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<p>The next build will allow new users to edit their own posts in this case.</p>
<p>Essentially, we disable the image/anchor restrictions for new users once the post already contains the requisite content.</p>
| 989 | 2012-02-17T15:58:19.110 | |bug|status-completed|new-users| | <p>This bug report was brought on by this question: <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/26704/help-identify-a-motor-and-how-would-i-control-it-with-an-arduino">Help identifying a motor and how to control it with an Arduino</a>. Here is its <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/posts/26704... | New users can't edit posts and leave images edited in by privileged users |
<p>8 - It encourages sloppy communication. I can just imagine <i>"Um, this resistor thing, like, um, is connected to the third leg of the transistor, um, ..."</i>. No thanks. Forcing people to sit down and write up the relevant parts of the problem using words, diagrams, and pictures is a good thing. We get enough ... | 1012 | 2012-03-01T00:50:53.907 | |discussion|feature-request| | <p>Allowing users to add a "voice recording " that explains their problem ? </p>
<p>In my humble opinion it will be great thing if it happens . </p>
| Allowing users to add a "voice recording " that explains their problem? |
<p>I like the question. The OP is clearly approaching the problem from an engineering point of view, and wants to know not only how but why a solution will work. Referencing the ARRL Handbook, baluns, ribbon cable, and the difference between "balanced" and "unbalanced" lines isn't something the common consumer will do.... | 1024 | 2012-03-10T05:15:12.847 | |discussion| | <p>Referring specifically to question <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/27811/transmission-line-for-uhf-tv-antenna">Transmission line for UHF TV antenna</a></p>
<p>I don't see any problem with the question, but apparently there is possibly some disagreement. I took it as a which part is better f... | What's the issue (if any) asking about what part is better for the job? |
<p>This happened cause this post: <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/28255/1833">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/28255/1833</a> crashed our diff engine. </p>
<p>It crashed our Markdown engine cause we hit some sort of internal edge case, the body of the post has some irregular html, this is causi... | 1037 | 2012-03-19T12:18:05.910 | |bug|status-completed| | <p>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 tries to go to <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits">https://electronics.stackexchange... | Can not get to suggested edits review page |
<p>It's an April Fool's joke. See <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/127701/how-can-i-get-the-april-fools-joke-to-appear">How can I get the April Fool's joke to appear?</a> on the main meta (there's a picture of it in the answer)</p>
| 1056 | 2012-04-01T08:11:18.440 | |bug|status-bydesign| | <p>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.</p>
<p>Ahg, and now it just popped up and said "It looks like you're asking about me. That's nice. - Go on asking - Don't bother me again"!!</p>
<p>Is this a virus that I've contract... | Am I the only one seeing a paperclip unicorn? |
<p>We may have miss-communicated some. You can suggest all day long, I have no issue with it, even promote it, but your comment received upvotes and I had received flags. I wanted to post my view and suggest that if you felt the question was strongly off topic to suggest it on meta.</p>
<p>Please, do take the time to ... | 1061 | 2012-04-08T01:36:20.573 | |discussion| | <p>Kortuk commented:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>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 discussion of it @JonnyBoats ask
on meta. Right now as a moderator I am not going to take actio... | REF: Communications engineering, call arrival rate, poisson |
<p>Once you open the unanswered questions list, you have to click on <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/unanswered/tagged/?tab=noanswers">"no answers" tab</a> to see questions which don't have any answers.</p>
| 1070 | 2012-04-12T11:02:40.520 | |support| | <p>I had a look at the <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/unanswered">unanswered question</a>, but I noticed half of them seem to have an answer after all, some even two. Why are they listed there?</p>
| unanswered questions |
<p>Take a closer look at the <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/faq#bounty">FAQ</a>.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>In any case, you will <em>always</em> give up the amount of reputation
specified in the bounty, so if you start a bounty, be sure to follow
up and award your bounty to the best answer!</p>
</block... | 1072 | 2012-04-12T15:45:48.673 | |support|bounty| | <p>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).</p>
<p>I felt it was still a valid question, as it definitely relates to electronics, so I offered a bounty. The bounty expired several days ago and there ... | Where did my bounty go? |
<p>If a user account is deleted, that users' up and down votes are removed per <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/126471">https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/126471</a>. This has always been the case, but it's only recently been reported as 'user was removed'.</p>
<p>This can occur when, as suggested by <a href="... | 1078 | 2012-04-15T22:41:39.303 | |support| | <p>I am curious what does the entry "user was removed" mean in your reputation summary for the day? Here is what I see:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/6lDPy.jpg" alt=""></p>
<p>See the second line down. Does that mean a whole user account that voted +1 on one of my answers was deleted? Nothing on that ... | What causes "user was removed" message? |
<p>Nope, this isn't about a post on serial communications. As clabacchio noted, this is about reversing votes posted by a single user to another. This is considered fraudulent voting, and has been removed. The votes were on posts which you'd previously received reputation for. Rather than deleting those entries in ... | 1109 | 2012-05-07T12:33:31.443 | |support| | <p>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 unlike the other entries this one is not clickable. I guess I got a 150 bounty a while back and someone changed thei... | Serial Upvoting reversed? |
<p>Test sizes:</p>
<pre><code>$$ \big| \Big| \bigg| \Bigg| $$
</code></pre>
<p>$$ \big| \Big| \bigg| \Bigg| $$</p>
<p>For some reason, they are not aligned as I was expecting</p>
<pre><code>$$
= \bigl| =
\\
= \bigm| =
\\
= \bigr| =
$$
</code></pre>
<p>$$
= \bigl| =
\\
= \bigm| =
\\
= \bigr| =
$$</p>
| 1112 | 2012-05-07T16:54:36.943 | |support|formatting|latex|mathjax| | <p>I tried to write the following equation on the main site using MathJax:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/F21Uz.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>The vertical bar and \$a_2=0\$ indicate that this equation should be evaluated at the point where the related parameter \$a_2\$ is zero. It's des... | How can I get an 'evaluation at' vertical bar in MathJax? \right| doesn't seem to work, looking for alternatives |
<p>The default sort on <code>/users</code> is by reputation, and the default <strong>time frame</strong> is the current month. The following screenshot shows the monthly rep gains by each of the associated users:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/2qsOD.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>Additio... | 1128 | 2012-05-13T23:53:32.980 | |support| | <p>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?</p>
| What do the numbers mean on the users page? |
<p>As Olin said,</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Maybe a solution is to not bump a question for small edits</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Probably the same mechanism has been suggested in meta.SO, but I post it as an answer so we can see better how much agreement it gets. Maybe we can change it!</p>
| 1132 | 2012-05-15T08:45:37.490 | |discussion|community-wiki| | <p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/31763/2064">This answer of mine</a> 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 <em>invitation</em> for edits. I don't want everybody to mess with my answer. If someone wants to contribute,... | Community Wiki (CW) worries |
<p>Moderators regularly clear off-topic/not contrustive/rude/out dated comments.</p>
<p>Your comments were probably left because they related to adding further detail to the question, ideally those comments are edited into the question as further detail and they are then deleted also. Lets focus on keeping the house t... | 1150 | 2012-05-25T16:35:37.803 | |support|comments| | <p>There was a few (I last remembered at least 5) comments on the question I posted, suddenly disappeared and only left with mine. At least 2 user posted the comments. I seriously doubt they deleted all of it.</p>
| Disappeared comments |
<p>That page shows a name that looks like the person whom garnered the bounty but it is actually whom last answered/edited the question.</p>
<p>You were the last to post an answer, it shows you there.</p>
| 1184 | 2012-06-03T08:35:22.780 | |support| | <p>Regarding this question:
<a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/28864/how-to-build-a-2n6027-put">How to build a 2N6027 PUT?</a> which was to rewarded with a +500 bounty.</p>
<p>From Kortuk's profile page I understand the bounty was rewarded to me:
<a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/us... | Why was this bounty not rewarded? |
<p>Your rep not being high enough to see deleted questions seems to make it so that you cannot see the affects from a deleted question. Here is a heavily cropped picture of your rep changes, I did my best to hide secret moderator buttons and such. </p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/yaUgj.png" alt="Image showi... | 1190 | 2012-06-04T12:01:25.967 | |bug|status-bydesign| | <p>The day before yesterday I had <strong>2010</strong> rep, I got +5 yesterday, so now I'm at <strong>2013</strong>. Makes sense, right? (I don't see anything about downvotes on my rep page.)</p>
| New arithmetic in counting reputation? |
<p>It was a spam poster trying to get his link on as many questions as possible. It was not a real answer of any sort, they were deleted and you are not yet high enough rep to see deleted content.</p>
<p>Sorry for the confusion.</p>
| 1192 | 2012-06-04T19:30:17.967 | |support|bug| | <p>I saw a notification in the inbox, informing me about 2 new answers on my <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/31296/adding-third-channel-to-the-pic32-starter-kit-dma-chaining-and-pwm-example/">question</a>. I went to check them, but I can't see them. </p>
<p>The quote about the answer is "I exp... | I got notification on two new answers, I can't see them |
<p>I think <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/33478/device-to-record-phone-calls/33479#33479">this</a> was the question you're referring to, based on the fact that it was asked two hours before and answered one hour before your question here. It was self-deleted. The last question to be deleted ... | 1209 | 2012-06-08T09:48:48.750 | |support| | <p>A recent question had an answer which couldn't quite convince me. But when I wanted to have a look at it again the question seemed to have disappeared completely. In my activity log no trace of the comment I posted, and in answerer's activity log no sign of his answer. </p>
<p>I thought questions could only be del... | Can questions which have answers disappear without a trace? |
<p>Signatures are not allowed, think of the useless noise added by every user adding an extra one line signature. Your signature is your little name and link in the corner.</p>
<p>If you want to thank someone upvote great answers and accept the one that solves the issue. This is the built in site reward. </p>
| 1249 | 2012-06-18T19:07:09.620 | |discussion|asking-questions|signature| | <p>I've 'signed' several of my questions (across the SE platform) like so:</p>
<pre><code>Thanks for any help or insights, I appreciate it!
</code></pre>
<p>or something akin that, sometimes along with my name. My reasoning behind this is that someone is taking a fairly significant chunk of time to help me out, and I... | Why is 'signing' your question generally frowned upon? |
<blockquote>
<p>Tag wikis have much higher requirements to edit than other posts, to edit tag wikis <em>without</em> going through the suggestion stage you need the <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/privileges/trusted-user">Trusted User</a> privilege (requiring 20000 rep).</p>
<p>Otherwise, all edits move to the sugge... | 1256 | 2012-06-22T16:58:18.483 | |support| | <p>I just approved a suggested edit by someone with over 5700 rep. According to <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/privileges/edit">this page</a> you only need 2000 rep to edit. So why was approval needed here?</p>
| required rep for editing questions and answers |
<p>I think we should eliminate the aluminum tag. We have more descriptive or more accurate tags for both uses. For example, aluminum capacitors could be filed under <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/electrolytic-capacitors" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'electrolytic-ca... | 1259 | 2012-06-23T02:06:56.783 | |discussion|tags| | <p>What should we do with <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aluminum" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'aluminum'" rel="tag">aluminum</a>? There is currently a tag wiki edit proposed to read</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Aluminum is one type of capacitors. This tag can also b... | What to do with the Aluminum Tag? |
<p>The system automatically removes that that only have one use after a time period, a month to my recollection. No need to worry about it, it is automatic!</p>
| 1304 | 2012-07-10T18:09:42.953 | |discussion|tags| | <p>Most of the ones on the <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/tags?tab=new">new tag page</a> only have 1 question. Should we remove
<a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linker" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'linker'" rel="tag">linker</a>
<a href="https://el... | Remove some tags |
<p>Flagging is the thing to do. If the flagged comment for instance contains some bad language a mod may edit that out of the comment. If the comment as a whole is inappropriate it may be deleted, as apparently happened here. I know about ever more escalating heated discussions thirty comments long completely deleted. ... | 1318 | 2012-07-14T19:52:56.003 | |discussion| | <p>Sorry if this is the wrong place to have this discussion, but I don't quite know where I should put this. I posted an answer to a question yesterday <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/35663/minimum-operating-temperature-outer-space/35665">Minimum operating temperature - Outer Space?</a> and I ... | Where should we discuss user issues? |
<p>Stance on the subject has not changed to my knowledge, diamond moderators act from the same basic set of ground rules as they did before.</p>
<h3>A Maturing Community</h3>
<p>The community maturing and requiring higher quality posts of its members will really increase the level of shopping question that works. The... | 1332 | 2012-07-19T23:21:29.570 | |discussion| | <p>Recently, I've noticed a bunch of shopping questions with good answers in which no one complained (about them being shopping questions).</p>
<p>Most recently, I've seen:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/36112/help-finding-appropriate-avr-device">Help finding appropriate AVR dev... | Has our opinion on shopping questions changed? |
<p>The next build will update the footer to read "Electrical Engineering"</p>
| 1335 | 2012-07-20T13:34:01.190 | |discussion|status-completed| | <p>After seeing few consumer electronics questions here today, I thought that it may be a good idea to change the link in the footer of SE pages to something which describes the site better.</p>
<p>I think (and I may be wrong) that some users just read "electronics" and assume consumer electronics without reading too ... | Should we ask for the link in footer to be changed? |
<p>These are either single use tags that will die on their own or no use tags the system has not swept out yet. These will clear out on their own.</p>
| 1340 | 2012-07-22T10:27:58.700 | |discussion|status-declined|tag-cleanup| | <p>There are currently 141 unused tags on EE, not counting <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/untagged" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'untagged'" rel="tag">untagged</a>. There are irrelevant tags like <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/au... | What shall we do with the 141 unused tags |
<p>On Stack Overflow, there are tags for code libraries and software development platforms. For instance, there's a <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jquery" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'jquery'" rel="tag">jquery</a> tag. In many cases, it is redundant to list tag... | 1396 | 2012-08-02T06:14:08.087 | |support|bug|status-bydesign| | <p>I was working on tags (between answers) and when I wanted to suggest a tag synonym I got this message: </p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/7EMP2.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>What does it mean?</p>
| What does this message mean? |
<p>Most of our source code questions don't specify a programming language in the tags. I'm not sure if we want every question that has code in it to be tagged with a language, but there is a simple workaround - you can add a header to force a language.</p>
<p>For reference, see the <a href="https://electronics.stackex... | 1398 | 2012-08-02T14:05:13.280 | |support| | <p>Syntax highlighting! Mike asked <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11770464/pic16f-sspadd-causing-scl-to-go-low-early">this question</a> on SO, and the code looks like this: </p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/0c9GH.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>Then he <a href="https://electro... | What does SO have that we don't? Syntax highlighting |
<p>List questions are generally not constructive questions for our site. They can be incomplete, out-of-date, and there can be a lot of noise. They are questions with "no right answer", so they are a bad fit for our site where the goal is to find <em>one</em> right answer. See the <a href="https://electronics.stackexch... | 1405 | 2012-08-10T16:26:12.393 | |discussion|closed-questions| | <p>I would like to inquire about the closure of <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/37513/must-read-electronics-papers">this question</a> which Kortuk, singlehandedly, executed.</p>
<p>I find the closure description "closed as not constructive" less than helpful, and I would have appreciated a com... | Closed question inquiry |
<p>This will <a href="http://chat.stackexchange.com/faq#retention">happen automatically</a> in one of two ways, depending on the previous activity in the room.</p>
<ul>
<li>If the room seems to have some interesting content (see the above link for a precise definition), it will be <em>frozen</em> after 14 days of sile... | 1416 | 2012-08-29T11:28:49.143 | |support|chat| | <p>5 days ago, as an experiment, I clicked on the link that appeared on a comment thread (the one that says "let us continue this discussion in chat"). </p>
<p>The system created a chat room for the thread, and copied comments there. Wonderful. </p>
<p>But now the room is useless (I said it was an experiment), so: ho... | How to "close" a chat room |
<p>This is dependent on the browser you are using, so no, nothing can be done by the Stack Exchange team (short of not using MathJax).</p>
<p>One thing you can do is try switching the renderer that MathJax uses. To do this, right click on the MathJax table/text/formula/etc., roll over Math Settings, and then Math Rend... | 1443 | 2012-10-10T09:59:51.897 | |support| | <p>The answer at <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/42266/1951">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/42266/1951</a> looks like this to me:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/tvtpX.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>Normal font rendering at the top, but the MathJax stuff below it ... | Can anything be done about this awful font rendering? |
<p>As more and more engineers function in global roles, a little reminder now and then that not everybody across the world writes numbers the same way is a good thing. Best to see it here and now than in a failure mode analysis!</p>
| 1451 | 2012-10-11T20:37:48.483 | |discussion|formatting| | <p>This question:</p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/42873/2028">Why do many electronics operate on 5 AND 3.3 Volts?</a></p>
<p>(Worded "Why do many electronics operate on 5 AND 3,3 Volts?" in case it gets edited.)</p>
<p>Recently reminded me of the frustration of working with electronics on an ... | SE network or standardized decimal mark? |
<p>Hats are cute, I guess, but to me they seem to be largely functionally redundant with badges.</p>
<p>My big complaint is that the additional client-side scripting used to implement them is <em>really</em> slowing down my browser. I had to turn them off.</p>
| 2495 | 2012-11-15T05:03:11.030 | |discussion| | <p>Last year around Christmas time <a href="http://gaming.stackexchange.com">arQAde</a> had an awesome promotion in which they awarded hats for gravatars for completing basic tasks around the site. If you don't remember it, here is a <a href="http://stackexchange.com/promos/2/hat-dash">link</a> the promo from last year... | Do you like hats? |
<p>Comment flags are counted as well, and you have 2 comment flags. I show you having 78 helpful flags, and 2 comment flags.</p>
| 2502 | 2012-11-23T22:22:42.400 | |discussion| | <p>I noticed that I have the deputy badge, which is 80 helpful flags, yet in my profile it says I've only made 77. So where have I got the extra flags from?</p>
| How have I got a badge with only part of the requirements? |
<p>You can't accept a comment as an answer. But you can suggest the author to change it in an answer, and then accept it. </p>
| 2504 | 2012-11-24T15:19:18.253 | |support|comments|unanswered-questions| | <p>I have obtained an answer to my question which is in the comment. How can I mark it as the answer.
Please visit</p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/49537/do-all-phy-ethernet-chips-have-a-hard-coded-mac-address">exchangelink</a></p>
<p>WoutervanOoijen has given the correct answer to my q... | How can I mark a comment as the right answer? |
<p>This should be changed in the FAQ section, under <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/faq#questions">What kind of questions can I ask here</a>, in the NOT to ask part, it says "a shopping or buying recommendation." </p>
<p>Because there are plenty of EE questions about components that are valid and it see... | 2506 | 2012-11-24T20:51:11.667 | |discussion| | <p>Reading <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/49733/lcd-modules-with-i2c-or-spi-interface">this question</a> got me to thinking... why do we so readily downvote these types of questions? It's apparent that the user doesn't even really have knowledge of whether or not these modules exist... and he... | Can we ease up with the negative association to "shopping" questions? |
<p>The PCB shouldn't be auto-routed (at least, not excessively) to be eligible for the review here. May be, we should add it to this unofficial policy.</p>
<p>Here's a <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/72968/7036">thread</a>, which is an unsuccessful test case. Unfortunately, the O.P. there have fully... | 2513 | 2012-12-05T06:55:26.573 | |discussion| | <p>I think PCB review questions like "Here's my PCB, can anyone tell me if my [layout/vias/placement/whatever] is good?" are not a good fit for the site.</p>
<p>That said, are there any sites that do PCB review/consulting work inexpensively or for hobbyists?</p>
<p>If not, just as <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/"... | PCB review questions: acceptable? Separate SE site? |
<p>This is an interesting case, as the examples of the specific questions might actually lead to rabbit holing the wrong answer. Eg. if you're trying to find a beacon at that frequency in that sort of area you'd probably do better with a doppler direction finder. I think only the over arching question about methods wou... | 2523 | 2012-12-16T05:35:24.967 | |discussion|asking-questions|design| | <p>Having gone through meta for such question, and finding one regarding circuit design review, I completely understand that view that "circuit designs" dumped on community for crowd-sourcing review comments is bad and frowned upon.</p>
<p>However, was wondering if there is some acceptable way, which amounts to asking... | Noob asking for circuit design help - any right way? |
<p>I myself saw it as more RF/MAC layer oriented, not windows configuration, so it's an engineering question.</p>
| 2527 | 2012-12-20T00:34:12.963 | |discussion| | <p>This question just showed up:</p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/51774/2028">Does Wifi signal strength affect link speed?</a></p>
<p>It's one of those borderline questions that at first glance make you want to vote to close. Then I thought, well, maybe it should be migrated to SuperUser (it's ... | Radio/antenna questions; bordering on off-topic |
<p><code><sub></code> and <code><sup></code> tags would do the job too</p>
<p>I<sup>2</sup>R<sub>load</sub> is produced by <code>I<sup>2</sup>R<sub>load</sub></code></p>
| 2544 | 2013-01-07T09:40:12.560 | |support| | <p>In my answer <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/53212/9730">here</a> I have tried to get P = I^2 * R to show the 2 in super script, several different ways, like P = I^{2} * R as mentioned <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/a/438/9730">here</a>.</p>
<p>How is it done?</p>
| I can't seem to get superscript to show up, like I squared should be I^2 |
<p>This indeed is possible with LaTeX using the <a href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/tikz-timing" rel="nofollow"><code>tikz-timing</code></a> package. It isn't included in the markdown editing though. But this might be possible..? It would be really useful, the <code>tikz-timing</code> is used by every professional organiz... | 2547 | 2013-01-09T08:48:32.040 | |discussion|support| | <p>In EE all we need to draw some waveforms to ask or answer questions.</p>
<p>Is this could be done with TeX? Or what are the software's you people are using?</p>
<p>Could we have add some tools to draw waveforms in here?</p>
| Drawing Waveforms |
<p>If you are wanting to thank someone just up vote. Comments such as, "Thanks for the help." are just noise. If it is helpful, up vote. If it solves your problem, accept. If you need further information or have input to give them about the situation please post a comment explaining.</p>
<p>Although I am sure someone ... | 2551 | 2013-01-10T01:20:45.553 | |discussion| | <p>Do I need to try to pay attention to comments like thanks with a sentence or something afterward.</p>
<p>Sorry for a stupid-ish question, but I'm very new with regards to social media sites.</p>
| Does leaving thanks type comments get automatically/mod deleted at some point or should I be deleting them myself after? |
<p>Even though it is short circuited, it looks nice. The display just needs a blue tint for a VFD look.</p>
| 2557 | 2013-01-11T15:01:10.510 | |discussion| | <p>I realized it's a breadboard, and the ICs are not across the channel in the middle. It's been bothering me since.</p>
| Does it bother anyone else that the site banner shorts pairs of IC pins together? |
<p>It is the number of votes to close <em>you</em> have remaining. It is similar to the maximum Q&A votes and flags in that it resets every 24 hours. Right now, with our site size and volume, you would only exhaust those close votes if you went through a full review queue... it shouldn't be an issue.</p>
<p><a hre... | 2573 | 2013-01-15T23:44:11.293 | |discussion| | <p>When I bring up the dialog to close a question, at the bottom it says "24 votes remaining to close". Obviously this doesn't refer to the number of votes required to close the question since only five are needed.</p>
<p>Is this the number of votes <em>I</em> have available to close questions? If so, how or when do... | What does "24 votes remaining to close" mean? |
<p>A tag for a single chip is usually too granular for the tag system. A lot of tags get created because the threshold for adding one is fairly low, but that doesn't mean they need to stick around. I went ahead and removed the tag from the only question that used it, and the tag will eventually be automatically cleaned... | 2587 | 2013-01-20T12:43:15.130 | |discussion|tags|tag-cleanup| | <p>There seems to be a <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/tags/pic18f2550/info">pic18f2550 tag</a>. Why is that? It isn't really used. Shouldn't it be merged with the <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/tags/pic/info">pic tag</a>, before we have a tag for every PIC?</p>
| PIC18F2550 tag merging with PIC? |
<p>Most of the time it's not a big enough deal to do anything about. This case is as good a example as any. Yeah, the comment is mostly pointless, but it's not rude, offensive, or really badly written to the point I'd go out of my way to get rid of it.</p>
<p>Let's keep this in perspective. Dave's well written, com... | 2592 | 2013-01-22T17:40:55.920 | |discussion|comments| | <p>I'm looking at for example the second comment on <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/55767/who-receives-the-value-returned-by-main#55773">Who receives the value returned by main()?</a>. The commenter simply says the same as Dave in the answer, with the only addition that C wasn't meant for OS-le... | What should we do with comments that just rephrase the post? |
<p>Keep in mind that the primary interface to StackExchange questions is Google. Given that you've accepted Dave Tweed's answer, if I were to Google search for the original question you asked and the result was not helpful to me, there is a problem. Rephrase the question such that the accepted answer answers the questi... | 2595 | 2013-01-23T16:19:42.863 | |discussion| | <p>I asked <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/55871/how-do-i-design-a-triac-rms-power-limitter#comment105572_55871">How do I design a triac rms power limiter?</a>. <strong>Dave Tweed</strong> answered, in a comment, something that solved my problem. What now? Should I reform the question to make t... | I asked the wrong question and got the right answer. What now? |
<p>You no longer need to add <code>\cancel</code> anc <code>\bcancel</code> yourself, as they are now part of the <code>cancel</code> extension that was made available as part of MathJax v2.0. If you are running your own site, you can include this in your TeX extensions:</p>
<pre><code>MathJax.Hub.Config({
TeX: {ex... | 2599 | 2013-01-23T18:36:56.627 | |feature-request|mathjax| | <p>Some MathML / MathJax sites <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/mathjax-users/tuFHn3EkSic" rel="nofollow">have support for strikethrough</a> enabled:</p>
<pre><code> MathJax.Hub.Register.StartupHook("TeX Jax Ready",function () {
var TEX = MathJax.InputJax.TeX;
var MML = Ma... | MathML support for strikethrough |
<p>You should definitely ask and answer your own questions. <a href="http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/its-ok-to-ask-and-answer-your-own-questions/">This is explicitly encouraged.</a></p>
| 2605 | 2013-01-26T06:48:22.450 | |discussion| | <p>I've noticed recently that <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/17608/phil-frost">Phil Frost</a> has posted a few questions and immediately answered no doubt as a form of tutorial, an example is <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/56170/how-can-suddenly-stopping-a-spinning-motor-... | Self-answering questions as a form of tutorial |
<p>I say EE is the place! Since the hardest (or at least the most complex part) of encrypting/decrypting a PIC's memory is in the implementation/access (as compared to encrypting some data in an asp.net environment.)</p>
<p>Plus, this site doesn't get enough cool questions! :-) and I'm not a member of cryptography...<... | 2612 | 2013-01-29T07:10:38.013 | |discussion|on-topic| | <p>Let's say I have a PIC and an EEPROM memory IC. I store sensitive data in the EEPROM. If I want to encrypt the data, should I post it on EE or on <a href="https://crypto.stackexchange.com/">Cryptography</a> as a request for a fast and low memory cost encryption?</p>
| Are data encryption ideas for PICs on-topic? |
<p>The initial revision of your question had one reference to "Linux" and zero references to any sort of hardware. Even though you knew you were wondering about real-time scheduling for an FPGA project, that wasn't obvious to the people reading the question. Once you added that information, you got seven upvotes (more ... | 2614 | 2013-01-30T04:57:14.277 | |discussion|close-reasons|specific-question| | <p>I want to learn real-time programming. I asked this and it's near getting closed:</p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/56491/what-features-distinguishes-a-real-time-core-from-other-types-of-os">What features distinguishes real-time from other types of os?</a></p>
<p>Should I not at all h... | Was my real-time programmering question off-topic? |
<p>I think it's important to note that C for EE can be for x86, but is many times embedded. So there is a larger emphasis on optimization, memory conservation, low level access, etc with which many of the C experts on SO are not familiar.</p>
| 2622 | 2013-02-02T08:04:02.597 | |discussion|on-topic| | <p>I asked <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/56058/c-coding-design-function-pointers">C coding design - function pointers?</a> on which EJP commented it's off-topic and/because it belongs on SO. Kortuk says no:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>@EJP I disagree. Just because there is an overlap does not mean... | Are pure C questions on-topic? |
<p>We heavily support arduino on site, previously this has resulted in the arduino site being closed as a duplicate. </p>
<p>I see no issue in the more detailed tag wiki linking to a proposed site, but I would not guarantee you are getting a site either.</p>
| 2623 | 2013-02-02T16:23:14.137 | |discussion| | <p>The <a href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/49538/arduino">Arduino site proposal</a> would interest a lot of the users of this site, so is it alright to promote it through the relevant tag wiki(s) ?</p>
| Is it alright to promote a site proposal through the relevant Tag wikis? |
<p>I didn't downvote that question, and I don't see a obvious reason to downvote it. You left some junk "NB>" characters in there, but that relatively small editing oversight doesn't rise to the level of deserving a downvote in my opinion. I upvoted it to compensate for one of the downvotes.</p>
<p>To answer your qu... | 2630 | 2013-02-04T13:46:32.920 | |discussion|moderation|voting|down-votes| | <p>Here is a <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/57012/rfid-coil-ends-broke-can-i-resolder">question</a> which I asked earlier today, had got a reasonably good answer and was waiting until at least 24 hours as I usually do, to give time for any other comments/feedback, when I suddenly see a series ... | Are their incentives for downvoting questions? |
<p>This is a good example of needing to make sure everyone understands your terms. The only "Redstone" I know is a rocket [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGM-11_Redstone" rel="nofollow">PGM-11</a>], and I've never heard of "Minecraft". Simply expecting people to know what those are is going to sound arrogant a... | 2633 | 2013-02-05T01:32:32.003 | |discussion|asking-questions| | <p>The title kind of stands for itself. I mean, you can make some <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgJfVRhotlQ" rel="nofollow">pretty advanced things</a> with redstone in Minecraft. When it comes to complicated stuff like making computers with redstone, would questions related to that be appropriate for EE?</p>
| Are questions about redstone creations in Minecraft appropriate for EE? |
<p>Very few fonts give an unambiguous distinction between 'o', 'O', and '0'. The only one that I've seen is basically a monospaced font, the same one seen in the edit window and in <code>c0de</code> blocks.</p>
<p>I believe that this is a communication issue and not so much a font issue. We have been dealing with how... | 2635 | 2013-02-05T06:25:17.067 | |feature-request|design|formatting| | <p>In a comment, I wrote: </p>
<blockquote>
<p>Absolutely 0ms isn't possible with any circuit.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Here, in a question, you can see a slight difference between the zero and the o: 0o. But in a comment you can't: <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/57025/0-10-second-on-time-with... | The zero is an o in comments |
<p>Yes.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/GeSHI.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
| 2638 | 2013-02-05T18:17:06.723 | |discussion|feature-request| | <p>We got a little discussion at this post: <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/57184/amplifier-vpp-calculation">Amplifier Vpp calculation</a>. The Photon says yes/no questions aren't good for SE and I agree. They aren't right? (1st question)</p>
<p>If you agree, where is it in the FAQ? I can't fi... | Yes / no questions |
<p>I think that certain tags should be created as mentioned in the question. The tags could be :</p>
<ul>
<li><p><code>main-faq</code> or <code>site-faq</code> : Questions about the <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/faq">main FAQ</a></p></li>
<li><p><code>meta-faq</code> : Questions about <a href="/questi... | 2639 | 2013-02-05T18:18:49.870 | |support|feature-request| | <p>It appears to be that the <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/faq">FAQ tag</a> on meta is used for the questions that are most frequently asked on the meta site. What if I want to post something about the <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/faq">FAQ page</a> on the main si... | FAQ tag not about main site FAQ |
<p>Battery life calculations are definitely part of electrical engineering, so your question is clearly on topic.</p>
<p>However, this particular question needs work. Clean up the English, use real sentences, and keep in mind we don't have the same context about your project that you do. Your second line isn't a sente... | 2645 | 2013-02-06T02:01:08.090 | |discussion| | <p>I have the following question:</p>
<pre>
The rechargeable battery info: 1900 mAH
A device that have input of 3V DC and output of 5 V / 500mA
If two rechargeable battery is insert into the device,
I can expect that it can provide me ( 1900 mAH / 500 mA of 3.8 hours ) of output.
So, if the device only provide me ... | Is question on battery discharge can be asked in here? |
<p>We each have different opinions and thresholds for what we think is appropriate or not. That's in part why there is a voting system for the more drastic actions. In that sense, as long as you do what you believe to be correct, judgement calls can't technically be "wrong".</p>
<p>That said, I disagree with your ju... | 2648 | 2013-02-07T14:10:49.533 | |support| | <p>I reviewed ADI_iCoupler answer on <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/57302/digital-isolation-comparison">Digital Isolation comparison</a>. I consider this answer to be <em>helpful</em>, but it doesn't answer the question. I marked it as not an answer, but don't know whether that was the right t... | Useful no-answer answers |
<p>I would suggest not an answer, I dont have a strong preference and your flag will be marked as valid regardless which you pick.</p>
| 2654 | 2013-02-08T18:19:40.370 | |support| | <p>It's clear that <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/22944/can-a-110v-spa-pump-curcuit-control-a-220v-spa-heater-that-is-on-its-own-220v-c#comment109143_57471">answers in the wrong language</a> have to be flagged. But should they get flagged as not an answer, very low quality, spam, not welcome o... | Wrong language flag |
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/o8aZ5.png" alt="XKCD comic"></p>
<p>(<a href="http://xkcd.com/435/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">from XKCD</a>)</p>
<p>The analogy to Arduino and Electrical Engineering should be clear.</p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/57824/how-do-i-get-5v-for-loud-... | 2656 | 2013-02-10T03:20:08.670 | |discussion| | <p>The <a href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/49538/arduino">Arduino site proposal</a> is moving forward at a good rate. As a part of the scope of the Arduino site will cover questions that currently fall in the scope of EE, what will be the benefits (and problems) in having a separate Arduino site ?</p>
<p... | What will be the benefits in having a separate Arduino site? |
<p>I would like to see more salvage questions but some sort of guideline needs to be set up. After reading this thread I posted a topic about salvaging LCDs and it was closed within a day. They cited it as "too localized" which was quite puzzling considering that I never mentioned where I am and devices which parts can... | 2658 | 2013-02-10T21:33:09.603 | |discussion| | <p>I asked <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/57625/2028">a question about salvaging parts from used/junk equipment</a>, and it was negatively received.</p>
<p>Many hobbyists cannot afford to buy new parts (such as pneumatic actuators, solenoids and stepper motors) so they often salvage them from equipme... | Salvage questions. On topic? |
<p>Yes, click the share button below the answer/question for a link.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/NY9gx.png" alt="Image of the button push"></p>
<p>It includes your userid in the link so that it can track and give badges for how many you refer to the question/answer. It is the last number, you can remov... | 2669 | 2013-02-12T14:37:32.770 | |support| | <p>Sometimes (on meta as well as on main) I want to link to an answer. It is possible to get a link to a comment: by clicking on the timestamp you get a link with on the end something like <code>#comment109723_57751</code>. Do we have something similar with answers? </p>
| Links to answers |
<p>In response to <a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/303812/discourage-screenshots-of-code-and-or-errors">this Meta Stack Overflow request</a> we have implemented a change that will <em>sort of</em> allow low rep users to post images. </p>
<p>If a user with <= 15 rep tries to post a screenshot, they ... | 2671 | 2013-02-12T14:44:31.097 | |feature-request|status-completed| | <p>New users can't post images. On websites like StackOverflow this isn't really necessary, and thus a good way to prevent new users from spamming unwanted images. However, on EE.SE, we often need a schematic, a pinout diagram, an image of a pcb or circuit. Isn't it a good idea to remove the 10 reputation restriction f... | Images for new users |
<p>These notification messages should now disappear on their own without any clicking required at all.</p>
| 2675 | 2013-02-15T10:15:30.103 | |feature-request|bug|status-completed| | <p>A few days ago, we got yellow messages like "please consider adding a comment if you think this post can be improved". When you clicked on such a message, it disappeared. With the new style (red), this isn't possible anymore. Some messages, like "You may only submit a comment vote every 5 seconds." have a cross on t... | Dismissing messages |
<p>Well, This one is fairly simple. I went ahead and took care of it, but it's something practically everyone can do. </p>
<p>Someone misspelled the tag (not clicking on the suggested existing <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comparator" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged '... | 2678 | 2013-02-16T02:23:55.897 | |support| | <p>Tag comparitor needs to be fixed. Somehow whoever created misspelled the word.</p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comparitor">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comparitor</a></p>
<p>How to fix or report such fixing requests?</p>
| How to fix or report such fixing requests? |
<p>You can just re-click the upvote mark to undo your vote. However, after a certain time (how long, I do not know) your vote is "locked": you cannot undo it (or change it into a downvote) until the answer is edited.</p>
| 2680 | 2013-02-16T12:03:58.480 | |support| | <p>I recently up-voted an answer but upon further reflection while not a really bad answer it didn't address a few aspects of the question. When I pressed down-vote it went from +1 to -1 instead of going back to zero.</p>
<p>I didn't think the answer deserved -1 so up-voted again to +1 but wondered if there is a way t... | Cancelling an answer up-vote |
<p>Quoting the Stack Overflow <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/67397/list-of-all-badges-with-full-descriptions">FAQ</a> for badges :</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Earned at least 200 reputation in a single day. All reputation
activities, including up and down votes, accepted answers, bounties,
and suggest... | 2682 | 2013-02-16T13:39:53.920 | |support| | <p>As you can see on <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/17592/camil-staps?tab=reputation">my reputation history</a>, on January 8, I got 266 reputation. I believe I should get the <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/badges/25/mortarboard">mortarboard badge</a> for that, but <a href="https:/... | Why haven't I the mortarboard badge? |
<p>See <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2686/reviewing-and-flagging-answers-causes-the-forum-software-to-automatically-add-a/2689#2689">Reviewing and flagging answers causes the forum software to automatically add a comment impersonating me?</a></p>
<p>The "recommend deletion" dialog is pr... | 2688 | 2013-02-17T07:09:12.457 | |feature-request| | <p>Basically, The feature that when you flag a post, it also posts a comment to said post detailing why you flagged it, has recently been added to the SE software.</p>
<p>This caught me a bit by surprise, as it changes the existing behaviour of the SE site, and I wound up having people respond to comments that I wasn'... | Let the user know that flagging a Question/Answer will cause you to automatically add a comment |
<p>I don't think it's necessary, because it is a meta tag. Using the points made in the link the OP posted:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>If the tag can’t work as the only tag on a question, it’s probably a meta-tag. Every tag you use should be able to work, more or less, as the only tag on a question.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I... | 2691 | 2013-02-17T13:44:21.617 | |discussion|status-completed|tags| | <p>Today, the <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/not-arduino" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'not-arduino'" rel="tag">not-arduino</a> tag was added to a bunch of questions. Apparently it is for questions which do not want an Arduino solution.</p>
<p>Is it really nece... | Is [not-arduino] necessary? Is it a meta tag? |
<p>As Jeremy said in the comments, these error messages still have Xs to dismiss; but they also can be closed by clicking them (as before), and now fade away after a set period of time.</p>
<p>Think some of the colors may still be being tweaked though.</p>
| 2696 | 2013-02-19T08:41:34.640 | |bug|status-completed| | <p>I earlier asked <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2675/17592">Dismissing messages</a>, on which Anna Lear <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2685/17592">answered</a> and I commented on that answer. I assume that I don't get a reply because <a href="/questions/tagged/status-comp... | Messages still have crosses |
<p>To clarify, that isn't the <strong>Expanded Hover Card</strong> that <em>Established Users</em> get, it's much more in line with the basic card that everyone has. The avatar list for each review queue is to show who is actively reviewing, so <em>only</em> the avatar is shown by default. </p>
<p>The <strong>Expanded... | 2698 | 2013-02-21T15:10:17.167 | |support| | <p>PeterJ isn't an <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/privileges/established-user">established</a> user:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/QMdYn.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>But on the review page he suddenly is:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/KqPw1.png" alt="enter... | User shows on Review up as established user |
<p>When you place a cap, right click, "edit parameters" and choose polarized. It's there already.</p>
| 2710 | 2013-02-27T18:06:04.480 | |support|circuitlab|schematic| | <p>At first: many thanks for <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2708/17592">embedding CircuitLab</a>! It's cool, easy to use, et cetera, et cetera. Major improvement of the site.</p>
<p>Here's a little feature request: <em>can we have an electrolytic capacitor as well?</em> Most of the time, I disti... | Can we have an electrolytic capacitor in the schematic editor? |
<p>There is a nice little feature with Imgur that it actually stores 3 image sizes</p>
<p>Take the example posted.
Sure its big (and this is why I use inkscape) but it does the job. </p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/020Wv.png" alt="schematic"></p>
<p>However... Imgur permits resizing
To original image i... | 2716 | 2013-02-28T13:01:40.913 | |feature-request|circuitlab| | <p>If it's up to me, the CircuitLab schematics can be somewhat smaller. See this example: <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/59387/17592">What is the purpose of R2 in this discrete voltage regulator circuit?</a>. </p>
<p>I tried earlier to make a small circuit on <a href="https://electronics.stackexchang... | Smaller CircuitLab schematics |
<p>As mentioned in a comment, we had a similar <a href="https://ux.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/870/allow-new-users-to-post-mockups">question</a> on ux.se about the Balsamiq editor, and there were three reasons to decline it:</p>
<ol>
<li>Allowing everybody to use it would mean making ux.se "that site on the i... | 2717 | 2013-02-28T13:19:25.187 | |feature-request|status-completed|schematic|circuitlab|privileges| | <p>Recently, the <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2708/17592">CircuitLab tool was added</a>. This tool is privileged so that only people with 11 reputation can post images.</p>
<p>I understand <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/privileges/new-user">the idea of privileges</a>:</p>
<blo... | Why is the CircuitLab tool privileged? |
<p>This isn't you or your mac; sorry, we broke something. Fixed already and deploying ASAP (as in: the next few minutes).</p>
<p>See also: <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/170029/adding-a-picture-from-the-web-doesnt-work-on-google-chrome">Adding a picture from the web doesn't work on Google Chrome... | 2725 | 2013-03-04T12:42:27.487 | |bug|status-completed| | <p>I notice that the add-image component dialogue has changed since I last asked a question. I now cannot upload an image using my Mac in either Chrome or Safari, using either an image from my computer or from the web. Is anyone else having this problem?</p>
<p>Here is the post in question . . . </p>
<p><a href="http... | I'm having trouble adding images to a question using a Mac |
<p>A temporary solution is to add a UserScript to your browser, like this:</p>
<pre><code>// ==UserScript==
// @name Remove dotted border on EE.SE
// @namespace http://*electronics.stackexchange.com/*
// @version 1.0
// @include http://*electronics.stackexchange.com/*
// ==/UserScript==
// .gravata... | 2731 | 2013-03-09T11:55:03.250 | |bug|design| | <p>I noticed this:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/yCMg6.png" alt="enter image description here"> </p>
<p>As you can see, some users have a dotted border around their profile picture. I recently changed my profile picture, but Renan didn't, as far as I know. This really isn't something on the picture, I ch... | Why do some users have a dotted border? |
<h2> Mods can not merge accounts anymore </h2>
<p>We lost this right because if we merge accounts, incorrect, we can give someone private information about the other. This is a privacy violation, so merge now must go through a more standard channel. You must use the <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/help/... | 2736 | 2013-03-10T13:33:50.090 | |support| | <p>Yesterday I saw a proposed edit by "gutto" to a <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/60334/4512">question</a> asked by "guto". I rejected the edit with a note saying he should use the same account to edit as he did to write the question. He wouldn't need anyone's approval to edit his own question anywa... | When can mods merge accounts? |
<p>Electrical engineering covers much more than electronics. Is the intention of this site to deal with electronics only, or all electrical engineering fields, including such things as:</p>
<ul>
<li>power generation</li>
<li>transimssion</li>
<li>telecommunications</li>
<li>signal processing</li>
<li>industrial automa... | 2745 | 2013-03-12T16:38:21.070 | |discussion|electronics| | <p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12952/electrical-engineering-version-of-stack-overflow">This</a> post from 3 years ago seems to show that <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/</a> was originally named Electronics Exchange. Now it is Electrical Engin... | Renaming Electrical Engineering |
<h2>There is no problem.</h2>
<p>I'm from outside the States and had no idea the two weren't the same thing. And even when I would have known <a href="http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110323065835AAMjxmy" rel="nofollow noreferrer">the difference</a>, I would've come to this SE site to ask questions abo... | 2752 | 2013-03-12T23:29:06.397 | |discussion| | <p><a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2745/renaming-electrical-engineering">Here</a> is another question I just posed, but really what I wanted to drive at was possible suggested name changes to the site. I know a lot of people love the site the way it is so this is just a discussion so I'd l... | Should there be a name change to the site? |
<p>They are a boundary that is on topic on both sites, as such I feel we should allow users to choose where they ask and keep the questions there.</p>
| 2754 | 2013-03-13T08:28:45.210 | |discussion| | <p>Questions asking about how HDL constructs relate/imply hardware or vice versa, I think belong on Electronics.</p>
<p>Question about testbenches, compiler errors feel like programming questions to me, and StackOverflow already does a good job of answering them, <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/search?tab=newest&am... | Where do HDL (Verilog) questions belong? |
<p>This is a meta.SE policy. Links break. We have been around 4 years. I get flags for link only broken answers all the time.</p>
<p>Your answer should answer the question and only use links for further reading/reference for material.</p>
| 2757 | 2013-03-14T16:17:52.017 | |support|hyperlinks|answers| | <p><a href="https://wordpress.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2409/26607">What about answers consisting (almost) only of a link to an external website? - or - 'How do I answer' section for the faq</a></p>
<p>Generally, this link from the WordPress SE says that answers just linking to a solution are <em>wrong</em> per the <a ... | Policy on answers only containing a link |
<p>It was migrated, the post there will no longer update for changes here. You will not earn rep for it here and at some point they will clean how and remove it from Meta.SO and you will lose it showing on your account.</p>
| 2763 | 2013-03-15T16:30:00.340 | |bug|status-bydesign| | <p>I don't use this site all that much, which is evidenced by the fact I asked <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2745/renaming-electrical-engineering">a question</a> which should have been posted to Electrical Engineering Meta on Meta Stackoverflow.</p>
<p>The question now has 7 votes and I ... | Migrated questions don't show as being marked correct |
<p>You have to be careful what advice or procedures you pull from Stack Overflow. Some of their stuff is legacy and some of it is purely geared towards (relatively) large communities. The meta organization for meta.SO is the way it is (both site <em>and</em> system meta) because it will be painful to change it.</p>
<p... | 2764 | 2013-03-15T16:43:41.260 | |discussion| | <p>I am not disagreeing with the current set up; I am just curious what the motivation was to design the site this way.</p>
<p>StackOverflow and Meta StackOverflow have separate reputation scores (you earn different scores on the two different sites) but here at Electrical Engineering Meta your reputation is linked to... | Why is there no reputation earned on this site? |
<p>Yes and no. </p>
<p>You can use <a href="http://data.stackexchange.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Stack Exchange Data Explorer</a> to run arbitrary SQL queries (read-only, of course) against any site in the network. </p>
<p>However, Stack Exchange uses Microsoft SQL Server which doesn't support regular expression... | 2768 | 2013-03-17T03:17:30.927 | |feature-request|search| | <p>I could have avoided asking a duplicated question had I been able to use <em>extended</em> regular expressions.</p>
<p>Duplicated question is <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/61141/what-is-the-origin-of-the-r-in-resistance-measurements?noredirect=1#comment117360_61141">What is the origin of ... | How do I search any of the Stack Exchange sites using regular expressions? |
<p>Depending on the tags you use, different code syntax highlighting will be used. You selected the <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/assembly" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'assembly'" rel="tag">assembly</a> tag, which has a code syntax style default. It's not exac... | 2788 | 2013-03-24T15:07:22.773 | |bug|status-bydesign| | <p>The syntax highlighting of hex files is bad, as shown in <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/62112/17592">What PIC processor was this HEX-file meant for?</a>: </p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/4ggl2.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>Can something be done about that?</p>
| Hex file formatting |
<p>I don't know if it's changed or I just have some issue, but I NEVER see anything but the meta group for a migration option, and the meta group is usually not a good option when I think of migrating.</p>
<p>I would suggest a migrate options list that is <strong>sensitive to the reputation</strong> of the person sugg... | 2800 | 2013-03-26T16:35:01.273 | |discussion|feature-request|status-completed|migration|flagging| | <p>On SO, when you flag a question as off topic, you can choose several options to migrate the question to:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/fs8KP.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>We don't have that, except for meta:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/i6qZl.png" alt="enter image desc... | More migration options |
<p>I declined the flag, for the reason stated in the feedback itself.</p>
<p>Although it was little more than a link, that was indeed an answer, it was coherent with the topic of the question and - through the link - it was providing with good content.</p>
<p>If you don't like it, you have other ways to act before th... | 2805 | 2013-03-27T14:02:37.433 | |support|specific-question|flagging| | <p>I flagged <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/62560/17592">this answer</a> as "Not an answer" because it's a link-only answer, and <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2758/17592">this</a> is our policy on that and the FAQ states:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Answers that do not fundamentally... | Why was my flag declined? |
<p>Diamond moderators decline flags. </p>
<p>Any user using the review queue can dispute your flag.</p>
| 2809 | 2013-03-27T16:29:31.923 | |discussion| | <p>What's the difference between <strong>declined</strong> and <strong>disputed</strong> flags?</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/GVaKr.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
| What's the difference between declined and disputed flags? |
<p>This is the result of a <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/173895/151157">recent bug fix</a>. Apparently there was a bug that prevented some posts from appearing in the queue. Since the bug was fixed, those posts that should have been in the queue now are.</p>
| 2811 | 2013-03-27T23:52:32.130 | |support| | <p>I just checked in and notice within the last couple of hours or so that 76(!) post have suddenly appeared in the review queue for first posts. WTF? I looked at the dates on just a few, and they weren't all recent. Obviously I'm missing something about how the system works or is supposed to work. If anyone knows ... | 76 first posts in review queue? |
<p>Just as some additional non-moderator insight while also being respectful of his identity I have seen quite a lot of the troll's 'work'. I assume it's because I'm in a UTC+11 time zone I'm often around at 'odd' times compared to many other users. An example earlier today were three answers posted from a new account ... | 2826 | 2013-04-02T21:18:21.220 | |discussion|moderation|answers|new-users| | <p>I apologize if thise has been discussed before, but I didn't see anything. There has been a rash of new user acounts answering questions, and an equal (rush) to protect them </p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/64170/2-1-sound-system-noise">2.1 sound system noise</a> <a href="https... | Many new user accounts+answers+suspensions and protected questions |
<p>It's a 5 minute limit. This has been discussed many times on Meta.StackOverflow if you want to know more about it. </p>
<p>I believe one of the staff said that if they logged every single edit as a separate revision it would add a huge load on their database, as most people reread their posts and edit typos immedia... | 2828 | 2013-04-03T11:24:40.310 | |support| | <p>In reviewing a suggested edit I made some further improvements and then realised moments later I'd made an incorrect assumption that the OP was using a pair of microcontrollers, considering it was a CAN bus it could have involved more than two devices so I removed my reference to a pair. It is edit three on the foll... | Time limit before edits commit to revision history |
<h1>Moderators</h1>
<p>I took the locations of the profile pages<sup>1</sup>:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/7348/clabacchio">clabacchio</a> - Pesaro, Italy - UTC+1</li>
<li><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/857/kevin-vermeer">Kevin Vermeer</a> - Grand Rapids, MI ... | 2840 | 2013-04-06T08:08:56.780 | |support|election|moderators| | <p>I encounter a delay in the review of flags when it's morning here in the Netherlands, let's say 6:00 UTC. That made me wonder what the timezones of the moderators are.</p>
<p>Other sites use this information when electing new moderators, so I thought I could give it a meta question.</p>
<p>Of course, this data is ... | When are the moderators / is the site active? |
<p>That was our fault. When we convert an answer to a comment we get a nice little check box to migrate all comments to that answer also, as sometimes the OP will get in a back and forth discussion there. When the answer was converted to comment your comment was migrated also.</p>
<p>All fixed now. Your comment is sti... | 2850 | 2013-04-10T12:20:50.853 | |support| | <p>Earlier today I flagged an answer as "not an answer" and it's since been moved to a comment along with my original comment under the answer. The question I'm discussing is:</p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/42911/how-do-i-exchange-lcd-display-with-7-segment-leds">How do I exchange LCD ... | Comments when "not an answer" is processed |
<ol>
<li>Create Google account.</li>
<li>Use Google account to log in to EE with Open ID.</li>
<li>See <a href="https://english.stackexchange.com/help/user-merge">this page</a>.</li>
</ol>
| 2861 | 2013-04-16T14:13:29.747 | |bug|website|openid| | <p>I was first going to ask this on Meta, but that was not possible because it required me to do "finish signup" which doesn't work for me. I always have this thing at the top of the screen next to my name that says "finish signup". <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Yvke9.png" alt="Finish Signup"></p>
<p>So, I click... | Why doesn't finish signup work? |
<p>Stack Exchange works primarily from VC funding. It raised 12 million USD in March' 11. This is what keeps the sites up. </p>
<p>The earnings from sources mentioned in <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/79448/200868">Jeff's answer</a> make up a portion of the earnings but alone, are not enough to keep the se... | 2878 | 2013-04-20T12:58:59.037 | |discussion| | <p>I am curious as to who pays the bills to keep the lights on around here? Is the site supported purely by advertisements? Does stackexchange itself own the site?</p>
| Who pays the bills? |
<p>There are already methods in place for Qbans/Abans. </p>
<p>They dont release the methods, as it would allow gaming, but a user who receives downvote/deleted questions/spam flags will be blocked from posting further until they modify their posts to have some of the previous actions reversed.</p>
<p>Having a pre-re... | 2884 | 2013-04-22T18:59:32.503 | |feature-request|new-users|spamming| | <p>Last night, while the mods were getting some much-needed rest, a new user started posting advertizements for a blog. The community moderation worked, with many of the posts were marked as SPAM. However, a new user is free (as far as I know) to continue posting spam.</p>
<p>I would like to propose that new users who... | Proposed change: automatic suspension/review of users who spam |
<p>The answer is "Yes". The negative rep from downvotes goes straight into your rep.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, given that a downvote is -2 whereas an upvote is +10 (answer) /+5 (question) /+15 (accept) it takes much longer to loose all that rep than to gain it. Almost certainly you'll just be banned before you get down to 1... | 2887 | 2013-04-25T02:03:12.837 | |discussion|reputation| | <p>Lets say someone works hard and asks on-topic questions to gain a high reputation, then when they achieve that, they troll around the whole site. Can they lose reputation because of this?</p>
| Can people lose reputation? |
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/faq#reputation">From the FAQ:</a></p>
<blockquote>
<p>... You can earn a maximum of 200 reputation per day. Please note that
votes for posts marked “community wiki” do not generate any
reputation, while accepted answers and bounty awards are not subject
to the ... | 2904 | 2013-05-03T20:28:48.513 | |discussion|status-bydesign| | <p>I noticed in the last few hours that my reputation has stopped incrementing when I get new up-votes: -</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ALgyq.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>Has something gone wrong or has the well dried up?</p>
| reputation stopped incrementing |
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