You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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Should I accept an answer that merely includes a link to a source for the (exact and detailed) solution?
When an answer provides a link to a document , website , etc. that includes a complete and exact treatment of the problem, but the answer itself has nothing in it's body (just the link), should I ...
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Why did this post get downvoted? Dodgy Physics?
I wrote an answer to a question about temperature and dimensional analysis. I am skeptical about the motivations. I cannot see at the moment if it was not just a random downvote by someone having fun. ...
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How do I format a physical quantity (unit of measurement + numerical value)?
I tried $I = 1 v / R$ but v looks like a factor rather than unit of measurement. Does tex work in meta?
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Moderators, could you please explain why Dilation has just got banned?
Yes, he has been critical of over-moderation on the physics SE but as far as I could see he was always polite and respectful about it. I cannot see why this alone should have got him banned? What have ...
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Why do i see a question in pink color?
Why is the question in the mid colored pink?
I have been watching this from about an hour or so.
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When to use Community Wiki option?
When should this community wiki button be ticked while answering or edit?
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Why are my upvotes displaced?
I wanted to upvote this answer and so I did. However, half an hour later the upvote was registered to this answer. I upvoted the intended answer again. Then this appeared, suggesting I upvoted yet ...
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How can we suggest synonyms to tags?
I have seen that tags have synonyms of it under it's description.
How can I suggest a tag synonym?
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Stackexchange General login problem (meta)
I can not login through mobile view of stackexchange website.
when i click over login, why there is no login option through some mobile browsers?
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How can I cite a question in SE?
Is there a way to cite a StackExchange question, in a way similar to arXiv.org for instance ?
For arXiv, I can just write arXiv:1303.6666 for the article at link http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.6666 and ...
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“Chat with an expert”
After visiting a question I had posted on this site a few months back, I had noticed something strange with this site.
In the bottom right corner appeared a black rectangle (respecting the general ...
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How should I use “No Action Needed” while reviewing in “Physics.SE”?
We've got this new option called "No Action needed". I think this got rid of two things. I've got no evidence. But, I think...
1) Skip: I use this when I don't know what the post actually means. For ...
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Should I cross-post this question in chemistry.SE?
Recently I asked this question and given the number of upvotes and comments I think that there are quite some people interested. However, it seems from the comments and the lack of answers that the ...
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What happens when I flag a post?
I do not yet have the Vote to Close privilege. As a result, whenever I come across a question that I would VTC, I have to flag it for moderator attention. What actually happens when my flag is ...
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Why is that answer in grey colour? And, are erased answer invisible (I hope)?
Why is this answer in grey colour?
Additionally, if I erase any of my answers, nobody will see it anymore, is that right? I hope it is not shown in grey...
(Third question: is there any way to ...
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How can I know if an additional edit is going to turn my answer into an open wiki-engendre?
I have had a nice and pedagogical idea to add to this answer of mine but I am afraid that, by doing an additional edit now, it may turn into a wiki-thing, as once happened.
I just want to do one ...
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Split account question
I seem to have a split account. My user name has 2 addresses with 2 different profiles. User 20397 and 20270.
Can someone fix this for me please or let me know how I can fix it.
These are the two ...
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How can I see the list of IP numbers I have been logging in with in recent times?
I somehow tapped somewhere by mistake, and a list appeared with all the IP numbers and dates of my recent logins. Where can I find that again? It seems interesting.
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What if we clean several shopping questions..?
Today, I accidentally went through the questions under telescopes tag and all questions confused me totally. Looks like, there are many questions that seem to me like off-topic. I've listed several ...
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Why are these questions linked to each other?
Very minor thing here. These two questions
How can a black hole produce sound?
Why does a window at night become a mirror?
reference each other under the "linked" sidebar. I thought that was ...
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Why can't I write messages/comments in chat?
I'm scratching my head over this, but it says I need to be logged in, in order to write messages/comments, although I can access the chat page and read it!
Any clues as to why this might be so?
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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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A “random page” user script useful to improve the site
I am trying to navigate our main site to find question and answers to improve:
Edit posts which I can fix
Up and down vote what I can
Vote to close or reopen
Flag those lengthy comment threads and ...
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Latex/MathJax question
Is it possible to number equations when posting questions at physics stack exchange, or any other stack exchange site enabled with MathJax?
I have tried /begin{equation} /end{equation}.
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Why so much drive-by's? What's wrong with Curiosity? [closed]
I asked a layman question regarding string theory -
Would string theory change everything? several months ago (just a month after joining SE) - when I was completely new to this field.
I definitely ...
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Replying to a specific person's comment
I checked the FAQs to look for an answer without any luck. Forgive me if it is there and I overlooked it. I recently asked a question with the title: Causality in a gedanken experiment on the hydrogen ...
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Could we users do some job?
I get into these inactive questions sometime when I get bored (especially during the daytime of my IST). So, I poke a lot of posts which have typos and erroneous tags, etc.
The problem is now I've ...
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How to recalc a Flair bug?
This is also not a BIG issue (same as that of my previous question along with disclaimer...)
Incorrect reputation being displayed - where Manish explained me about recalc'ing rep. But, there is some ...
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Incorrect reputation being displayed
Please don't mistake me as crazy. I was just wondering if other users have seen about this case...
At the start (for a day), I had 2980 rep. I just returned now, answered a question here. The ...
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How often are past suspensions wiped clean for users?
A certain valuable contributor in this community has been suspended for a month, partly because it was his second warning, perhaps there were other factors unknown to the rest of us. It's my hope that ...
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Why my recent upvotes haven't changed my reputation?
It is not that I loose sleep because of this, but I am curious. I posted an answer and it collected 4 upvotes yesterday, but my reputation hasn't changed. Am I missing something?
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Why don't I see a button for “improve” on tag wiki edits?
When reviewing edits there is text inviting to improve the edit:
Approve, reject, or improve edits suggested by users. (less)
Approve edits you know are correct
Reject those you know are ...
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Edit Suggestion disappeared
An hour or so ago I suggested an edit for this question about heat-conductance in diamonds. When I now browse to said question, I don’t see the block ‘your edit is being reviewed’ anymore, nor does it ...
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Where is the place for negative comments on candidates?
I have a negative comment to make about a candidate. Where is the appropriate place to post this today? Where does it go? Not a week ago. I checked the meta and the main a week ago, and I didn't see ...
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How do I change my vote?
I confused one candidate for another, and voted for him ignorantly.
I wanted to change my vote. How do I do this?
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How to quit physics.stackexchange.com forum completely
I was wondering how to completely leave this community ? Please guide me. I have gone through FAQ section but no use.
What should I do ?
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How can I copy-paste questions/answers with the latex symbols intact?
Some answers in physics.stackexchange seem to me so extremely brilliant! I would like to join some of the best ones in a single document by copy-paste. How can I do that, preserving the LaTeX code?
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I can't find the 'comment' button, why?
I can't find the 'comment' button when i want to comment on others' questions or answers. Why?
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Why am I not able to use @ to reply to some person?
e.g. I reply to "jim124" by writing "@jim124: Thank you for you answer, but… ". However, the result is "Thank you for you answer, but… " ignoring "@jim124 ". Is there anything wrong?
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The problem with community wiki
This is not a great problem. While poking into a question yesterday, I thought I might answer (as it didn't get a lot of attention though). Today (I mean, NOW) I see my post under "community wiki". I ...
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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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How can I see why my comment flag was declined?
If I remember it correctly, unsuccessfully flagged regular posts appear explicitly in my flagging history, (marked as declined) and a message is left by the person who handled it, saying why the flag ...
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Jed Rothwell's answer to cold fusion question
Is it possible to get an answer as to why Jed Rothwell's answer to this question: What are the challenges to achieving cold fusion? was deleted?
I am sure that this is somewhat borderline, since the ...
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Official policy on astronomy and physics education cited in answers
I have looked around and haven't seen anything specifically addressing my question so please kindly point me in the right direction if I have overlooked anything.
What is the official policy for ...
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How to write units in latex code for this website?
I wanted to write that uncertainty $\Delta x$ is 12 angstroms. I wanted to use the symbol for angstrom instead of spelling it out entirely. How to write SI units on this website?
I tried the ...
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How can I “manually” move an existing discussion to chat?
I'd like to move an existing discussion, that consists so far of just a few comments, to chat instead of deleting the comments that are off topic to the issue of the question.
Can something like ...
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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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my account is under vote down attack
who is moderator of this website, because my account is under attack
im pretty sure its just one person sending me these too much vote down
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How to hide personal information like email address in one's profile
How to hide personal information like email address in one's profile, since I do not want my email to be seen by others?
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Quality standard… What is it?
This happens many times (to me) in meta... (Now, it happened 5 times) What does it mean by "Oops! This question cannot be submitted because, It doesn't meet our quality standards". And, at last, it's ...
