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Bill Dubuque
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111 votes

How can non-experts best contribute?

56 votes
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Is it appropriate to ask "dumb" questions.

41 votes

A Consolidated Homework Policy

40 votes

Should we discourage the use of multiple redundant @username pings in comments?

40 votes

Are we answering questions or teaching people how to answer their own questions?

25 votes

Is it in the Moderator's Job Description to patrol for correctness?

23 votes
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Handling users asking lots of similar questions with little work

23 votes

Clarify an old answer

22 votes

User flooding the site with questions - more than 6/day

21 votes

Quick downvoting of ill-formatted questions by new users

19 votes

Please help construct moderation policies for our newcoming moderators

17 votes

Should answers be ranked by reputation?

17 votes
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On downvoting for reasons independent of post content, e.g. chat behavior

17 votes

Is it appropriate to downvote answers for the sake of deleting a question?

15 votes

Please help construct moderation policies for our newcoming moderators

14 votes
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Tag (maxima) or (macsyma)?

13 votes

What, when and will we migrate questions to MO 2.0?

13 votes

How do you search for duplicates?

13 votes
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Can you copy paste tex code from the question without going the "view source" route?

12 votes

How much asking is too much?

11 votes

why don't we have a "general-reference" close reason?

11 votes

Showstopper bug: MSE+MathJax unusable for 6 months with Chrome

11 votes

Please help construct moderation policies for our newcoming moderators

11 votes

Can we lock the question "Do complex numbers really exist?"

11 votes

What's wrong with a user posting different and independent answers to a question?

10 votes
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Apparent systematic downvoting of many users

10 votes

Updates to the site

9 votes

Do we have an equation editing HOWTO?

9 votes

What is the protocol (if any) for answering old questions?

8 votes

Feature requests being declined on ground of two summers old threads on other websites.