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16 questions linked to/from What's "Too basic" or "General reference" for this site?
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What level of initial research is expected on questions?
There are many degrees of initial research:
read the wikipedia article on the topic
read the first hit of a Google search on the topic
performed a basic search on Google scholar and read one or more ...
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Why aren't we asking more questions?
Our Questions stats are pretty bad, currently 2.3 questions per day.
How can we encourage more questions on the site? Has anything prevented you from asking questions? Do you think anything is ...
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Cognitive Sciences 2012-2016: Community Review
This is a first step into an attempted reboot of this community: Rebooting Cognitive Sciences: a Suggested Approach
As messy as meta is, through an organized community effort I'm hoping to collect ...
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What is our site NOT about?
Reading the The 7 Essential Meta Questions You'll notice Super User has laid out what items are on topic AND off topic on their site. Database Administrators has also done a superb job outlining ...
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Reflection on site strategy and problem prevention
I think it was Nick who suggested we reflect on the recent events and try to find a strategy to deal with similar problems in the future, as well as reconsider and define the purpose and underlying ...
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Vote for a new site name!
VOTE FOR NEW SITE NAME: PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE or MIND AND BRAIN.
PLEASE VOTE HERE. (Ignore the automatic greyout.)
It is a fact that there is essentially no support for Cognitive Sciences as a ...
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How can we promote the site and reach out to industry experts?
The site should soon be coming into a Public Beta period where anyone can sign up and use the site.
How can we spread awareness to experts, researchers and practitioners in the cognitive science ...
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Refining our target audience / Question expertise
This is part of the second step into an attempted reboot of this community: Rebooting Cognitive Sciences: a Suggested Approach
Since the very beginning of this site, there have been differing ...
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Moderator Pro-Tem Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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Over-moderation and building a userbase
I believe that this SE may be slightly over-moderated. By that I mean, the moderators are acting too often. I see many people come on the site, ask an interesting (if broad or poorly worded question), ...
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Should we use the Inverted Pyramid model for answers?
I'm concerned many posts (including my own) may be hard to take in. An intimidating answer can make it too easy to look at a long answer and think "tl;dr".
I think the Inverted Pyramid model is a ...
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Newbie styled questions, accessibility and attitudes
I've noticed a trend here where people have issues with certain types of questions, although I've been impressed by the dedication and generally good intentions of those on the chat for sorting things ...
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What is the etiquette for asking and answering your own question?
Is it okay to answer your own question?
Are there any rules that should govern asking and answering your own questions?
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Meta tag for defining scope of the site?
There's a few questions on Meta already which have to do with defining the scope of this site:
What is our site NOT about?
What's "Too basic" or "General reference" for this ...
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How should "Too Basic" questions be closed?
As per this post there's some confusion on what some close vote reasons mean. It was brought up that on CS Theory.SE, questions that are too basic fall outside of the scope since it is a site for ...
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