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Community Wiki (CW) worries
This answer of mine was turned in a CW. I'm not sure I'm happy with that. Everybody can edit answers, but as far as I understand it a CW is an invitation for edits. I don't want everybody to mess with ...
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reverse blatant revenge downvotes
Case:
User1's answer gets downvoted, user2 comments on the answer's quality. User1 answers like this:
"You have not put any effort in helping this newbie, and you reward my effort with -1??? If ...
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What do the numbers mean on the users page?
If you look on the Users page you see a number next to the profile picture. What does this number mean as it doesn't look related to their reputation?
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Original question, but the OP was looking for something else: how to deal?
This question is about current multiplier/divider ICs The OP asks if there are existing ICs that can be used to mirror a current with a fixed ratio, different than 1:1.
In the comments to Steven's ...
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Deleting an accepted answer
This question has an accepted answer with zero upvotes, two downvotes. Poster want to delete it, but he can't because it was the accepted answer. Why shouldn't those be deletable?
Elsewhere Kortuk ...
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Accepted answers without upvotes
Every now and then we see an accepted answer without any upvotes. In view of an upvote meaning "this answer is useful" shouldn't there at least be an upvote from OP? Shouldn't one be added on OP's ...
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Posting questions including answers
In this question asker asks a question which shows some hurdle he encountered, but for which he had a solution even before he asked about it. The argument was that it might be useful to others.
Do ...
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How can I get an 'evaluation at' vertical bar in MathJax? \right| doesn't seem to work, looking for alternatives
I tried to write the following equation on the main site using MathJax:
The vertical bar and \$a_2=0\$ indicate that this equation should be evaluated at the point where the related parameter ...
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Serial Upvoting reversed?
I got a strange entry in today's rep list called "Serial upvoting reversed". I don't remember a question with that name and was curious to see what it was about, but the really strange thing is that ...
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MathJax hotkeys script for Chrome and Firefox+Greasemonkey
Tired of all the dollar and backslash typing? Annoyed of seeing italic units? This may be THE END OF ALL YOUR PROBLEMS!
Manishearth INC.\$^{\mathrm{TM}}\$ has created this fantastic script which will ...
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1answer
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posts from users whose account was destroyed
This question received 3 totally irrelevant posts within a few minutes (in German!) from the same user. User account was appropriately destroyed, but the posts were just deleted. For most users that's ...
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Are downvotes a bad thing? Should I take it personally?
EE.SE.com users are often atwitter when a downvote lands in their vicinity. Sometimes the sting of rejection felt by authors whose question or answer was dealt a -1 is publicly visible in the form of ...
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Merging [tag: battery] and [tag:battery-operated]
I think that Why these two tags have different meaning, they can be merged to include all the questions relating to batteries, which means also battery powered circuits.
What do you think?
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Should we penalize those with a very poor ratio of reputation points to number of answers? Or a consistently poor answer history?
A particular user has managed to give 109 answers in 19 days with a rep to # of answers ratio of roughly 6.8 - this is an average of either 0 or 1 up vote per answer, or even worse, possibly more down ...
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Canonical “Software developer wanting to learn electronics” question
Stack Overflow has almost 1 million users. We've only got a few thousand. Stack Overflow has almost 3 million questions, we only have about 7,500. As a result of this disparity, a large number of ...
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Shouldn't spammers user accounts be deleted?
This answer was reported as spam, and also got deleted (you must have at least 10,000 reputation to see deleted answers), but the poster's user account still exist. Shouldn't that be deleted as well?
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2answers
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What causes “user was removed” message?
I am curious what does the entry "user was removed" mean in your reputation summary for the day? Here is what I see:
See the second line down. Does that mean a whole user account that voted +1 on ...
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FAQ about posting schematics
Given that we have a quite intensive use of schematics, and that often the posted ones don't meet the requirements for the users to answer: shall we add a FAQ section about how to draw/post/explain ...
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1answer
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Where did my bounty go?
I asked a question, to which I only received somewhat negative comments which questioned my reasoning (and seemingly my sanity for even asking such a question).
I felt it was still a valid question, ...
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unanswered questions
I had a look at the unanswered question, but I noticed half of them seem to have an answer after all, some even two. Why are they listed there?
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What's the value of GIYF?
(Related question)
I sometimes see "GIYF" ("Google Is Your Friend") in answers. In a recent answer I removed the line, apparently much to the answerer's disagreement.
The reason I removed it is ...
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Sandbox: trying to write I2C in the title with LaTeX: \$\text{I}^2\text{C}\$
In the message body, this would produce the sought result: \$\text{I}^2\text{C}\$
How about in the title?
Works as well. Great.
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accepted answers with many downvotes
This question has an accepted answer with currently 5 downvotes, so it looks that it's not a good answer after all. How can we encourage the asker to reconsider this accept?
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REF: Communications engineering, call arrival rate, poisson
Kortuk commented:
Communication theory has always been considered acceptable here. This
is definitely a boundary question, but I think one that is still on
topic. If you would like to continue ...
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Am I the only one seeing a paperclip unicorn?
When browsing the EE SE I notice a paperclip unicorn come up and ask me whether I want some help with searching through the posts.
Ahg, and now it just popped up and said "It looks like you're asking ...
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Would we benefit from a blog?
If we wanted, we could have ourselves a blog. Several other sites have blogs that you can check out to see what they are like. You can learn more about SE blogs by reading an explanation of SE blogs ...
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What to do of the buggy post?
A few days ago, it's been pointed how a post, containing some incompatible form of HTML was having some conflict with the Markdown engine of this site.
So a mod suggested to convert the HTML tags in ...
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Suggested edits pending bubble displays even when it is your own pending edit
I suggested an edit and now the little bubble is showing that there is 1 suggested edit pending. Since I was the one who suggested the edit, I of course can not approve the edit. When I click on the ...
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ASCIIMath support, to help people with units
MathJax just added ASCIIMath support, and I think it'd be great to support it as an option, alongside regular \$\LaTeX\$-based MathJax.
In many posts (such as this one) people forget to or are too ...
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2answers
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How to deal with “useless” answers
It's a while that I'm seeing old posts with a lot of good answers being resumed by new users (no previous activity, 1 rep) to add their answer, which adds nothing to the existing content, and ...
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1answer
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Chat link to profile points to another site
Kortuk, our beloved mod, showed me that if someone clicks to my name in chat, at the field Parent user there is the link to my tex.stackexchange, instead of electronics.* one.
Is this a bug? Is it ...
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1answer
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Can not get to suggested edits review page
For the last few days (not sure of exactly how many) I have been unable to review any suggested edits. Currently the little bubble is showing me that there are 4, but when I click on this button it ...
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This capcha thing is a pain in the butt
I tried to post a lengthy answer, and the system won't post it makes me enter a capcha. That's one of those things where they show images of smeared text to foil automatic text interpretation ...
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Electrical Engineering SE Anniversary Celebration?
Did you know Electrical Engineering SE’s anniversary of its graduation is coming up on March 21st? Congratulations!
How about a contest or some other fun activity to stir things up a little? After a ...
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Do we need some kind of code of conduct around here?
Setting aside the question of whether any such code could ever be enforced, might this not be a better place if there were some written statement that people could point to, that shows at least what ...
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What's the issue (if any) asking about what part is better for the job?
Referring specifically to question Transmission line for UHF TV antenna
I don't see any problem with the question, but apparently there is possibly some disagreement. I took it as a which part is ...
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Can not delete comments in quick succession
I have had a few times where I have gone to delete several comments on a single post to help remove some of the irrelevant comments. The first comment deletes fine, but it takes several seconds before ...
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Why aren't the usernames getting linked correctly?
Regarding: Why is “describe a process of communication” non real question?
And this question: Why is "describe a process of communication" non real question?
One appears to be migrated ...
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Why is “describe a process of communication” non real question?
I asked the question How network card communicates with other hardware components?.
What's wrong with the question and how can I make the question better to have chance for answer?
That's not fair ...
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Allowing users to add a “voice recording ” that explains their problem?
Allowing users to add a "voice recording " that explains their problem ?
In my humble opinion it will be great thing if it happens .
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Making blockquotes more visible
As title says: don't you agree that blockquotes are almost invisible?
I would suggest to improve the contrast, the margin or the indentation; maybe a shadow?
Here is a blockquote as an example
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Usefulness of the “supply” tag?
Shouldn't the tag supply be disallowed? It's almost always used together with the power tag, instead of using the power-supply. In any case it never refers to supplies in the logistics sense of the ...
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Manufacturers' references
Probably it's been already discussed, but I don't know how to look for it...
Sometimes happens that answering a question requires a reference to a datasheet, or a specific kind of product; in the ...
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Optoelectronics community
Can I ask you please if you know of any community that discusses optoelectronics? I am currently working on the physics behind them and it would be really helpful to have a second opinion.
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Should we allow legal questions, specifically questions about export restrictions in the US?
In this question: Export restrictions on programming equipment Adam Davis noted that
Export restrictions is a problem an electrical engineer might have, but it's not an electrical engineering ...
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Question not appearing
I have seen a double question from the same user: 1 and 2, and reported it.
But looking at the profile of the same, I see only the old question, like if the new one didn't exist. Is that an edit of ...
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Electropus where did he/she come from?
Just wondering who made Electropus and if he/she has any particular license?
UPDATE: I spoke to Maddy from Little Bird electronics on the email and she thinks that the design originally came from ...
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New users can't edit posts and leave images edited in by privileged users
This bug report was brought on by this question: Help identifying a motor and how to control it with an Arduino. Here is its timeline. The summary is that a new user attempted to post a question ...
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Why there is a EE.Sx question on this site?
I was looking for a rail-to-rail OPAMP model for Qucs, in order to help the OP of this question...and one of the links that Google gives is this: it seems to be the copy of that question, with figures ...
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Chat creates an improper link when there is a “)” in the URL
In chat, someone tried to post a link to wolfram alpha. Specifically
http://wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(1.25e-6%20amp)*(10%2F(60%20Hz))%2F(3.3%20V)%3D
The link showed up in chat like so:
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