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11 questions linked to/from Have we lost the necessary critical mass of professional physicists?
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Banning homework: vote and documentation
It was proposed recently on meta that, as part of a broader programme of increasing the site quality, we ban homework questions altogether. This proposal seems to have really quite strong support. On ...
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How to Help the Physics.SE grow (member-wise)? Qualitatively as well as Quantitatively
Recently some of our (high rep) professional users have either suspended their activities or deleted their account. For example :
Ben Crowell (Deleted)
dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten♦ (suspended his ...
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How would you review your experiences at Physics Stack Exchange?
I am trying to get a holistic picture of the users' opinions on the site. Both positive and negative reviews are welcome. Being a reasonably broad topic, I will pose some specific questions. Feel free ...
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Are we gaining or losing non-novice users?
In any difficult field of endeavor -- ballet, mountaineering, violin-playing, physics -- there are going to be far more people in the world who have devoted a relatively small number of hours to the ...
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How can we improve the participation of subject experts and enthusiastic physics students in chat?
I don't use the main site much, but I have been a regular participant on Physics SE's main chat: The h Bar, for the past two years. Lately, I have been noticing a drastic drop in the number of subject ...
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applied physics based questions
I have to be honest, I am seriously unsure as to whether applied/experimental physics questions would be welcomed here. There are a lot involved in theoretical physics (which is great), but, would ...
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Would the level of PSE benefit from an 'entry exam' of sorts?
I'm sure I'm not the only one who regrets Ben Crowell's decision to become unactive on PSE. He stated the reason for his departure in this post addressing the ratio of professional physicist users to ...
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Should contributions to the community be made compulsory?
Just yesterday, I read this and there dmckee♦ posted this comment, and he said:
...relatively small fraction of the eligible users apply their power with any regularity.
Now there is already a ...
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Revisiting the creation of a new site: Physics Learners
There has been a lot of discussion in the past in regard to this.
And a page Physics homework questions on Area51.
On that page you will find a suggestion, to change the name of the site to Physics ...
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How much are 3k+ users moderating through the review queue?
This question is an offshoot of Ben Crowell's question Have we lost the necessary critical mass of professional physicists?, and I'm asking it separately to help avoid multi-threaded comment ...
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Why were these homework questions closed?
Friction influencing the motion of a mass and non-inertial frame of reference
Kirchoff's rules and RC circuits
It is pretty apparent that in both of these questions, the user was legitimately ...