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Is my question an attack and a disrespect?
Your screenshot doesn't include the question itself, only the comments, so I'm not sure how anyone without 10k+ rep on ELL is expected to judge whether or not it's a disrespectful attack. That said, ...
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Is it on topic to ask about English advice given by ChatGPT?
I am the one who asked the question mentioned in the question. Regarding whether my question should stay closed (because it employed a chatbot as a resource) or be reopened, here is my opinion: I ...
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Are answers written by AI Chatbots suitable for the site?
We want original content, not copy-pastes.
I think maybe the best way to frame it is by asking something like "Do we want answers that just link another forum" or "do we want answers ...
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Answering when proof of negative required
The appropriate answer on Stack Exchange to the question "Are any humans over 3 meters tall?" is not "I don't think so"; it is "The tallest recorded human is 2.72 m according ...
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Is my question an attack and a disrespect?
Please refer to the Code of Conduct:
No matter where you engage on the network with your peers, we expect all users to treat one another with kindness and respect. Remember, we’re all here to learn, ...
LaurelMod
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Telling people not to advertise in an answer
You're right; that question does not belong on the site at all. The best course of action is to flag it as spam; you can do so because you have more than 15 reputation. Six of such flags (or one by a ♦...
GlorfindelMod
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Happy 10th, English Language Learners!
The blog post celebrating the 10 year anniversary of a number of sites (including ELL) is live.
A post celebrating ELL’s first birthday popped up in the sidebar and I wanted to make sure folks noticed ...
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Duplicates: why not be able to choose more than one?
You can always add other possible duplicates in a comment. If another user votes to close as another duplicate, and the question is eventually closed as a duplicate, both links will appear. And ...
GlorfindelMod
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Are answers written by AI Chatbots suitable for the site?
NO
(mostly)
Should such answers be deleted/flagged?
A post with unattributed content from a bot is plagiarism and should get flagged for immediate deletion.
The rest of my answer assumes proper ...
gotubeMod
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"You can’t post new questions right now"
You have 5 deleted questions, some of which have a negative score. Those get deleted automatically if they aren't answered. You get the reputation back you lost from them, but they still count towards ...
GlorfindelMod
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Moderators privileges
Some food for thought:
I'm not sure that five close votes is really a "gentler" method of closing. Five close votes from the community might seem more brutal than a single close vote from a ...
J.R.Mod
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I don't believe my answer should have been deleted
I agree that your answer shouldn't have been unilaterally deleted by a moderator, especially when that moderator also answered the question. I don't think the deletion was done maliciously, but the ...
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Is it on topic to ask about English advice given by ChatGPT?
I don't see a valid reason to close this question. In fact, I am strongly tempted to reopen it right now.
As I understand it, this question was posted by a human user. That user put a grammar question ...
David SiegelMod
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Is ChatGPT good for fixing grammar errors compared other tools like Grammarly?
Grammarly is software for fixing grammar, punctuation, and spelling mistakes. It also will suggest rewording and stylistic changes
It's generally pretty good at what it does. It's not perfect, it ...
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What should be the qualifications for answering questions?
There should not be any qualifications to answer questions on ELL based on level of expertise. Here are some reasons, though I don't doubt that there are more:
I've seen non-experts write some ...
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EL&U.SE vs ELL.SE
Yes there are things which would be on-topic on the ELU.SE site and not on-topic on the ELL.SE site.
ELL is aimed at those who are learning English. Questions need not be from people who are actually ...
David SiegelMod
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What sort of English should I use on Stack Exchange websites, British or American?
You can use any variety of English on SE sites.
Brits tend to use BrE, North Americans tend to use AmE, and people from elsewhere in the world use whatever English they know best.
In particular, on ...
gotubeMod
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Which is it? People don't really take the time to understand the questions or I worded them so badly that they are unintelligible?
Hello desmo and welcome to ELL Meta. Thanks for being curious too. I understand your frustration with not getting the responses you want and I hope I can shine some light on why it's happening. I don'...
gotubeMod
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Are answers written by AI Chatbots suitable for the site?
No
Answers should be primarily written by humans.
Answers that appear to be written by AI should be deleted. I'm unsure if "Very low quality" or "In need of mod attention" is the ...
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Accepted
Are possibly rude comments allowed?
No, that is not the purpose of comments:
When should I comment?
You should submit a comment if you want to:
Request clarification from the author;
Leave constructive criticism that guides the author ...
GlorfindelMod
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Why was my "rude or abusive" flag declined?
The general advice (from the faq and expressed here) for bad and rude posts is "flag don't edit" Flagging is easy, and after a few "rude" flags, the question will quickly ...
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Are grammar and usage beyond the scope of the ELL site?
Lambie,
I'm sorry to hear you took any of my comments on your answer that badly. As is common with online communication, you've misunderstood my intent. I was asking clarification questions which I ...
gotubeMod
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Is it on topic to ask about English advice given by ChatGPT?
The question should stay open.
The underlying question is in the title. The asker also happened to include their source, as they should have.
The source happens to be a terrible one, but that's ...
gotubeMod
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3
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Answering when proof of negative required
If I were answering a question here on ELL phrased as "Is there a rule (of grammar or usage) against X" or "What rule requires Y" and I could find no such rule, I would incline to ...
David SiegelMod
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3
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What sort of English should I use on Stack Exchange websites, British or American?
Here is the authoritative answer by a former Community Manager:
Does Stack Exchange have an accepted standard on language and spelling? Which is it?
For bodies, no. For tags, US-English.
The ...
GlorfindelMod
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3
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Are answers written by AI Chatbots suitable for the site?
It depends on the answer.
AI is a tool, and using it doesn't inherently make an answer bad either in content or form. We already have mechanisms in place to handle poor quality and plagiarized answers....
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3
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Accepted
large general american audio archive
https://www.thecreativemuggle.com/best-audiobook-narrators/
Lists some audiobook readers. Julia Whelan has narrated over 400 books A fairly standard GA accent. Female.
Or Ray Porter Again, hundreds ...
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What should be the qualifications for answering questions?
Anybody not only should be able to, but can, answer questions on English Language Learners. We do not need to have qualifications!
However, our answers should be qualified!
So, we should make it clear ...
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Does this site have different rules about answering in comments?
The rules about answers in comments are the same here as any other SE site, but yes, for better or for worse, answering in comments happens so much here that it would take a significant groundswell of ...
gotubeMod
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Resources for learning academic/formal writing?
When I was in college, I took a writing class that used some version of Technical Communication by Mike Markel. It seems to be targeted mostly at native speakers (which most or all of my class was) ...
LaurelMod
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