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12 questions linked to/from How can we improve the participation of subject experts and enthusiastic physics students in chat?
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My question was closed on Phys.SE. Can you recommend me another Internet site where my question might be on-topic?
My question was closed1 on Phys.SE. Can you recommend me another Internet site where my question might be on-topic?
Here we keep a list of other Internet sites that might help students2 of physics. ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2018 [duplicate]
It's almost February in 2018, which isn't supposed to be the proper time to cycle these, but for this year it'll be once again, so we'll be refreshing the Community Promotion Ads for this year now!
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Have we lost the necessary critical mass of professional physicists?
A while back, we had this discussion in which we tried to measure quantitatively whether the site was gaining or losing non-novice users. Since then, I've had the distinct subjective impression that ...
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2019 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Physics is scheduled for an election next week, April 22nd 2019. In ...
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Discouraging the use of textual screenshots in questions
[This was originally posted as an answer to another question and was transformed into a question following a comment to this effect.]
To discourage rapid postings of the type alluded to in another ...
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The h Bar is always open! (Chat Guidelines)
The main chat room for Physics SE is called the h Bar (yeah, it's a cool name); it has been an active place for a while now, and a lot of you have probably popped in at some point of time. However, ...
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Let's have a journal club
This idea is not totally original: there was at least an attempt at a journal club in chat in 2011. That, in turn, was inspired by mbq's (and Cross Validated) idea, which seems to have happened at ...
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Should discussions on topics which disturb long time users of the chat room be banned?
As some of you might know about the "argument" which took place between me and another long-time user of the hBar about discussion of "JEE related stuff". As far as those ...
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Physics Stack Exchange "Ask me anything" (AMA)
Purpose
The user base of Physics Stack Exchange is rather diverse in terms of cultural background, career progress, field of expertise, and personality.
While the discussion in hbar is lively, it is ...
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Why do software developers make up such a prominent part of Physics SE?
A large number of our most active members are software developers (emphasis on large, because there are way more than I'd intuitively expect). At least three of our moderators mention in their "about ...
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redirecting off-topic homework-and-exercises questions to appropriate sites
Proposal
When homework-and-exercises questions are voted off topic and put on hold then the OP should be directed to the Meta Question which offers a choice of alternative sites.
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Should we stop having biweekly chat sessions?
For about five years we've been having chat sessions every two weeks - they started as a way to build up activity in the chat room, but it's also been a nice way to engender a sense of community ...
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