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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 didn't substantially improve the posts being edited but did clog the active lists with questions that folks had already seen (which also creates work and ...
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I volunteer at the county jail on Saturday mornings. In the jurisdiction I live in, trials are generally open to the public, there are detailed records of the proceedings and, critically, it's easy to find out if a prospective employee has a criminal past. More than false or sketchy convictions, the bigger problem inmates face is finding work after serving ...
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Suspensions go to people who break the rules of the site, are warned about it, and don't stop. There is no requirement that the user does not contribute to the site in a valuable way - or in other words, even if someone is making valuable contributions in asking, answering, and editing, that doesn't make them immune from suspensions. No amount of rep puts ...
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I wonder whether I've been a moderator here for long enough
(four months now)
that I can
talk about our decision-making process in aggregate, without
revealing anything untoward about any particular suspension.
How big is the Physics Stack Exchange community?
Well, there are several answers to that question.
I'm not a database person and you're probably ...
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The moderators do not discuss individual suspensions in public.
I suppose this doesn't technically answer the question, but then again all I can say is that there will be no answer to this question.
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Since the automatic question/answer limitations went into place in 2017,
it has been quite rare for the moderators to issue manual suspensions for low-quality contributions. I haven't double-checked but I think in 2018 I could count them on one hand. Suspensions for rudeness or for misusing multiple accounts are more common, but we don't have too many of ...
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You can put whatever you want in your profile. (barring NSFW or generally offensive material, though the rules are pretty lax on that too)
Sure, feel free to link to Quora there :)
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So I've read his answer many times now and I don't see how you reach the conclusion you reached here. It says:
Posting links in comments is not banned, nor should it ever be banned.
What should be banned is the repeated posting of a link to an
alternative physics Q&A site (such as PO, PF, Quora, etc)1. It is the
repetitive nature of the act that ...
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The Physics SE is a community, and like all communities it needs everyone to pull together to keep it vibrant. The two most important things we expect of site members are:
ask interesting and informed questions
provide interesting and informed answers
There are of course other supporting activities like processing the review queues, up and downvoting, ...
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Is it not acceptable to post links in comments? Or is it not acceptable to post links to the same site in comments?
Posting links in comments is not banned, nor should it ever be banned. What should be banned is the repeated posting of a link to an alternative physics Q&A site (such as PO, PF, Quora, etc)1. It is the repetitive nature of the act that ...
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No. The algorithm for automatic low-quality suspensions is intentionally not public to avoid users gaming it, and manual suspensions (i.e. those issued by moderators and not the SE engine) rarely carry a warning with them for the same reason.
Particularly if a user already has been suspended in the past for the same behaviour, a warning is unlikely. They ...
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Note that the current 6 Phys.SE moderators are democratically elected. All moderators have (electronically) signed a moderator agreement, which de facto implies that moderators cannot discuss specific users & suspensions publicly, and which in turn means that this meta discussion belongs on the mother meta (rather than on Phys.SE meta).
If you have ...
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I certainly don't see anything wrong with links per se or repeatedly posting links to helpful webpages (e.g. wiki). I doubt that there's a blacklist of forbidden links, but you should not post links to offensive/inappropriate material or even irrelevant material.
The aspect of your question regarding links to sites in which you hold a vested interest is ...
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As a general rule, if a comment
contains a link to information that is directly pertinent to the OP's question, and to any future visitors interested in the post,
I do not think it should be deleted. I do not think that repeated postings of such comments should be cause for concern, with the strong proviso that each and every comment must link to content ...
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The longer sentence was imposed after a day's consultation between the physics moderators; the delay occurred because we're always reluctant to impose suspensions on regular users and try not to act hastily in such cases.
As usually, we will not discuss the reasons in public, but [insert-here-the-user-who-shall-not-be-named] was sent a mod message and ...
answered Apr 16 '16 at 0:59
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This has already been answered here. Yes, it can be done, as explained in the post I just linked. Of course, such a measure must be possible since the moderators themselves are not infallible. One cannot run the risk of a "rogue mod" ruining an entire site, or something like that.
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Physics SE does not have an automated system for removing offensive posts. Posts with 3 delete votes from high rep users or 6 spam or rude or abusive flags are deleted automatically. As far as the Stack Exchange software is concerned, no new post is ever deleted without human intervention, though old, abandoned posts are sometimes deleted automatically.
...
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This occurred because your account was deleted on Physics.SE.
If you believe this action is in error and you have not received a message from the moderators or the staff, use the Contact form to contact SE directly.
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To expand on what Manishearth said and address the last part of the question: the guidelines on what constitutes excessive self-promotion are outlined in the help center.
Avoid overt self-promotion.
The community tends to vote down overt self-promotion and flag it as spam. Post good, relevant answers, and if some (but not all) happen to be about your ...
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Looking at the version that was closed, you have two questions that you're asking:
What is the intuition for angular momentum of a point mass relative to a inertial point?
I am confused that at the same time the static friction helps in pure rolling by operating in direction opposite to wheels motion as well as it provides the car the required centripetal ...
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Regular suspensions (issued by site moderators) usually last 7, 30 or 365 days, depending on how severe the offense was and the user's history. See A Day in the Penalty Box; this also includes some common reasons for suspensions.
However, this user has received a network-wide suspension from the site owners, and those can last longer:
What is a network-wide ...
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