Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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Full migration of Theoretical Physics SE questions to Physics SE
The younger brother "Theoretical Physics Stack Exchange" will abolished in a week or so,
http://meta.theoreticalphysics.stackexchange.com/questions/245/theoretical-physics-is-closing
due to the ...
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Deleting 'tHooft's comments
I am afraid that David will delete comments of 'tHooft, and others, on threads where he has participated. I don't like to see any of 'tHooft's writing go anywhere, at least not for a long time, so ...
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Is non-mainstream physics appropriate for this site?
Is non-mainstream physics allowed here?
What defines non-mainstream physics?
What sort of questions and answers are disallowed by this policy?
What should I do if I see a question or answer containing ...
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Why did I get chat suspended for a year?
I've been chat banned for a year after having served a 2-day sentence.
Can you please point out what I said that was particularly offensive? I don't believe I said anything wrong, at all. (Of course ...
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Re: Downvoting with no feedback
I have tried very hard to comply with the spirit of this forum but obviously still have not got the hang of it. I write a short comment and then am told it should be an answer.
I answer a question ...
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Why am I in risk of a questions ban after one duplicate and one closed question?
A moment ago, I wanted to ask a question on this SE about the amount of energy in human blood, but it warned me that I'm in risk of no longer being able to ask questions on this account due to a large ...
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I am having trouble improving how my questions are received
Is there a way I can improve how my current questions are received because no matter what I do they get received worse? They don't even tell me what needs improvement.
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Is there a standard place to point people to learn how to typeset their equations?
I've seen a number of questions in which the moderators change html equations into LaTeX, or else people writing in the comments that the site supports LaTeX. Do we have a standard place where we can ...
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Latex/MathJax question: How to number equations?
Is it possible to number equations when posting questions at physics stack exchange, or any other stack exchange site enabled with MathJax?
I have tried ...
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The h Bar is always open! (Chat Guidelines)
The main chat room for Physics SE is called the h Bar (yeah, it's a cool name); it has been an active place for a while now, and a lot of you have probably popped in at some point of time. However, ...
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FAQ for Physics Stack Exchange
Frequently Asked Questions
This thread is an index of Frequently Asked Questions, and other resources, for Physics Stack Exchange.
General questions about Stack Exchange
For general questions about ...
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Up and Down Voting a Moderator
Do moderators know when you are down or up voting all their answers? Is it anonymity for all?
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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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How to stop asking duplicate questions?
Whenever I ask a question that is found to be duplicate. If I search the question previously to make sure it was not asked before it does not appear as the language of me and the question is not the ...
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What is the policy for linking? E.g.: Why should we link to abstract pages rather than pdf files? How do we cite arXiv preprints?
As a comment to one of my contributions, I received the comment:
In the future please link to abstract pages rather than pdf files.
Fine. I am happy to follow up on this suggestion.
Can anybody ...
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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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Attack on my account
It seems somebody pursues me, downvoting all my questions and answers:
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Is anybody there from the SE team?
It is clear that most of the people providing content on this site don't like the current design and would like it changed to a black on white default. It would be nice to know that something is being ...
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Using labels with mathJax?
When using an equation in an question or an answer, it is sometimes useful to give it a number and refer to it in the text. The \tag command works : if you add <...
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New site proposal specifically for problem solving in Physics on Area 51
"Physics Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for active researchers, academics and students of physics."
At present Physics Stack Exchange is more inclined towards answering specific ...
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(Why) does this particular question keep getting bumped up by Community?
I've noticed several (>~3) times over the past few months that the question About the proposal to ban homework has been bumped up the front page of Meta, on separate occasions. I don't think it ...
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Downvotes without explanation
Recently I have posted the question Einstein-Hilbert action as an effective field theory.
I have received a lot of downvotes and it's ok because it was unclear: in order to repair I tried to close it ...
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What is threshold to get ban on asking questions?
I have been registered with Physics SE for almost two months, I am not a physicist (programmer) and here not to get my homework done, but more of curious person. I have asked 8 questions so far, 3 ...
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Accessing a LaTeX code from comments to incorporate it in the answer
Suppose you wrote an answer, and people ask in the comments for details: so you answer the details in form of comments, but then, when you no longer can edit them, you would like your comments to be ...
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How can I cite a question in SE?
Is there a way to cite a StackExchange question, in a way similar to arXiv.org for instance ?
For arXiv, I can just write arXiv:1303.6666 for the article at link http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.6666 and ...
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Using Comments as Answers
An answer is placed in the comment box on your question and it would make an answer. As long as you quote it is it OK to use it?
See Comments at this question for example.
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Plagiarism from other sites
I was googling earlier and I found one of my physics.sx answers plagiarized word for word on another site. I do not want to send them traffic so I'm only going to post screenshots of it; the address ...
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Is it possible to search for questions that have been put on hold?
When I use the search bar to perform a keyword search for previous questions, is it possible (for example) to append something to my keywords so that my search will include questions that have been ...
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Can I create two accounts?
In physics forums, I created two accounts (actually for myself, for not being able to change my photograph), then I was suspended from the site. Now, as my sister is forcing me to create an account ...
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Very minor edits, e.g. punctuation
Is there going to be a way for me to make a very minor edit, e.g. punctuation, without pushing the question to the top of the activity date sort?
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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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What would be the best and worst time to ask questions on Physics Stack Exchange?
Perhaps somebody may know the time (of a specific timezone) where most people are online and offline.
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Does minimum rep to answer protected question includes association points?
When I visit this question,
How do I explain to a six year old why people on the other side of the Earth don't fall off?
, I see this message:
protected by dmckee♦ 2 days ago
This question is ...
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Raising issues with the chat room
Suppose I see a post in the chat room that I think is potentially inflammatory, what is the best way to bring it to a moderator's attention?
Flagging seems a near nuclear option, and I've been ...
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Reputation decreases without reason
For the past few days I have noticed that for no reason that my reputation is decreasing. I mean to say that when I am logging out one day, I see a certain reputation and when I log in the next day, I ...
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How to ask a practice book question and apology?
I wanted to know how to ask the question from my practice book
I add the homework tag and obviously I myself want to know only the concept part and I also give information about what I did and how I ...
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Not notified of new edits on meta.physics.SE
I recently asked this question on meta.physics.stackexchange.com, and one hour later, the question was edited, but I wasn't notified of the edit.
On other sites, I'm notified when an edit is made to ...
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How to switch away from MyOpenID?
I've been logging in to SE using openid, provided by MyOpenID.com. Now MyOpenID says they're going to stop hosting openid in February. I only use openid for SE. I don't do social media. What is my ...
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Is there any more I can do to help
I try to answer as many questions as I can, and when I am not doing that, I am going to the 'review' section and doing what I can there and when that is done, I read through as many questions as ...
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How can I see the list of IP numbers I have been logging in with in recent times?
I somehow tapped somewhere by mistake, and a list appeared with all the IP numbers and dates of my recent logins. Where can I find that again? It seems interesting.
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Wrongly marked as duplicate
This question that was wrongly marked as duplicate (has been reopened since) to this question .
The marked one asks "How can the unstable particles of the standard model be considered particles in ...
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Comment edit cutoff time for moderators
Do moderators have additional privileges to edit comments after the usual 5 minute cutoff?
I ask because in the following question:
Double Slit Experiment: How do scientists ensure that there'...
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Is there a way to control the font size of MathJax equations?
Some equations have nested fractions and radicals e.g.:
(which is the relationship of temperature between a planet and a star based on a radiative energy balance)
Mathjax renders the equation this ...
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How to quit physics.stackexchange.com completely?
I was wondering how to completely leave this community. Please guide me. I have gone through FAQ section but of no use.
What should I do ?
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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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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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Sporadic MathJax failure [closed]
In the last couple of weeks, once in a while, MathJax has not rendered on my system (OS X). In both Chrome and Firefox I see the markup rather than the rendered equations. Is this a problem of my ...
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How to input using Latex? [duplicate]
I just found this site today and I asked a few questions but I didn't know how to use the latex syntax, so my questions were difficult to understand. Can anyone tell me how to use this Latex program? ...
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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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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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