General meta discussion #001, July 2023. For questions and feedback that don't need their own thread STICKY
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You really need to be clearer about which rules/guidelines posts don't conform to. I know the guidelines are there, and I read through them every time before making a post, but apparently there are some I occasionally miss.
On other forums, the rules are numbered, and posts that violate one of them--which happens rather often--are clearly marked with the number of the rule they break. Here, the general rules are numbered (although I've never seen one actually cited), but the guidelines specific to, for example, research papers are not.
For the most recent example it isn't really relevant because it was a preprint and we agreed not to post preprints here in the future anyway. But it has happened before, and likely to other posters as well.
On other forums, the rules are numbered, and posts that violate one of them--which happens rather often--are clearly marked with the number of the rule they break. Here, the general rules are numbered (although I've never seen one actually cited), but the guidelines specific to, for example, research papers are not.
For the most recent example it isn't really relevant because it was a preprint and we agreed not to post preprints here in the future anyway. But it has happened before, and likely to other posters as well.
Thanks!
I assumed that since I explained the background of the research and summarized the methods that including the abstract wasn't necessary. Now I know, I will paste the abstract in a quote if and when that research gets published in a regular journal.