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How I learned to stop worrying and start asking questions
As has been noted in the past, particularly in Question self-destruction: why don't experts ask more questions? and in Does reputation correlate with the question-to-answer ratio?, and also here, this ...
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Education tag and questions on physics education
Today, I have seen this question closed as an opinion-based question.
I have read previous (short) discussions about the issue of questions on physics education topics in SE (see also this), but I do ...
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Why are "big-list" questions no longer allowed?
I've recently seen the following (actually very long and well accepted) question on MathOverflow. Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics. Which I think is a great "question" and one ...
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Why Does Marking a Question As a Duplicate Require the Original Question to Be Well-Answered?
If a recently asked question which is exactly the same as (or is contained in) an old question then why does marking the new question as a duplicate require the old question to have an either upvoted ...
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Math and engineering questions: where do we draw the line?
I was reading through some old meta discussions recently, and I was interested in some of the points made, but they never quite seemed to be implemented or discussed further. They also seemed to be ...
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Maybe add an indicator showing level of question
There is an existing discussion/request for a system to tag or otherwise indicate level of questions:
Can we have a level-of-question tag please?
Differentiate research-level questions?
The idea is ...
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I am not able to understand what should I do on this question to avoid it from being downvoted?
Please help me understanding about How I should improve my questions like this-
How does torque operate? What will be going on with disc?
from being downvoted?
I think I have given the specific ...
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How does a simple question get put hold for being unclear?
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/277688/space-elevator-solved
I don't understand what is unclear about this question?
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Why close list-based questions?
I'm confused about the rationale behind closing list-based questions. The problem is that almost any question can be rephrased into a list question, and vice versa. Consider the following examples:
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Views for a question
If a person opens a particular question more than once, are the views incremented just once or multiple times?
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Redirecting questions related to basic definition/misunderstanding of entropy and black holes
Every 2-3 days a question pops up on the site related to basic definition/misunderstanding of entropy/black holes. In the process of searching for related questions, I find that there are many answers ...
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Why is the new CAPTCHA troubling me from posting questions?
Frustrating! The new CAPTCHA really begger's description. First, they want to type a number for verification, then they ask to copy a big code and to paste it. Then what?? Nothing happens! 2 minuites ...
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I cannot post questions
I can't post questions on the website, I click post and it takes me to the "/questions/ask/submit" page. Nothing happens after that.
Please help!
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What can I do to improve this question?
I think there is some confusion regarding my question (which is not obvious to me). And for now it has $4$ downvotes and $2$ upvotes (and the comment section has become a mess).
Can someone enlighten ...
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Examples of the questioner going the extra mile
I'm trying to improve my penning-down-a-question skills. I have been through the guidelines and this great meta post. I was hoping to get some examples (/list) of a well phrased question. In order to ...
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Unclear What You're Asking
I recently posted a question closely related to (but not identical to) this one. I promise not to continue posting variants.
That said: I have just voted to close this question as "unclear what ...
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Community♦ Gifted questions
On Community♦'s page if says and I quote :
{Randomly poke old unanswered questions every hour so they get some attention}
What algorithm is used for this random throws of questions ? Does it bring ...
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