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Zhaorong · Accepted Answer · 2009-10-09 03:28:20Z UTC

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Hi,

I don't think a new user can vote on a question or an answer. The site says I need 15 reputation...

answered Oct 9 at 3:28

Zhaorong
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I see, then I guess they will need to contribute first in some way to gain some reputation first. – Istvan Albert Oct 9 at 16:57

djinn · Answer 2 · 2010-02-25 21:52:10Z UTC

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Who is running this site?

answered Feb 25 at 21:52

djinn
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This site has been started by a Bionformatics group at Pennsylvania State University. See bottom of the page for a contact link. Thanks. – Istvan Albert Feb 26 at 14:08

Istvan Albert · Answer 3 · 2009-10-07 17:16:18Z UTC

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If you are shy about asking the question on your own behalf submit it to to the Question Bot and it will be posted anonymously. Send email to the Question Bot link at the bottom.

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Istvan Albert♦♦

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Nicojo · Answer 4 · 2010-02-26 14:44:01Z UTC

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This is an excellent initiative: congratulations and thank you for setting it up!

I guess this site will be all the more useful as there are more contributers... So I guess that good questions for the administrator(s) of this site are:

Do you have a plan for advertising this site/attracting new Users?
How can the Users help?

answered Feb 26 at 14:44

Nicojo
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Community building starts our very slowly but once it picks up steam it can really blossom. I do think that bioinformatics is particularly well suited for this question-answer type format. I am very pleased to see an influx of new users to the system. I have actually already learned a tremendous amount from the answers here. More than anything that motivates me to promote this site in a more visible manner. Users can help by posting questions and answers, and if you see an interesting question answered somewhere else you may want to post it here as well – Istvan Albert Feb 26 at 15:24

giovanni · Answer 5 · 2010-01-28 16:22:04Z UTC

The StackExchange websites have been designed for making questions related to programming and technical issues.

For example, for this reason, if you try to write a question which starts with 'What is your favorite experience...' you get a disclaimer saying that 'your question seems to be probably subjective and it is likely to be closed'.

However, I think that it is very useful to make subjective and opinion-based questions on bioinformatics, as there are few places to do so... So, what is your policy? Will you accept subjective questions?

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