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18 questions linked to/from We need to set a standard for fatwa questions
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Why Sectarianism is Ruining Your Site
This morning I spent a solid two hours clearing out a whole mess of flags, comments, and suspending users for inflammatory and nonconstructive remarks.
Four days after ashes999 posted his plea for ...
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The copy-paste issue, revisited
Back in the early days of the site, we decided that we didn't really care much for copy-paste answers, and especially not for plagiarism. They are, at best, half a step up from a link-only answer, ...
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What to do about plagiarism?
Unfortunately, I have noticed answers in this community are more susceptible to plagiarism than in other communities. (More specifically, plagiarizing without permission and/or attribution from ...
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Do evidences speak for themselves?
We here have had a long and ugly history of copy-paste; as a site we actually seem to have had some success at discouraging these posts, which is an important step toward distinguishing us as a ...
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Islam SE: Not a Muslim Peer Support Group
I recently closed a question which raises an issue we've only just been skirting around.
Remember that the purpose behind an "Islam Stack Exchange" is to build a compilation of knowledge about the ...
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Is there any way to make Truth questions constructive?
I have recently gone through the review queue, and came across a lot of low-quality and/or first/late answers which were answers to very weak questions. Many of these questions were basically of the ...
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Examining fatwa-request questions
There's currently some momentum on chat behind changing the off-topic close reasons. So I'm writing this post to identify some example fatwa-request questions, as mentioned in chat. This is a ...
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Islam—Stack Exchange is not for debates or apologetics
If you've watched this meta site for, well, pretty much since the beginning, you've noticed constant discussion about how Sunni and Shia Muslims can get along. My colegue, Robert Cartaino, encouraged ...
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Please vote based on quality
As a former moderator on one site that deals with religious texts, a user on the three strictly religious sites, and a participant on religious topics that pop up from time to time on other sites, I'...
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A higher standard for "fatwa" questions?
This is an issue we will never be free of - any site on Islam will receive a constant stream of questions that seek a "fatwa" - the legal status of something, whether it is permissible or not ...
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Can we get a disclaimer on the site?
Other religious sites on the Stack Exchange network display a notice on the top right of their website which essentially tells users that that the site does not offer personal advice.
Some examples:
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What should we do about no-effort-shown questions?
On this site, there have been large numbers of questions which show little to no apparent research effort, often with the question body containing little more than the actual question asked (perhaps ...
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What should be done about fatwa questions where the questioner doesn't specify any particular school, but the accepted answer is specific to one?
A number of fatwa questions, especially older ones, ask for rulings about particular matters, but do not specify which (if any) school they're actually seeking answers from. These questions are often ...
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When to use haram and halal-haram tags?
I saw this question that contains haram tag which I replaced with halal-haram
Is it haram to hang up a picture of Manchester City badge?
Why do we have two tags?
Should we keep them ?
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What is authenticity of this forum?
I am an active member of stackoverflow and some other programmers related communities here. And they all are very good and working great. They are like must have for IT professionals.
But coming to ...
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