Questions tagged [support]
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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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Where is a statement of the purpose of physics.stackexchange?
Where is a statement of the purpose of physics.stackexchange?
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Cite documents rather than linking only
We should tell people to cite from documentation when they use link. I always look at old posts to learn something new, but some answerers give some link, but they are dead now (e.g., this). His first ...
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Why am I being downvoted in various posts?
So I received several notifications at the same time indicating "-2" in different answers of mine (old and new). I never understand why this happens. Is it that somebody is skimming at my ...
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When might the elimination of an answer by back-spacing (rather than "deletion") be acceptable?
I answered a question whose formulation had (possibly thru an OP's lack of familiarity with English-language rules for capitalization) effectively limited responses to it to the context of a single ...
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Why does the font size appear different for this question?
I saw a question on the Newest Questions page (the 3rd question in the image below) whose title and body were rendered in a smaller font compared to other questions.
I reloaded the page several times,...
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How can I get rid of the "preview" view when I load a question?
Everytime I access Physics SE I get this type of preview window:
Then I have to click outside the frame to enter the page. How can I get rid of this? Why is this implemented in the first place?
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Why can't I write down tilde? Is there any MathJax syntax?
In an answer, I wanted to write ∼, but that wasn’t showing. I think it wasn’t showing for Markdown.
So I thought I should use ...
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Dissociate an account from a question
I am thinking about turning my account in a professional one.
However there are a few questions I asked in the past I would be a little bit annoyed if they would still be attached to my account. Is ...
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How can I use the chat full transcript?
I had a few interesting chats years ago, and I remember some dates. I tried to trace them, but the full transcript can be scrolled back only one day at a time.
Is there a reasonable way to read the ...
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Required references in questions
I have some questions, and I'm new here.
I’d like to ask what references one would need to post here. Does it have to be peer reviewed journals?
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Puzzled by disappearance of questions
There is a relatively new user, who has asked a number of questions to which I have commented. The questions have disappeared, and they are not on his/her activity profile.
The reason I have noticed ...
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My answer got me -15 points! Why?
My answer got me -15 points. Was the OP booted off the site, or what?
I am just wondering.
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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 I find my deleted question & answers?
There's a question I asked several years ago (about quantum mechanics and nonlinearity) which have been deleted. How can I find them?
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Are questions front-paged for unspecified reasons perhaps related to popularization of a site?
Can a question be "front paged" by staffers for reasons that are not closely related either to significant developments in physics or to edits (either to the question itself or to the ...
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Can the effect of a link be restored after relocation of the comment containing it into the body of an answer by the commentator?
I recently moved a conclusive comment (made by myself) on an OP's question into the body of my answer to it. In that process, the underlining and color-coding that characterize a link was (probably ...
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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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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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