Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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Where should I put this question?
I have a question about my Physics Stack Exchange post: Is it sufficient to have some anti-gravity generator to make an Alcubierre drive?
Where should I ask this question?
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Turn of automatic greeting message when using auto review comments [closed]
I use AutoReviewComments to easier add comments linking the information on homework questions etc. For example
Hello! Please read How do I ask homework questions on Physics Stack Exchange? and [edit] ...
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How do you get the Excavator badge?
I have edited some posts of mine and others which are older than a year, including modifying some tags, but I did not get the badge. How exactly do you get it? Does it have to be precisely inactive ...
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Opera browser blocks log in Physics Stack Exchange - HSTS issue
I have difficulties to log in the Physics Stack Exchange site via the Opera browser. It says:
Your connection is not private
This server could not prove that it is physics.stackexchange.com; its ...
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Proper formatting of links
Does it make any difference in using
https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13855/305718
instead of
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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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Is this a bug with editing posts?
I just answered a question and edited it within a short period. But this is what I saw:
What happened to the grace period of 5 minutes for editing a post?
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How can I accomplish the removal of comments by another participant, on an answer I had posted, that might be considered derogatory?
About 24 hours ago, I posted an edit to my answer to a PSE question concerning the time when interstellar travel (in any form, or, at least, without specification of its form) might have begun: As ...
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My closed question probably fits better in a different SE — do I have to ask for it to be migrated?
Specifically this question.
Why doesn't my phone scroll if I put a ring flat on the screen?
It's been closed as being too engineering-based, and the Feedback message gave options of other SEs it ...
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Recover deleted image links
If the draft of a post which I was going to publish later, is accidentally deleted, I will lose the links of the images I've already uploaded. Is there a way to recover those links?
This also applies ...
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Why did I get 20 reputation without any upvote or bookmark?
I had got 20 reputation for this question. But, I wonder how I got reputation from that question because, that question claims that no one had upvoted neither downvoted. Even, no one had bookmarked it....
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Why downvotes to question? [duplicate]
I have been hanging around physics SE for quite a while. I am just a student who craves for some knowledge in mathematics and physics and thus I joined SE. I am not an expert.
But to my questions, I ...
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Is there a grace period to post an answer to a question after it is closed?
This answer has been published 23 minutes ago, while the question was closed 25 minutes ago, at the moment. Also this answer was published a minute after closing the question (another).
So how does ...
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Request to reopen an old question which I have edited
Identifying parallel and series capacitors for capacitor system with dieletric inserted
The OP had posted this question with large images and lack of MathJax formatting. I have edited it and made it ...
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How can I find the highest scored posts of all tags?
I like to read the highest scored posts in the PSE. If I watch posts under a specific tag, I can find a tab which sorts posts by votes, under that tag. For instance, if I choose the tag newtonian-...
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An alternative to MathJax in chat
While on the main site equations should always be written using MathJax, this is not natively supported in the chat rooms. There are various hacks for making MathJax work in the chat, but these can be ...
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What happens when upvoting the automatic comment indicating duplicate?
When flagging a question as a duplicate, a comment appears under that post: "Does this answer your question?..."
I have noticed that sometimes this comment has been upvoted. Also I have ...
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User name disappeared
Consider:
Until yesterday, my username was visible in this circle. But now it does not seem to be there. So I have to search my name under the 'users' section to go to my profile. Am I the only one ...
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Undo suggested edits
If I suggest an edit for another's post and immediately realize that I've missed something, I can re-edit it. But can I undo suggested edits (bring the post to the original or previous state) before ...
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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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Close my account please. Delete it [duplicate]
Is it possible to close my account since I was not able to close it in this meta site. Please delete my account.
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My question got closed saying that it was opinion based
I cannot wrap my head around how can you not have a wrong answer in physics. It's not philosophy that we are talking about...
How can I improve my question to open it again?
The question: Can 0 ...
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Notifications about chat room messages
To get someone notified about my message, should I use @reply syntax in chat rooms? Who will get notifications when I send a message to a chat room without ...
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What should I flag as duplicate? New question or old question?
Someone asked this question: Why linear displacement is length of the arc? which is similar to this question: Confused about linear displacement in circular motion. The second question has been ...
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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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Please reopen my question about a physical limit
I asked this question about what it is (if anything) that provides and upper limit to the speed of a turbine in a fluid stream: Maximum rotation rate of a turbine in a fluid with a given speed
It was ...
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Answer deleted when posted to duplicate question
I came across the question Why does the melting point of water decreases with increase in pressure?
and answered it. I found a day later that an earlier, almost identical question had been asked by ...
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Serial voting: procedure for to advise the managers of the SE site
I would like to find out information about voting behaviour against me on this site (Main and/or Meta). Does such information exist? If so, where can I find it?
A stalker or more stalkers on Stack ...
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How to react to comments containing compliments, criticism, etc.?
On this site it says that comments should not contain compliments, criticism etc.. Now if I see such a comment is it better to add another comment making the user aware of the linked site, which would ...
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What is the proper way to use the "laser" tag?
I recently asked this question. The question itself depends on specialist knowledge about laser devices. As you can see in the comments, the user José Andrade said that, by not using the laser tag, a ...
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What should I do if my answer to a question has a downvote for no reason defined?
What should I do if my answer to a question has a downvote for no reason defined?
I do agree if there is maybe some mistake in my answer but I am not able to find. Then, yes. I agree with the downvote....
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Is there a way to retrieve one's own edit of a different participant's PSE question, if the edit was rejected within hours of being sent?
I spent a few hours this morning, attempting an edit of a PSE question (similar to many bearing on those aspects of space that are often described as representing its expansion) that I'd attempted to ...
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While searching questions by tags, why cannot we choose more than one tag only?
While searching questions by tags, why cannot we choose more than one tag only?
Let us say someone wants to narrow the number of proposed questions, for example, from 100 to just 4-5 questions he or ...
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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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I don't understand why my question was closed?
What current would be measured in the following circuit?
There was some commentary about it being a homework question, which it isn't, I genuinely want to understand what happens when the point of ...
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Sudden appearance of a -15 reputation loss on one of my old answers
Regarding What does negative time mean or what does it show?, this morning my answer got a 15 points reputation loss. what happened?
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Where do I find all community/wiki questions?
Okay, I am not even entirely sure what community questions or wiki questions or posts (or answers?) are, but I have heard about them and I get the sense, that they are some kind of posts that are ...
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Wrong page came up when I clicked ask a question
Is it possible to "swim" in a vacuum, taking advantage of relativity? (Is this a joke or hoax?) is a question I posted just now. Everything seems fine now, but while on this page which is an ...
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If I make edits to a bountied question, do people who have answered get notified of it?
I have asked a question and put a bounty on it. Looking at the 2-3 answers, it seems there might be a bit of confusion about what exactly I am looking for in the answer. If I add an edit to my ...
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Why there's no tag of quantum chaos in physics.stackexchange.com?
Why there's no tag of quantum chaos in physics.stackexchange.com?
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Is there any way I can gift some reputation points to another user?
I want to talk in a chatroom with some user to discuss a topic. But that user has less than 20 reputation. Is there any way I can gift him 20 of my reputation points?
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Where should I ask a question about Anatoli Bugorski?
I want to ask about Anatoli Bugorski, the scientist who accidentally put his head in an active particle accelerator. My question is about the shape of his wound, and I don't understand why it was ...
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How can I set a bounty?
I'd like to set a bounty to one of my questions, but I can't find a link for that. Is that because I have commented that question myself?
The question is this.
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Can you follow other users? [duplicate]
Suppose you are interested in another users content (maybe he/she's a professor or you have a lot in common) and you want to keep updated with their questions/answers/content, how do you follow others?...
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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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Request to reopen an old question
I am following the advice given in community wiki answer and making a request to the Physic.SE community to reopen this question.
The reason I believe the question should be reopened is because it is ...
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Conditions for on-site preservation of an answer
I answered a question made by someone who has not been seen on the site since April 29, 2016. It's my impression that "accepted" answers (answers accepted by the participant who had ...
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I know the answer but the site prevents me from answering because I have no reputation. What am I to do?
Why does the bathroom become hot after a bath?
I know the answer but the site prevents me from answering because I have no reputation. What am I to do?
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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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Need help finding old deleted question
I wrote a question, and later provided my own answer. I spent a decent amount of time writing up that answer and I would like to have it for my notes, but it seems like it was deleted at some point.
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