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Should I delete and repost my question if the only answer to my question was deleted?
So I had asked this
Question a few days ago and I had received an answer which I had a few doubts in. I tried to clarify my doubts by posting them in the comments section but the answer is no longer ...
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How frequently can I ask questions on one site and in one tag?
When I'm studying physics, I get questions I can't answer constantly. I usually leave a question after I try to solve it 2 or 3 times and don't get anywhere. I return to it again after a week or two ...
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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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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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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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Meta question displays differently in Home and Questions
On the Home page of Physics Meta, the question “Why can I still no longer ask questions?” is attributed to user250478, but on the Questions page it is attributed to a user who uses his name. Why do ...
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Can a question be closed if it exists on another Stack Exchange site?
Can a question be closed or called a duplicate if it has already been asked with or without answers on another Stack Exchange site?
Since many topics of physics and biology tend to intersect with ...
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Possibility to protect question even when closed?
This PSE question is now closed for being a duplicate. This means that no one (less than 10k rep?/no unprotect priv.) can answer. The purpose of "protect question" is to "Protect this ...
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A question on having my questions closed
How exactly does having a question that I posted being closed, affect me? Does it increase the chance that I'll be banned?
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(How) Should I move a question from Math SE to Physics SE?
I asked a math question https://math.stackexchange.com/q/4475036/342834 in an area where physicists are likely to have a great deal of practical background. I had originally intended to post the ...
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Questions being responded to negatively
I know that there are some similar questions like this one, but I have a genuine concern. For example, the question A puzzling simple question on thermodynamics or another I had deleted.
Apparently ...
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I am not a student and my questions are not "homework". I am a hobbyist. Do I need to tag these as homework questions?
I solve physics problems from a textbook that I enjoy. However, I am not a student and my questions are not "homework". I am a hobbyist. Do I need to tag these as homework questions? (I was ...
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How do I see the reason a question was closed?
I often see "question has been closed" sometimes stating "off topic" with no other rationale. It says potential improvements should "address reasons for closure," but I'...
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How can we bring an old question back to the users' attention?
The question we want to ask might have been posted by another user years ago. It is possible that the question did not get any answers or the answers were/are not satisfactory.
What should we do for ...
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When does a closed question become open?
I have posted a question, Fidelity between initial state and final state. But due to inadequate details, it got closed. Now I have added details as much as possible. When will my question open again?
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Reopen my question on physics [duplicate]
I'm sorry for being asking non clarified questions. That won't be repeated. Is it ok to remove the ban?
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I am being told conflicting resolutions for fixing a closed question, what should I do?
I had a question that was closed, and I was given the following instructions:
Those questions listed did not provide me with the answer to my question, so I followed the advice and opened a new ...
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Why can't I vote two times to reopen a question?
This question received hot attention initially. Then it was closed. I and others didn't agree and voted to reopen. And so it was. Then, again, the question was closed. I wanted to reopen it, but ...
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Where are the new questions?
I apologize if I am delusional and imagined this, but I believe that in a not-so-distant past it was possible to display questions sorted by date so as to get the most recent ones on top of the list. ...
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Is it possible to know why a question vanished from my "recent inbox messages"?
I have been for several days discussing a question with the asker using comments. Yesterday a message appeared asking me if I wanted to move the discussion to a chat. I asked the question asker if he ...
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Why don't some questions on Physics Stack Exchange have any answers for the past many years with very high votes? Why are they not active now?
The below links are two examples of such questions which are not answered in 7-8 years. I also read on that questions that they were active some 3-4 years ago. What is the problem with these types of ...
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Where does scoring of questions and answers come from?
I see that some of my questions and answers have a positive and negative integer score. Where does this score come from?
I am new on this site.
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Do reopen votes expire or disappear?
I noticed that a question where I had cast a reopen vote now is listed as having no reopen votes. Do reopen votes disappear under certain circumstances or expire? Do close votes also do the same?
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A question (which now looks like it was previously incomplete) being modified in such away that the previous answers become useless
This question was posted by user 202. As can be seen from the edit history that the question was incomplete at first(though I didn't knew that till today) (the previous question was scattered all over ...
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Why aren't my questions marked as hot?
I've asked a several questions (for example, one about gravity waves (3k views) in the two last days With more than 2k views. So not too long ago. There is another question (I don't want with say who ...
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How to get a direct link to a particular answer?
I'm kinda sure that I have seen direct links to answers posted before. How can I get a link to a particular answer? Or am I wrong?
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Are the criteria for an automatic question ban known? [duplicate]
I’m asking because I noticed a member who has asked five questions, all of which have been significantly downvoted (on average, worse than -7), but who has not received a ban. I thought that members ...
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Time of waiting to exit out from the question ban [duplicate]
Having since a few days this message "You have reached your question limit. Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account. See the Help Center to learn more."
I wanted to know the ...
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Unable to Post Questions [duplicate]
I was just now trying to post a question via my Android based smartphone using the App on Physics SE but it is not accepting my question and sending a message stating that we are no longer accepting ...
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How work Physics.SE and Mathematics.SE about mathematical/physic question
In these two years I'm always trying to understand how to write well my questions.
Some of my Physics questions necessarily also require mathematical knowledge that I don't have at the moment and the ...
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Why am I not allowed to ask a question? [duplicate]
I do not understand why should I be barred from asking questions despite having asked some question with very good reputations.
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What's required for the lifting of a temporary question ban?
Although it has been in place for more than a year, the only question ban I've encountered on any Stack Exchange site was a temporary one that would have supposedly allowed me to ask one more question ...
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Questions about statements in papers
I often read papers and am stuck on important statements/equations that are not satisfactorily explained to my understanding. Sometimes references are provided, but even then it's cumbersome to ...
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What can I do other than wait and edit questions if I am blocked from asking for a while?
I am at a road block because I have some questions with good answers and I don't want to delete them what else can I do?
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I am having trouble improving how my questions are received
Is there a way I can improve how my current questions are received because no matter what I do they get received worse? They don't even tell me what needs improvement.
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What to do if my question ban is not getting removed?
I have read on the Physics S.E website that users get a chance to ask question after 6 months of question ban
If you're unable to improve your existing questions, you'll get the chance to ask a new ...
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Why I cannot ask question? [duplicate]
I cannot post a question anymore! What can I do to solve this problem? I think somebody did not like my questions and finally, a m... f... kills me. I do not have a lot of time. What can I do?
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Why am I blocked from posting further questions?
As all community members know I am just a beginner of physics. Mistakes often happens from everyone. Why can't everyone give me a second chance to blot out my mistakes and this is how I can improve my ...
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How do I make these questions better?
I have been banned from Physics Stack Exchange, and I think it is mainly because of these two questions which were not received well. The thing is that for both these questions I have received hints ...
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What to flag for "lack of basic research" questions? [duplicate]
There have been a variety of questions that shouldn't be allowed under current site rules because they are very clearly lacking basic research - 2 minutes on google would probably help them with their ...
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How to stop asking duplicate questions?
Whenever I ask a question that is found to be duplicate. If I search the question previously to make sure it was not asked before it does not appear as the language of me and the question is not the ...
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Duration between two questions which I can ask
How frequently I an ask a question? Stack exchange says we are no longer accepting questions from this account why?
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After Three years I returned to stackexchange to ask one question and get question banned .......:p [duplicate]
After three years I returned to stackexchange to ask one question. Because it was not recieved well, I am now banned from asking with this account. Really? Three years on and there is no room for one ...
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Ping/Reference a user in the core text of a question
One more question. Is it OK to reference a particular user in the text of a question (right at the end of the post with an @), just to be sure that that user gets to read my question (he receives an ...
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Approved/OK form of cross posting
Let us say I have (and I have!) a very technical question related to the (proper) mathematical formulation of physical theories. Should I ask it in one section only (let's say mathematics) and wait ...
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Why was I blocked from asking a question despite recently having only positive answer and question reactions?
In my early days of using Physics Stack Exchange, I had no idea how the website worked and admittedly didn't do my research. And I'm talking about one question.
I've asked only 6 questions - two with ...
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Where can closed and deleted questions and comments be searched for - and how can deletion be appealed? [duplicate]
I have a question that was deleted and some closed when I was just getting started as an author (again here after many years). I did not think the closure and deletion was fair, but I had no ...
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How to reformulate a question?
If a better formulation for a question is reached should the question be deleted and asked again together with copying the already given answers or just edited?
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Asking and answering questions in another language than English
I will start by referring to a question on MSE (Math Stack Exchange) (this) and an answer on Physics Stack Exchange Meta (this). Let me cite the questioner on MSE:
Imagine I want to ask an extremely ...
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