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Please use gender neutral language
Thus, my question: do we, as a community, want to discourage gendered language? Or should we just leave it to the discretion of users what kind of language to use?
As I understand it, this proposal ...
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Trying to ping users in comments: @username disappears
This happens when you're trying to ping the author of the post you're commenting on. The author gets notified of every comment on their post anyway, so the system automatically deletes such ...
ACuriousMindMod
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I have ended up with two accounts on the Physics Stack Exchange. Can they be merged?
Yes, you can merge your accounts. At the bottom of any page on the site, click "contact," then choose "account issue." Merging accounts is one of the account issues in the list.
robMod
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Temporal coincidences of negative votes
I don't entirely follow what you're concerned about here with respect to downvotes, but everyone can see on your profile when you last took an action on the site (subject to caching, this time is only ...
ACuriousMindMod
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Is this user "shadow banned" here (1 rep seems to make no sense, but there's no ban message)?
No, there is no such thing as being shadow banned on the SE network.
The user in question has a question deleted as "spam or offensive," which carries a -100 reputation penalty.
ChrisMod
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Do we have a new moderator?
This happens every once in a while, though in this case it wasn't for the reasons it usually happens.
Someone made a small error in using our system to give a staff member a diamond and since the user ...
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How does PSE traffic change over time?
The final privilege you can earn is, indeed, access to some internal (i.e.: posts and votes) and google (i.e.: traffic) analytics for the site.
There is, as of right now, no data from before February ...
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Is it unreasonable to expect feedback for writing an answer from the asker?
No, it is not "unreasonable" to expect feedback on your answer, but we never require users to give feedback. The main feedback mechanism on our site are neither accept marks nor comments, they are ...
ACuriousMindMod
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What is the general age of users on Physics SE?
This information is not systematically collected anywhere, so the best that you can expect is a general impression.
There are a few users in our chat room who occasionally reveal their age, directly ...
robMod
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Ping/Reference a user in the core text of a question
This is not a feature of Stack Exchange, and I don't really think it should be.
This is covered well in this answer/question on the main Meta.
This isn't really a one on one tutoring site, it's all ...
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What happened to [username removed]?
That user appears to have decided to stop visiting the site. There's some non-public information which confirms that their decision was voluntary. They had expressed an intention to return, but you ...
robMod
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