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Question with two, three right answers?
I have a little dilemma. There is simple question that came up in my actual research that I'd like to ask, but I think it's forbidden by stackexchange rules, because it has more than one correct ...
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Should we disallow vast (self-)editing of a question, completely changing it's meaning?
Here is one thing that really annoyed me about science-related forums: The constant change of the topic by a person, who obviously just afraid that he'll look ignorant, incompetent or lazy if he'd ...
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Please review our posts on the LHC
We have a lot of posts on the LHC - however, the experiments are still on-going and it's possible that some answers that were right at the time are now outdated. It's also possible that some questions ...
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Have any GR questions been deleted since about Dec. 22?
I'm trying to find a question involving GR that I'm positive I read on or around Dec. 22 and wanted to refer back to it but I can't find it now. It asked about an "exact" expression for either ...
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Bounty for attention (though it's a good question)
Ok, Guys. Recently, I poked into this question: James Webb Space Telescope's halo orbit at Lagrange point L2 asked by @Michael which is pretty good. As it didn't get enough attention, I started a ...
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Unable to edit any question
I am unable to edit any question in physics stackexchange. Will you tell me what should i do or what is happening?
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Electic field and electrostatic force [closed]
Is the dirction of the electric field is the same of the electrostatic force of the charge that is the source of the electric field.
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Are questions about practical definition allowed?
I was going to ask about definition (explanation) of the word "bias". But I am wondering if it is a right question for Physic forum.
This is the part of FAQ describing what type of questions should ...
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Do badges result in any privileges?
What exactly is the point of having badges? Do we get any special privileges with certain badges? Or is it a feature that may be used in the future?
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vote to answer?
Is there a mechanism to "vote to answer"? Some questions appear unanswered, but in several cases for rather pedestrian reasons like the original poster never visited the site again, in spite of ...
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Why is my question closed?
How can a point-particle have properties?
I have edited the parts that were open to criticism. It has 4 upvotes, and people who are trying to answer it in the comments.
Why is it closed?
Should it ...
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old question reappearing after months
From time to time old (about 2 months) questions reappear anew, the last author
named then is "community". Is this a kind of routine? What is the idea behind?
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why negative voted questions are hidden from featured list?
It's something special with negative numbers?
there is something like an absolute zero for votes?
I can't understand why zero is so important.
I would like my question be seen in the list, I have ...
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The Brahms vs. Bieber Effect
Brahms' music is rich and interesting, but not easily accessible to a layman. Justin Bieber's is not very interesting, but he gets downloaded from iTunes a lot.
In the last week or two, there have ...
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Should the light source question be opened or closed?
This question has been causing a fair amount of controversy lately. Some people think it should be closed, some people think it should be opened. So I think we should get the community's input on it.
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Is it possible/good/worthwhile trying to get older questions to the front so that new users see them?
This is probably an issue just because the site is young but I still keep coming to great older questions that I missed and that haven't received the attention they should've.
This is because I ...
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How to deal with closed questions and questions to be closed ?
The current system is to add an answer to What questions should be considered to close by 500+ users? for question to be closed, but it is not obvious what to do when the question are closed. The ...
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Is it possible to select questions by two or more tags at once?
For example: reseach-level + particle-physics + quantum-field-theory
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How to deal with ambiguous / wrong wording in questions and answers?
How do we deal with wording that is wrong or ambiguous?
Particularly when the mistake is a very common one, or a widely miss-understood one.
For example, the question on water in a vacuum, someone ...
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What questions should be considered to close by 3000+ users? [closed]
As long as we don't have many hi-rep users, it is useful to have a place with list of candidates to close; at least it worked well on other betas.
Rules:
Add a link to the candidate for closure ...
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Quantitative Questions?
While I am not too bothered about the level of questions per se on this site so far, I am slightly disturbed by the lack of any quantitative questions.
The existing range from high-school to ...
