I'm looking at the other questions and am thinking of what to do to them later - some of them are actually very important for me, and I think they can be generalizable to others too - specifically - the ones about "pattern recognition", which I'll concede is sort of vague, but I still think captures something that deserves more attention than it has gotten.
@InquilineKea Of course, if you feel that they are better of migrated, by all means do so. I would think the two questions you posted are perfectly valid at biology.
the one thing with deleting questons: is there any way for me to see the text of deleted questions?
I've had deleted questions from SE before, and I found it frustrating because I couldn't capture any of the text (even the ones i modified) so that i could post them somewhere else
@InquilineKea I recall deleted answers remain there, I'm not sure about questions. You could temporarily copy paste them to a text file? :) Also, delete the unedited ones first, I've come across plenty of really good edits you did.
... and then again, you might want to wait until we decide on this properly on meta. But as far as I understand, closing them as "not constructive" "off topic" or "not a real question" seems wrong.
@InquilineKea No, I'm not aware of mods ever deleting questions. Normal convention is to close them so they can later be reopened if something were to change.
@InquilineKea Define 'recover'? When the site is a bit more mature you can try to repost them yes.
We are just trying to create an attractive environment for professionals when the site goes in public beta. A long list of vague/incomplete questions of which only 40% are answered isn't that.
So in the long run it is also in your interest, since an unhealthy beta could result in the site being closed down.
@InquilineKea AFAIK, not anyone from CogSci. If stuff got deleted it has got to be 'higher powers', cross-site moderators. I wouldn't see any reason why they would meddle with closing question while a site is still in private beta, let alone delete them - if that is even possible.
@InquilineKea: If you are so interested in thesetwo (very similar) questions, consider rephrasing them considerably. Look up official terminology of 'pattern recognition' for example.
But I'm heading to bed now. Thanks for cooperating! I really hope this site gets of the ground.
@StevenJeuris Thanks Steven! Sorry, I kinda wandered off there and never got back to you, haha!
@BenBrocka I wish I was here when that was posted. I just commented to Robert and am going to review the chat transcript now. I'll post my thoughts in a follow up message in a moment.
@StevenJeuris Better yet, I think we should have a chat room specifically for the issue Robert raised. In fact, I invited him to chat. Steven and @Ben and everyone else, thoughts? I've been thinking we may want a second chat room for more "meta" is talk anyway...
@InquilineKea this was Robert himself who complained of cross-posting, but I explained to him you misunderstood how to have posts migrated. If you flag questions and ask for migration, Robert will see that. (I believe this is what you said you were doing)
@InquilineKea I want to say yes, but, it's 12:13 AM here, so I am tired and may be incorrect. If you can't easily find the answer let me know and I am sure I can help out
Reading all these messages, I do believe this discussion should be taken to it's own room @BenBrocka @StevenJeuris @InquilineKea, so I have created a room for it here:
This room is to discuss procedural / administrative / meta topics about the Cognitive Sciences Stack Exchange site. Please only star messages for actionable items, like posts which need editing / closing / migration / mod attention, etc.
There is a typographical error that I make and do so every time I try to type a certain word. Whenever I try to type remember, I type remeber. I do this every time. This is different to a regular typo because most typos happen at random, whereas this mistake is guaranteed to occur. It's not a spe...
I'm having a similar issue where I always type 'possible' instead of 'possibly', and I'm pretty sure I'm always thinking to write 'possibly'. Only after rereading I notice it.
@StevenJeuris ask a question about why you would replace words with other words, that I know we covered. Specific typos that arent' words I don't reemmeber explicitly covering
I've caught myself writing (typing) "possible" instead of "possibly" over the past few days, while I did intend to write "possibly". Only upon rereading the sentence I notice I've written the wrong word.
It is not a typo, as I am able to touch-type on a qwerty layout. 'e' and 'y' are both writte...
Tried to do at least some background search, but don't have too much time to do any more atm.
I figure you can just answer such questions linking the OPs to the relevant phenomena without going into detail. These type of questions can prove useful for people like me, interested in finding more about it, but not knowing what to search for, as in your guidelines. ;p
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