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Why do so few users suggest edits?

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Stop the off-hand “this sounds like a homework question” comments that offer no guidance and raise false flags?

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Did this question get closed too quickly? Doesn't it actually have a good answer that's now impossible to post?

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Can we see the south Pole of the Moon standing on North Pole of the Earth [migrated]

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Interest in Photo of the Week?

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Distinction between the DIY and the telescope-making tags?

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Where did the “Is this object Mars” question go?

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Do we need a tag for merging? I struggled to find something suitable for supermassive black hole mergers in galaxy collisions

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Threshold for site graduation?

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answered May 12 at 21:36 HDE 226868♦ 31.5k

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What are “recent hot answers”?

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answered May 9 at 14:58 HDE 226868♦ 31.5k

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Should a few more users vote to accept the csst tag wiki and excerpt quickly to ensure that nobody else follows my lead and rejects them?

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answered May 9 at 4:08 uhoh 28.4k

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Do we need/want a 3-vote closure?

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2021 Community Moderator Election Results

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Difference between resource and reference-request tags?

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modified Apr 29 at 12:14 called2voyage♦ 6,006

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Is it a good idea to create a much-needed tag and retag (almost) every post related to it to include this tag?

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What exactly are the tags [ebinary-star] and [tbinary-star]?

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Why did I see the following pop-up message only now?

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answered Apr 21 at 13:28 HDE 226868♦ 31.5k

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Changing the question based on new evidence or asking a new question?

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answered Apr 16 at 23:46 uhoh 28.4k

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Regarding the state of our chat room

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Do we need a tag [agn] or is [active-galaxy] enough?

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Are there any IAU members on the astronomy stack exchange?

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Reviving the Astronomy SE blog

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Are my comments being poorly received?

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answered Apr 10 at 3:57 Connor Garcia♦ 9,234

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Should we delete this closed, cross-posted Spaceflight question and get rid of the Kerbal Space Program tag at the same time?

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2021 Moderator Election Q&A - Question suggestions

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How could I calculate my (theoretical) candidate score automatically?

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Announcing a Pro Tempore election

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2021 Community Moderator Election

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Let's congratulate Connor Garcia on becoming our next moderator!

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Congratulations Astronomy Stack Exchange for 10k questions!

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Is “solve this n-body system for me” on topic here?

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Is “voids(s)” a synonym of “interstellar-space”?

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Should we have an observation-campaign tag and what is good usage advice for it?

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Towards defining the tags “electromagnetic-spectrum” and “wavelength”

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Strategy for getting the best answer(s) to my question about electron-multiplying CCDs?

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A potential sign that Astronomy is about to graduate?

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999 questions with no answers and counting (downwards)

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Synonym suggestion for [tag:tides]

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Tags “planetary-atmosphere” vs. “atmosphere”?

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What is a healthy number of bounties?

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Tag synonym suggestion for planetary-science

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What's the point of the tag “laws-of-physics”?

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What distinguishes the “nomenclature” from “definition”?

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High-energy-astrophysics vs. particles and other tags in the same field

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Duplicate Sagittarius A* tags

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modified Feb 22 at 17:53 called2voyage♦ 6,006

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When should [early-universe] end?

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Do we need separate tags for [habitable-zone] and [goldilocks-zone]?

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