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Why is the 'Physics' Stack Exchange site closing some interesting questions?
I came to the main site for searching an interesting question about a possible universe inside atoms.
Here is a list of questions:
Universe inside atom
Does our Universe reside in the smallest ...
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Deleting answers due to the Homework policy is not beneficial
The homework policy doesn't seems like a counter-productive policy on Stack Exchange.
I understand Stack Exchange policing their questions, but policing removing answers to "homework like ...
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What should be done with questions tagged [resource-recommendations] that are not actually asking for recommendations?
Continuing on from this discussion: Why was this answer made community wiki? — about a question that had the resource-recommendations tag.
As pointed out in Emilio Pisanty's answer, the main ...
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Tags for calibrating answers to the level of question
A problem I find with the site is that often answerers don't know how to calibrate an answer to the level of the questioner. This was both good and bad for me personally as I'd get insight into topics ...
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"You did the measurement wrong" is not an answer
I've seen two hot network questions in the past two days where one of the highly upvoted answers was a variation on "you did your measurement wrong". In both cases, this answer was ...
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Is it encouraged to write an answer to your own question if it is just a summary of the comments?
I recently asked a question on how the uncertainity principle applies to a situation described there. There have been some comments, which, I think are at least partial answers. I commented that and ...
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Another thread about deleted comments
This question is entitled If there is an infinite number of universes doesn't that mean there is a universe where there is not an infinite number of parallel universes?. I downvoted this question ...
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Are "check my understanding" questions permitted?
I know that "check my work" questions are off-topic, I understand the reasons behind that, but does this also apply to "check my understanding" questions?
For example:
My ...
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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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Are questions about the identification of physical phenomena on-topic?
This question was just closed as off-topic. It is a well presented question, which was well-received, and it got a good, canonical answer. The stated reason for closing was that "it doesn't ...
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Care over closing "duplicate" questions
On a number of occasions, I have seen questions closed as duplicates although the linked question either did not have answers, or had only poor answers, and in some cases it had already been closed (...
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Answering question with multiple parts?
Suppose a user post a question with multiple parts.I know it's not recommended but suppose he does.
Ex: A question with multiple parts
I know it's a closed question but it's enough to illustrate my ...
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Is it valid to ask for a brief translation for a paper in a foreign language?
I have been deterred to ask for a brief translation of an old physics Russian paper in the stack. Is it valid to ask such a question according to the policies of the site? If not, could it be worth to ...
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Meta-commentary in questions should sometimes be allowed
I've edited in a 'meta-comment' into this question, which was rolled back by a moderator:
Note: answer accepted for sake of closing the question, though parts remain unanswered, and will be ...
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Asking if the following post could be suitable for the main site Physics Stack Exchange
I've cross-posted yesterday this on Meta of the site MathOverflow Asking if the following post could be suitable for the main site MathOverflow.
I would like to ask if the following questions can be ...
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Easing our policy for some topics
At Physics StackExchange, we discuss almost all types of physics topics. Some get more attention and some get less, but it depends upon various things, including our site policy. Our policy has been ...
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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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Add a link and hint to use MathJax to the new question dialog
We like to see MathJax used on Physics SE for equations, but at present when you are typing in a new question I think there is no on-screen link to the MathJax "guide" or a reminder to use ...
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What should I do to prove that my question is not similar to existing questions?
I am getting a notification that this question: If Newton's third law is true, why do things compress?
is similar to this question:
If Newton's third law is true, why can we sink in sand?
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Is error-analysis not a physics topic?
I have a question about my Physics Stack Exchange post: How to incorporate the uncertainty of the model coefficients in the prediction interval of a multiple linear regression
I am dealing with a ...
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How should I handle questions that could belong to physics.SE and other, more specialized, Stack Exchange websites?
First of all, I joined physics.SE only for the purpose of asking this question on Meta.
I asked a couple of questions regarding acoustic in sound.SE. For example What are combs, nodes and how to ...
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Badly formatted questions and answers
There are several questions like this one, which have basic formatting issues. I'm not talking about formulas, which are not in MathJax, but rather
no punctuation (not the case in the linked question)...
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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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Can I ask about these shoes from Dr.Stone? [duplicate]
I'm watching Dr.Stone (an anime/manga) and have noticed the rather odd shoe design used by a people of a village (shown below). Can I ask about how those shoes would be of benefit to the environment ...
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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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Completely changing a question vs asking a new question [duplicate]
When a OP has one of their questions closed one of the main desirable outcomes is for the OP to edit the question to address the issues that led to the closure. However, where should we draw the line ...
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The new "Highly active..." post notice is somewhat jarring, particularly for the owner of the question
Minor issue .. I asked this question:
http://physics.stackexchange.com/q/223610
Currently the question has the callout:
"Highly active question. You have enough reputation to answer this question....
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Is it okay to give a link to video lecture as reference source?
Are questions like this allowed? It seems mentioning video link in a question post is against rules but I never get to read code of conduct until now. I explain everything in my question post and give ...
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Are there certain times of day that are best for posting Questions and Answers on Physics Stack Exchange as of late 2019? [duplicate]
I was wondering if there are certain times of day, and of the week that questions are most likely to get the most high quality answers on Physics Stack Exchange accounting for the questions asked, and ...
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Can we do better at reducing bike-shedding?
"Bike-shedding" is a phenomenon where there is excessive discussion of a topic because it seems easy, so everyone feels that they are competent to discuss it. We seem to have a couple of recent ...
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Are all history questions now off-topic? [duplicate]
I saw that this question: Einstein's initial clue that spacetime is curved being flagged as off-topic, as it belongs on History of Science SE. However, there is a tag here for 'history' and it ...
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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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Can we consider MR Imaging questions as on-topic unless they ask for specific engineering solutions?
Context: This question on basic principles of image formation in medical MRI was asked in May 2014, received an accepted answer at the time, and was left unchallenged until August 2019, at which point ...
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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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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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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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No response to question
I recently asked a question which did not receive any attention at all (no comments or answers, just a like). What should I do?
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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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What, really, is a good question?
So it seems like the general consensus of a "good" question is one that includes adequate research/reasoning to provide context for/justify the question being asked, and if applicable cites sources ...
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Asking about the origin of an equation?
Some grad colleagues in a local forum were asking about a certain system of equations of unknown origin, and I was wondering if I would be allowed to ask about it in the Physics Stack Exchange. My ...
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Banes and Boons of "extra" Bounties
In the past few weeks I have seen users placing "extra" bounties on questions with answers that are "exemplary and worthy of an additional bounty." While the said answers undoubtedly make some of the ...
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How to handle references to literature in predatory journals
Are questions or answers that cite, refer to or are based on work published in predatory journals (in the sense discussed here, here, or here) to be tolerated?
If no, how do we check if a journal is ...
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Where am I supposed ask questions regarding Physics education/research?
I asked this as a soft question How to explore Physics research as an undergraduate, keeping in mind the ever increasing weightage on publications?
I have explictly asked if this is the right place ...
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An Issue with Detecting Identical Titles
I was editing a question titled "newton's law of restitution" and I edited the title to "Newton's law of restitution" (There were latex issues in the body of the question and I was not editing the ...
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Data collection: When should (or shouldn't) we exclude questions from the Hot Network Questions list?
The SE team has made
several promising changes to the "Hot Network Questions" system.
If you have previously found HNQs to be problematic, you are invited to participate in the discussion ...
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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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