You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Previous next buttons on the main page
As the activity on Physics Stack exchange is increasing and steadily, It is getting difficult to browse through questions. Roughly ~ 9 hours or so, the questions disappear from the main page. One is ...
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Can/should a reminder-type concept be introduced?
I've noticed that - while browsing through questions and answers - I regularly come across an interesting question/answer but reading and understanding the answer or answering the question would take ...
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Addition of '\slashed{}' to Latex engine [closed]
Is it possible to add the small 'slashed' package to the SE latex environment?
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Add “Interesting” questions tab to front page
StackOverflow has a tab for questions entitled "Interesting" that is based on favorited tags and history:
Is it possible to get said tab on physics.SE based on recent discussions such as Is Physics ...
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Feature request: An internal minisite to help Physics SE better serve the two different audiences it now has
As things stand at present, questions of people who have almost no physics knowledge of their own, who are looking for help in solving a particular problem (homeworky), are mixed up with questions of ...
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Classification of the questions?
I just realised that the questions on the site are too mixed up together. On the main page, a question about Newtonian Mechanics is often side-by-side with a question on the standard model/general ...
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Can we include homework guidance in the How to Ask sidebar?
This question is a follow-up to this question about what some of us feel is a large spike in low-level homework questions.
I propose we include a specific link to our canonical homework meta question ...
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gauss-law or gausss-law tag?
Apparently, it's Gauss's law, not (the) Gauss Law. I'm relying on Wikipedia here (and elsewhere), which sticks adamantly to the former. Please correct me in a comment if I'm wrong.
I think that to be ...
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schrodinger or schroedinger tags: please standardize
What applies to Gödel,1 may also apply to two Schrödinger tags: schrodinger-equation and non-linear-schrodinger. The third one, schroedingers-cat, being "right" already. So, whatever you may think of ...
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adding a spam flag statement on the community collumn on the right
Would it not make life easier for moderators if a banner were displayed on the right requesting users to flag spam, making clear that six flags would get rid of the offending entry?
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A distinctive mark for the most voted answer
Yes, the most voted answer floats to the top. But somehow the green mark is indirectly telling the (specially casual, unregistered) reader something like "this one is better".
I think it would be ...
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Auto-delete spam
Nowadays, there is a big wave of questions from black-magic spammers. What if there could be an option like auto-delete user or prevent-spammer as he tries to post phrases like "black-magic, +91 ...
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Can we have a graphing tool for Physics.SE?
Post linked with this MSO post
Graphing tool is very important for answering and asking some questions in Physics.
Graphing tool must include the function plotting and drawing some free shapes.
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siunitx LaTeX package?
It's a drag having to type things like
$1.38 \times 10^{-23} \, \mathrm{JK^{-1}}$
all the time. Would it be possible to have the siunitx package installed on this site? Then we could get the same ...
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Two suggestions to improve the quality of this fantastic site
There is a couple of (probable) improvements I would like to suggest for this fantastic site.
Moving closed questions with a high number of up votes (for example $>10$) to a dedicated ...
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Should we have a badge / recognition of well-cited answers? Questions?
It has been said that "citations are the source code of Physics.SE"
References are how citations are added to a posting. Should we recognize good citation/reference practices via:
a badge after a ...
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Do we want the citation tool from Math.SE?
Related: How can I cite a question in SE?
Math.SE has a citation tool. Basically, if you click "share" on a post, there's a little "cite" link:
Clicking that, you get:
This lets one properly ...
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Shouldn't there be a mechanism to allow the author to delete questions even after there are answers?
There can be many reasons why one would want to do it for example,
the author framed the question in some weird way and hence it led to some unproductive conversations/answers but over time when the ...
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Additional choices for migration
When we close or flag a question as off-topic, we have an option called belongs to meta.physics.SE. We're also receiving questions that belong to Math.SE or Electronics.SE most of the time. So, it'd ...
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An other presentation for the posts?
I'm wondering if this post is well published here. Well, it's a feedback after all.
I'm killing my eyes reading the questions and answers on this website. I'm not sure, maybe I'm the only one to ask ...
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Should we delete questions more frequently?
This is a follow-up to What can be done to improve Physics.SE as an active forum for physics researchers and student's?.
Although I disagree with the motivation behind that question it does seem ...
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“Unanswered Questions” with several comments
Is there any way for moderators to either promote a comment which contains an answer to an "answer"? I ask because of questions like this:
light ray 'entropy'
I have only been on this site ...
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Option to arrange answers according to vote
It's really frustrating to have -1 and -3 voted answers sit on top of a +99 voted answer. (this question).
Please provide individual users the option to automatically arrange answers according to
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Changes in answers you have upvoted
I was wondering about the feasibility of getting messages anytime an upvoted answer has been changed. This would help if there is a substantial change in the answer, whether you would still want to ...
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Automating the ability to “follow” posters
So social media websites allow people to "follow" each other. There are some people who post answers that are of considerable quality and its sometimes hard to keep track when there is a particularly ...
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Can we add visibility of users who upvote?
I can see why adding visibility of users who down vote is bad for the site-- it leads to down voting wars.
How about adding visability of users who up vote?
I've asked some recent questions where ...
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what about enahanced functionality to allow answers to have richer educational content?
I just got a nice answer to one of my questions, and it occurs to me that it might be awesome if, when answering a question, someone could build simple animations. I've never seen anything like this ...
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Are there too many and/or specific tags?
Best with an example: there is a tag in the Physics Stack called "wavefunction".
Is there any one who actually works on "wavefunctions"? Questions related to wavefunctions are questions about the ...
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Voting to change correct answer
I was going through some old questions, where the accepted answers aren't usually the most thorough/best ones (in my opinion), which leads me to my suggestion -
Would it be possible for other users ...
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Inbox needs to be fixed: Unread messages should be marked clearly until read
Let's say I have 10 new messages. The inbox icon lights up with "10". Now, when I click into the inbox to read the first message, this lighting disappears. I have to manually keep track of how many ...
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Should downvoters have to comment on why they did it?
Inspired by the fact I got downvoted for this answer and cannot tell exactly why given the question was pretty vague and I don't think the OP was the one doing it either.
I am starting to think that ...
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Can user profiles indicate the current time in that user's location?
User profile pages currently indicate the user's location, if they have added one. I've thought recently that it would be convenient to know what time it is for another user. If they mention the time, ...
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how do we submit articles for physics.SE blog?
the title says it all really. I know other SE sites are using the blog feature, but i don't understand yet what is the process for submission of articles. I don't see a physics blog site anywhere so i ...
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Adding collapsable fields to answers
Let's say I have an answer to a question (like this one for example) where the explanation can have effectively two speeds: plain english, and very math heavy. I would like a way to do both at once, ...
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Request for establishing a new privilege: to undo a ban
As recent events showed, there is a need for a mechanism that allows a ban of a very active community member to be reversed if it is deemed important by enough community members
In a comment to ...
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In moderator elections, selection option should be visually more clear
I was just voting in community moderator elections over on Physics SE and looking through what I chose so far, and I think the layout is not very clear:
A green bar around a blue button; my eyes ...
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Suggestion: Voting with strictly classified reasons
I know this issue raised a lot, anyway this is just a suggestion, because I think it is very un encouraging to be down voted for nothing, especially if after that multiple up voting happens (for the ...
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Can links be made more visible?
I posted a question today with a link... which was barely visible, even for me who posted it.
Can we change the color scheme so both new and visited link are more visible?
In this screenshot there ...
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New tag(s) for very basic questions?
Really, two related questions:
In physics in general, and quantum mechanics in particular, there is great interest, and substantial disagreement about fundamental, foundational issues. These ...
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Metrics for questions and answers
I was wondering if there were anyway to have automatic stats on points/answer, points/question, etc on the site. I didn't see it, so apologies if its there, but I think it would be beneficial to ...
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Is there a way to make minor edits on old answers w/o bringing them to top of stack? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Very minor edits, e.g. punctuation
I noticed a sign error in an old answer of mine. I wanted to fix it, but I don't really want to bring this old question to the top of ...
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how to follow a user on stackexchange?
If I like answers posted by a user on stackexchange... is there a way to follow the user ... like for example, set an alert so that whenever he asks a question or replies to a question, it is notified ...
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stackexchange site for free blogging in physics [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What's the possibility of a Physics.SE blog?
i recommend to open a site for free blogging in physics
for example:
physics-blogs.stackexchange.com
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Favorite tag color
I searched a bit to see if this had been asked before, but couldn't find it. Is there a way to customize the color that a question is shaded when it is tagged with one of my "favorite tags?"
Maybe ...
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Down-voting and no comments
In these sites, down-voting has become a passion to prove intelligence. Yesterday, I got two upvoted answers downvoted simultaneously (Someone has down-voted both within 1 min). I think they're too ...
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Can we have “Astronomy” added to the logo? If not, why not?
We've already had some discussion about the possibility of changing our name and/or logo to reflect the fact that astronomy questions are on topic here, both on meta and in (1) chat (2). Initially, ...
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Possiblty FAQ question - Getting rid from reputation
Fundamental question for this site. I propose to get rid from reputation by by by making it INVISIBLE to other users :) What do you say? I think it will be better then now in many aspects. What should ...
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Preview the title when asking a question
When asking a question, only the body of the text is shown in the preview below the window where one enters the text.
It would be nice to have the title of the question included in the preview, such ...
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Advanced filter for subscription to multiple tags
Could we have some advanced filters for subscribing to multiple tags? For example, I want to subscribe to "[classical-mechanics] AND [lagrangian-mechanics]" (I'm talking about a logical AND operation) ...
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When a bounty is awarded where can one find who set the price after it has been awarded i?
In a question I asked a while ago, somebody set a bounty of 200 and awarded it to an answer. I can now not find who it was since it was awarded, and my memory is not so good on who set the bounty.
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