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<p>We will be getting hats again. Thanks for your input.</p>
| 3971 | 2014-11-20T01:59:43.100 | |discussion|status-completed| | <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://winterbash2013.stackexchange.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">link</a>
to the promo from last year (and <a href="htt... | Do you like hats? (2014 Edition) |
<p>As it is stated in the Help Center:</p>
<p>"We ask and answer questions about <strong>electrical and electronics engineering topics</strong>, which include electronics, physical computing, and those working with microcontrollers, Arduinos and embedded systems."</p>
<p>Control Systems is one the major areas of Elec... | 3982 | 2014-11-24T22:25:06.597 | |discussion| | <p>Control theory is part of many undergraduate electrical engineering courses. Are questions regarding the control theory portion of a control system relevant here? What I mean is not the electronics aspect of it, but rather questions regarding how to improve transient response, disturbance, etc.</p>
<p>If it's not, ... | Do Control System questions belong in EE.SE? |
<p>Everybody is listing concerns here because they are invested in the site and want to see it continue to do well. On meta, one of the things we talk about is the community dynamics as a whole. To say that the dynamics of a site like this are complicated would be an understatement. </p>
<p>We need to try and keep our... | 4006 | 2014-12-08T21:30:23.720 | |discussion| | <p>What I would like to know is that is there some clearly defined purpose of this site? Is there some goal we're trying to aim for. It seems to me that if there's an agreed set of goals, it could be deduced logically what is the correct attitude and code of conduct to be followed here.</p>
<p>We're engineers, we have... | What is the purpose of this site? |
<p>As per W5VO's answer I think the rooms mostly hang around forever. I've written a data explorer query that I think should give what you're after along with a link to the chat room:</p>
<p><a href="http://data.stackexchange.com/electronics/query/256953/comments-moved-to-chat" rel="nofollow">Comments moved to chat</a... | 4015 | 2014-12-11T00:01:29.400 | |discussion|chat| | <p>How long do chats kept for? Are they kept forever?</p>
<p>I'm particularly interested in chats that are created as a result of the suggestion after a long string of comments for a question, where it says, "Do you want to move this to chat?" or something to that effect.</p>
<p>Obviously, the chat should be kept ar... | How long are chats retained? |
<p>I'd like to expand on Nick's valid answer.</p>
<p>The question you asked is in part off topic, since this site covers practical problem mostly, and career advice is a personal matter.</p>
<p>It is in part subjective, since people might have different opinions on the matter, and both of them could be personally val... | 4020 | 2014-12-13T05:21:19.133 | |discussion|support| | <p>I think that <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/143709/selecting-analog-design-or-digital-design">my question</a> does not ask for career advice. Rather I ask the motivations, salary and the future of the two important areas in electronics. How can I edit this question to get good quality answe... | How can I fix my career related question that was "on hold"? |
<p>Because it's not actually about those topics. If you look at the question, it is purely about using the software. </p>
| 4031 | 2014-12-18T14:16:23.490 | |discussion| | <p>I studied <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3768/are-these-tags-really-unnecessary">unnecessary tags</a>, but my tags were not that much in appropriate. yet they were rejected.
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/WBxHx.jpg" alt="rejected"><br>
I meant that Eagle is mostly used for PCB so... | appropriate tags rejected |
<p>In my experience, the sort of thing you're highlighting is almost universal. I see it on this site (at which I'm a relative newcomer), also on StackOverflow (where I'm normally found), several other SE sites I've lurked on, also the Arduino forum (and the SE Arduino beta site), and ... and ... and ...</p>
<p>It's c... | 4048 | 2014-12-28T12:59:13.307 | |discussion| | <p>We've been discussing the issue of how to treat new users for a long time now, without much results so far (see <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2777/does-ee-se-have-a-problem-with-the-treatment-of-newbies">[1]</a>). The discussion gets lost in arguments between whether harshness is nece... | Treatment of newcomers - enough with the witty, demeaning comments! |
<p>It's tricky because the system can't guarantee an answer for every bounty. Part of the mechanism of "no refunds" is there to prevent questions from staying up on the "featured" tab indefinitely for no cost (or if you don't like the answers you got). </p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/fKN7x.png" alt="enter ... | 5075 | 2015-01-07T05:11:58.567 | |discussion|feature-request| | <p>Since you will never get back the bounty offered. Its more like a advertising medium. The term bounty confuses many user as in real life an unclaimed bounty return to the original owner. Yes it is clearly stated inside the bounty rules and regulation, but how many of us read the listed rules. One only learns from mi... | Is Bounty Equivalent to Advertising Fee? Wished it had a Warning Message Box! |
<p>It's best to assume that anything you post here is a gift which you're offering to anyone in the world to use in any way they deem fit.</p>
| 5088 | 2015-01-16T14:36:30.983 | |discussion|idea| | <p>Is there any way to protect you ideas when you asking question ?<br>
Assuming you ask a problem that provides new ideas innovative, Which ensures that these ideas will be your property and not be stolen by other users ? Is it possible to protect these ideas by the community making them the property of the user and l... | how to protect ideas in question? |
<p>This can happen if you are zoomed out - I was able to reproduce with zoom of 90%.</p>
<p>However, we don't support zooming - visual artifacts like this can be expected, but will not be fixed.</p>
| 5093 | 2015-01-20T17:46:54.597 | |bug|status-declined|profile-page| | <p>Admittedly, this is not a <em>colossal</em> problem, but it's been bugging me a bit nevertheless.</p>
<p>In Chrome, user profile pages look like the screenshot below. As you can see, the "About me"-section is below the rest of the information, making the whole page look a bit strange.</p>
<p>This is the only netwo... | The user profile page is not displayed right in Chrome |
<p>Basically, if its not necessary to know that the microcontroller development board is a arduino, then it's probably OK here. In other words, if you have to say "arduino" in your question for it to make sense, then it doesn't belong here. If you can say "microcontroller" or "microcontroller development board" inste... | 5099 | 2015-01-21T13:48:43.793 | |discussion| | <p>So recently a Arduino stack exchange has been created, meaning all any question concerning the microprocessor should be moved to there. While I'm all for that, I'm certain that many of you would agree that there is a lot of overlap between the two SE's. Many EE projects probably use an Arduino.</p>
<p>Now, my actua... | Arduino and Electrical Engineering |
<p>You can flag the post for moderator attention with a custom message and include the revision number.</p>
| 5104 | 2015-01-22T15:51:00.287 | |support| | <p>How does one bring inappropriate or malicious editing to the attention of moderators? I know the question or answer itself can be flagged, but that's not what I'm asking about. I don't want to flag the content of the answer, especially since I will have fixed it anyway. I want to bring the malicious behavior to t... | How to flag edits? |
<p>Well, who would have thought that merely offering a solution based on remuneration would have caused such great <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3RYvO2X0Oo" rel="nofollow">consternation?</a></p>
<p>Certainly not I, since the practice is allowed under the site's guidelines, nor would I have thought that I'd... | 5107 | 2015-01-23T13:51:01.163 | |discussion|answers|comments| | <p>If you take a look at the comments** on this question: <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/144017/replacing-a-switch-and-avoiding-body-diode-conduction">Replacing a Switch and Avoiding body diode conduction</a>. You will see that someone has mentioned being paid for their answer and I was just c... | Where do we stand with users asking for monetary incentives before providing an answer / idea? |
<p>I think you have a point, and such questions could be closed as <s>"too localized"</s>, as they are unlikely to help anyone else than the OP. (EDIT: "too localized" is not available anymore, and no other option seems to fit the case).</p>
<p>In the specific case of the linked question, I'm not sure it can't help an... | 5118 | 2015-02-04T21:56:29.227 | |discussion| | <p>On stackoverfow we have a Off Topic close reason </p>
<blockquote>
<p>This question was caused by a problem that can no longer be reproduced
or a simple typographical error. While similar questions may be
on-topic here, this one was resolved in a manner unlikely to help
future readers. ...</p>
</blockquote>... | How to handle questions which are resolved by circumstances which are not part of the question |
<p>It links to <a href="http://stackexchange.com/leagues/58/alltime/electronics/2010-09-29/1322#1322">http://stackexchange.com/leagues/58/alltime/electronics/2010-09-29/1322#1322</a>. And there (right sidebar, on the bottom):</p>
<blockquote>
<p>* users with less than 200 reputation are not tracked in the leagues</p... | 5124 | 2015-02-12T08:49:17.573 | |discussion| | <p>On my profile page, it says "top 2% Overall". What does that mean, i.e. how is it calculated?</p>
<p>I know it is not just my overall position within the membership. When clicking on Users - all, since there are 36 people per page, and the first page to have numbers over 101 is 183 (to discount the several thousa... | Ranking on profile page -- what does it mean? |
<p>I would say that questions about cell phone CPUs are subject to the same rules as every other type of CPU - shopping questions are off-topic, but design questions are fine.</p>
| 5126 | 2015-02-14T15:27:54.617 | |support|asking-questions|on-topic| | <p>I would like to ask a question about the available selection of cell phone CPUs (systems-on-a-chip). Would it be on-topic on Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange?</p>
| Are questions about cell phone CPUs on-topic here? |
<p>Mods don't delete accounts <em>on request</em> for various reasons (which are probably on meta.stackexchange.com somewhere). Follow the directions on <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/help/deleting-account">this help center page</a> to request your account to be deleted.</p>
| 5129 | 2015-02-16T02:06:25.007 | |support| | <p>I would like to delete my account for Electrical Engineering S.E but I do not know how. I could not find the the delete button. Is there a procedure I need to follow. I googled it showed to delete my stack exchange account which I would like to keep. I just wan't to get rid the Electrical Engineering account. I beli... | Please delete my Electrical Engineering Account |
<p>Mark has stepped down as a moderator. </p>
<p>The Soup Nazi reference comes from <a href="http://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/741.php" rel="nofollow">this blog article</a> discussing Stack Overflow (though many parts are still relevant to our site).</p>
<p>To summarize, Mark was unhappy with the direction o... | 5133 | 2015-02-18T18:57:29.180 | |discussion| | <p>Someone using Mark Rage's account is editing whole questions and answers to just contain this picture:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/h59yb.jpg" alt=""></p>
<p>There are many examples, <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/11263/4512">here</a> is just one, but others are easy to find.</p>
<... | What's with the angry chef picture? |
<p>You got the link text and the link URL swapped. You should use this instead:</p>
<pre><code>[SparkFun According to Pete 3-5-12: MOSFETs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFt8hkh17_w)
</code></pre>
<p>which renders like this:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFt8hkh17_w" rel="nofollow">SparkFun Accor... | 5137 | 2015-02-22T01:00:20.073 | |support|comments|hyperlinks|markdown| | <p>I just wrote a comment to an answer and wanted to include a formatted link, but the result was completely broken.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qioal.png" alt="screenshot result"></p>
<p>The link was formatted 100% according to documentation:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/f58jG.png" alt=... | Link in comment not displayed/parsed correctly |
<p>I don't see any real compelling reason to rush. I'm looking at the recently closed list, and many of the moderator-closed questions are duplicates. If the person who has enough drive to go dig up the appropriate dup happens to be a moderator, I can live with that, and in fact, thank them for doing the tedious part... | 5139 | 2015-02-23T18:13:55.953 | |discussion|election|moderation|moderators| | <ul>
<li><p>Mark Rages <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5135/17592">has voluntarily stepped down as a moderator of this site</a>. Until his temporary suspension he has been relatively active, mostly in the review queues. </p></li>
<li><p>The <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/election/3... | Now that Mark Rages has stepped down |
<p>I think this is fine, as long as the tag doesn't provide context that <em>only</em> exists in the tag. Specifically, some users will ask a question that doesn't mention Arduino at all, but they include the tag <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arduino" class="post-tag" title="show quest... | 5141 | 2015-02-26T13:39:17.330 | |discussion|tags|editing|arduino|reviewing| | <p>I'm taking on a background mission of deleting inappropriate <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arduino" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'arduino'" rel="tag">arduino</a> tags as they come in, like in <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/157139/11684">H... | Poor abused Arduino tag |
<p>No. Users can vote how they want. The standards users maintain for voting also differ per user. Some users for example may have the rule of thumb to never downvote questions of new users.</p>
<p>Anyway, have a look at <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/121350/205264">this Meta.SE post</a>. From an answer the... | 5156 | 2015-03-08T17:40:33.743 | |discussion| | <p>Suppose that I make a question after having searched the existing ones; the question seems to satisfy <em>all</em> the conditions usually requested (clear, specific, detailed); but anyway the question receives one or more downvote, even without an evident reason.</p>
<p>Is there something that a user can do against... | Unjustified downvotes |
<p>I'll take ownership as an early flagger. You ended the original post with something along the lines of "is this right?" or "am I missing something?", which requires a response, and an answer soliciting discussion is not an answer. Better to post the clean answer, and DV the original answer if you believe it to be i... | 5161 | 2015-03-15T20:00:30.437 | |discussion|moderation|deleted-answers| | <p>I was pretty shocked to see my answer to <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/101530/what-is-the-equation-for-the-555-timer-control-voltage">this question</a> deleted by moderators within 20 minutes of posting.</p>
<p>Particularly since they were alleging that my answer need to go because it was... | How to challenge the deletion of an answer? |
<p>For a brief time, that answer scored +1. Positively-scored posts cannot be deleted by anyone but moderators, and so are ineligible for /review - thus the review task was invalidated.</p>
<p>If you come across an extremely low-quality post, or an answer that does not attempt to answer the question, flag it - regardl... | 5168 | 2015-03-18T11:30:07.723 | |support| | <p>I just noticed the following low quality post review and must say I can concur with null that it should be deleted, given the question makes no mention of problems "welding" the battery:</p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/66591">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/revie... | What caused this review to disappear from the low quality posts review? |
<p>I'm stupid every now and then. I might hold a stupid belief about something or other and someone comes along, calls me stupid and explains why I was being stupid. On the other hand someone comes along and tries to explain my ineptitude without calling me names. Do I bother listening?</p>
<p>Answer: I probably liste... | 5175 | 2015-03-20T22:03:54.757 | |discussion|support|comments|flagging|reviewing| | <p>A new user asked a question, found out the answer, and took the time and effort to inform us about that and even make his solution clear with a diagram: <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/160744/17592">Arduino IR Receiver (Answer)</a>.</p>
<p>Now, he used Fritzing, which is clearly just not good enoug... | My rude/offensive flags on insulting comments were declined |
<p>As a rule of thumb:</p>
<p>a) if it's a short "thanks!", I remove such parts <em>if and only if</em> there's something else to fix in a post. There usually <em>is</em>, because 99% of the time such salutations are a sign of a newcomer, but if a question/answer is otherwise top-notch, it's a good idea to spend your ... | 5185 | 2015-03-26T18:10:05.207 | |discussion|editing|reviewing| | <p>Occasionally, I see a question on the main site that ends in</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Thanks!</p>
</blockquote>
<p>or</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Thanks for any help that you can give.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>or</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>or one of the million other ways to write an insi... | Should I be removing "Thanks!"? |
<p>Yes, questions on how to teach some aspect of electrical engineering are on topic. We don't get many questions like that, but there have been some good ones that were well received and well up-voted. For example:</p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/50460/4512">Illustrating op amp feedback with... | 5200 | 2015-04-08T14:12:54.000 | |discussion| | <p>I recently learned there is a stack site <a href="https://matheducators.stackexchange.com/questions">dedicated to math educators</a>. I lurked around a little and found some very, very interesting questions (such as <a href="https://matheducators.stackexchange.com/questions/41/what-is-a-good-handwriting-font-for-mat... | Is it okay to ask teaching questions? |
<p>Seems OK to me, given that you keep the questions specific. Personally, I think you'd be better off in chat asking how to find a good consultant to get it done for you. I suppose that depends on how important it is that you get it right quickly, and what it will cost if you get it wrong.</p>
| 5203 | 2015-04-09T15:38:39.900 | |support| | <p>I'm a software engineer who works for a small unnamed company, however the firmware department has all quit together over a dispute about wages in the company(mainly because the marketing guys earn more). now I'm needing to write an EEPROM and I'm not sure if I'm allowed to ask on this site for tutorials and help in... | Is it ok to ask for help getting started |
<p>Arduino mod here. I've been asked to migrate the question back to EE, but in this case I'm inclined to leave it on the Arduino site.</p>
<p>I think it's a decent question and is potentially within the scope of either site. The main reason I'm not migrating it back is because it's been answered. The goal of migratio... | 5211 | 2015-04-15T18:06:07.040 | |discussion| | <p>why was <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/164973/turning-all-35-leds-on-sequentially-with-mm5451">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/164973/turning-all-35-leds-on-sequentially-with-mm5451</a> migrated.</p>
<p>It has nothing to do with the Arduino, it is a general ee question. Is ... | why was Turning all 35 leds on sequentially with MM5451 migrated |
<p>A (new) feature is that if you suggest that a question is a duplicate, the original asker can agree with you and the question will be closed immediately (as a duplicate).</p>
<p>Meta.SE link describing the UI and behavior:
<a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/250930/161579">https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/25... | 5233 | 2015-04-28T01:35:38.693 | |discussion| | <p>Just curious. I marked <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/166960/1322">a question</a> as a duplicate an hour or so ago, and came back later to see if it had indeed been closed. It had, and I expected to see a list of names after mine, or at least one more name besides mine, i.e. a moderator.</p>
<p>... | What does it mean to have a question immediately marked duplicate by "Community"? |
<p>According to their site scope, dev questions are off topic. Dumb. Apparently those questions belong on Stack Overflow.</p>
| 5237 | 2015-05-01T18:11:32.573 | |discussion| | <p>Why was <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/167520/is-there-a-way-to-simulate-hc-06-bluetooth-module-communication-with-android-dev">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/167520/is-there-a-way-to-simulate-hc-06-bluetooth-module-communication-with-android-dev</a> rejected as a migration... | why was http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/167520/ rejected as a migration out? |
<p>Yes some salutations are blocked automatically at the start of posts, it looks like you've hit one of the rare cases where it's a false positive. You can see the following answer that shows the regular expression used to remove them:</p>
<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2950/should-hi-thanks-tag... | 5242 | 2015-05-08T11:34:32.897 | |support| | <p>I can't start an answer with "Hi-z" (this one: <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/169579/4245">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/169579/4245</a>)</p>
<p>I had to stick it in back-ticks to effectively escape it.</p>
<p>Without that the "Hi-z" was changed to just "z".</p>
<p>Is this Stack Exchan... | Oddness starting a post with "Hi-z" |
<p>I believe it's going to be rolled out to all sites and the only reason the release has been staggered is because of changes needed to upgrade the CSS style sheets. There's a summary here of which sites have been done already and which are planned and that includes EE.SE:</p>
<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.c... | 5244 | 2015-05-09T06:00:26.763 | |feature-request| | <p>I have seen many stack exchange sites have modified their user-page and started using the <a href="http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2015/04/two-new-user-pages-one-new-stat-this-ones-big/">new user-page</a>. Why EE.SE isn't? </p>
| Why EE.SE is not using new user-page? |
<p>Sorry, but this is unlikely to happen</p>
<ol>
<li>It's something new and (somewhat) confusing to use. It does not lower any barriers to add schematics.</li>
<li>We already have a built-in schematic editor, CircuitLab</li>
<li>Using software to make a human-readable schematic is <em>hard</em>. Sure, two components ... | 5263 | 2015-06-07T14:50:45.807 | |feature-request| | <p>I'm not happy uploading screenshots everytime I have a question about a circuit. Besides that, SE itself does not host the images used in the posts, which might lead to broken links in the future.</p>
<p>Can we have a code that generates a circuit after compilation? Analogous to MathJax in math.SE in order to type ... | Code to represent circuits |
<p>For your own posts, you can use:</p>
<pre><code>user:me
</code></pre>
<p>This doesn't work for display names, and won't ever work, because names are not unique.</p>
| 5271 | 2015-06-10T12:26:31.783 | |feature-request| | <p>I know that you can limit searches to just your own posts by typing:</p>
<pre><code>user:usernumber
</code></pre>
<p>in the Search box, e,g, "user:1322 fpga" (since I am usernumber 1322) to search all my own posts (questions and answers) that include fpga in them.</p>
<p>But what's with this usernumber business? ... | Searching your own posts by username |
<p>I only saw this question just now and haven't gone back to look at the history. However, two problems immediately struck me:<ol></p>
<p><li>Too many bad assumptions.</p>
<p><li>Too many different questions.</p>
<p></ol></p>
<p>1 makes it difficult to write a simple answer, so it's easier just to close. It's a ... | 5274 | 2015-06-12T13:32:19.557 | |discussion| | <p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/175166/where-to-put-fuses-with-a-new-relay-added-to-a-car">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/175166/where-to-put-fuses-with-a-new-relay-added-to-a-car</a></p>
<p>And maybe suggestions on how I can improve it?</p>
<hr>
<p>I wanted to get a more... | Why is this a bad post, im too noob to understand |
<ol>
<li>Not a good fit for the main Q&A board. Questions like this routinely get closed as opinion-based.<br>
Should be alright for our <a href="http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/15/electrical-engineering">EE.SE chat</a>.</li>
<li>Could work on the main Q&A board, provided that everything else is good with ... | 5281 | 2015-06-30T18:58:43.010 | |discussion| | <p>Is asking suggestions on EE stack exchange on topic?</p>
<p>For example: </p>
<ol>
<li><p>I'm looking for a intro semiconductor textbook, what are titles of books that have helped you?</p></li>
<li><p>My circuit design for this problem looks like this, is there any suggestions for me to improve?</p></li>
<li><p>I'... | Is asking suggestions on topic on EE stack exchange acceptable? |
<p>The first question, <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/179429/4512">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/179429/4512</a>, is one of the poster cases for a bad question, since it's no question at all. I voted to close on account of this not being a show and tell site, and downvoted to kick the OP in... | 5292 | 2015-07-09T20:29:41.100 | |discussion| | <p>I have been much more active on Stack Overflow than here, and realize that the question closing guidelines may vary a bit. I'd like some help making sure I understand this site's definition of "Too Broad". </p>
<p>I recently came across <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/179429/49184">this EESE questi... | Is this question too broad? |
<p>I'm not real interested in reviewing every decision, but I can provide some rough numbers for discussion.</p>
<p>There have been about 30 migrations to Arduino since July 1, and about 120 Arduino tagged questions that stayed over that same time period. One in 5 is getting migrated.</p>
| 5313 | 2015-08-02T06:31:12.360 | |discussion| | <p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/182864/arduino-relay-shield">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/182864/arduino-relay-shield</a> was migrated to the Arduino Beta stack. Aside from it having NOTHING to do with Arduinos from the meat of the question (will this new design work?), it... | Why was http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/182864/arduino-relay-shield migrated? |
<p>Closing that question was inappropriate. It may well be that there is nothing one can do from inside LT Spice to use the specific processor more efficiently, but that's what the question was about.</p>
<p>Perhaps the difference is that I've never used LT Spice, so it wasn't obvious to me at all that the question w... | 5333 | 2015-08-14T03:22:55.523 | |discussion|closed-questions|on-topic|close-reasons| | <p>I really cannot understand why <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/185597/ltspice-iv-uses-50-of-processor-no-more-no-less">this question</a> about LTspice settings was abruptly downvoted and, moreover, closed in almost no time.</p>
<p>OK, it wasn't the best question one could expect, but it was... | Why a question on LTspice settings is not "on-topic"? |
<p>As a general mention, if you put a decent amount of effort in an answer, then it is in your interest that the question is not closed. If you understand the question enough to offer a useful answer, try to edit the question to improve it, upvote it, or mention (in the question comments) why the question is OK. Closur... | 5335 | 2015-08-15T02:02:48.833 | |discussion|bug| | <p>In the last few days I've noticed several closed questions getting deleted. This would be unremarkable if I had been noticing a steady drizzle of these all along, but I haven't. Maybe this has something to do with how I noticed the recent deletions, which is by some unusual rep changes. That would only happen if ... | When are closed questions deleted? |
<p>There are (currently) 35 <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/simulator" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'simulator'" rel="tag">simulator</a> questions, and 355 <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/simulation" class="post-tag" title="show qu... | 5338 | 2015-08-15T15:32:15.473 | |discussion|status-completed|tag-synonyms| | <p>I've not the required rep to use the usual tag synonym proposal procedure. I think <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/simulator" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'simulator'" rel="tag">simulator</a> should be made a synonym for <a href="https://electronics.stackexcha... | Making [tag:simulator] a synonym for [tag:simulation] |
<p>Any edit of a question changes the activity value of a question. Any activity of a question will push it to the top of the active question list, the default sortation of the front page. That is by design.</p>
| 5347 | 2015-08-19T17:26:20.323 | |discussion|tagging|retagging| | <p>About an hour ago user Paebbels went on on a tagging spree for "Lattice" (The PLD manufacturer) so of the "TOP QUESTIONS" about half are about Lattice parts, this seems undesirable because a small percentage of electrical engineering is PLD's and a very small percentage of PLD's are Lattice. Does this work itself ou... | Adding a tag is moving a bunch of similar questions to the top of the "Active list" Is this desired behavior? |
<p>As a relative newbie, I've found datasheet links in answers to be incredibly valuable. If you itch to put in a link, <em>go for it</em>.</p>
<p>However, if it's not fun or is dragging you down, don't. This place is supposed to be both useful and fun. Don't burn out or fret over a little detail like datasheets.</... | 5353 | 2015-08-25T04:40:04.240 | |discussion|editing| | <p>We all know how important are datasheets in EE design so we appreciate users when they link to datasheets. </p>
<p>However, sometimes an otherwise good question is posted which lacks datasheets links, so the usual practice is to ask the OP in a comment to provide the links. Alas, I've collected some experience in d... | Should I edit-in datasheet links straightaway? |
<p>The SE crew is tweaking the rules which seems to have retro-active effect. The changes are related to <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/266696/254079">this discussion</a>. As far as I understand, a <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/213020/254079">similar thing was done in 2013 event</a>.</p>
<p>Su... | 5388 | 2015-09-29T19:32:20.570 | |support|late-answers|review-queue| | <p>I just opened up my review queue, and there are 409 late answers. I've gone through a few of them, and they range in age from over a year old, to posted today. Was something changed in the way the late answers queue works? <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2811/76-first-posts-in-review-qu... | Did anybody else just have a ton of late answers pop up in their review queue? |
<p>Sorry about that. We accidentally <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/267281/155160">included a wrong file in another file</a>.</p>
| 5405 | 2015-10-02T17:56:45.430 | |bug|status-completed| | <p>Sometime earlier today, I started getting this alignment problem on all User Profile pages on EE.SE (both main and meta sites). See an example below:</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Nr9es.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Nr9es.png" alt="User Profile glitch"></a></p>
<p>I... | What's wrong with the User Profile Page alignment? |
<p>It happens when a question contains one of your favorite tags, so you must have one of microcontroller, audio or embedded selected under your favorite tags. I'm pretty sure it has been a feature quite a while (although I don't use it myself) so maybe the color scheme has just changed under the new layout which makes... | 5418 | 2015-10-07T11:46:24.847 | |discussion|questions| | <p>Why there are few questions which has yellow background instead of normal white in EE stackexchange. Is there any priority or something? Is this something related to the new design? What does this mean?</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/eNzSU.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.c... | Yellow colored questions in EE stackexchange? |
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/3XD5e.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/3XD5e.png" alt="Are you damn sure about destroying electical?"></a></p>
<p>I was. I also blacklisted the tag. Please look over <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/untagged">untagge... | 5421 | 2015-10-07T20:05:43.787 | |discussion|status-completed|tags|tag-cleanup| | <p>I got thinking, and the <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/electrical" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'electrical'" rel="tag">electrical</a> tag is pretty dumb. What's everyone think about nuking, banning, and retagging the affected questions? There are 197 at the ... | The "electrical" tag |
<p>I think the [constant] tag is an easy decision: all of the questions in the tag have other tags, so nothing would be untagged after it's removed. I vote to burn it.</p>
| 5426 | 2015-10-08T18:20:29.103 | |discussion|tag-cleanup| | <p>I noticed an <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/131699/51760">old question</a> about time constants which is tagged with <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'time'" rel="tag">time</a> and <a href="https://electronic... | Clean up "time" and/or "constant" tags? |
<p>Yes, Nick tends to knee-jerk migrate any post that merely mentions Raspberry Pi or Arduino, without considering whether the question is really appropriate for the destination site.</p>
<p>I've undeleted, reopened and edited <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/191535/11683">your original question</a>, a... | 5431 | 2015-10-11T23:31:46.540 | |discussion|migration| | <p>Originally I made this question on the Electrical Engineering site but it was migrated to the Rasberry Pi site. </p>
<p><a href="https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/q/36627/34975">https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/q/36627/34975</a></p>
<p>It was later closed as off topic on the raspberry pi site - a decision... | Post Moved to Rasberry Pi Site |
<p>Here's what I'll propose:</p>
<ol>
<li>Retag all questions tagged <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shield" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'shield'" rel="tag">shield</a> that refer to EMC shielding to <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagge... | 5452 | 2015-10-19T17:04:05.277 | |discussion|status-completed|tags| | <p>Prompted by <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/196104/why-are-arduino-peripherals-called-shields">this</a> question, I'm bringing up the <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shield" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'shield'" rel="tag">shield</a> t... | The "shield" tag |
<p>Here are my proposed actions for this tag:</p>
<ol>
<li>Start working on retagging all single-use instances of <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/circuit" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'circuit'" rel="tag">circuit</a> using <a href="http://data.stackexchange.com/... | 5455 | 2015-10-20T02:35:22.007 | |discussion|status-completed|tags|tag-cleanup| | <p>Despite the <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/circuit" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'circuit'" rel="tag">circuit</a> tag wiki saying "<strong>This tag is nearly useless</strong>" and "nearly useless. Consider using more specific tags to narrow your question down... | The "circuit" tag |
<p>Looks like a pretty vague tag, and not very widely used -- looks like only 17 questions "in all time" and 4 in the past month. The most upvoted questions tagged <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/divide" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'divide'" rel="tag">divide</a>... | 5462 | 2015-10-31T10:26:48.287 | |discussion|tags| | <p>Can anyone figure out what it's supposed to be about? It has no usage guidance and anything from voltage/current/frequency dividers to floating-point division algorithms seems to be in there.</p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/divide">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questio... | The "divide" tag |
<p>I disagree with Nick on this one. Your first question was a very generic question relating LCD display resolution to power consumption — an important <em>engineering</em> question for anyone in the business of designing such systems, and very much on-topic for this site.</p>
<p>Your second question related st... | 5464 | 2015-11-01T19:43:18.163 | |discussion|on-topic| | <p>I have asked <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/77696/27002">this</a> question on how LCD/LED size influences energy consumption in mobile devices. I was very doubtful, if this question is on topic, and thus placed a lot of explanation in end paragraph.</p>
<p>I have received certain number of upvotes... | Are questions on energy consumption on-topic here? |
<p>Peronally, I write it as IIC, and have done so consistantly here on EE.SE. It stands for "Inter Integrated Circuit". I dislike cutesey abbreviations like I<sup>2</sup> for double-I.</p>
<p>It should be plenty clear enough what IIC means, it's nicely searchable, and more accurately indicates what it's abbreviating... | 5492 | 2015-11-28T08:54:02.133 | |discussion| | <p>Some questions involving I2C have been edited to I²C. They refers to Inter-Integrated Circuit, according to Wikipedia, is <code>pronounced I-squared-C, a multi-master, multi-slave, single-ended, serial computer bus invented by Philips Semiconductor (now NXP Semiconductors). It is typically used for attaching lower-s... | I2C vs I²C, naming convention |
<p>This is another one of those really dumb tags proliferated by people that don't know better. After a cursory glance at the usage, I would be in favor retagging and banning it.</p>
| 5497 | 2015-11-28T17:52:54.443 | |discussion|tags| | <p>What is the generic <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/system" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'system'" rel="tag">system</a> tag supposed to be about? There's already <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/control-system" class="post-tag" t... | The "system" tag |
<p>I just cast the last close vote on your question, and gave you a -1 for good measure.</p>
<p>I personally find it obnoxious to have to chase down pertinent information to a question. No, I'm not going to follow a link to get such information. A link to reference information, like to a datasheet, is OK. Even then... | 5498 | 2015-11-28T22:33:53.317 | |discussion|down-votes| | <p>What might I do to improve the question <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/181419/81679">How to gather data about how weight is distributed by feet on a surface over time?</a>? It is linked to a similar question that was upvoted a bunch, so wondering how I might improve it to make it more useful for t... | How to improve this question? |
<p>Could be okay, but be specific about what you are asking. For example, are there certain specs that you don't know how to interpret? Do you have a specific kind of project in mind that might require a specialized DMM? </p>
<p>If you just ask "which one is better?", the answer will be "Read the specs for each and se... | 5510 | 2015-12-07T18:36:44.883 | |discussion| | <p>Can I ask a question about which one of two multimeters would be better to buy or it will be closed? I don't want a comparison between a lot of them as it would be opinion-based but just between 2 of them.</p>
| Comparison of 2 multimeters |
<p>I'll throw in that there are a few other criteria and reasoning behind the rules, and varying degrees of flex in the rules. And to be pedantic, "too broad" and "off topic"are mostly orthogonal criteria. Let's try to avoid "off topic" in general. </p>
<p>Most close reasons are in place to basically protect the commu... | 5530 | 2015-12-15T21:22:42.660 | |discussion| | <p>Every once in a while, I'll stumble upon a high-rep member who will have written a question and then a very lengthy answer that very effectively answers it. <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/28251/rules-and-guidelines-for-drawing-good-schematics/28255#28255">Case and point, a great Q/A by Oli... | Are broad explanation type questions on topic? |
<p>@SethKitchen - I'd consider it "Off-topic -- Other". It was moderator closed, because it took a moderator to deal with the bounty sealing it open, but it doesn't take a rocket engineer to see that it would last about 5 minutes to get reclosed with 14 downvotes, no upvotes, a string of comments from users who would h... | 5534 | 2015-12-16T15:16:40.567 | |discussion| | <p>I'd like to appeal <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/205537/what-video-streaming-audio-streaming-is-used-in-microsoft-hololens">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/205537/what-video-streaming-audio-streaming-is-used-in-microsoft-hololens</a></p>
<p>This question: <a href="https://... | Appeal Hold on Question |
<p>Looks like this tag was cleaned up in 2016. If it shows up again, remove it on sight.</p>
| 5550 | 2015-12-24T22:00:51.647 | |discussion|tags|tag-cleanup| | <p>The <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/problem" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'problem'" rel="tag">problem</a> tag is impossibly, uselessly vague. Any question posted on this site is <em>implicitly</em> a "problem"! The questions under this tag have nothing at all... | There's a problem with [problem] |
<p>When you upload images using the "add images" button, the images get copied to Imgur, and multiple resolution copies are made in addition to the original. By default, the original is selected. However, you can easily change which one is used by appending a modifier to the link. For a visual example, consider the fol... | 5553 | 2015-12-27T02:23:18.690 | |support| | <p>The answer is <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/206482/exactly-what-is-the-role-of-the-zero-order-hold-in-a-hybrid-analog-digital-sampl/207926#207926">this</a>, and the two PNG images in the middle are just too big. i dunno the syntax for how to do this and i only am copying syntax from other... | can anyone tell me how to scale down PNG images i put in an answer |
<p>If you were to edit your original, answered question, then either:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>the original answers would no longer make sense, which is undesirable because it makes the page less useful and takes away from the answerers' efforts, or</p></li>
<li><p>you would be asking two questions in one post, which is undesi... | 5558 | 2016-01-02T04:42:17.453 | |discussion|asking-questions| | <p>I have asked a question and received some comments and an answer. Having solved the original problem, I now have another question related to the same circuit.
Should I ask a new question or edit the original question? If I should ask a new question, should I link to the new question from the original question?
My t... | Asked question, then had a related new question |
<p>Your perceptions seem to be somewhat skewed by the organization in which you're working. In the projects in which I've been involved, it's the <em>hardware</em> guys that are writing the HDL and the <em>firmware</em> guys that are writing the microprocessor code — sometimes for microprocessors that are embedde... | 5562 | 2016-01-04T13:09:37.653 | |discussion|asking-questions| | <p>Question... Where to draw the line with regards to HDL on EE.SE? This is akin to Arduino questions that appear on EE.SE where most are migrated but some aren't.</p>
<p>VHDL & Verilog are used to describe logic that could target hardware (be it ASIC, FPGA etc...) but they are in essence a programming language. ... | HDL and the EE board |
<p>I read your question and as a beginner myself I found that you tried to explain the question to the best of your ability. The problem is that some users respond in short aggressive ways. The response to your linked question and even this one here are clear examples of that happening. It would be great if one day we ... | 5597 | 2016-02-01T20:30:33.557 | |discussion| | <p>I'm new to electronics, and i made a schematic of something i wanted to try to build. </p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/214546/charging-two-18650s-with-solar-panels-and-usb-charger">I asked something and included a picture of what i meant</a>, but a battery i linked apparently had too... | condescending moderator |
<p>It's usually covered in that site's <strong>Help → Tour</strong>. (Menu at very top of page.)</p>
| 5603 | 2016-02-04T12:45:15.363 | |discussion|guidelines| | <p>I understand that there are different desires for what types of questions this community should be addressing. It is dificult to know when a question does not fit. Is there a guidelines somewhere?</p>
| Guidelines for types of questions |
<p>Silent rep changes. Some events, when done quickly enough after the initial event, will just be silently adjusted, removing both events. If enough time passes (I think 1 UTC day), it will no longer silently change.</p>
<p>Accepts and Unaccepts. Down vote and Up vote. Bounty. User removal.</p>
<p>If enough time has... | 5613 | 2016-02-08T20:11:05.113 | |support|down-votes| | <p>I answered <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/215738/why-do-we-need-to-find-the-current/215781#215781">this question</a> and it's showing up with a -15 in the achievements drop down. When I look at the question I've got one up-vote and no down-votes.</p>
<p>Anyone know what that signifies?</p>... | I've got a '-15' in achievements drop-down but can't see why in thread |
<p>What are the key pieces of information with respect to a motor that is needed when analysing a circuit & its control. </p>
<ol>
<li>terminal inductance</li>
<li>terminal resistance</li>
<li>BackEMF</li>
</ol>
<p>inductors, resistors, AC & DC voltage sources are available as is annotation. Just stating a lo... | 5617 | 2016-02-10T21:15:55.783 | |feature-request| | <p>If there is a way to add more symbols in the circuit editor, I think a motor symbol would be appropriate. There may be additional symbols people would want. Is this possible? Is it difficult?</p>
| Can additional symbols be added to the circuit button? |
<p>We couldn't make that change if we wanted to. The schematic editor and simulator is Circuit Lab's, and it's behind a paywall now. We're lucky they let us continue to use their software for free.</p>
| 5618 | 2016-02-10T21:19:58.247 | |feature-request| | <p>In the circuit editor when you do a time domain simulation you can only look at voltage. In traditional spice packages, its common to be able look at currents also. Usually this is done by highlighting a the port of a part (not the wire connecting two parts, thats a voltage). It would be nice to be able see the curr... | Circuit editor functionality - current scope |
<p>I'm not too sure what exactly you want. Perhaps these two questions (<a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/211511/solve-a-circuit-with-the-nodal-analysis-1">1</a>) (<a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/216848/solve-a-circuit-with-the-nodal-analysis">2</a>) are similar enough to... | 5624 | 2016-02-12T15:12:14.920 | |discussion| | <p>This new user has been walking forward with homework questions, and the irritating part is that he has not learned from previously asked questions, instead keeps looking for the answers.</p>
<p>So his approach involves setting a topic: nodal analysis, then enumerating it for a particular case. or more importantly, ... | Should we combine these questions? |
<p>If you want to <em>be a part of</em> EE.SE and do what's expected of you, then do this:</p>
<ol>
<li>Read the meta - Look at questions that have come up and the response to them and learn how the community makes decisions. </li>
<li>Learn how the moderation system works - Participate in moderating, read the help ce... | 5630 | 2016-02-14T23:20:54.977 | |discussion|new-users|meta|moderators| | <p>I am a newcomer to EE.SE and have asked and answered a few questions here over the past few months. I read nearly daily via my phone. I would like to contribute as much as possible since I gain so much from just reading through the daily posts, however as many Meta posts have addressed recently, there are several fa... | What is expected of members of EE.SE? |
<p>While it'd sometimes seem nice to be able to take some of the garbage posters' heads in your hands, open the /tour page & help center too, thenforce them to sit there and read it... Unfortunately I don't think any of us have time for that, and most new users are simply not going to read & follow 'the rules' ... | 5646 | 2016-02-17T20:57:57.743 | |discussion|feature-request| | <p>There are a lot of people with less than 10 experience or have posted less than 10 times that create problems for the community. Some of these problems can be seen in these posts.</p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3783/attitude-to-new-users-regarding-off-topic-questions">Attitude ... | Problems with new users |
<p>I suggest that migrations or other actions taken out of a feeling of irritation toward a "lazy OP" who can't read the data sheet should be curtailed. This is a Q&A site. People come here because they don't know things. The whole point of the Arduino and Pi platforms in particular is that people can get involved ... | 5659 | 2016-02-19T15:53:56.540 | |discussion| | <p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/217643/sinking-80-ma-from-a-microcontroller-without-any-driver-circuit">Sinking 80 mA with a microcontroller without any driver circuit?</a> is a general question on parallel current sourcing capabilities, but it was single handedly closed and migrated to Ardu... | Why was "Sinking 80 MA from a microcontroller without any driver circuit" migrated? |
<p>The orange indicator shows the (approximate) number of tasks awaiting a review. </p>
<p>The review page shows the number of tasks awaiting <strong>your</strong> review. This excludes the items you are not eligible to review: because you flagged the post, or voted to close it, or have reviewed it already, etc. </p>
... | 5675 | 2016-02-23T05:18:40.860 | |support|review-queue| | <p>So having reached 10k yesterday, that triggers the next privilege of accessing the mod tools. As a result, there is now the little orange number on the top bar next to the review button. This used to (pre 10k) just show when there were edits pending but now shows up when anything is pending. Makes sense.</p>
<p>But... | Review Queue - Posts awaiting review |
<p>Due to third-party intervention, the post has now been unlocked.</p>
<p>Further, after reflection, I felt the moderator in question had some good criticisms about my answer. I have <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/revisions/219945/10">edited</a> it accordingly, including working in a milder version of... | 5689 | 2016-03-01T17:50:33.480 | |discussion|answers| | <p><strong>Context</strong></p>
<p>Yesterday I posted <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/219945/62533">this answer</a>, to <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/219734/62533">this question</a> on the development of LED illumination as an industrial product.</p>
<p>Possibly relevant is that my... | Do I need to include a target-audience disclaimer in this disputed answer? |
<p>This markdown syntax makes the picture clickable:
<code>[![description][1]][1]</code><br>
When clicked, it behaves like an ordinary image file in your browser.</p>
<p>Example:
<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/4QwAU.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/4QwAU.jpg" alt="description"></a... | 5692 | 2016-03-02T15:56:27.167 | |support| | <p>I want to ask a question which has relatively wide schematic that would not be legible at the width allotted to SE questions.</p>
<p>Is there a way I can post the schematic so that readers will be able to view the wide image?</p>
| Large schematic handling |
<p>Because someone decided that there is something wrong with common courtesy. Frankly, I find it silly, and a waste of effort to edit such things out.</p>
| 5694 | 2016-03-02T21:47:21.177 | |discussion|editing| | <p>I was recently browsing EE.SE and came across <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/posts/220482/revisions">this</a> revision (Revision 2) by moderator Nick Alexeev on <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/220482/reading-a-light-dimmer-from-an-arduino">this</a> question. I understand the ... | Why was "Thanks for your help!" edited out of this question? |
<blockquote>but I specifically asked in the question if there might be a better stack where the question might be fit for migration.</blockquote>
<p>Not our problem. Off topic here is off topic here, whether we know of a better place for the question or one exists or not. We are not the help desk for the SE site or ... | 5723 | 2016-04-05T02:18:08.103 | |discussion|close-reasons|off-topic| | <p>So I asked <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/226112/105571">a question</a>, which is now on hold. I get why it's on hold (off topic), but I specifically asked in the question if there might be a better stack where the question might be fit for migration. Apparently the community decided there wasn't.<... | Off topic question on hold, no real answer |
<p>Either here on EE.SE (we had controller questions in the past), or on Engineering.SE (versed in heat transfer). </p>
<p>You could post it here first. If it doesn't pick up, then post a flag to the moderators with custom text along the lines of "<em>Please migrate this question of mine to Engineering.SE.</em>" We'... | 5738 | 2016-04-21T18:23:11.693 | |discussion|scope| | <p>I have built a pid controller that I am using to make yogurt, but I am having trouble tuning it because of the change of thermal conductivity during the culture. Where is the best place to ask about it EE.SE, Chemistry.SE, ENG.SE or Cooking.SE? I am afraid that pid questions would thoroughly confuse the folks over a... | yogurt on a pid controller: where to ask |
<p>As long as you are adding something new, it's not really a problem to make a new answer. You can also mention why other answers are incorrect in your answer, though try to avoid phrases like "The answer above" as the order can change.</p>
<p>You can also put a comment on the "wrong" answer as well.</p>
<p>It is ea... | 5746 | 2016-04-25T15:05:10.910 | |discussion|answers|late-answers| | <p>Is there an accepted way of answering an old (3 years) question that has an accepted answer that I think is incorrect or giving misinformation?</p>
<p>Are comments to the answer the way?</p>
| Answering an old question that has an accepted answer |
<p>I'm sure this has come up on Meta before, I can't find it easily.</p>
<p>In previous discussions, almost everyone was in agreement that these sorts of questions are strictly <em>not</em> really within the remit of EE.SE and should technically be shutdown.</p>
<p>However, most everyone thought that there was enough... | 5755 | 2016-04-29T09:15:52.710 | |discussion|asking-questions| | <p>EE.SE has quite a few questions asking to identify unknown parts, usually ICs. These are quite rare, so I cannot say I'm annoyed by them. Yet every time I see one, I come to to think whether they are useful to anyone besides the OP.</p>
<p>In fact, these questions are essentially duplicates in terms of information ... | Does the site benefit from "identify this part" questions? |
<p>That question is on hold since it's asking for our opinion what the OP can do. We have no way of knowing the OP's capabilities, nor is that about electrical engineering. This question is just as bad as the <i>"Does anyone know ..."</i> type of questions we get here occasionally.</p>
<p>If he instead had asked whe... | 5763 | 2016-05-02T16:42:06.730 | |discussion| | <p>The question <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/231435/102305">Does it matter if i put a resistor in backwards?</a> is currently on hold:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>"put on hold as unclear what you're asking..."</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I realize some SE functions have limited, fixed vocabulary, so maybe it's... | How to ask that another's question be taken off of 'hold' so I can contribute another answer? |
<p>Yes, but questions about the application of commercial products are specifically off-topic.</p>
<p>The reason for this is that without knowing anything about the design of the circuitry associated with the solar panel, it is impossible to infer anything about its behavior outside the applications specified by the m... | 5768 | 2016-05-05T15:30:59.773 | |discussion|on-topic| | <p>I asked a question <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/232319/automatic-adjusting-output-into-automatic-adjusting-input/">here</a> about two specific products and their use in conjunction with each other in an electronic circuit. The question was put on hold as off-topic, but I believe this was ... | Clarification of community scope |
<p>First, your answer was deleted and turned into a comment by a moderator. As long as your comment is relevant to the question, I'm not going to just delete it to enforce the rules, consider it some slack for the new users. Hopefully the new user will get 50 rep fast enough that it won't happen again. </p>
<p>If you ... | 5771 | 2016-05-08T12:03:25.913 | |discussion|comments|reputation| | <p>I noticed that although when I directly click "comment" under someone else's question I get reminded that my reputation is not high enough yet, if I answer a very short answer it gets converted as a comment on the original post.</p>
<p>I have no opinion whereas it's a good or a bad thing, I just wanted to point it ... | users below 50 rep can still comment OP |
<p>I'm going to go ahead and remove that tag. The existing tags <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/boolean-logic" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'boolean-logic'" rel="tag">boolean-logic</a> and <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/digital-lo... | 5774 | 2016-05-16T18:50:19.773 | |discussion|status-completed|tag-cleanup| | <p>There is a tag named <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/combinationalcircuits" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'combinationalcircuits'" rel="tag">combinationalcircuits</a> which has 12 tagged questions that seem to range from mostly combinational logic circuit type ... | Tag Cleanup: [tag:combinationalcircuits] |
<p>In <em>general</em>, you should flag answers like that as spam. </p>
<p>In <em>this particular case</em>, it seems as though we the moderators didn't deal with the posts (by removing the link or deleting the post). It looks like this was merely an oversight. </p>
| 5777 | 2016-05-28T13:26:46.027 | |discussion|flagging|spamming| | <p>These two answers (from the same person) clearly promote pcbgogo, and the author is clearly affiliated (when you look at the profile, but it is not explicit when you read the answers). But it somewhat answers the question. Is that spam ? I don't want to flag lightly.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://electronics.stacke... | Should this be considered as spam? |
<p>There are people, not being me, who think extra lines like that cause clutter.</p>
<p>I see the point of "Hello, ..." and "I have a very specific problem..." being removed, though the latter seems to be invulnerable to such scrutiny the last months. Those initial lines with <em>no information</em> make the overview... | 5782 | 2016-05-30T08:15:13.580 | |discussion| | <p>When I started out on EE.SE I asked a couple of questions with the "Thanks for help" line at the end because I wanted to express my genuine appreciation for people taking the time to answer my questions - only to find after 5 minutes people snagging it off.</p>
<p>Could I ask why this is? For the sake of appreciati... | Why are "thankyous" depreciated on EE.SE? |
<p>I'm strongly tempted to delete the answer as "not an answer", regardless of the fact that it is the accepted answer.</p>
<p>Kevin Vermeer hasn't been seen around here in several years, and clearly has no interest in it any more. (For that matter, the OP hasn't logged in in 6 months, either.)</p>
<p>Here is my reas... | 5788 | 2016-06-03T13:23:10.880 | |discussion|answers| | <p>More specifically, I'm talking about this answer: <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/5572/how-efficient-is-a-capacitive-power-supply/5589#5589">How efficient is a capacitive power supply?</a> (the second part of the answer, which is, I think, essential).</p>
<p>Despite the comments people have... | What to do with wrong accepted answers on old posts? |
<p>The first example would be off-topic, because it's too broad and also the internet is riddled with advise about car electronics (not as easy as wall adapter power, even though instructables makes you think it is) and 12V (9V~36V+) to 5V generation. So some personal research should give you more than enough to start ... | 5791 | 2016-06-06T07:08:58.683 | |discussion|asking-questions|on-topic| | <p>I'd like to ask a serie of questions about power supplies, power solutions and other similar (as mentioned in title). For example:</p>
<ul>
<li>How can power microUSB-equipped device directly from car electrical grid?</li>
<li>Is there any diagram for making own miniUSB to microUSB adapter?</li>
</ul>
<p>But, I ha... | Are questions about cables, connectors, plugs, adapters and powering solutions on-topic here? |
<p>Migration policy is not a subject where the moderators agree. You get a flag resolution based on which moderator sees the flag in the queue. </p>
<p>Migration is something where the migrating mod makes a decision that cannot be easily undone or reviewed. If one moderator decides to migrate a question, it's gone.</p... | 5794 | 2016-06-06T19:57:01.930 | |discussion|flagging| | <p>Is there any mechanism to apply the correct decision to all flag of a question?</p>
<p>I flag this post:<a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/24930/can-an-attiny-print-results-to-a-console%20">Can an ATtiny print results to a console?</a> saying that it was better to be migrated to the arduino excha... | Flag management policy |
<p>A general review of a complex circuit would have to be classified as "too broad".</p>
<p>However, if you have specific questions about some particular aspect of your design that could be answered in a few paragraphs, that would be perfectly acceptable.</p>
| 5800 | 2016-06-11T13:05:13.950 | |discussion| | <p>I recently designed a board layout in Eagle and was thinking to post question so that anyone can review it and verify it as I am a beginner.<br>
This type of questions are ON topic or OFF topic on Electronics stackexchange. If they are ON topics where can I upload schematics or board layout. ?</p>
| Asking reviews about the designed circuit On topic or Off topic.? |
<p>Thanks for askng first!</p>
<p>Unless your question is specifically about the design of the electronic circuitry of the product, it sounds like it would be a better fit on the more general <a href="https://engineering.stackexchange.com/">Engineering.SE</a> site.</p>
| 5810 | 2016-06-21T13:12:12.060 | |support|specific-question| | <p>I have an idea for a sports equipment invention "a new product" that a track and field athlete can use to practice and train his sport. The technology involves a laser beam. I'm wondering if my idea is feasible and/or if it has already been done because we think the idea is good. Is there a more appriopriate place t... | Is this question ok for electrical engineering? |
<p>No answer in almost a week... It seems nobody really knows what is the policy on this.</p>
<p>I think it is because there is actually no clear policy. A previous <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/402/what-is-our-policy-on-dangerous-stuff">relevant discussion</a> here on meta also showed ... | 5821 | 2016-06-28T19:38:54.297 | |discussion| | <p>I just saw in the review a question about a stun gun electric circuit which can deliver 20kV. Does the website has any guidance regarding potentially lethal circuits that the main point is to be a weapon? Also, are these questions under the authority of government concerning weapons export rules?</p>
| Do we have any guidelines toward weapons design? |
<p>I'm curious how often you anticipate this being used, and for what purpose. More than 9 times out of 10, a video in a question does nothing to clarify the answer, and (personally) I won't watch it anyway: I'd rather spend one minute reading a clearly written answer than waste several minutes watching a poorly lit, s... | 5824 | 2016-06-29T10:10:55.353 | |discussion|feature-request| | <p>I keep a request for uploading sound files (wma, amr, mp3, midi etc). animation-file in gif format is being already allowed (and helpful) , but some-other sorts of video files (video recording files) such as mp4, AVI, 3gp, etc. within a strict limit of file-size and time. </p>
<p>At the same-time, amazingly small ... | Feature request for uploading small-sized sound and movie file, and SVG format still image files |
<p>Your question reads as if you have misunderstood the purpose of the electronics.stackexchange site. Please go and read its help centre, and check that this question makes sense in the context of electronics.stackexchange.</p>
<p>Anyone posting a question must understand the scope and purpose of the site, and accept... | 5836 | 2016-07-05T19:17:55.673 | |discussion|feature-request|deleted-questions| | <p>This website, evaluates question only on the basis-of public-votes, where the asker do-not have any right to put any evaluation to own question. But there is need for judging the question also from the viewpoint of the asker's own. </p>
<p>The site requires downvotes, or mark for deletion etc. to distinguish 2 type... | Feature-request- Some user-selectable categories for better filter, as-well stack-overflow |
<p>Community review is purposely designed to prevent any one user from dominating the process. Therefore, each user only gets to vote on a post just once.</p>
<p>Yes, that means that you'll sometimes get locked out in a situation like this. The most you can do at this point is to leave a comment that will guide other ... | 5843 | 2016-07-07T09:56:42.883 | |feature-request|exact-duplicates|closing| | <p>I'm aware the title is rather unclear. Couldn't manage to formulate it correctly.</p>
<p>I actually found this question:</p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/242033/half-bridge-with-dual-powre-supply-and-two-n-channel-mosfets">Half Bridge with dual powre supply and two N-channel Mosfets?... | Close as duplicate *after* I voted to close before question was edited |
<p>From the Stackexchange Terms of Service page:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>In the event that You post or otherwise use Subscriber Content outside of the Network or Services, with the exception of content entirely created by You, You agree that You will follow the attribution rules of the Creative Commons Attribution Share... | 5854 | 2016-07-10T21:09:11.363 | |discussion| | <p>The website contains many users who are skilled and know what they are doing in the field. For example if a person had to do a engineering report, is the stack exchange able to be to cited?</p>
| Can Electrical.SE be cited? |
<p><a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1398/what-does-so-have-that-we-dont-syntax-highlighting">This brings back memories....</a></p>
<p>As always, @dim makes good points as to how to explicitly set the code formatting language.</p>
<p>However, I will also add that if you can identify a tag ... | 5877 | 2016-07-20T13:21:36.287 | |discussion|feature-request|tags|syntax-highlighting| | <p>I just added a "c" tag to make sure the code blocks are properly shown.
<a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/246993/stm32-sleep-mode-interrupt-gets-executed-but-the-cpu-stays-in-wfi">STM32 Sleep Mode: Interrupt gets executed but the CPU stays in WFI</a>. In this case, there was plenty of room fo... | Wasting a tag to properly format code |
<p>These are some of the <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask">guidelines</a> that EE.SE has decided upon. If you don't want to click on the link I'll quote it below. There are also good resources on asking questions <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic">here</a> and <a h... | 5880 | 2016-07-27T23:17:24.993 | |discussion|support| | <p>I have more experience on Stack Overflow than EESE, and I often come across questions here that strike me as too broad, but are either left open or even have upvotes. All of the following questions seem like "here are my requirements, design this for me" or "explain this massive complex topic" questions:</p>
<p><a ... | Am I correctly understanding EESE's standard for "too broad"? |
<p>No, it's really not a EE.SE question, and there's a two main reasons for it:</p>
<ul>
<li>It's a high-level question about computer software (video drivers). </li>
<li>It is not an electronics design question</li>
</ul>
<p>In <em>general</em>, one should be familiar with the standards and requirements of a site th... | 5883 | 2016-07-28T21:33:31.870 | |discussion|on-topic| | <p>A user posted <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/q/38612478/656243">this question</a> on Stack Overflow. I close-voted and left a comment that it felt like an electronics question. They then <a href="https://superuser.com/q/1105842/105558">posted the question to SuperUser</a>.</p>
<p>I asked them why they didn't po... | Is this question on-topic for Electronics? |
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