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<p>It depends. <br>If it's a consumer-type question, then <a href="http://superuser.com">SuperUser</a> would be a better place for it, probably. <br>If it's a design-type question, then it could work here on EE.SE.</p>
<p>What's the question?</p>
| 2911 | 2013-05-08T16:24:32.393 | |discussion| | <p>I have a question about static electricity problem with notebook. I think it more electronic than general physics question. Should I ask it here or somewhere else?</p>
| Is a question about static electricity on-topic? |
<p>If it's a question related to debugging an embedded / microcontroller system I would say it's on topic here and go for it. Of course keep it well defined and scoped as you would on any SE site but otherwise I can't see a problem.</p>
| 2915 | 2013-05-12T12:08:30.263 | |discussion| | <p>I'm unsure if the EE stack exchange or stack overflow is the best place to ask about help with setting up a specific feature in eclipse IDE. Its programming (debugging) but I'm using features that most programmers won't use, as its for interfacing electronics so I doubt stack overflow will be helpful as it likely wo... | Eclipse setup for electronics |
<p>There are two things that trigger putting a question in the reopen queue (as far as I know):</p>
<ul>
<li>Editing the post (by any user).</li>
<li>Someone voting to reopen the post.</li>
</ul>
<p>Again, the philosophy is that closed questions are "on hold" versus "banished to heck" If someone has made an effort to... | 2921 | 2013-05-15T08:17:09.543 | |support| | <p>Earlier today I noticed that this question appeared in the reopen queue:</p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/68791/stm32-potentiometer-connected-to-adc">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/68791/stm32-potentiometer-connected-to-adc</a></p>
<p>I selected leave closed because ... | How does the reopen queue work for new users? |
<p>There are a few things I'd like to point out.</p>
<h3>A close vote isn't the end of the world</h3>
<p>Some people think <code>[closed]</code> is definitive. It isn't. When a question is closed as <em>not a real question</em>, for example, this purely means</p>
<blockquote>
<p>It's difficult to tell what is bein... | 2923 | 2013-05-17T10:18:48.123 | |discussion| | <p>One problem I always face on this site is that people overestimate the level of sophistication in the question. It is hard for a beginner to find the words to imply the simplicity or noobness of the question. A 'beginner-question' tag may be useful, or perhaps this isn't really the site for beginners (c.f. stackover... | Is this site for beginners? |
<p>Yes. According to our <strike>faq</strike> <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/helpcenter/on-topic">help center</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>We feel the best Electronics Design questions have a schematic, links to pertinent datasheets or some source code in them, but if your question generally covers …</p>
<u... | 2952 | 2013-06-07T13:36:45.870 | |discussion| | <p>I'm wondering whether questions related to PCB CAD software (such as EAGLE) are on-topic. Questions could relate to best practices, BOM generation, proper CAM export, etc.</p>
| Are (electronic) CAD software related questions on-topic? |
<p>I did get a message from a Physics moderator to review your question for migration. I've decided to not migrate the question because it's borderline off-topic/not-constructive, and the skeptics answer has a pretty good treatment of the subject.</p>
| 2963 | 2013-06-21T10:02:06.113 | |support|migration| | <p>Recently i asked <a href="https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/68571/why-cant-you-use-your-cellphone-on-an-airplane">this</a> question at physics.se , and as per their comments over there i would like to migrate my question from there to here, whats the process evolved here, i would like to hear it from elec... | i would like to migrate my question from physics.se to here |
<p>This is a bit less prevalent now that edits are peer reviewed. However, if someone edited a post in such a way that was not productive, you could "rollback" the revision to the last good version.</p>
<p>Click on the "edited on <strong><em>*</em>***</strong>" link on an edited post, and all previous revisions will s... | 2967 | 2013-06-24T20:52:09.550 | |support|badges| | <p>The description for this says it is: "First rollback"; however I have no idea what this means. Could someone explain?</p>
| What is the "Cleanup" badge? |
<p>I am still, for the most part, a newbie when it comes to electronics. I've been tinkering for about 20 years, but never been serious enough to really <em>know</em> my stuff. That's why I'm here, to ask questions, and help people who are less experienced than I am.</p>
<p>I highly value experts such as Olin, who is ... | 2969 | 2013-06-25T20:12:29.687 | |discussion| | <p>I expect everyone has noticed by now the rapid increase of badly written questions over the last several months. We seem to be getting higher traffic, but that seems to be due to a flood of crappy questions that then need to be closed. I haven't actually counted, this is just a feeling, but I strongly suspect it i... | How can we recover quality here? |
<p>Indeed, this would be an important fix.</p>
<p>As covered in the system-wide blog, the recent revision to the closing mechanism was intended to result in messages which could meaningful educate users as to what specifically was wrong, and wherever possible, what improvement could rescue the question.</p>
<p>Unfort... | 2980 | 2013-06-27T09:06:58.567 | |support|bug|closing| | <p>When I reviewed <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/review/close/19792">this</a>, there was one vote for "unclear what you're asking" and one vote for "off topic because ... Questions on the use of electronic devices are off-topic as this site is intended specifically for questions on electronics design."... | Not all close reasons that have been voted on appear in the banner |
<p>This is fixed in the next build.</p>
<p>Part of the editor logic is implemented as a <a href="https://code.google.com/p/pagedown/" rel="nofollow">PageDown</a> plugin, and that part didn't take into account the possibility that another plugin may be modifying the Markdown source as well, and thus the content inside ... | 2988 | 2013-07-01T21:43:00.197 | |bug|status-completed|schematic| | <p>I've noticed that sometimes, when editing a schematic (but not adding a new schematic) to a question, that some of the text above the schematic will be eaten. It's not just me, either. See my latest revision at <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/posts/61699/revisions">https://electronics.stackexchange.co... | Why is the schematic editor damaging questions when editing schematics? |
<p>Post an answer that details what you did to solve the problem, and accept it. It's no different than if someone posted your steps as an answer, and then the answer is there for someone with a similar question later.</p>
| 2993 | 2013-07-04T23:13:19.327 | |discussion| | <p>I'd like an option to close or delete a question that I asked by this motivation:</p>
<p>"The matter was resolved by other means than following the answers. "</p>
<p>Or similar rationale. Since sometimes the answers are good and there can be 2 answers to a question and the problem in the question was resolved not ... | Option to close a question |
<p>A question asking about a specific resistor value is no different from one asking about a particular approach to a project, if it demonstrates research and effort. I think that's all anyone here really expects. All technical levels are welcome, and any project level is welcome (macro or micro). The problem with ques... | 3003 | 2013-07-11T10:41:39.480 | |discussion| | <p>For people who just started learning circuit theory (electrical & computer engineer newbies), or are experts outside the field (like mechanical, chemical engineers etc..) it's hard to know exactly what to ask.</p>
<p>Take this thread for example <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/75555/try... | Should "how to design a project" questions always be put on hold as "too broad"? |
<p>found the answer to my question here:<a href="https://stackapps.com/questions/2115/fullstack-ipad-app">https://stackapps.com/questions/2115/fullstack-ipad-app</a>
It was found in the main Meta site</p>
| 3005 | 2013-07-11T14:06:50.370 | |discussion| | <p>in the link (<a href="https://stackapps.com/questions/36/stackmobile-com-view-stackexchange-sites-on-your-smartphone">https://stackapps.com/questions/36/stackmobile-com-view-stackexchange-sites-on-your-smartphone</a>) provided in one of answers of the question :<a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/que... | ios app for stackexchange |
<p>One advantage to showing the delete button regardless is that it gives you more detailed feedback on the reason you can't delete it. For example a while back I posted an answer and the first half solved the OPs question, so he accepted it but the second half contained something false / misleading as pointed out in a... | 3015 | 2013-07-16T11:10:20.220 | |discussion|support| | <p>Wouldn't it be better if there was no option to delete a question that cannot be deleted? Why is there a link there to delete when it cannot be used?</p>
| Why is there a delete option for answered questions? |
<p>In terms of mod tools, this is an example of only having a hammer to deal with a situation. Specifically, the user in question wanted to delete their question. The system won't allow you to delete your own question once you have answers, so they edited the question to remove all content. These changes were then roll... | 3021 | 2013-07-22T01:38:28.837 | |discussion| | <p>I noticed <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/76595/how-to-draw-a-circuit-diagram-to-check-a-4-bits-number-is-odd-or-even">this question</a> was locked by W5VO over a content dispute. But I'm not really sure what the dispute is about. Can someone shed some light on the lock?</p>
| Content dispute on "How to draw a circuit diagram to check a 4 bits number is odd or even" |
<p>Well, It looks like you downvoted his question, harrassed him, and then he deleted his account. Since you downvoted his question so much, the question was automatically deleted when he deleted his account. </p>
| 3029 | 2013-07-30T15:10:58.383 | |discussion| | <p>See the post <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/77432/4512"><i>"Passive circuit to rectify pulse signal"</i></a>.</p>
<p>This question clearly had some problems, and I both downvoted and voted to close it. The downvote was for general sloppiness, pre-supposing a answer, and leaving out stuff that sho... | Why/how was this post deleted? |
<p>I'd simply close vote it as OT vis a vis appliance repair (the reason why it's OT), and flag for attention for migration to DIY, maybe adding a comment that that's what I did.</p>
| 3034 | 2013-08-03T16:45:12.807 | |discussion|flagging| | <p><strong>This question should be removed in my opinion:</strong> <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/77868/how-to-remove-a-vedum-halo-bathroom-light">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/77868/how-to-remove-a-vedum-halo-bathroom-light</a></p>
<hr>
<p><strong>The question if it does g... | How should I flag this question? |
<p>Ham or not to ham is the wrong way to ask, IMO - clearly the answers so far reflect that. I think the content of a ham's message should be judged on the merits of the contents of his or her post - just like any other poster's would be.</p>
<p>RF questions are clearly on topic - consider you can't design anything wi... | 3047 | 2013-08-14T20:43:30.590 | |discussion| | <p>There's a <a href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/43029/amateur-radio">HAM radio proposal</a> going on. Licensed HAMs tend to be qualified and enlightened people. We need them HAMs here on EE.SE . If HAM questions require some special policy, let's define it.</p>
<p>P.S.<br>
The question "<a href="htt... | amateur radio proposal on SE |
<p>One immediate thing that comes to mind is that I see you've posted the project files as a comment at a later point. You may have copped a few downvotes for a problem not easy to repeat without a significant effort so that would be worth editing into the question. Remember if that was the case their downvotes may be ... | 3048 | 2013-08-19T04:28:56.680 | |discussion|specific-question| | <p>I put in a question where I try to learn FPGA and I got downvoted for no reasoned mentioned. Could you help me improve the question since it is not a bogus question and not a bad question since it is about upgrading from SOPC to QSys in Quartus II.</p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/792... | How can I improve this question? |
<p>Chris, the main problem that you are seeing is the product of a particular troll. When that troll appears, we all tend to pounce on him quickly. Sometimes his answers are better than others, but regardless of the answer quality we pounce. Give him an inch and he takes a mile (centimeter/kilometer?). Because of t... | 3056 | 2013-09-01T09:48:03.250 | |discussion| | <p>I'm not here everyday, but I check in every now and again. I recommended someone to come here and ask their zener diode question. I came to see if they asked... (they hadn't yet)</p>
<p><strong>And I regret recommending Electronics SE because now it's full of mean jerks.</strong></p>
<p>What happened to the nice p... | Why are the stewards of the community hurting and not helping? |
<p>Please edit over all critical material for answering your question into your question. Putting a note, "here are some previous questions: 1 2 3 4 5" works, but it is pretty time consuming to have users go back and read 5 previous questions to find what your project is.</p>
| 3057 | 2013-09-01T10:33:28.677 | |discussion|specific-question| | <p>I've gotten downvoted again as I'm learning what I think is quite difficult:</p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/80835/how-to-arrange-my-connections-in-qsys">How to wire a system for Nios 2 in Qsys?</a></p>
<p>I've had some problem and I might be asking similar question over and over bu... | Kindly suggest how to improve my question |
<p>This is an issue that only presents in IE 8 on Windows XP and has to do with how the JavaScript engine iterates (or rather doesn't) in <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4824207/javascript-for-in-looping-over-arguments-ie-for-arg-in-arguments-does-not-wor">specific cases</a>.</p>
<p>Fixed in the next buil... | 3065 | 2013-09-03T14:33:24.357 | |bug|status-completed| | <p>I just tried to include a image in a answer and the system didn't let me. I used the same procedure I always do, which is to type ctrl-G, then enter the name of the image file on my disk. When I hit ADD PICTURE, it popped up a window saying <i>"Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page? You have starte... | Can't upload image anymore |
<p>Answers are sorted according to the tab you've selected: Activity, Oldest, Votes.</p>
<p>When answers are ordered by votes, higher voted answers appear at the top of the list. Answers with the same number of votes are randomized. The accepted answer appears at the top of the list as long as it wasn't written by the... | 3085 | 2013-09-15T17:45:35.127 | |discussion|asking-questions| | <p>I found a funny behavior. When I post an answer, it isn't always last, despite earlier answers before me. Is the sorting not chronological? Is reputation a part of the ordering?</p>
| How are answers sorted when posted? |
<p>Unlike voting, which is for the system and everyone else, marking posts as favorites is for you. Go to your user profile, and you will see there is a "favorites" tab. Stuff you mark as favorite shows up in this list. This is basically a way for you to make your own private list of posts kept for you by the system... | 3087 | 2013-09-16T12:38:42.690 | |support|bookmarks| | <p>I understand the purpose of up-voting or down-voting a question or answer. But there is another option for the questions i.e., <em>marking a question as favourite</em>. I don't really understand what purpose it serves. As far as I have searched, I could not find any explanation as to what it is used for. I know that... | What is the use of marking a question as favourite? |
<p>Upvote both and pick one that was better somehow (better written, explained better, better formatted, etc) and accept that.</p>
| 3105 | 2013-09-19T14:36:33.157 | |support| | <p>It is not possible to accept more than one answer to any question but what if two people give a perfect answer each in their own way? How do we appreciate their response?</p>
| Accepting Multiple Answers |
<p>The code was assuming that comments were showing on the question page only.</p>
<p>I have amended the link to actually go to that page if not already on it.</p>
<p>Will be with you the next build (rev 2013.9.20.1027).</p>
| 3109 | 2013-09-19T22:38:58.333 | |bug|status-completed| | <p>SE has this cool feature which allows you to link to specific comments etc.</p>
<p>The standard share button, everyone knows about and it looks like this.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/vltuf.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>You can also link comments like below by copying the link expr... | A minor bug with linking |
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/help/tagging">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/help/tagging</a></p>
<p>This is handled by tags. Take a look.</p>
| 3138 | 2013-10-10T10:35:15.613 | |support| | <p>In stackexchange sometimes when we search for a word, A short description appears. How can I add such a description for a word like "EMI" which stands for "Electromagnetic interference"?</p>
| How to add explanation for a searched word? |
<p>Someone got a bit enthusiastic.</p>
<p>One of the early lessons learned on Stack Overflow was that, occasionally, someone will lose sight of the purpose of voting - elevating useful information and providing gratifying feedback to authors - and will engage in indiscriminate voting for (or against) folks who they lik... | 3140 | 2013-10-10T20:35:06.740 | |support| | <p>I came across this term when I checked out a fairly new guy who seemed to be answering a few questions and I noticed he had received, over the last few days, big negative numbers taken out of his reputation score with the tag "serial upvoting reversal".</p>
<p>I investigated and found out that it could be because o... | Serial upvoting reversal |
<p>I see the question has been deleted, so I don't know how it was phrased exactly. Anyway, I think questions like "what is graphene" are better suited for <a href="http://physics.stackexchange.com">http://physics.stackexchange.com</a> than electronics. As I understand it this site is more for current applications, and... | 3151 | 2013-10-18T15:03:58.193 | |discussion|off-topic| | <p>I asked about <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/85814/what-is-graphene">graphene</a>, an up and coming material that I keep seeing in IEEE that seems to be important. I read about it in wikipedia, searched the web, could tell it has importance, but that I don't have enough expertise to answer... | Asking about Graphene: not on topic? |
<p>Generally, I think questions of the form, "Why does product XYZ not exist on the market?" are a bad fit for the site.</p>
<p>This question can only have a few different answers:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>The product does exist: see vendor ABC's website. (Then you should have asked first, "Does this product exist?", or even ... | 3155 | 2013-10-18T22:14:59.420 | |discussion|closed-questions|specific-question| | <p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/85834/why-is-hardware-multithreading-not-more-common-in-embedded-systems">Why is hardware multithreading not more common in embedded systems?</a> was put on hold for being "opinion-based". Is there any way that the question can be refined to be answerable (by ... | Can this question be fixed? |
<p>I had a couple of unexplained down votes in one day about two weeks ago. They occurred within probably 30 mins of each other and I believe they were the 1st votes cast on each question despite them being negative.</p>
<p>If there were a way if seeing who was active on the site would their stats have shown -1 if I'd... | 3169 | 2013-11-03T14:41:04.313 | |discussion| | <p>We have all probably seen mysterious downvotes occasionally, but recently there seems to be a more persistant vandal on the loose. Here are three answers I wrote yesterday and today that all got silently downvoted for no apparent reason:</p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/87165/4512">https://e... | It seems we have a vandal loose |
<p>As per <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/164294/what-does-inactive-mean-exactly">What does "inactive" mean exactly?</a> which semi-describes inactivity for the Archeologist tag (editing 6 month old inactive questions), activity is any new answers, or edits to the question or answers. Tag ed... | 3184 | 2013-11-11T13:08:06.733 | |support| | <p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/78592/how-to-implement-fire-detector-smoketemperature-for-an-electronics-project">This question</a> is a perfect example. Nothing has been added or edited. What caused it to get bumped? </p>
| What constitutes activity on a question? |
<p>And I would wear them in a boat!<br>
And I would wear them with a goat...<br>
And I will wear them in the rain.<br>
And in the dark. And on a train.<br>
And in a car. And in a tree. </p>
<p>(Yes hats)</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/QgBTM.png" alt="No eggs and ham"></p>
| 3192 | 2013-11-18T21:24:27.100 | |discussion| | <p>Last year around Christmas time we had an awesome promotion in which hats for for gravatars were awarded for completing basic tasks around the site. If you don't remember it, here is a <a href="http://stackexchange.com/promos/12/winter-bash">link</a> the promo from last year (and <a href="http://blog.gaming.stackexc... | Do you like hats? (2013 Edition) |
<p>The OP requested for its deletion, I didn't see any particular reason not to do it. However, since you wrote the only answer, if you think it's a valuable contribution I can undelete it.</p>
| 3201 | 2013-11-21T14:42:45.190 | |discussion| | <p>I was surprised to see <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/90445/4512">this</a> question deleted by a mod. It was about whether loudspeakers need FCC certification. It wasn't a great question, but I didn't think it was outright bad in the sense of warranting deletion either. Nobody had downvoted the ... | Why was this question deleted? |
<p>Actually it does largely sound like a shopping question, even if you're not asking about price.</p>
<p>Also, when you're outside the Arduino cocoon like here on EE.SE, use grown-up words. It really pisses me off when people come here asking about "shields" and "sketches". I know that's what the Arduino documentat... | 3205 | 2013-11-21T21:20:37.417 | |discussion|asking-questions|arduino| | <p>Arduino.Se is closed, and unfortunately for me, I only trust SE users. The last time i asked on this site, my question was stupid or dump or does not belong here, to say the least. I have another question about arduino question which is probably going to be labeled as a shopping question and closed. unfortunately fo... | Can I ask the following question on this site? |
<p>Proposed new close reason (shorter version):</p>
<blockquote>
<p>"Questions on electronics repair must involve specific troubleshooting steps and demonstrate a good understanding of the underlying design of the device being repaired."</p>
</blockquote>
| 3208 | 2013-11-26T23:58:20.093 | |feature-request| | <p>I don't like the usage of the word <strong>appliance</strong> in the off-topic close reason for poor repair questions:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>"Questions on appliance repair are off-topic unless they involve specific troubleshooting steps and demonstrate a good understanding of the underlying design of the device bei... | Change off-topic close reason "Appliance" repair |
<p>There was a bug in the job that synced these counts routinely, specifically it wouldn't fix the "now 0" case, a join vs. a left join going on. This will be fixed in the next build.</p>
| 3211 | 2013-11-27T18:51:38.943 | |bug|status-completed|badges| | <p>Maybe a little bug, even though I think it worth to report.</p>
<p>In <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/help/badges">Badges section</a> you see that Reversal Badge has 1 awarded, like bellow.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/UgsNa.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>But when you... | Reversal Badge error |
<p>Here is what I just commented on in the question:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>@Ricardo the question does show a lack of research and vagueness. Keycard vs keychain as original listed, no model numbers or even pictures, which is asking us to guess at a possible method it is working by, which makes it open ended. If you sa... | 3228 | 2013-12-04T22:32:47.357 | |discussion| | <p>I just got a question (<a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/92685/29792">Hotel keycard switches on 5,000W load when placed in its holder. How does it do that?</a>) voted down. I know the question isn't a blockbuster, but the comments I got have already been helpful to me. So, I'm a bit confused. </p>
<p... | Is my question innapropriate to the site? Why is it likely to be voted down? |
<p>I had to search for it too, but it's under the "StackExchange" pulldown.</p>
| 3242 | 2013-12-06T14:48:30.783 | |support| | <p>Previously when we hovered over our username we got a popup with a link to log out. Apparently the popup has gone, and I don't see how to log out.</p>
| How do you log out with the new header? |
<p>Things overlap. Just like there are some electrical wiring questions that are valid here AND on homeimprovement.se, or automotive 12v system questions. Not all, not most, but some. There are some physics or math questions valid here, there are some android and photography (ex. interfacing a microcontroller with a te... | 3251 | 2013-12-10T08:21:53.143 | |discussion| | <p>I have seen questions related to programming like</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/93174/compilers-and-msb-identification-for-data-types">Compilers and MSB identification for Data types</a></li>
</ul>
<p>as a matter of fact if I select the c18 tag (I have no idea why it exists ... | Related to off topic questions |
<p>This tag has been removed from all posts and marked as "intrinsic" - it'll still be possible to migrate posts in that use it, but it'll be silently stripped and won't be allowed on any new posts or edits.</p>
<p>Please help <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/tags/untagged">clean up the untagged</a></p>
| 3260 | 2013-12-11T12:27:35.093 | |discussion|status-completed|tags| | <p>I noticed there is an <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/electronics" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'electronics'" rel="tag">electronics</a> tag that seems a bit redundant to me. It appears to be used on a lot of questions migrated from Physics.SE such as <a href=... | Is there any point to the electronics tag? |
<p>It is perfectly fine to give additional information relevant to the question in a answer, even if it does not directly answer the question. However, others may see that it doesn't answer the question and downvote.</p>
<p>What you should do is start a answer like that with something like <i>"This doesn't directly a... | 3264 | 2013-12-12T13:25:13.457 | |discussion| | <p>While reading this question (<a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/1150/29792">Controlling 500 LEDs with PWM</a>), I noticed that none of the answers addressed a design issue of LED brightness variability in a batch, factor that I thought could impact the OP's design.</p>
<p>I added <a href="https://elec... | Is it valid to post an answer that only complements other answers already posted? |
<p>I agree 100% with Stacey's analysis, but when you say "I flagged wrong?" the best thing to do is just flag how you see fit at the time. As long as you're doing your best to try and improve the site at the time for a lot of things like that there's not really a wrong / right decision.</p>
<p>Even when you get direct... | 3275 | 2013-12-18T11:17:27.273 | |discussion|asking-questions|closed-questions|off-topic| | <p>I would like to know why this question <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/93359/sniffing-for-iphones">Sniffing for iPhones</a> was closed and this other question <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/11884/how-many-gps-channels-make-sense">How many GPS channels make sense?</a... | Doubt in Off-Topic Question |
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<p>should we take advantage of those opportunities and warn inexperienced
users of potential safety issues?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>My reaction to this is "better safe than sorry", so I'd rather get tired of repeating the safety consideration over and over again (especially when I feel the question comes... | 3283 | 2013-12-20T12:11:34.983 | |discussion| | <p>I've just come across a <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/94235/29792">question from someone clearly inexperienced with electronics</a> trying to build a potentially dangerous AC/DC rectifier. An expert gave a very precise answer, but there was no mention of safety issues the OP may need to address to... | Should we give safety advice to those new to electronics? |
<p>Check <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/help/bounty">Help Center > Reputation & Moderation</a> for an explanation about bounties. Most important for you is that you need at least 50 rep to spend on a bounty.</p>
| 3290 | 2013-12-26T18:47:03.717 | |support|bounty| | <p>I am interested in how to setup a bounty to a question. I <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/search?page=1&tab=relevance&q=bounty">searched</a> for the tag [bounty] here but all the questions are about the rewardeing of bounties. If I overlooked the explanation please link me the answer. Tha... | What do I need to set a bounty to my question |
<p>The <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/discharge" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'discharge'" rel="tag">discharge</a> is being used on questions, but nobody yet took the effort of writing a tag-wiki (and tag wiki excerpt). So the first one who proposes content for ... | 3296 | 2013-12-31T16:18:23.580 | |discussion|support| | <p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/30251">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/30251</a> and the next one offer no context on what the original post was. Is this as its meant to be?</p>
| Weird suggested edit with no context |
<p>Flags, close votes and downvotes can all be applied unfairly. There are "checks and balances" in the system to reduce this.</p>
<p>A minimum reputation is required to close vote; it takes more than one close vote to close; and questions can be reopened.</p>
<p>Patterns of serial downvoting are detected by ... | 3321 | 2014-01-15T15:54:51.423 | |discussion|flagging| | <p>Lately I've been seeing a lot of "not an answer" flags on things that <em>are</em> answers, just not good ones. Most recent example:</p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/51057/how-to-search-for-a-component/51070#51070">How to search for a component?</a></p>
<p>The "not an answer" flag sa... | "not an answer" vs. "not a good answer" |
<p>Personally, I think there's little reason to advertse or endorse a course until you've taken it yourself and found it valuable. Coursera courses will not disappear if you miss one opportunity to take it.</p>
| 3323 | 2014-01-18T11:51:59.887 | |discussion| | <p>I've been looking for a quality, free introductory Electrical Engineering online course for a while, and finally came across these two below, from <a href="http://coursera.org" rel="nofollow">Coursera.org</a>:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.coursera.org/course/eefun" rel="nofollow">Fundaments of Electrical Engine... | Is our site interested in advertising online EE courses? |
<p>From memory when you sign-up only one account can be entered and that is used to see if you qualify for access. However once your application has been accepted under "view & manage your profile..." the following appears for me when I click on the edit accounts button:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/... | 3340 | 2014-01-31T09:52:49.087 | |discussion|feature-request| | <p>I have both Stack Overflow & Electrical Engineering accounts. But, I found that only Stack Overflow account can be attached to CAREERS 2.0 account. Why it is not possible for Electrical Engineering? </p>
| Why Electrical Engineering account can't be attached to CAREERS 2.0 account? |
<p>Indeed you are encouraged to edit potentially good questions to turn them into <em>good</em> ones. Just, if you do so, leave a comment so that the poster can be aware of that and can improve the question.</p>
| 3354 | 2014-02-11T18:57:30.083 | |discussion| | <p>Just read this question, <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/99430/scope-recommendation-to-view-1000base-t-waveform">What kind of tools would I need to analyze 1000BASE-T/gigabit ethernet waveforms?</a>, but was disappointed that it was marked as off-topic. I was interested in hearing what the e... | Why close this question instead of editting it to make it on-topic? |
<p>I'm with tcrosley on this, in that this deserves to be fixed. But an automatic fix may not be so easy to implement. The logic to prevent dead links like this:</p>
<ul>
<li>when question B is closed as a duplicate of question A, this should be recorded with question A. There may be several questions B </li>
<li>whe... | 3360 | 2014-02-14T15:43:11.203 | |discussion| | <p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/99774/how-can-i-learn-to-build-my-own-computer-with-arm-processors">This question</a> was marked as a duplicate of <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/99699/how-can-i-learn-build-my-own-boards-with-amr-processors">this question</a>, but th... | Duplicate question, question linked to no longer in system |
<p>All excellent points made by Jippie et al. </p>
<p>Avoid using multiple part questions. It is better to ask five separate questions than one question with five parts. This allows the answer to be short and specific and not end up as an essay.</p>
| 3379 | 2014-02-26T17:17:35.013 | |discussion| | <p>I am one of the organizers of <a href="http://www.robo-crc.ca" rel="nofollow noreferrer">a robotics competition</a> for high school students. We're entering our 14th year. Over the years, the students have amassed a fairly sophisticated level of technical knowledge, expertise and understanding, which has been passed... | Appropriate to send high school students from a robotics competition here? |
<p>The particular question you cited is actually a good example of what DOES belong here. Global variable versus other ways to solve the same problem is one of the areas where being on a small resource-limited machine matters.</p>
<p>So to respond to your request, no, there is no need for a direct migration option to... | 3403 | 2014-03-04T14:31:18.797 | |feature-request|status-declined|migration| | <p>Sometimes I stumble upon programming questions that are nor embedded-device specific, but instead ask about good practices, coding style or the programming language. An example:</p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/97241/use-of-global-variables-in-embedded-systems">Use of global variables... | Option to migrate questions to stackoverflow? |
<p>You have <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3287/4512">asked this before</a>, and apparently learned nothing from the answers.</p>
<p>You just <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/102258/4512">asked another question</a> on the main site, and it's full of the same things you were told ... | 3409 | 2014-03-08T08:53:35.790 | |discussion|asking-questions| | <p>I asked a question: <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/100594/explanation-of-transistor-amplifying-action">Explanation of transistor amplifying action</a>. I wrote my question very specifically by highlighting the main points which I do not understand but even I have not got any useful answer.<... | How to ask a question? |
<p>The question marked "<em>duplicate</em>" is closed and the link to the other duplicate is added on top. The questions and their answers remain unchanged.</p>
<p>"<em>Merge</em>" requires an additional action which is done by moderators. I haven't done it myself (yet), so I don't have first hand experience. <a hr... | 3429 | 2014-03-16T18:23:19.653 | |discussion| | <p>If a question is marked as a duplicate for another question, what happens to the answers for the duplicate question? Are they merged with the original? Does the duplicate question remain in the system?</p>
<p>If no to both these (the are not merged, and the duplicated question is to be deleted), then if an answer... | What happens to answers on duplicate questions? |
<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/200177/updated-procedure-for-reporting-scrapers">Reported to SE</a> and left comment for user as this seems to have good intent. </p>
<p>You are allowed to copy content with attribution, this is lacking it and seems to clearly be attempting to drag users to their si... | 3433 | 2014-03-17T16:58:56.613 | |discussion| | <p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/101769/problem-testing-an-adc-with-a-dac-and-voltage-divider">Problem testing an ADC with a DAC and voltage divider</a></p>
<p>How do folks feel about this? Looks like a TI engineer reposting on behalf of a SE poster on the TI site. Might be a great way to ... | Redirection by engineer to other site? |
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<p>What are the components I need for assembling a hobby mobile phone?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Way too broad. Do you mean individual parts, like specific ICs, etc? Or do you mean high level, block diagrams? A hobby device is exactly like a commercial device.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>How would I go about asse... | 3446 | 2014-03-25T23:40:34.557 | |support|asking-questions|on-topic| | <p>I recently had most of <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/33856/user33856?tab=questions">my questions</a> closed, down-voted, or put on hold, so I'm asking.</p>
<ol>
<li>Don't my questions really belong here in EE SE? Below are samples
<ul>
<li>What are the components I need for assembling a hobb... | Don't my questions belong to this site? |
<p>Each user who has at least 15 reputation is allowed to use a certain number (anywhere from 10 to 100) of moderator flags per day. The specific number depends on your level of reputation and your previous flagging history. Your personal flag count resets at midnight GMT.</p>
| 3452 | 2014-04-01T20:00:18.087 | |support| | <p>Is the number of "flag" you can set for moderator attention regenerating up to 10?</p>
| Is the number of "flag" for moderator attention regenerating up to 10? |
<p>A title where 3 out of 4 words are acronyms is not a good title. </p>
<p>When the acronyms are used properly, they don't impede (sometimes even improve) the flow of reading. When they are used improperly, they impede the flow of reading.</p>
<p>Abbreviations I/P (input), O/P (output), s/w (software), h/w (hardwa... | 3456 | 2014-04-02T18:33:21.430 | |discussion| | <p>I've occasionally seen the abbreviations "O/P" and "I/P" used in a context where it can be inferred they mean "output" and "input" respectively. However, in years of doing electronics work (in the US) I've never actually encountered these particular abbreviations until recently on this site.</p>
<p>Example question... | Are "O/P" and "I/P" acceptable or standard abbreviations for output and input? |
<p>In his case I declined the flag. Indeed the answer is quite poor, and could have been a comment (although I'm not sure how useful). That's why I left a comment below it.</p>
<p>The reason I declined the flag is that it's an attempt from a new user to participate to the site, and I feel like deletion should be reser... | 3463 | 2014-04-03T17:09:57.017 | |discussion| | <p>What is a "very low quality" answer? I flagged <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/4482/vhdl-converting-from-an-integer-type-to-a-std-logic-vector/105234#105234">this answer</a> as very low quality, which was declined with the reason:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>declined - flags should not be used t... | What is a "very low quality" answer? |
<p>My initial reaction was to close it as off-topic "Questions seeking recommendations for specific products [...]" (what @ThePhoton said). Then I have remembered that a <a href="http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com">stack for software recommendations</a> was established recently, and I've migrate it over there.</p>... | 3470 | 2014-04-14T17:43:32.497 | |discussion| | <p>This <a href="https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/3227/what-are-free-rs-232-terminal-programs">question</a> was recently migrated from Electrical Engineering to Software Recommendations. It is asking for a software interface to view the serial output of a microcontroller.</p>
<p>It is certainly asking... | A question was migrated, but I think it belongs in the original stack |
<p>Sorry 'bout that. I broke a thing earlier today. This should be fixed now.</p>
| 3489 | 2014-05-05T17:21:03.960 | |bug|status-completed| | <p>Trying to post an answer to a question in main EE StackOverflow, I will get "an error occurred" without more specifics.
Posting comments works fine.
Why is that? Something going on? Something with my account?</p>
<p>The specific error is a red box right next to the submit post button saying "An error occurred submi... | Why do my answers keep getting an error? |
<p>It doesn't <em>mean</em> anything.</p>
<p>A bounty "buys" you up to 7 days under the <strong>Featured</strong> tab, and the ability to give reputation as a reward to one answer. While I'm not interested in researching/testing, the original author gets the award, not any additional editors. It's the bounty offer's m... | 3494 | 2014-05-05T22:18:39.827 | |discussion| | <p>There is currently a question on the site called <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/108522/what-are-abbreviations-used-in-electrical-engineering">"What are abbreviations used in electrical engineering?"</a> which has gotten quite a bit of attention.</p>
<p>Someone just put an open bounty worth... | What does an open bounty on a community wiki question mean? |
<h1>Move it to Meta.EE!</h1>
<p>Remove the moderator lock, and migrate the question and all answers <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/">to meta</a>.</p>
| 3497 | 2014-05-06T04:52:17.510 | |discussion| | <p><strong>So we now have a <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/108522/what-are-abbreviations-used-in-electrical-engineering">Terminology Reference</a></strong> </p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3482/what-about-a-terminology-reference-question">Original Meta Que... | What to do with the terminology reference question |
<p>It's possible the OP was using another computer and didn't log in, or didn't understand that logging in was necessary to make the edit appear to be from the same user. In a case like what you saw, I would leave a comment for the OP asking if the added schematic is correct.</p>
<p>On the other hand, if you find a su... | 3700 | 2014-05-19T14:18:08.917 | |discussion| | <p>Today I came across <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/39134#./39134?&_suid=1400508548897040188259327664943">this suggested edit</a> from an anonymous user. The edit added a schematic to a question that was begging for one. At first I found that suspicious: how could an anonymo... | Suspect suggested edit by anonymous user: what to do? |
<p>For my graduate work, it was recommended for people to use Microsoft Visio to recreate their circuits with nice formatting and the capability to do subscripts for labels. It's still clunky for that if I remember right, but at least it's possible there. Visio has a nice library of elements for circuit schematics. Obv... | 3701 | 2014-05-20T17:16:51.633 | |support|circuitlab| | <p>I need the components in my circuits to be labelled using sub-scripts like \$R_1,\ R_2,\ Z_{in}, V_{DS},\$ etc., Is there any way to do so?</p>
| Use subscripts in labels in schematic added from Circuitlab |
<p>On EE.SE, the the Up/Down breakdown privilege turns on at <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/established-user">1k reputation (established user)</a>.</p>
<p>I'm guessing that privileges in the stacks that are in beta (like Embedded Systems) turn on at lower reputation, because their numbe... | 3708 | 2014-05-29T19:37:00.030 | |support| | <p>I was recently invited to the new Embedded Systems beta and I noticed that I could click on the vote number of a question or answer and it would show me the breakdown of up votes versus down votes. I thought this was pretty cool and mentioned to a friend that I wished the EE.SE could do that too... To which he repl... | Up/Down voting breakdown on questions and answers |
<p>You can set the scaling for yourself using MathJax's contextual menu. Right click (or control click on a Mac) any typeset equation and select the "Math Settings" submenu, then the "Scale All Math" item. You can enter a scaling factor that will be used for all equations on the site where you set it. It is saved in... | 3716 | 2014-06-05T17:51:38.893 | |support|mathjax| | <p>Between fractions and subscripts using MathJax characters can get really small to the point of not being legible under the current default zoom conditions. From <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/233651/changing-font-size-for-equations-on-electronics-se-and-others-that-are-capable/233654?noredirect=1#... | Increase default size of equations to allow subscripts to be seen easily without zoom |
<p>No, these are currently only active on the three big sites, as per <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/157121/what-are-review-tests-audits-and-how-do-they-work#comment520523_157121">this comment</a> on the question you linked to. Actually, that is the post that I would take all my information from.</p>... | 3725 | 2014-06-14T01:41:30.823 | |discussion| | <p>Today I learned about a new Stack Exchange concept, called <strong>Review Audits</strong> (for more information, please see <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/157121/what-are-review-tests-audits-and-how-do-they-work">What are review tests (audits) and how do they work?</a>).</p>
<p>Well, after having... | Are review audits turned off on our site, or did I just ace all of them without noticing? |
<p>In general it's quite a broad question, but (IMO) can be a good one as long as you:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>verify that the prototype works,</p></li>
<li><p>explain the design choices you made</p></li>
<li><p>express your perplexities and doubts you had in the design phase.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>So in general I'd say that ins... | 3730 | 2014-06-18T04:04:57.570 | |discussion| | <p>I have a designed and prototyped a circuit, and it works. I'd like to get community review of the design though, in the same way that I can get code review at <a href="https://codereview.stackexchange.com/">https://codereview.stackexchange.com/</a>.</p>
<p>Are review requests on-topic here? I've checked the <a hr... | Requests for review on-topic? |
<p>I think that the question is fine here. It has a lot to do with the properties of motors, which are definitely part of electrical engineering.</p>
| 3733 | 2014-06-18T22:23:19.333 | |discussion|scope| | <p>I understand that questions involving the usage of a particular electronic device are off topic. However, I asked <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/115886/why-do-refrigeration-compressors-stall-when-switched-off-and-on-quickly">a question about refrigeration compressors</a> and a user has comm... | Are questions involving the technical details of the operation of a device on topic? |
<p>I went ahead and deleted it.</p>
<p>Part of the concern is to discourage going through old questions looking for trouble. When you go back 3-4 years, to the infancy of the site, you see a lot of behavior that would not be allowed now because people were unfamiliar with the format. Also, rules have changed over the ... | 3735 | 2014-06-19T15:32:49.687 | |discussion|specific-question|flagging| | <p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/5990/do-antistatic-bags-have-conductive-interior-exterior-or-both">Do antistatic bags have conductive interior, exterior or both?</a></p>
<p>This is the Question with the answer that I flagged.</p>
<p>I came upon this question by way of a link from a <a href... | Answer flag declined because of the age of the answer |
<p>If you're answering questions with the goal of getting up-votes, then I understand your frustration.</p>
<p>So, maybe you should consider changing your goal.</p>
<p>Write the answer <em>for your own benefit</em>. The act of focusing one's mind to pull one's thoughts together and compose a succinct, coherent answe... | 3754 | 2014-07-03T05:26:47.327 | |discussion| | <p>With all due respect to the following (et all) : Andy aka, Spehro Spephany, Olin Lathrop, Russel McMahon, Phil Frost, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams, Dave Tweed, Passerby (darn, can I type in all of your revered names ? ) Thus "et all".</p>
<p>Sometimes I feel like I cannot get an answer in before you gentlemen answer. I... | Future of Stack Exchange . So positive, and good, Now what about future moderators? |
<p>I have rejected those edits. However, I've typed in the custom reason, and I'm surprised that these cookie cutter reasons got stored. If it was a miss-click on my part, I apologize.</p>
<p>The custom reason I've typed in was along the lines of: <em>"This edit does not cover Fe - iron as element or material, which... | 3759 | 2014-07-05T19:52:15.750 | |discussion|editing|tag-wiki| | <p>I'm fairly new to EESE so I hope I didn't do something wrong to upset a mod. </p>
<p>Today I had a bit of spare time and wanted to do some "housekeeping" on tag wikis. I edited a fair amount of them (almost all having empty content) and all my edits were accepted.</p>
<p>Until <a href="https://electronics.stackexc... | Understanding the reason of a tag wiki edit rejection |
<p>"Marketing Bollocks" is probably the correct <em>answer</em> to your original question, not a statement <em>about your question.</em> Those are all terms that Asus made up to help them sell parts - they likely don't have technical merits or real-world impacts. It's like someone is selling milk and making the claim t... | 3762 | 2014-07-08T14:58:08.793 | |discussion| | <p>Today was odd for me. I asked a technical question about a motherboard but someguys down-voted me! Why? the question is this:</p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/118317/4-questions-about-asus-z97-motherboard">4 Questions about Asus Z97 motherboard</a></p>
<p>I'm ciurios to know What's t... | Marketing bollocks? |
<p>If you delete a question or answer then regardless of upvotes or downvotes your reputation will be reverted back to what it was before. So say for a question if you got 1 upvote (+5 reputation) and then 2 downvotes (-4 reputation) while sitting at -1 votes if you deleted it you'd lose the 1 reputation point you'd ga... | 3765 | 2014-07-10T12:04:18.250 | |discussion|support|reputation|deleted-questions| | <p>Since I havn't experienced this, I want to ask it beforehand. If a question receives a number of down votes causing the asker to lose reputation, and then is deleted, will the reputation be restored or remain as it is? Same thing goes for up votes too. Sorry if this is already discussed. Couldn't find the post.</p>
| Reputation change for removed questions |
<p>If you can identify an earlier question that is basically the same, vote to close the new question as a duplicate, giving the link to the earlier question.</p>
<p>If you don't have enough rep to vote to close, you can either skip it and let others handle it, or flag for moderator attention. If it's really a blatan... | 3766 | 2014-07-10T12:35:02.533 | |support| | <p>What should happen to questions that are repeated again but have a post note that says 'Sorry if this is already discussed. Couldn't find the post.'? (Due to negligence of asker repeatedly). Should they be answered with links or flagged to get moderator attention for merging?</p>
<p>Sorry if this is already discuss... | Repeated questions problem |
<p>Your proposed tags are both redundant and too narrow. The discussion of failures is an essential subtopic of both <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/power-transmission" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'power-transmission'" rel="tag">power-transmission</a> and <a hre... | 3768 | 2014-07-10T14:36:25.957 | |discussion|tags| | <p>I wanted to <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/45398">edit</a> a <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/47009/why-the-delay-between-transformer-failure-and-power-outage/118219#118219">question</a> by adding what I consider to be relevant tags. The edit was rejecte... | Are these tags really unnecessary? |
<p>If something lacks a migration path, simply flag it for moderator attention and describe where and why in the flag note.</p>
<p>Also, StackExchange policy is not to migrate to betas, even though EE breaks that often with RPI and Ardunio Betas :/</p>
| 3771 | 2014-07-10T17:23:55.973 | |feature-request|migration|flagging| | <p>I encountered <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/120648/wiringpi-vs-default-raspbian-rpi-gpio-module">this question</a> today and it clearly is better suited for the raspberry pi stack exchange. So I searched on how to flag it to be moved and encountered <a href="https://unix.meta.stackexchang... | Add a migration path to the Raspberry Pi Stack Exchange |
<p>You have two problems. The first is that you're confusing StackExchange with an IDE.</p>
<p>The code highlighting doesn't work on <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/121346/spi1-doesnt-work">your question here</a> because you have put a whole lot of relatively worthless tags on your question in... | 3776 | 2014-07-16T17:58:04.273 | |feature-request|status-bydesign| | <p>In your opinion, Which code viewer is better?</p>
<p>this is the code viewer of the Stack:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/cbAws.jpg" alt="figure 1"></p>
<p>and this is another code viewer:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/2IV70.jpg" alt="figure2"></p>
<p>Really Why doesn't the Stack has a ... | The code viewer isn't good |
<p>IMO this site is all about (providing) information. A downvote by itself (whether on a question or on an answer) provides very little information. When I downvote I either upvote a comment that describes my reason for downvoting, or add such a comment myself. I consider leaving an author in the dark as to why he was... | 3783 | 2014-07-20T18:48:26.587 | |discussion| | <p>I have noticed that when a new user posts for the first time people around here tend to react in two very distinct ways. I am speaking of questions that are off topic for some reason but might be improved. </p>
<p>The two reactions are:</p>
<ol>
<li>downvote/flag/vote to close without even trying to help the user<... | Attitude to new users regarding off-topic questions |
<p>I think it's on-topic if it's a challenging question for you, but can't you simply look up the instructions and how they affect the flags? I wrote and ported a lot of math routines back in the day and all that information was actually <strong>necessary</strong> to do that job properly. Never had any problems finding... | 3785 | 2014-07-21T16:58:47.023 | |discussion|on-topic| | <p>I have a question about the workings of a particular processor (to give some context, it's the 6502, a very commonly used processor). Would such a question be on topic here?</p>
| Are questions about a particular processor on topic on this site? |
<p>It depends on the nature of your question. If you want to ask something about designing equipment that is compatible with the standard, then <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/">EE.SE</a> is probably the place to do it. On the other hand, if your question is about installing/using the existing equipment,... | 3819 | 2014-08-05T09:30:25.390 | |discussion| | <p>Is this site intended for questions only about electronics as opposed to electrical equipment such as dimmers or light sources?</p>
<p>As english is not my native language I not sure a question about the digital LED dimming standard "<a href="http://ledotron.com/" rel="nofollow">Ledotron</a>" will fit here. </p>
<... | Dimmers and light sources |
<p>A newby here but hopefully I can add a bit of what I feel is the prevailing atmosphere here.</p>
<p>Personally I would agree with David Tweed who is a regular here but would add the two following points.</p>
<p>Ignore personal identification with negative criticism as it does not mean a thing in the big picture on... | 3827 | 2014-08-08T17:19:52.943 | |discussion|answers| | <p>There have been times when I answer a question, in some cases, I'll be urged, by some commenter, that I haven't provided enough information or I should include something else. </p>
<p>In other cases, I'll be chastised for having too much information, even while relevant. </p>
<p>I have always erred on the side t... | What is the right amount of information in an answer? |
<p>We had problems with a datacenter test that left our caching layer in a partially broken state.</p>
<p>All issues should now be resolved.</p>
<p>See also <a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/268957/topbar-notifications-dont-go-away">https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/268957/topbar-notifications-... | 3840 | 2014-08-17T01:46:05.983 | |bug|status-completed| | <p>When I logged in today, the little red inbox flag was lit up red with the number 1. So I clicked on it, and then clicked on the linked message, but whenever I log in again it still comes up red.</p>
<p>I have tried clicking on all the messages visible one at a time but that hasn't done any good.</p>
<p>Is there a... | Can't get rid of red inbox flag |
<p>To add to @Ricardo's excellent answer:</p>
<p>When I come across puzzles or challenges during a project, and solve them myself, I sometimes look to see if there are any useful answers here about said problem. Occasionally I find the information I needed online, but it's spread out and often not easy to find. When t... | 3848 | 2014-08-21T07:46:45.560 | |feature-request| | <p>How can I make an educational topic? (e.g. when I have made a successful finished project and I want to share it with the others) Is there any feature to do that?</p>
| How can I create an educational topic? |
<p>There are types of questions that are one or more of the following: killed on sight, frowned upon, not a good fit for StackExchange Q&A format.</p>
<p>One can try his luck with such question in the EE.SE chat, where rules are more relaxed.</p>
<p>The link to the chat is through the StackExchange menu.</p>
<p>... | 3854 | 2014-08-23T01:12:06.717 | |discussion|asking-questions| | <p>I have recently been informed that is frowned upon to ask if anyone knows a part that would work in your circuit. What I need, is a part. I have done digging, I can't find what I'm looking for.</p>
<p>Since it is bad form, I will not ask that sort of question here. What I would like to know, is if anyone knows of a... | Where to ask certain questions |
<p>If you hover your mouse over the comment, you should see the <code>X</code> button, which deletes the comment.<br>
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/nVbkJ.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>Similar screenshot from StackOverflow.<br>
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/813sq.png" alt="enter image desc... | 3856 | 2014-08-23T23:08:39.447 | |discussion|support|feature-request|bug| | <p>After due consideration, I'd like to delete one or more of my own comments because they serve no site-valuable purpose. I don't find any means to do so, however. Plan B was to flag the comment(s) for deletion, giving a suitable explanation for said flagging. I also find no means to do that.</p>
<p>What can I do to ... | How to delete or flag one's own comment? |
<p>Of course you can. Just go to your user page, select the "Activity" tab, and then the "Comments" tab under that.</p>
| 3858 | 2014-08-24T00:03:41.307 | |discussion|support|feature-request| | <p>This is related to my prior question, but the subject material is different enough to warrant its own question.</p>
<p>If one goes to one's own profile page, one can easily find a list of their own questions, answers, tags, badges, etc, but no historical list of comments they've made. Have I simply missed a mechani... | Is there any way to list one's own comments? |
<p>You have probably put the tag in the <code>Ignored</code> list in the main page.</p>
<p>More information about the favorite and ignored tags can be found <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/help/interesting-topics">here</a>.</p>
<p>Quoting:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Favorite</strong> tags are meant to c... | 3862 | 2014-08-25T18:13:11.233 | |discussion| | <p>This is the second time that I've seen a question appear faded!</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/EXAg7.jpg" alt="Screenshot of question list"></p>
<p>If I recall correctly, I have already seen another question like this. Why does this question appear faint?</p>
| Why is this question faded? |
<p>Because we are serious people :) (look, an emoticon!)</p>
<p>Jokes aside, I don't really see it as a priority, and most of the people around here are probably more pleased with the plain text emoticons. Or at least this is my impression.</p>
<p>Anyway, I think the proper place to ask is the <a href="https://meta.s... | 3872 | 2014-08-27T04:26:47.760 | |discussion|feature-request| | <p>Why doesn't the chatroom have any smiley? It can help us to transfer the emotions. I know that here isn't suitable for chatting but IMO having the smileys is a good idea.</p>
| Why doesn't the chatroom have any smiley? |
<p>You mean like \$\overline{this}\$?</p>
<p>Just invoke the <code>\overline</code> command in MathJax:</p>
<pre><code>You mean like \$\overline{this}\$?
</code></pre>
<p>To have it not italicized you can use <code>\text{}</code> like in \$\overline{\text{this}}\$.</p>
<pre><code>\$\overline{\text{this}}\$
</code><... | 3878 | 2014-09-01T18:24:52.560 | |discussion| | <p>I've often seen a notation where there is a horizontal bar over a letter to indicate the inverted value of something, e.g. q and (not)q for the outputs of a flip-flop. The not q would be a q with a bar over it. </p>
<p>More recently I was trying to describe the inputs to a 16 bit ADC, where one of the lines was R/(... | How do you make a complement symbol? |
<p>I've seen this asked a few times on Meta.SE and I believe this answer is still current:</p>
<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/91922/how-was-this-answer-posted-after-this-question-was-closed">How was this answer posted after this question was closed?</a></p>
<p>The message that you see not allowi... | 3880 | 2014-09-02T13:46:14.800 | |discussion| | <p>The question <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/127491/4512">how to choose resistors' value for common emitter amplifier?</a> was closed (at the time of this writing) 1 hour ago, yet <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/127517/4512">this answer</a> was written 5 minutes ago. How is thi... | Question answered after having been closed |
<p>Yes. Your question is an electronics design question and on-topic here.</p>
<p>The answer, BTW, is also yes. The complete answer is "it depends." It depends on what the modification is and how the laptop power adapter is implemented internally.</p>
<p>The most common failure-mode in my experience is high voltage s... | 3886 | 2014-09-05T16:28:50.293 | |support| | <p>I have an inverter that generates modified sine wave output. My newly purchased AC adapter for my laptop is not working (first thing I tried it on was the inverter), and I'm wondering: could the modified sine wave output have damaged my AC adapter?</p>
<p>I've been looking for an appropriate Stack Exchange site to ... | Is a question about the impact of modified sine wave AC output on a typical laptop AC adapter on topic? |
<p>Observation: @Nick is wrong on (at least some of :-)) his assertions re OP laziness.<br>
What is 'obvious' to some may be affected by culture, language and circumstance in ways which are completely inobvious to others*. And, as a bonus, the system auto-kneecaps enthusiastic new users using rules which it specificall... | 3893 | 2014-09-11T18:57:43.073 | |discussion| | <p>There seems to be a bit of difference of opinion here about editing questions to improve them with regard to English usage, capitalization, grammar, and punctuation.</p>
<h2>"Beautification" Edits</h2>
<p>In <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3837/2028">this meta question</a>, <a href="https://e... | Editing for quality: The "lipstick on a pig" problem |
<p>Just expand the definition of <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/efficiency" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'efficiency'" rel="tag">efficiency</a>. In 99% of cases, power efficiency and energy efficiency are used synonymously. In those cases in which a distinction ... | 3906 | 2014-09-18T16:36:44.177 | |discussion|tags| | <p>When trying to provide tags for <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/129742/15426">"How can error correction codes reduce bit error rate, for same amount of energy"</a> I noticed that there was no tag for energy efficiency. <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/efficiency" class... | Should there be an "energy-efficiency" tag? |
<p>As Nick mentioned in a comment chat is a good place to ask those sorts of questions and I've asked a few component sourcing / recommendations questions in the past with good results. Although the name "chat" implies real-time (which it is if someone is around) often because of time zone differences and peoples avail... | 3924 | 2014-09-24T01:21:35.307 | |discussion| | <p>I have a question about parts for a circuit (specifically solenoids), but I'm unsure where to ask it as I've heard that it is taboo to ask for suggestions for parts on any '.SE forum. Would the EE.SE chat be an acceptable place to ask?</p>
| Question about parts |
<p>There is a fine line between piling too much into one question versus creating several questions that are similar. There is no simple single criterion you can use to decide how to ask the several related questions.</p>
<p>Asking too much in a single question makes it difficult to answer because it might require di... | 3927 | 2014-09-28T11:09:23.930 | |discussion| | <p>I always make sure I don't ask more than one question in one most. This is because by asking so, I might scare away a person who would know an answer to one of my questions but not to both. He might not share his opinion as he cannot answer the whole question. </p>
<p>In this post,
<a href="https://electronics.stac... | Post Changed by Someone Else |
<p>I agree with @Keelan completely. Sometimes questions only have one minor issue, such as a typo or non-capitalized "I". These are the ones I wish would <em>not</em> bubble up to the top of the active questions queue when edited, but nevertheless I feel should be corrected.</p>
<p>I've come across several posts that ... | 3942 | 2014-10-14T10:08:34.760 | |discussion|editing|reviewing|guidelines| | <p>Lately there have been <a href="http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2014/10/new-editing-badges-and-enhancements-to-suggested-edits/?cb=1">some changes</a> to the suggested edits review system. This now makes it impossible to reject edits as 'too minor' (which, in my opinion, is something terrible, but that's not what this... | Editing guidelines |
<p>Non-moderator users with more that 15K rep can protect questions, but only after a full day has elapsed. See the <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/52764/what-is-a-protected-question">blog post</a> for details. I think you just jumped the gun on this one.</p>
| 3966 | 2014-11-12T13:33:57.603 | |support| | <p>I noticed <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/138056/4512">this</a> question was getting too many "me too", and in one case offensive, posts, so I was going to "protect" it. I know I have done this before. It requires anyone answering it to have some basic minimum rep. The bar is quite low, just inte... | What happened to being able to "protect" a question? |
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