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Some notes on the application of site privileges

  1. All site privileges should be used judiciously.

As a long term goal we would like to see good grammar, usage and spelling predominate on the site. However, we also don't want to see an endless stream of one-word edits. This is a major reason for the six-character minimum on suggested edits: to accustom users to the idea that edits should be generally bybe significant in size as well as correct in what they edit.

Other users may not want to see the stylistic feel of their work changed by another person simply because the editor has a different personal style. It doesn't need to be the way you would have done it needs to be correct and clear.

  1. Don't start a fight over it

If someone rolls back an edit do not reinstate it. Doing so makes it about the egos of the people involved. Let it go: it does not reflect on your personal worth. If you think the edit really was necessary, flag it for moderator attention.

  1. Don't take it personally

Someone fixing your spelling errors isn't personal. Neither is someone rolling back an edit. Nor their posting some unscientific nonsense. Again, this does not reflect on your personal worth. We have mechanisms for handing these problems without needing to get your dander up.

  1. Don't try to make some kind of subtle statement

The tagging of questions is not a system for rating them. Nor for marking which questions are interesting and which boring. It is purely a system for categorizing the kinds of physics content each question touches on.

Neither edits nor the edit messages should be used as a place to express your opinion about a post. You rate posts for quality by voting. You rate a post's appropriateness by voting or not voting to close (assuming you have that power) or by flagging spam and offensive dreck.

  1. Be professional

This site aims to be a milieu for professional scientists, skilled and capable amateurs and those aspiring to be one. That calls for a certain amount of decorum, and certainly for grown-up behavior. If you wouldn't want your mom or the hiring committee at your next job to see, think twice before doing it.

Some notes on the application of site privileges

  1. All site privileges should be used judiciously.

As a long term goal we would like to see good grammar, usage and spelling predominate on the site. However, we also don't want to see an endless stream of one-word edits. This is a major reason for the six-character minimum on suggested edits: to accustom users to the idea that edits should be generally by significant in size as well as correct in what they edit.

Other users may not want to see the stylistic feel of their work changed by another person simply because the editor has a different personal style. It doesn't need to be the way you would have done it needs to be correct and clear.

  1. Don't start a fight over it

If someone rolls back an edit do not reinstate it. Doing so makes it about the egos of the people involved. Let it go: it does not reflect on your personal worth. If you think the edit really was necessary, flag it for moderator attention.

  1. Don't take it personally

Someone fixing your spelling errors isn't personal. Neither is someone rolling back an edit. Nor their posting some unscientific nonsense. Again, this does not reflect on your personal worth. We have mechanisms for handing these problems without needing to get your dander up.

  1. Don't try to make some kind of subtle statement

The tagging of questions is not a system for rating them. Nor for marking which questions are interesting and which boring. It is purely a system for categorizing the kinds of physics content each question touches on.

Neither edits nor the edit messages should be used as a place to express your opinion about a post. You rate posts for quality by voting. You rate a post's appropriateness by voting or not voting to close (assuming you have that power) or by flagging spam and offensive dreck.

  1. Be professional

This site aims to be a milieu for professional scientists, skilled and capable amateurs and those aspiring to be one. That calls for a certain amount of decorum, and certainly for grown-up behavior. If you wouldn't want your mom or the hiring committee at your next job to see, think twice before doing it.

Some notes on the application of site privileges

  1. All site privileges should be used judiciously.

As a long term goal we would like to see good grammar, usage and spelling predominate on the site. However, we also don't want to see an endless stream of one-word edits. This is a major reason for the six-character minimum on suggested edits: to accustom users to the idea that edits should be generally be significant in size as well as correct in what they edit.

Other users may not want to see the stylistic feel of their work changed by another person simply because the editor has a different personal style. It doesn't need to be the way you would have done it needs to be correct and clear.

  1. Don't start a fight over it

If someone rolls back an edit do not reinstate it. Doing so makes it about the egos of the people involved. Let it go: it does not reflect on your personal worth. If you think the edit really was necessary, flag it for moderator attention.

  1. Don't take it personally

Someone fixing your spelling errors isn't personal. Neither is someone rolling back an edit. Nor their posting some unscientific nonsense. Again, this does not reflect on your personal worth. We have mechanisms for handing these problems without needing to get your dander up.

  1. Don't try to make some kind of subtle statement

The tagging of questions is not a system for rating them. Nor for marking which questions are interesting and which boring. It is purely a system for categorizing the kinds of physics content each question touches on.

Neither edits nor the edit messages should be used as a place to express your opinion about a post. You rate posts for quality by voting. You rate a post's appropriateness by voting or not voting to close (assuming you have that power) or by flagging spam and offensive dreck.

  1. Be professional

This site aims to be a milieu for professional scientists, skilled and capable amateurs and those aspiring to be one. That calls for a certain amount of decorum, and certainly for grown-up behavior. If you wouldn't want your mom or the hiring committee at your next job to see, think twice before doing it.

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Some notenotes on the application of site privileges

  1. All site privileges should be used judiciously.

As a long term goal we would like to see good grammar, usage and spelling predominate on the site. However, we also don't want to see an endless stream of one-word edits. This is a major reason for the six-character minimum on suggested edits: to accustom users to the idea that edits should be generally by significant in size as well as correct in what they edit.

Other users may not want to see the stylistic feel of their work changed by another person simply because the editor has a different personal style. It doesn't need to be the way you would have done it needs to be correct and clear.

  1. Don't start a fight over it

If someone rolls back an edit do not reinstate it. Doing so makes it about the egos of the people involved. Let it go: it does not reflect on your personal worth. If you think the edit really was necessary, flag it for moderator attention.

  1. Don't take it personally

Someone fixing youyour spelling errors isn't personal. Neither is someone rolling back an edit. Nor their posting some unscientific nonsense. Again, this does not reflect on your personal worth. We have mechanisms for handing these problems without needing to get your dander up.

  1. Don't try to make some kind of subtle statement

The tagging of questions is not a system for rating them. Nor for marking which questions are interesting and which boring. It is purely a system for categorizing the kinds of physics content each question touches on.

Neither edits nor the edit messages should be used as a place to express your opinion about a post. You rate posts for quality by voting. You rate a post's appropriateness by voting or not voting to close (assuming you have that power) or by flagging spam and offensive dreck.

  1. Be professional

This site aims to be a milieu for professional scientists, skilled and capable amateurs and those aspiring to be one. That calls for a certain amount of decorum, and certainly for grown-up behavior. If you wouldn't want your mom or the hiring committee at your next job to see, think twice before doing it.

Some note on the application of site privileges

  1. All site privileges should be used judiciously.

As a long term goal we would like to see good grammar, usage and spelling predominate on the site. However, we also don't want to see an endless stream of one-word edits. This is a major reason for the six-character minimum on suggested edits: to accustom users to the idea that edits should be generally by significant in size as well as correct in what they edit.

Other users may not want to see the stylistic feel of their work changed by another person simply because the editor has a different personal style. It doesn't need to be the way you would have done it needs to be correct and clear.

  1. Don't start a fight over it

If someone rolls back an edit do not reinstate it. Doing so makes it about the egos of the people involved. Let it go: it does not reflect on your personal worth. If you think the edit really was necessary, flag it for moderator attention.

  1. Don't take it personally

Someone fixing you spelling errors isn't personal. Neither is someone rolling back an edit. Nor their posting some unscientific nonsense. Again, this does not reflect on your personal worth. We have mechanisms for handing these problems without needing to get your dander up.

  1. Don't try to make some kind of subtle statement

The tagging of questions is not a system for rating them. Nor for marking which questions are interesting and which boring. It is purely a system for categorizing the kinds of physics content each question touches on.

Neither edits nor the edit messages should be used as a place to express your opinion about a post. You rate posts for quality by voting. You rate a post's appropriateness by voting or not voting to close (assuming you have that power) or by flagging spam and offensive dreck.

  1. Be professional

This site aims to be a milieu for professional scientists, skilled and capable amateurs and those aspiring to be one. That calls for a certain amount of decorum, and certainly for grown-up behavior. If you wouldn't want your mom or the hiring committee at your next job to see, think twice before doing it.

Some notes on the application of site privileges

  1. All site privileges should be used judiciously.

As a long term goal we would like to see good grammar, usage and spelling predominate on the site. However, we also don't want to see an endless stream of one-word edits. This is a major reason for the six-character minimum on suggested edits: to accustom users to the idea that edits should be generally by significant in size as well as correct in what they edit.

Other users may not want to see the stylistic feel of their work changed by another person simply because the editor has a different personal style. It doesn't need to be the way you would have done it needs to be correct and clear.

  1. Don't start a fight over it

If someone rolls back an edit do not reinstate it. Doing so makes it about the egos of the people involved. Let it go: it does not reflect on your personal worth. If you think the edit really was necessary, flag it for moderator attention.

  1. Don't take it personally

Someone fixing your spelling errors isn't personal. Neither is someone rolling back an edit. Nor their posting some unscientific nonsense. Again, this does not reflect on your personal worth. We have mechanisms for handing these problems without needing to get your dander up.

  1. Don't try to make some kind of subtle statement

The tagging of questions is not a system for rating them. Nor for marking which questions are interesting and which boring. It is purely a system for categorizing the kinds of physics content each question touches on.

Neither edits nor the edit messages should be used as a place to express your opinion about a post. You rate posts for quality by voting. You rate a post's appropriateness by voting or not voting to close (assuming you have that power) or by flagging spam and offensive dreck.

  1. Be professional

This site aims to be a milieu for professional scientists, skilled and capable amateurs and those aspiring to be one. That calls for a certain amount of decorum, and certainly for grown-up behavior. If you wouldn't want your mom or the hiring committee at your next job to see, think twice before doing it.

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dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten Mod
dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten Mod
  • 86.7k
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  • 87

Some note on the application of site privileges

  1. All site privileges should be used judiciously.

As a long term goal we would like to see good grammar, usage and spelling predominate on the site. However, we also don't want to see an endless stream of one-word edits. This is a major reason for the six-character minimum on suggested edits: to accustom users to the idea that edits should be generally by significant in size as well as correct in what they edit.

Other users may not want to see the stylistic feel of their work changed by another person simply because the editor has a different personal style. It doesn't need to be the way you would have done it needs to be correct and clear.

  1. Don't start a fight over it

If someone rolls back an edit do not reinstate it. Doing so makes it about the egos of the people involved. Let it go: it does not reflect on your personal worth. If you think the edit really was necessary, flag it for moderator attention.

  1. Don't take it personally

Someone fixing you spelling errors isn't personal. Neither is someone rolling back an edit. Nor their posting some unscientific nonsense. Again, this does not reflect on your personal worth. We have mechanisms for handing these problems without needing to get your dander up.

  1. Don't try to make some kind of subtle statement

The tagging of questions is not a system for rating them. Nor for marking which questions are interesting and which boring. It is purely a system for categorizing the kinds of physics content each question touches on.

Neither edits nor the edit messages should be used as a place to express your opinion about a post. You rate posts for quality by voting. You rate a post's appropriateness by voting or not voting to close (assuming you have that power) or by flagging spam and offensive dreck.

  1. Be professional

This site aims to be a milieu for professional scientists, skilled and capable amateurs and those aspiring to be one. That calls for a certain amount of decorum, and certainly for grown-up behavior. If you wouldn't want your mom or the hiring committee at your next job to see, think twice before doing it.