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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?
There are multiple reasons why it's better to link to abstract pages rather than directly to the PDF versions:
Mobile users and users with slow internet connection prefer an abstract page over a PDF ...
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Can I ask to have a block or left alone by a user?
No. You can't.
Every user with the requisite rep is entitled to vote on the content you post. That's by design: we use a crowd-sourced evaluation. There may exist users that cast more downvotes than ...
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Can I ask to have a block or left alone by a user?
As a user that frequents SE sites intermittently (and with less reputation than most, including yourself), please interpret my upcoming critique as independent from the high-rep user/users you believe ...
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Why can't I post something on Physics Exchange for 2 days?
There are a set of automated quality control policies active on the site that set temporary (and no-so-temporary) bans on posting.
These bans are specific to either questions or answers and are ...
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Why can't I post something on Physics Exchange for 2 days?
This is the message you're shown when you try to ask a question. I'm quoting it in its entirety in the hope that you read it this time:
It looks like you might need a break - take a breather and come ...
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How to stop asking duplicate questions?
I suggest paying attention to, and reading some of the suggested questions that pop up when you start to ask yours (I know this feature exists on the desktop site, maybe not mobile).
This is an ...
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Editing my own stuff get me suspended?
Well, you were suspended last time around for posting low-quality questions (which are a problem because they create work and annoyance for other members of the site) and making scores of edits that ...
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Answer ban correction
Simple: don't write answers to questions that are going to get deleted.
Homework questions get deleted for a reason: we don't want them here. If you answer poor-quality homework questions, you are ...
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I am having trouble improving how my questions are received
Don’t say things like “I know [whatever] due to deep research”. This is pretentious because it is obvious from your questions that you are not yet an experienced physicist, and saying this kind of ...
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My question got closed saying that it was opinion based
While I do not speak on behalf of the other close voters, the facts are clear:
If the velocity is constant, the acceleration is zero.
If a quantity is constant, it does not depend on time (in this ...
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Re: Downvoting with no feedback
I would interpret the downvotes on the answers to both of those questions as saying
don't answer this kind of homework questions
and I agree with that perspective. Providing answers to obvious do-...
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How many times can I down vote a particular user over in a given time frame?
To be very frank: you shouldn't even be contemplating this questions; you should always vote the quality of the content and never the user who posted it.
Nor will anyone tell you what the limits of ...
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How many times can I down vote a particular user over in a given time frame?
A few things:
The user you refer to has cast quite a few votes, but only about 81.7% of them are downvotes, not 90%. Call this pedantry, but I think it's important to distinguish between claims and ...
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Why am I blocked from posting further questions?
You are currently blocked from posting further questions by the automatic question rate limiting, whose different forms I also discuss in this answer. There is nothing any user or moderator on this ...
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Why is the 'physics' tag not allowed?
Your first obstacle is that you need 1000 reputation points to create a new tag. If you think a tag is missing and don't have 1000 reputation points, you can suggest it in this meta post.
If you have ...
QmechanicMod
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How work Physics.SE and Mathematics.SE about mathematical/physic question
Some suggestions:
Stop using your "student" notes as a reference. We do not care where your question comes from, and unintelligible scribbles from a student are of no use to us.
Stop using books/...
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Problem with deletion of comments
A large proportion of these comments were made by users who have been repeatedly told not to have lengthy discussions in comments, and not to use comments in lieu of providing an answer where they can ...
ACuriousMindMod
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Why are coloured parts of questions removed?
The purpose of MathJax is to make mathematical formulas easier to read, not to emphasize text parts of your posts. Use italic and bold formatting for that.
A similar question was asked on Chemistry ...
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Who has the power to delete comments?
The diamond moderators can delete comments. Comments which meet certain criteria may disappear after flagging by certain non-moderator users without further intervention; I don't know where those ...
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Which questions should be asked in physics stack exchange?
Focusing on the question, of how much research you are expected to have done before asking here, and answering only for myself.
I wrote an answer for a similar questions about Stack Overflow some ...
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Why are some edits automatically rejected?
On both this edit and this one, the edit was rejected because a user with full editing privileges (i.e. 2k+ reputation) started editing before you submitted your edit, as detailed on this Meta Stack ...
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Spam flag on nonsense garbage declined
Note that "spam" is notably missing from the list of flags (VLQ, rude or abusive, not an answer) Shog9 lists in the answer you quote. The spam flag description reads:
Exists only to promote a ...
ACuriousMindMod
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what do I do if I started a bounty on accident
To be perfectly clear:
We expect you to take responsibility for your actions.
This includes every one of your actions on this site, but in this particular context, it's worth emphasising that it ...
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How work Physics.SE and Mathematics.SE about mathematical/physic question
Your question is currently extremely unclear (potentially because you're over-relying on unreliable machine translation?), but the three initial versions of the text contain some kind of version of ...
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What should I do if my answer to a question has a downvote for no reason defined?
Unfortunately, there is not much that you can do other than improving your answer or hoping that the downvoter leaves a comment. Votes are private and there is no obligation for voters to explain ...
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My answer got me -15 points! Why?
The user accepted your answer on Jan 1 at 22:15 (UK time), giving you +15 points, then today they changed their mind and unaccepted the answer so you got a -15 point reversal. Overall your net rep ...
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Why can't I write down tilde? Is there any MathJax syntax?
∼ is a small space, while \tilde{} is an ornament of a character. Use instead e.g. \sim. ...
QmechanicMod
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How do I make png files display smaller?
You can get three different sizes from imgur pictures by manipulating the URL directly: For your example, we start with https://i.sstatic.net/4x2NJ.png and append ...
ACuriousMindMod
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How frequently can I ask questions on one site and in one tag?
There is no limit but you would be very prolific if you could ask more than one good question per week, although initially you might have a backlog of good questions.
It is NOT easy to ask good ...
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