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Users > Voters on Meta Page: I cannot be the only one voting this month!
I just noticed something extremely strange: on my end, I appear to be the only person that has voted on any Physices.SE Meta Posts this entire month. I'll post a screenshot since this is unbelievable ...
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If the current system of closing questions functions well, why are there particularly well-received questions that are closed?
A well-received question that receives a large amount of upvotes means that the physics community at large likes the question and thinks that it is a meaningful question. Questions with very large ...
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Who closed my question?
I asked a question Question about entanglement. I would expect that people commenting on the question would be familiar with this phenomenon and its philosophical issues. But someone made a comment ...
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What to do when a non-duplicate question has the answer?
There is a question asked a few days ago on "Reaching 50% the speed of light using a centrifuge" that is effectively answered by a very nice answer to a different question on "Does a ...
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Can I get a feedback for how long my questions are going to be locked due to the disputes about them, at least approximately?
I've read What is a locked post? but I don't know, which option was chosen by moderators for my two posts and for what reason. In my case, 3-4 days have already passed. Or maybe they've been locked ...
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Why was Yearling badge awarded twice 3 days apart?
When I read it that this badge can be awarded multiple times I thought it means every year it will be awarded once to the active member.
But I see that my own badge is awarded twice and only 3 days ...
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Why is this question considered of low quality?
I have posted this question. I have considered that it may not seem like a homework question. Instead I have just asked if energy could be used to calculate the parameters needed apart from the ...
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Isn't convention tag meant to allow discussion on opinions?
I recently asked this question which got closed because its answer was based on opinions. But that was exactly the point of my question, and hence the usage of tag of "convention". So I am ...
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How to resolve multiple open duplicates of essentially the same question
There are 4 variations of essentially the same question about the effect of pressure on dew point. From oldest to newest they are:
How does athmospheric pressure influence dewpoint?
To calculate the ...
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Help finding a question about charged metal block expanding in volume
Either myself or someone else had asked a question here about how the volume of a metal block changes as it becomes positively charged (extracting electrons).
Going through my question history I ...
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Apparently incomplete support of mhchem on Physics
$\require{mhchem}$
Inspired by a question on chemistry.se (now closed, because it was a cross post from Phys.SE), I observe the mhchem extension can be used here provided the question/answer contains ...
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Why is my question off-topic?
The question doesn't involve the application of any physical principles to the design or manufacture of any real-world product, nor does it involve any consideration for practical utility*, costs, ...
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What to do with a horrible question haunting my question record?
The third question I posted to this site was, in retrospect, awful. I deleted it after an hour of it being posted and learned to pose better questions since.
Anyway, I’ve become aware that a deleted ...
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Shortened links to PSE posts generated by the "cite" feature don't seem to be added to the Linked tab (as of August 27, 2023)
I noticed something about the Linked tab mechanism that I wanted to bring to attention. In this post of mine, I linked to two physics stackexchange posts (please do ...
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Mainstream Physics: Unconfirmed Particles
Asking regarding potential questions I might pose soon. While asking a well formulated question about tachyons in special relativity is allowed (as I did last week), I’m wondering how far that goes.
I’...
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How do we keep new users interested?
Beginning from What EXACTLY is Time? downwards are closed 6 questions.
That may all have its justification, but if we start closing everything, this site will eventually be dead. People will simply ...
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Question closed as homework-like even though it clearly isn't
My question: If an observer at the middle of a spaceship shines laser in both directions and the ship changes on contact with laser, what will earth observer see? was closed as homework-like. It's a ...
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How can I know which is the oldest tag of Physics Stack Exchange?
How can I know which is the oldest tag of Physics Stack Exchange?
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Site recommendation - basic question concerning Ohm's law
Taking in to account the majority of posts and comments concerning very basic (not homework) questions here: What can be done about the (current) ongoing flood of homework and very basic questions ...
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What is the definition of fringe science/was someone like Bruno Augenstein a fringe scientist?
Years ago, I posted a question about using transfinite arithmetic in relation to renormalization, and if memory serves me right, my question was closed for being "fringe." So imagine my ...
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How can arrows connecting verbiage in an incorrect sequence to diagrams be edited?
In posts on a PSE Q&A, I found two diagrams in this answer, each connected to verbiage by arrows in a sequence that conflicts with information in a more recent NASA video. As my experience ...
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Moderators closing question for one reason, reopening it after suggested corrections and closing it again for different reason, so it can be auto-del
My question is Expanding confusion: Time integral of the reciprocal of the scaling factor from Hubble parameter equation. It was closed for the second time for a different reason - "needing ...
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One of moderators keeps deleting one last single comment with the crucial piece of information, that clearly explains, why the given answer is wrong
How to interpret the velocity from relativistic Doppler effect/equation for the redshift of cosmic background radiation?
Another issue is that all recent downvotes on the original question are related ...
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Why haven’t I got this badge yet?
I have gotten 30 of the required 30 days with well received questions required to get inquisitive and yet I’ve not been awarded the badge, why is this?
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What is this question lacking?
Consider this question:
I have been thinking about the idea of illusionary current. Consider the following situation
I have a rod which has a mass $m$ and hence does have the virtue to perform work ...
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Question disappeared
Yesterday I took sometime to try to understand a mix up of duplicates, due to a user submitting three times a question, and flagged it for a moderator.
This morning all three questions have ...
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Why was this question about the recent superconductivity experiment closed?
Regarding the recent superconductivity claims video
The question is about a specific experiment. The reason for closure is that this is about an unpublished theory.
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Am I alone or the font of the site is changed?
I realized the font of question titles and score numbers are bigger than before. Am I alone or does anyone experience the same thing? When you want to start writing your question you see it as well.
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What is wrong with this question?
I ask you to reopen my question which has nothing to do with an alleged homework:
A problem involving adiabatic expansion of ideal gas
or at least explain what is wrong with it.
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How is my question off topic when I'm asking what would be the outcome of a particular experiment and what would the results mean?
My question here was recently closed marked as off topic and not main stream physics and serially downvoted with no one even understanding the question in my opinion.
I don't think this is fair.
I ...
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Is this "serial downvoting"?
I'm just now looking at my recent reputation changes and I see eight downvotes on various different answers I posted over seemingly one single day.
I'm wondering if this is serial downvoting by a ...
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How do we deal with interdisciplinary questions?
As the borders between various disciplines are slowly vanishing with the advent of interdisciplinary areas like Biophysics, Environmental and climate studies, and Complex systems, how do we deal with ...
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Should we flag a duplicate question if it has more engagements comparing the original post?
Look at this question: Does the universe have a center?. (original, unpopular)
Now, look at this one: Did the Big Bang happen at a point?. (duplicate, famous)
If you notice, the duplicate post has a ...
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Formally asking for allowing this *specific* list like question about divergent series
So I'm interested in formally asking if this question to collect examples of divergent series in physics can be opened:
There are examples of this that come up in QFT and I found one example closer to ...
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Why does my question need 'details or clarity?'
I asked this question, which is simply about how an outside observer would observe an in falling object into a black hole. The question is simple and clear: Due to the slowing of time as the event ...
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What is the proper way to make a community wiki at physics.stackexchange?
So I posted this: A List of Divergent Series and Where they appear in Physics?
And I want it to be a community wiki not a standard Q&A question.
The process here appears to be done on the ...
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Why are all questions given a tag homework and exercise and then closed?
Recently, I wrote a question (you can see here). Which doesn't involve finding the value of an expression, nor a difficult calculation.
The first thing: This should not be considered a "homework ...
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How can I write a concise and complete question?
So I go a downvote on a question which I suspect is related to the comment:
"You haven't really demonstrated a problem here, and it looks like there's a lot more information than needed to set ...
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Reopening old closed questions
My question is motivated by this related post, which questions the practices for closing [homework-and-exercises] questions. My own question is about older posts that remain closed and about the ...
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Adding tags to review queues
I recently encountered the review queues section, where I found that questions of my watching tags don't appear.
It would be really nice if the site adds this functionality.
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Should new tags only be created when **no** other tags apply, or just generally when there's not one that applies to a given relevant topic?
On the privileges page for creating tags it says:
When should I create new tags?
Most common tags already exist on a mature site. You should always favor existing tags; only create new tags when you ...
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MathJax does not show the equations properly
I tried to answer a question and in the edit mode MathJax shows the equations properly, but when I click on "save" some equations are not rendered (?) at all, and I see only the MathJax code....
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Is there somewhere that we could officially recommend "companion" Stack Exchange sites?
Some Stack Exchange sites are clearly closely related to each other. For example, "companions" of the physics Stack Exchange site might include:
Astronomy
History of Science and Mathematics
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Physics.SE remains a site by humans, for humans
We, the moderators of physics.SE, are deeply concerned about the recently announced "network policy" regarding computer-generated content on the SE network, which effectively attempts to ...
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Has activity on Physics Stack Exchanged decreased over the years?
When I look through questions on Stack Exchange, it appears that the community used to be more active. It feels like the most often years I see are 2013-15. The majority of questions I come across ...
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I can't ask questions even if there are only 2 questions with negative points, why?
I have been actively asking and answering but now it seems like just because of some negative votes I am unable to ask questions, and downvotes don't even leave the comments.
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How is a moderator's job?
Ok, this might be a little personal and not much useful, but I am just curious, so bear with me.
First
Is a moderator's job a full-time paying one or is it more like a hobby, like for most other users?...
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Some doubts about the coherence between rules and practice
Observing the behavior of many community members about closing votes, I feel more and more doubtful about the coherence between the rules written in the help center and the practice. The last example ...
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Random avatar change
For some reason my avatar just randomly changed over the weekend from the one on the left to the one on the right
Is there any reason that it was changed? I did not do so deliberately but I certainly ...
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Why downvotes on three separate answers in a short amount of time, two times?
It seems that someone doesn't like me, for whatever reason, because three answers of mine have been downvoted in less than one minute the Mar 19 at 8:45 (votes corrected now):
Can black holes ...
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