things.
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Advice on appropriateness of question for physics stack
A little while ago I asked... (How do you calculate a full quartic force field for anharmonic frequencies?).
...Considering it does not fit at MMSE, how likely is it this question would receive an ...
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Etiquette for reposting a question deleted by original poster
If a user posts a question which has potentially interesting answers but then deletes it themself, should the original poster be given credit if another user (who read the original question) decides ...
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