Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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How can I start a conversation with a specific user (in chat or otherwise)?
Say I provided an answer to a question, and then another user commented on my answer pointing out some mistakes. I realise my answer has serious flaws and decided to delete it.
Now, I want to talk to ...
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Error on bounty assignment
My fault, when assigning bounty to his question:
Lagrangian mechanics, infinitesimal movements expressed in coordinate basis
I've pushed on an answer not the expected one (yes, even after the warning ...
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Adding length-contraction tag won't work
I recently asked this question. Before posting, I added the tags special-relativity and length-contraction, but after posting, only the special-relativity tag remained. I tried multiple times to edit ...
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Question with broad application closed as homework question
I just asked a question about how to figure out how fast a room will cool, and what the name for this type of problem is, so I can do more research, and potentially find the answer to it in the ...
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Closed question appeal, improvement
Understanding the total energy in a AA battery
It's not a homework question, and seems very applicable to others. My question had very little to do with the math, and everything to do with the ...
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Creating a separate platform for books and research papers?
Physics Stack Exchange is doing well in terms of helping thousands of students and researchers in spreading the understanding of physics, with its world best question-and-answer scheme, but making ...
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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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What is the difference between 'Physics' and 'Physics Meta'?
I recently joined Stack Exchange. So I am not used to this system (also I'm a foreigner; Korean). I joined this group because I want to get physics information. But there are two choices: Physics and ...
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Should I use VLQ flags for inadequate/one-line answers?
I am a bit confused about how to use the VLQ flag. I saw this one-line answer and thus left a comment asking the OP to elaborate and at the same time flagged it as a VLQ answer, because the info of ...
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Transfer answer from duplicate unregistered user account
I answered a question as not registered user, after that I registered, is it possible to transfer the not-registered answer to my registered account?
The answer gave is here:
Is there a difference in ...
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What should be done about a user asking the same question 5 times in two days?
A user has asked five almost identical questions about a misunderstanding of rope tension during the past two days. They are receiving similar answers, but don't agree with or accept any of them.
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Question closed as an off-topic homework question although it is clearly not a homework question
A question I asked has been closed by a moderator as an off-topic homework-like question, although it is clearly not a homework question.
Why was it closed as being homework-like?
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Thought experiment closed as off-topic and better suited for engineering. But that's a thought experiment
The question in consideration is: Could there theoretically exist a material so light, that it can levitate in the air just due to the in height decreasing air pressure?
I think that's definitely a ...
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Can one add 'likely plagiarism' on the close a question option? [closed]
Questions and answers can easily be plagiarised.
There ought to be some way of saying so.
Is this possible?
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Why can't I see previous edits when I click 'edit' on a question?
Is this deliberate?
I don't see any previous edits when I click on the edit button. This has been the case for the last few days.
Why?
edit
To be more precise, when I have clicked on edit in ...
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Where are the community guidelines in dealing with plagiarism?
Plagiarism online is something of a plague.
What guidelines does this site set itself in detecting and dealing with such cases?
Are there any?
And if so, can someone point me towards it?
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“Leave Open” vote given by mistake
It is the second time it happens. I pressed by mistake the button "leave open" when examining a post in the Close Votes queue.
I did not find a way to change the vote (is there?). Are there ...
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Instead of just down-voting a new post, can't the same person care to explain why? [duplicate]
I have a question about my Physics Stack Exchange post: How to exactly evaluate the Magnetic Field associated with the given Electric Field in a lossy medium?
My question here is that instead of just ...
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Flagging vandalism
If I see a post which is vandalism (like this one, only visible to 10k users -- consisting of random characters), what am I supposed to flag it as? (Concretely, I remember both "spam" and "rude or ...
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How can a user participate on Physics Stack exchange properly if the user have some problems with English Language
We all know users on our PSE come from all parts of the world and it seems obvious that if someone is using the internet he/she must be writing and understanding English properly. But in some ...
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How can I flag a harmful anonymous suggested edit?
I'm new to the "Suggested Edits" review queue. Recently, I was asked to review an edit suggested by an anonymous user which if accepted would actively harm our site. I rejected the edit. Is there a ...
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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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Many deleted users
Apparently, quite a number of users have been deleted in the last month or so. I've noticed it because, as I haven't been very active lately, my rep score has been declining due to their removed votes....
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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 this question be salvaged? (updated)
I am making an analogy between the history of arts and physics and wanted to make sure that the physics side is correct. As such, the question is probably not a good fit for this site, but maybe it ...
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Is there any way to know how many users are currently online at a given time? [duplicate]
Usually I find that maximum traffic occurs on this site around (8:00 pm to 4:00 am, as per Indian Standard Time (IST, UTC+05:30)), but I don't have any concrete data related to it. So
Is there a way ...
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Is there any way to retract my suggested edit?
I often suggest tag edits in which I add the homework-and-exercises tag to homework like questions. In some cases, these questions are closed as off topic even before my edit is reviewed. So, in that ...
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How can I re-flag a question?
There are some posts which I have flagged and some action is genuinely required for those posts. I would say they are recent, but there were even more recent flags raised by me which were quickly ...
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Who posts in the “Backup Room -The H-Bar”?
While visiting the chat section I found a room named Backup Room – The h Bar.Though it seems to me that people don't chat over there rather I found that list of hot network questions are posted. But ...
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Why is the +number in the physics SE users list different from the +number in my profile (on a yearly basis)?
My reputation change on the user list on the Physics SE site this year is about +1500, as can be seen. But according to my profile on that site which can also be seen, my reputation change is only ...
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Possible vandalism?
Sorry to bother everyone, but I found this particular link over on the physics main page Could the recent evidence of a gravitational force orbiting the solar system indicate not the existence of a ...
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Should I myself edit the question or encourage the OP to do so?
Everyday, many questions are posted on this site(Physics SE) which need to be edited because of many different reasons (like MathJax, grammar, typos, tags etc.). Now, I am okay with the grammar, typos,...
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Should I delete my comments once the OP has acted accordingly?
The title is a bit vague. Let me explain.
Now, just yesterday, I posted a comment like this and this. In these comments, I requested the OP to use Mathjax and to avoid using images. Now, both the ...
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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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Downvoting costs one reputation point
Today I downvoted an answer and flagged it, too. Now I get negative scores. Presumably, because I wrote a comment on a bad answer, which is downvoted by others too.
Although, I do not care too much ...
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Should I edit closed or duplicate, but recently active questions?
The title says it all.
While surfing through the questions page in Physics SE, sometimes I stumble upon a few closed and duplicate questions which are begging me to get salvaged. Simply put, they ...
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References to closed questions and their visibility
I am puzzled by an apparent possibility of incoherence of the site behavior.
Let me use a specific case as an example.
As a comment to a recent question on SE.physics, @dmckee cited a link as a ...
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New notice banners
From I have found that new notice banners have started appearing on questions. Some examples are:
But what was the reason for this new look? Why aren't they question closed as homework and exercise ...
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How can I start a chat, if there is not a box suggesting to do it?
If I can start a chat, just copying one or two comments "by hand" won't be a problem, but I cannot even find a way to start it at all.
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What to do about somebody spamming the site with posts that don't seem to be Questions but rather a show off?
Recently somebody is posting their papers on the site in the name of Questions but which doesn't seem so. Rather the papers are (a kind of) show off. Aren't there any policies for such (as we have for ...
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Spike in my reputations
Today when I opened physics stack exchange chemistry I found that my reputation spiked up to 495 whereas yesterday it was around 335(not much but still), for which I don't know how it happened? I just ...
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Is it right to post the same answer twice?
The question Why pouring milk from a height makes a chain shape? is marked as a duplicate of the question Wavy stream of liquid.
The first one is about the chain-shape of a stream of flowing milk ...
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When is the bounty awarded?
My answer to a question with bounty was accepted, I suppose by the OP, but I did not get the bounty, not yet, anyway. Granted, the bounty was posted by a different person than the OP. I was under the ...
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How to navigate answers?
I have been using/contributing to StackExchange for about a year. I have thus seen what must be a common phenomenon: the same, or very similar, questions coming up again and again. I know there is ...
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Regarding asking a question [duplicate]
Actually when I was a new user to the site, I posted the homework-type questions. But as the time passes I learn, and understand how to ask a good question, as I learn a lot from the site.
But now ...
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About synonymous tags
While asking asking a question I noticed that there are two similar tags weak-interaction and weak-interactions which leads to question for their necessity. Should any of these be deleted? If not why?
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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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How to sign/log out on this website?
How do you do it? I don't see a "sign/log out" button anywhere. The quality thing is really annoying right now.
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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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Why was my question closed even though the duplicate is different and was unanswered?
I asked this question a few months ago-
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/479846/proof-of-ohms-law (auto-deleted; screenshot)
I was looking for a particular proof and explicitly mentioned ...
