Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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Is there a convenient way to find questions which I have previously answered?
I started my participation yesterday, and I was very gratefully and pleasantly surprised to receive a perfect answer.
I also looked through 10 pages of unanswered questions, and I answered a few. Now ...
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What are the criteria for putting a question less than 5 years old on the front page after editing it to include info from a newly-cited source?
When I had attempted to edit an answer so as to add some detail, I was told that details should be included in comments, as an edit would cause the question and its answer to display on the front page....
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What happens after being put in the penalty box two (or more) times? [duplicate]
I've been thrown in the penalty box because I allegedly made rude comments and I had to cool down. What happens if one is thrown in the box for a second (or third, fourth...) time? Will he/she (or I) ...
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What happens after being put in the penalty box twice (or more)? [duplicate]
I've been thrown in the penalty box because I allegedly made rude comments and I had to cool down. What happens if one is thrown in the box for a second (or third, fourth...) time? Will he/she (or I) ...
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Problem with deletion of comments
Someone decided to delete all comments posted under my question here:
Do "almost black holes" exist?
This is insane, there were valuable comments. They should have been moved to chat if they ...
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What are the principles for editing another person's question?
If I wish to edit a question to improve its quality, what are the general guidelines to keep in mind?
Sometimes I feel I deviate from the OP's original style when I use formatting. So, what all ...
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Can this question be migrated, if the reason to close it was specifically being off topic and more of an engineering question?
I have this question:
Why are turbines more effective than propellers on airplanes?
Unfortunately, it has been closed. The reason is off topic and specifically belonging rather to Engineering.
I do ...
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Using chemical formulas
Using chemical formulas
I've tried using, now be careful: dollar-sign backslash letter "ce" opening-brace chemical-formula closing-brace dollar-sign.
Unlike on Chemistry, it is not working ...
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What to do when you have multiple good answers?
Alright, this is probably a weird question but sometimes I get two competing answers to a question both of which I think are very good. So, in case of a tie, how do I choose the answers?
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Re-asking this specific reference request [duplicate]
A few days ago, I requested reference for TVMF. Unfortunately, this question was downvoted without a reason specified giving no space to improve and inappropriately making the question potentially ...
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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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Why did I not get my badge? [duplicate]
Its been weeks since I asked 5 well received questions, but I haven't yet received the Curious badge. Can anybody tell me the reason to this?
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Unable to add the [classical-electrodynamics] tag
Resource reference for Induction due to Time Varying Magnetic Fields (TVMF)
I asked this question 5 minutes before posting it here. I have tried to add the tag classical-electrodynamics but it just ...
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“Talkative” badge on meta
Yesterday I was awarded the Talkative badge on the main site for one message being starred out of ten message posted in chat.
According to me, chat is same for main ...
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What differently can I do to be helpful to the community by answering?
When I joined Stack Exchange I started answering questions and gained a positive response from the community.
But these days, I don't feel like my answers help anyone anymore.
If you look into my ...
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How do tags get associated badges?
I have a general question about how topic tags become associated with a vote-based badge. For instance, if I receive 100 upvotes on answers for at least 20 non-community wiki answers with the ...
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How can I reopen the question as community wiki post?
This post is closed by a moderator. I think the reason is that it starts to have too many answers which I didn't expect. How can I reopen this question? I want to convert it to Community wiki post but ...
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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 ā 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,...
