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Questions that may not necessarily have a clear-cut right or wrong answer and are often subjective. If your question isn't a bug report, feature request, or request for support, it's probably a discussion.

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The new moderator agreement is now live for moderators to accept across the network

I will accept additional guidance given by members of the Stack Exchange, Inc. Community Team and Senior Leadership Team, whether in response to questions, concerns or discussions regarding existing …
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Updating the Hot Network Questions List - now with a bit more network and a little less "hot...

If someone notices that a question's attracting "negative attention", they may well suspect that it's on the HNQ list: they shouldn't need to search that whole list to confirm that it is, prior to exc …
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Checking in with "*Monica*" users

Are you satisfied with that legal agreement? Not my business. I just hope Monica considers she's received adequate recompense for damage to her reputation resulting from SE's defamation, & that t …
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How is the effectiveness of HNQs measured?

We're being asked to give feedback on what should be done with the Hot Network Questions list that's shown on the right-hand side of the screen. Ideas range from elaborate—relying on communities on ea …
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Does the community consider the "coerced speech" complaint largely resolved?

There's some ambiguity as to what's meant by "conspicuous avoidance" in the FAQ. If it's "conspicuous to the reader of a post, comment thread, or chat conversation", that's one thing (& to my mind sim …
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Will a draft of the new moderator agreement be published on Meta to solicit feedback before ...

Will a draft of the new moderator agreement (see The Q1 2020 Community Roadmap is on the Blog) be published on SE Meta to solicit feedback before it's implemented? After all, non-moderator users have …
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How long can Moderator Resignation notices be featured?

Should be up to each site. If any post attracts rude remarks, moderators can, & routinely do, delete them. If a post is thought especially liable to attract rude remarks, it can be locked, completely …
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AI to use grammar syntax for auto-flagging comments

You allude to something like this, I think, in your discussion of conditionals,† but again the grammatical form employed to this end seems barely relevant. …
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Revisiting the "Hot Network Questions" feature, what are our shared goals for having it?

Simply remove HNQs from the side-bar, leaving only a link. This should be quick & easy to implement; SE developers surely have more urgent calls on their time than designing algorithms or voting syst …
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Is it time for Stack Exchange, Inc and the community to legally separate amicably?

How about just a step in that direction? SE could disengage somewhat, & devolve control to the communities on each site: of administrative tasks such as merging accounts, adding question close reason …
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How often does ChatGPT give an incorrect answer to an SE question?

Not a systematic study: but of 20 I read carefully (purported answers posted to Cross Validated, or responses to actual C.V. questions input to ChatGPT by me)†; I judged one to be useful, though not a …
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The new moderator agreement is now live for moderators to accept across the network

Thank you for explaining the intent of (v) :— "Accept guidance" means listen to guidance and be open to it. And:— If a moderator is looking to understand how to interpret part of the CoC, we want t …
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Is paraphrasing someone else's ideas and not crediting them considered plagiarism?

I think the difference between Kent State University's guidelines & https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/referencing is mainly due to the fact that the latter is trying to set a minimum, enforceable, s …
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Is it acceptable to copy your own answer verbatim from an off-site resource?

No, this is not acceptable. One's own published work should be treated in the same way as any other external source: selected, relevant portions quoted with proper attribution, & not copied wholesale. …
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Question asked by same person (and answered) on different site - how should it be answered

Same as if an answer's to be found in a paper, a textbook, a Wikipedia article, a blog, or anywhere else: anyone may write an answer here citing it & providing at least a brief summary of its content. …
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