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<p>Tags are irrelevant to the content of a question. They are for limiting search results only.</p>
<p>My brain has long ago tuned them out when reading a question. If it's not in the question body (comments don't count either), it's not in the question. I'm totally with pipe in your sequence above. I wouldn't hav... | 5885 | 2016-07-29T08:19:55.003 | |discussion|tagging| | <p>I am wondering whether tags can legitimately be used to provide context to a question, or if they should be there only to classify the questions and ease searching.</p>
<p>As an example, there has been this question recently: <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/248191/107479">Possiblity of Using Transis... | Providing question context in tags |
<p>It’s not that simple. Your total vote limit is set in a complicated way such that once you see a “you have 5 votes left” warning, this is correct. More specifically, the limit is set once you cast your 25th answer or total vote (there are conflicting reports as to which is true). So, to use up all your votes, you ha... | 5889 | 2016-08-02T07:35:24.450 | |support|voting|up-votes| | <p>Help says:
"You can vote 30 times per UTC day, plus 10 more times on questions only."
<a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/vote-up">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/vote-up</a></p>
<p>What exactly does it mean?
Today I have up-voted 37 times. So, I would expect to be a... | up voting limit |
<p>You should not have to follow any links to understand a good answer. That said, links to pages explaining details or alternatives usually makes an answer <em>better</em> and more complete.</p>
<p>Therefore, it does not matter if you link to a question on EE.SE, an answer on EE.SE, an answer on any other website, or... | 5900 | 2016-08-05T18:26:01.157 | |discussion|answers| | <p>Does the community encourage providing links to other questions in your answers?The purpose would be to back up the statements you make,but the answer would be in a way segmented,so it doesn't stand alone.To clarify my second sentence,I will exemplify by saying that the questions are independent of comments,so if th... | Question about question links |
<p>This is an issue currently being addressed on meta site-wide. <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/166575/why-is-there-a-peeking-duck-in-my-profile-pic">Why is there a peeking duck in my profile pic?</a> or <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/283642/moderator-election-ballot-different-defa... | 5903 | 2016-08-21T06:03:08.480 | |discussion|bug| | <p>I was poking around the newly designed Network Profile page, and clicked on the "Flair" tab. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identicon" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Identicon</a> embedded in the flair isn't the standard Identicon for my account, which is shared across each stack that I've joined.</p>
<p>He... | Why is my "flair" Identicon different from my standard Identicon? |
<p>If it is related to electronic design, ask here. Things like mechanical and thermal issues of case design are on topic at engineering.SE. Some of the company management <i>might</i> be on topic at workplace.SE. Much of the shipping and logistics is probably not on topic anywhere here.</p>
<p>There are new SE sit... | 5920 | 2016-08-31T22:27:38.813 | |discussion| | <p>I couldn't make title short and to the point, just let me elaborate it:<br>
What is the correct SE site where to ask questions like:</p>
<ol>
<li>Case design(materials, airflow, geometry, standards, etc)</li>
<li>Licensing, certification of product</li>
<li>Manufacturing, shipping, logistics, etc</li>
<li>General q... | Where to ask questions about product design outside of electronics? |
<p>This has been discussed many times on various sites over the years.</p>
<p>The answer has always been "no".</p>
<p>The definitive answer is probably on Meta Stack Exchange from 2009 on the <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/431/any-way-to-send-a-personal-message-to-another-user">accepted answer to t... | 5941 | 2016-09-15T13:18:06.410 | |discussion|feature-request| | <p>As far as I can tell there is no private message feature between members here. I understand that, being a basic Q&A site, PMs are hardly necessary but nonetheless it could be useful for personal communication. Obviously no technical questions would be allowed to be asked in private messages, but there are a few ... | Private Messages |
<p>Just my 2cents, from a new EE-SE user and definitively a "non expert" EE guy.</p>
<p>Many people (like me) ask question to gain some help on EE topics (...I know, this sounds trivial, but this is what all SE network is all about, isn't it?) so it is likely that "boring" topics for you might be "interesting" enough ... | 5963 | 2016-10-02T00:05:50.230 | |discussion|up-votes| | <p>This is of course subjective, but I hope it's OK on meta.<br>
I've been out of EE.SE for a while and now I am reading hot last month questions, to my surprise one of the most popular questions last month was <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/256905/can-you-identify-this-component">this one</a>... | Why boring questions have so much attention? |
<p>It does seem a bit odd that you're converting designs <em>TO</em> a software package for which you've stopped paying the support fee. (I'd be curious to know the thinking behind that decision, but that isn't relevant here.)</p>
<p>I would recommend that you go ahead and ask a question on EE.SE in which you mention ... | 5968 | 2016-10-07T08:56:08.443 | |discussion| | <p>I have a highly technical question relating to converting design files from one electronics design software package to another. It's not an I.T. question and I'm not certain it fits in the electronics.stackexchange.com remit either. Although it does need the attention of electronics engineers, it's not about desig... | What is the correct SE channel to ask about an electrical engineering SOFTWARE question? |
<p>Debugging of "home electronics" is off topic as that term is likely interpreted by most. The reason is that it usually doesn't have real electrical engineering content. For example, plugging in ethernet cables to routers and PCs isn't electrical engineering, and debugging such a setup is off topic here. <i>"Plug ... | 5985 | 2016-10-22T02:47:46.413 | |discussion| | <p>If I were to ask a question about signal and noise in home electronics, and how to debug an issue, and what possible solutions might be, would that be on-topic? </p>
<p>In my mind, system-level debugging and noise in consumer electronics occupy a weird space between consumer electronics (where enthusiasts are in o... | Is home electronics debugging on-topic? |
<p>I read that question as a use/repair of some sort of photographiccy thingy.<br>
As such it's off-topic here and should rightfully have been closed.<br>
As for migration - I would probably have erred on the side of SE's policy of "don't migrate crap".</p>
| 5988 | 2016-10-22T19:08:42.133 | |discussion|support|migration| | <p>This question <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/264918/use-paper-as-shim-for-circuit-board-in-3v-device">Use Paper as Shim for Circuit Board in 3V device</a> got migrated to <a href="https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/83915/use-paper-as-shim-for-circuit-board-in-3v-device">http://photo.... | Why was this question about a shim for a pcb migrated to photo.se? |
<p>I made a few <a href="http://data.stackexchange.com/electronics/query/581858/answer-acceptance-stats" rel="nofollow noreferrer">statistics using DataExplorer</a> on the main SE sites, and a few others sites taken randomly (from the ones I visit from time to time):</p>
<pre><code> QuestionCount Answere... | 6005 | 2016-11-21T22:16:18.377 | |discussion|users|user-interface| | <p>Why is the rate for accepting answers on SE:EE so low, compared with other SE sites?</p>
<p>How could users be more encouraged to hit the button and therefore help others know which answer was really helpful?</p>
| Low answer acceptance rate? |
<p>I've looked at all the ones you posted. Only half are legit.</p>
<ol>
<li><p>The most egregious. You deleted some key information. No, op was not just "trying to build an audio device". He explicitly told us what he was actually trying, <em><strong>Trying to Drive a Piezo Buzzer</strong></em>. That alone m... | 6019 | 2016-11-28T15:04:14.373 | |discussion|reviewing| | <p>I've a problem in understanding the feedback I get, mostly from <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/61257/wesley-lee">one specific reviewer</a> (although it's not limited to him per se); I got <em>"This edit does not make the post even a little bit easier to read, easier to find, more accurate or mo... | "doesn't make the post even a bit easier to read" feedback problem |
<p>Seems like there's good support for this, go ahead and name it <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/superposition" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'superposition'" rel="tag">superposition</a>.</p>
| 6034 | 2016-12-09T22:34:29.663 | |discussion|tags| | <p>We have a tag named <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/superpositiontheorem" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'superpositiontheorem'" rel="tag">superpositiontheorem</a> which is currently on 12 questions. Tags composed of multiple words generally use hyphens between ... | Rename the superposition theorem tag |
<p>The internet is full of idiots, and some of them come here. I don't think there is anything we can do about that.</p>
<p>What we can do is deal with their idiotic postings. That means downvote, and usually leave a comment explaining what is incorrect. That mechanism already exists, and seems to largely work.</p>... | 6040 | 2016-12-19T14:47:40.177 | |discussion| | <p>I am fairly new to this forum but I am repeatably running into the same problem. This is the user who has found a formula or data on the internet which they think can be applied to a problem. They go ahead and post or quote this blindly without giving any thought to its applicability and then insist they are correct... | Inapplicable internet information |
<p>The system periodically bumps questions with no accepted answer to the front page. This will appear to have been done by the "community" user.</p>
| 6043 | 2016-12-23T17:42:26.390 | |discussion|support| | <p>I'm not sure why the system performed this action for this one:
<a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/270599/why-is-the-common-emitter-input-insensitive-to-base-width-modulation">Why is the common emitter input insensitive to base width modulation?</a></p>
<p>What does "this question may have goo... | Why was this question bumped to the homepage? |
<p>I'm new as well, and have sometimes felt that the community was a bit hostile. His answers look well intended.</p>
<p>Perhaps you could put some faith in that the up/down vote system will promote quality answers without deterring people from trying to participate?</p>
| 6046 | 2016-12-26T11:58:28.597 | |discussion|spamming|users| | <p>There seems to be a user that I keep noticing answering questions with answers that are generally related to the question but only in the vaguest sense rather than specifically addressing the question at hand.</p>
<p>I've downvoted and flagged a few of them, though I am concerned if I start downvoting too many of t... | Possible robot user? |
<p>You will get back the reputation once the answer is deleted (either by a moderator or the user), so if you are 100% sure that the answer is inappropriate then you can go ahead and downvote, there will be a refund.</p>
<p>Leaving a comment is always good because the OP can improve the answer. Once the answer is edit... | 6048 | 2016-12-26T15:28:29.803 | |feature-request|down-votes| | <p>As a new reviewer and trying to be a good citizen I am seeing numerous first answers to old questions which are low quality and in some cases blatant trolling. </p>
<p>The ideal way to deal with this would be to mark the answer down. This costs me reputation and I am not yet at a level where I can do this without ... | Reputation expenditure in reviews |
<p>If anything, we have the reverse problem. Twice in just the last few days, I saw a question with only one mediocre answer, wrote a good answer, and discovered that the OP had accepted the mediocre answer while I was writing mine. In both cases, that was less than one hour after the question was asked.</p>
<p>We w... | 6060 | 2017-01-02T19:28:03.387 | |discussion|feature-request|reputation| | <p>How would it be if the first and second user who answers a question would gain reputation for being one of the first volunteers?</p>
<p><strong>Why implement this feature?</strong></p>
<p>It can be a reward for loyal people,for those who answer a lot especially.For a reason which I will present below,it can be qui... | Points for the first and second answerer |
<p>To create new tags on EE.SE, you need <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/95496/reputation-required-to-create-my-own-tag">300 rep</a>.</p>
<p>I somewhat agree a Mifare<sup>1</sup> tag could eventually make sense. We have a few questions relating to this already. There are many many tags much less rele... | 6066 | 2017-01-20T18:43:02.403 | |feature-request|tags| | <p>We have quite a few questions with this, <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/search?q=mifare+is%3Aq">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/search?q=mifare+is%3Aq</a>, it's a particular technology people are free to fool around and with a wide professional impact,</p>
<p>Can we have <code>mifare</code> th... | Can we have a mifare tag? |
<p>Presumably, the question you answered was off-topic at this site, otherwise it wouldn't (or shouldn't) have been migrated away. At least, that's what <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/10250">the FAQ on migration</a> says:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Don't migrate for the sake of migration.</strong> We on... | 6072 | 2017-01-25T16:32:46.213 | |discussion| | <p>I had ten upvotes on an answer I posted to a good question, and then the question got migrated to a site that I am not a user on. I find this rather disheartening. Why can't I keep my rep here if I am not a user on the other site? (Prompted by Nick Alexeev in response to a comment I made on another question)</p>
<p... | Why does my Answer Rep go away when a Question is migrated to a site I am not part of? |
<p>A opinion-based question might work in <a href="http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/15/electrical-engineering">our EE.SE chat</a>. The customs are more relaxed there. </p>
<p>"<em>What software is best?</em>" is such a common type of question that there is a separate stack for it: <a href="https://softwarerecs.st... | 6074 | 2017-01-28T07:30:52.910 | |discussion| | <p>I understand that asking questions about the choice of consumer electronics are not allowed, and with good reason. Similarly, opinion based questions otherwise too are not allowed. <strong>I would like to know whether</strong> <strong>questions asking about the best simulation software and/or practice</strong>, <str... | Can we ask what software is best for the job |
<p>12 people upvoted your comment, but only you have voted to close the question. Nobody has downvoted the question, and it has attracted reasonably high quality answers. Personally I think it's borderline as to being on-topic, so I'm letting the community decide. Comment votes don't count.</p>
<p>To reject a migratio... | 6077 | 2017-01-29T21:13:00.037 | |discussion|on-topic|migration|specific-question| | <p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/283084/does-cpu-work-like-gpu-when-it-comes-to-prediction-and-if-statements">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/283084/does-cpu-work-like-gpu-when-it-comes-to-prediction-and-if-statements</a></p>
<p>is clearly formulated in a way that emphasizes ... | Why was this question migrated from StackOverflow to here, and can we please revert that? |
<p>Seems like a no-brainer ... Done!</p>
| 6090 | 2017-02-11T04:01:55.953 | |discussion|tags|tag-cleanup| | <p>When searching up on the tags, I found that there were <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/identification" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'identification'" rel="tag">identification</a> and <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/component-ide... | Component Identification tag merge |
<p>Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange's purpose is to be an archive of well documented questions and answers and since quality is a vital factor, there are rather strict rules which should be followed by everyone.</p>
<p>"Primarily opinion based" means the answers will be mainly biased, subjective and that's not us... | 6092 | 2017-02-11T14:01:52.970 | |discussion| | <p>Hopefully this is not a duplicate, but I have some concerns about this topic, and would like to share them.</p>
<p>I am a relatively new active member of the community, and I saw that the "elder" community (like, over 10k reputation) is quite strict with the question formats. Let's take my question from few days ag... | On "Opinion based answers" |
<p>Looks like a reasonable request ... done!</p>
| 6096 | 2017-02-14T19:15:45.433 | |discussion|tag-synonyms| | <p>Can we alias the far less often used <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ble" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'ble'" rel="tag">ble</a> to <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bluetooth-low-energy" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagg... | Tag alias: BLE / bluetooth-low-energy |
<p>This bug has been reported on <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/290401/how-to-ask-questions-in-private-beta-is-listed-in-every-site-s-help-centre">Meta.SE from January 28, 2017</a>. I'm going to guess that it's a low-priority bug given that it hasn't even gotten an official response in 2 months.</p>
| 6135 | 2017-03-30T19:55:20.033 | |bug| | <p>I was poking around in the help center and saw this:
<a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask-beta">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask-beta</a></p>
<p>I'm pretty sure this is left over from the EE.SE beta or chip hacker days. It doesn't look like its relevant anymore since I... | Saw a link that probably isn't relavant |
<p>System wide. It's stupid, and really meant for high traffic sites like SO, but everyone is stuck with it. <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/81509/why-does-approving-an-edit-require-more-than-one-vote">Why does approving an edit require more than one vote?</a></p>
<blockquote>
<p>Multiple approvers ar... | 6137 | 2017-03-31T09:30:05.040 | |feature-request|bug| | <p>Sometimes when browsing questions I see one with an edit request. It looks a bit like this:</p>
<pre><code>share edit(1) close flag
</code></pre>
<p>Clicking on that <code>edit(1)</code> takes me to a preview where I can see the edit, and possibly approve it. If I approve it, I'm greeted by a window saying:</p>
<... | "This suggestion still needs 1 approve vote from other reviewers." Why? I have enough rep to force the edit myself! |
<p>A good test whether a question is a arduino user-level question is whether you can replace all mention of "arduino" with "microcontroller" or "microcontroller development board".</p>
<p>If the question still makes sense, then it's not about the arduinoness. Of course then the OP should have done the substitution i... | 6139 | 2017-04-03T13:37:28.010 | |discussion|migration|arduino| | <p>This <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/36664/arduino-uno-usart-problems">question</a> was migrated to Arduino.SE but apart from that the Atmega328P happens to be on an Arduino board it has nothing else to do with Arduino regarding the problem stated in the question.</p>
<p>The question itself is ... | AVR question migrated to Arduino.SE |
<p>I wouldn't want to do homework for other people, it deprives them of valuable learning. I've even seen a few people posting exam questions and even one question that appeared to be an in class quiz question of a snapshot of the board where the OP was asking for a <em>quick</em> solution (presumably before the quiz w... | 6148 | 2017-04-07T14:23:09.233 | |discussion| | <p>I am not sure if i am asking in the right place however, i'd just like to know this information.</p>
<p>I have completed a question and have calculated an answer however there is no way for me to know if the gained answer is accurate or if i have a flaw in the method, can i post for users to verify the method? woul... | Can you post worked Electrical questions? |
<p>I second the vote for yes. Given that it has been Quartus II since at least 2002 (possibly earlier), there is really no difference between the two.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if it was necessary or not, but I added <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quartus-ii" class="post-tag" title="show que... | 6151 | 2017-04-09T15:00:15.137 | |support|tag-cleanup| | <p>I think we should merge <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quartus" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'quartus'" rel="tag">quartus</a> and <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quartus-ii" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'qu... | Merge [quartus] and [quartus-ii] tags? |
<p>I'm not sure we need a fixed policy. You recognize bad questions when you see them. You recognize lack of effort when you see it. </p>
<p>The question you first link to is simply a bad question, homework or not. "Can you check my work?" Is not a valid question. If the poster took the time to explain what he wa... | 6159 | 2017-04-12T16:50:43.273 | |discussion| | <p>Its homework time, seeing as how most universities are approaching finals week. As of late I've seen a few questions that are homework <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/299127/operating-region-for-nmos-transistor-can-someone-check-my-work">with an attempt</a> in the VTC bin. Historically we ha... | Closing homework questions with an attempt |
<p>In addition to the actual <em>reasons</em> for this question being closed, as given by the other answers, it's also worth noting that the voting system is not without its own flaws. Sometimes questions are not closed fast enough, and sometimes they are closed too quickly. In this case, you identified a question that... | 6169 | 2017-04-18T19:43:48.310 | |discussion|closed-questions|specific-question| | <p>I'm surprised to see that this question <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/300215/how-to-roughly-know-if-a-electronic-scheme-will-fail-soon-and-protect-from-it/300235#300235">How to roughly know if a electronic scheme will fail soon and protect from it?</a> has been <strong>put on hold as prima... | Question about RAMS engineering closed as "opinion-based" |
<p>Low-level programming, especially programming related to interfacing with external circuits is very appropriate for EE. Topics related to real-time systems are also appropriate. We also handle some DSP here, but there's also a separate <a href="https://DSP.stackexchange.com/">DSP.SE</a> for the more application-spec... | 6173 | 2017-04-21T14:08:52.027 | |support|asking-questions| | <p>I have some questions about µC and DSP programming but I don't know where these kind of question belong? Pure programming question belong to "stackoverflow" forum but DSP and µC are related to "Electronic engineering" forum. </p>
<p>Does "Electronic engineering" include low-level, embedded and real-time programming... | Where does µC programming belong? |
<p>No, this isn't acceptable, as posted content belongs to the site once posted here. Questions should only get deleted if they are bad or violate site rules. </p>
<p>When vandalism like this happens, you need to flag one of the vandalized posts for diamond moderator attention. </p>
<p>You could of course rollback th... | 6179 | 2017-04-25T10:21:05.597 | |discussion|deleted-questions| | <p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/138475/prote">This user</a> has been vandalising (but not deleting) his/her own questions. He/she has edited the questions, wiped out the title and all the text, and replaced it with <strong>"deleted question"</strong>.</p>
<p>Is there any policy in place regardi... | User vandalising (but not deleting) his/her own questions. What to do? |
<p>The help page says</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange is a question and answer site
for electronics and electrical engineering professionals, students,
and enthusiasts.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>It doesn't say "...for people who want to do stuff that has to do with electronics but don't kno... | 6186 | 2017-04-28T04:50:42.407 | |discussion| | <p>The moderation system shuts down questions like these: </p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/301799/can-i-connect-a-button-on-my-motorcycle-to-the-main-button-on-a-garage-door-remo">Can I connect a button on my motorcycle to the main button on a garage door remote?</a></p>
<p><a href="h... | Are modifying electronic questions on topic? |
<p>Related: <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1037/can-not-get-to-suggested-edits-review-page">Can not get to suggested edits review page</a></p>
<p>There were nonstandard HTML tags used in such a way that the rendering engine gets very unhappy. The original version and probably the diff'd ... | 6202 | 2017-05-08T09:52:19.947 | |bug| | <p>I am trying to see the first revision of <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/posts/28255/revisions">this post</a>.</p>
<p>When I click one the <code>1</code> to unroll the text, an image with three 'loading' dots <code>...</code> appears.</p>
<p>After a couple of seconds, a message appears in the develo... | Can't access review history because of HTTP 500 |
<p>Once you're out of school and have a real job doing engineering, the first thing to do for answers is a little digging on your own. The trick is not to look for the specific answer to your immediate problem, but to learn more about the concept being applied. Nowadays there are good papers and write-ups on just abo... | 6206 | 2017-05-12T02:01:37.970 | |discussion| | <p>If I were to have hard questions regarding circuit design, where would be the best places to go for help?</p>
<p>First things that come to mind are co-workers and stackexchange. Sometimes co-workers don't know the answer. Stackexchange is great and I wouldn't be surprised if it was the best option.</p>
<p>Is it in... | What are the best places to go for engineering help as a professional? |
<p>That's only an issue for users with rep < 3,000. I can see that your rep is currently some 1,000 and that's probably why you're asking yourself about this. I had this very same doubt until I got beyond the 3,000 rep mark.</p>
<p>That's what I did then and what I do now:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>When I had rep < 3,000... | 6214 | 2017-05-23T18:45:57.580 | |support|feature-request|flagging| | <p>I saw several question about homework with absolutely no proof of attempt these days. I wonder if these question deserve a flag? If yes, which one? None of the actual flag fit for this need. </p>
<p>As said WesleyLee in the comment section of <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/307028/116604">this post... | Which flag to use for no attempt on homework question? |
<ol>
<li>We are all volunteers here. Asking a question about a unusual variant of something common, and not pointing that out is wasting time and is volunteer abuse.
<li>Either the OP hadn't thought about it, or was too absorbed in his own little problem to notice. <i>Somebody</i> had to point it out to him.
<li>T... | 6217 | 2017-05-23T23:10:28.980 | |discussion|answers| | <p>The answerer to a certain question had this to say when the questioner edited his question to make some clarifications;</p>
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<p>The above was written in response to the original question, which made
no mention of this mouse not being USB. Since pretty much all new mice
have been USB for a decade o... | Does this community have an official stance on entire paragraphs of an answer devoted to berating the asker? |
<p><em>Self-answering this based on a <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6220/i-want-to-vote-on-questions-in-the-close-votes-review-queue?noredirect=1#comment14750_6220">comment by Nick Alexeev</a>.</em></p>
<p>This is a site-wide decision, and the rationale behind it is explained in the ans... | 6220 | 2017-05-25T11:57:57.240 | |feature-request| | <p>Sometimes I would like to vote on a question while reviewing close votes.</p>
<p>I can already edit the question and add a comment from the same page. Is there a particular reason for the vote functionality being hidden in that view?</p>
| I want to vote on questions in the Close Votes review queue |
<p>Hopefully not.</p>
<p>The point of closing a question is to prevent bad questions getting the desired result. Unfortunately, there are always some who either don't care about the site quality or put their own personal looking smart ahead of it. As a result, we have to lock them out.</p>
<p>Those very new here ar... | 6221 | 2017-05-25T16:28:48.510 | |discussion| | <p>This question:<a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/307369/what-makes-a-computer-a-computer"> "What makes a computer a computer? [closed]"</a> has been put on hold.</p>
<p>The original poster was unable to ask their question in a format suitable for this medium but I think the implied question - ... | How to provide input to questions on hold as a low rep user |
<p>Keep in mind that EE.SE is just a sub site of stackexchange programming time is split between all of the sites, its not likely that you'll get a new feature as it needs to work for most of the sites and needs to be maintained </p>
<p>What little of the sites that did have blogs have now had that <a href="https://me... | 6225 | 2017-06-05T17:26:46.423 | |discussion|feature-request| | <p>After asking <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/309176/116604">a question</a> on EE forum concerning an aspect of my home project, I figure out that some peoples were interested by what I am planning to do. And maybe those people want to follow the project, to see how it grows. </p>
<p>So I thought th... | Project deposit feature |
<p>I think we already have the tools to handle these questions. As with any broad class of questions, there is quite a range from <i>How do I increase the gain of this amplifier:</i></p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/om6pT.gif" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/om6pT.gif" alt=""></... | 6248 | 2017-06-19T08:29:57.387 | |discussion|close-reasons| | <p>There's a significant amount of questions¹ of the type:</p>
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<p>Here's a {LED driver|amplifier|inverter|…} circuit I found on some website, explain how it works, or why we need {component}?</p>
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<p>Problems with that are that</p>
<ol>
<li>getting answers here (because most of us are ver... | How to deal with "Explain/Fix this Circuit I found somewhere (and don't really understand)" kind of questions? |
<p>Yes, but you'll probably get better answers on <a href="https://dsp.stackexchange.com/">DSP.SE</a>.</p>
| 6252 | 2017-06-20T20:31:22.943 | |discussion| | <p>In my case, I want to ask about IIR, but as algorthim and the math involved in it, not as circuits.</p>
<p>Is it OK to ask about it here?</p>
| Algorithms based on signal handling and systems are acceptable here? |
<p>You are overthinking this. Everything anyone writes here is public. If they don't want something pointed out and talked about, they should have thought of that before posting it publicly.</p>
<p>If you want to discuss any particular passage, regardless of who wrote it, link to the source question or answer here, ... | 6259 | 2017-07-09T11:15:15.040 | |discussion| | <p>Let's suppose that a certain user makes me wonder if he/she should be trusted or not and I wish to discuss this on meta. Perhaps some people would recommend flagging right away, but the idea is that I'm not sure if the person in question is doing something wrong.</p>
<p>However, if I decide to make a post that impl... | Discuss a user's behaviour without making "name and shame" happen |
<p>Yes, you're missing some information. This particular user has only been with us for 5 months, but has had an unusually high number of issues raised against him. He's having a hard time fitting in here, and this is just one more problem among many. The moderators are trying to manage the situation as best we can.</p... | 6263 | 2017-07-12T13:07:45.157 | |discussion|spam| | <p>I'm quite surprised to see <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/314860/72179">this answer</a> go, especially with a "spam or rude/abusive" epitaph on its grave. From what I can see, the last revision of the answer had 24 upvotes, 2 downvotes and looked like this:</p>
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<p>It can be d... | Why was this answer deleted as rude/abusive? |
<p>There are a lot of ways this type of question can go wrong. I think it needs to meet these qualifications:<ol></p>
<p><li>The schematic must be <b>clearly drawn</b>. When tracing the connections on a board, the first pass is usually a messy ratsnest. We don't want to see that. Clean it up and present it properl... | 6285 | 2017-07-30T05:51:50.207 | |discussion|legal| | <p>I have read many application/design notes, data sheets and lectures and other stuff about electronics. But when I come to real application I find many components that I don't why they are used(e.g phone charger). </p>
<p>I am working for 2 years, in a new product development department, we have no seniors to give u... | Electronics circuit reverse engineering and proprietary rights |
<p>Another way to look at it is, once you've earned a few hundred reputation points, you can <em>spend</em> those hard-earned points moving bad answers down.</p>
<p>Downvoting bad <em>questions</em> is free, but downvoting a bad <em>answer</em> costs you one rep point. (<a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/h... | 6288 | 2017-08-04T17:52:51.683 | |support|bug|reputation|down-votes| | <p>Funny. Though it hurts a lil. :D</p>
| I downvoted an answer today and that downvote shows to have deducted my reputation by 1. Why? |
<p>Can we add an additional reason for voting to close a question, i.e. "No answer accepted within 90 days"?</p>
<p>If the question is a good one and worth keeping, it could be asked again by someone, answered by them and accepted and the original deleted.</p>
<p>I take the point that only the OP can say if their que... | 6291 | 2017-08-05T18:23:53.233 | |feature-request|flagging| | <p>I'm tired of seeing bumps made by community. It's always questions made by one-timers making an account, receiving answers and leaving forever without accepting an answer. Many of those questions have answers that do solve the question asked, but because the person who asked the question has left the building and wi... | Vote for an answer to become accepted |
<p>I don't think the voltage is important enough to be a tag - yes, it should generally be specified in the question, but asides from maybe high-voltage (over 50-60 volts), I don't think there is much benefit from having those as tags (even 3V3 and 5V), as most devices have a tolerance range, i.e. maybe 4.5-6.5V and 4.... | 6301 | 2017-08-10T20:58:00.440 | |discussion|tags| | <p>What should we do with the <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/12v">12V</a> and <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/24v">24V</a> tags? </p>
<p>I can't see a reason to group questions with the same voltage because many different types of circuits could be defi... | Delete the 24V, 12V, (and maybe 5V, 3.3V) tags and discontinue use of tags associated with a voltage |
<p>I think this falls to the realm of UX. You expect to have the ability to save your work, <strong>by default</strong>, while they are not. This expectation may come from the fact (I think so) that most web services allow you to save when you have an account. However, not doing so is absolutely acceptable. The thing t... | 6302 | 2017-08-13T18:20:45.677 | |discussion|circuitlab| | <p>I wanted to draw a circuit and export it to a PDF for a university project. I found out about them by a link on this site. When I tried to print, it says</p>
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<p>You must save your circuit before exporting. </p>
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<p>When I tried to save, it says</p>
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<p>Error: create an ac... | Please stop the account-bait with circuitlab |
<p>Questions about use are off-topic.</p>
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<p>Questions on the <em>use</em> of electronic devices are off-topic as this site is intended specifically for questions on electronics <em>design</em>.</p>
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<p>Questions about repair are off-topic.</p>
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<p>Questions on the <strong>r... | 6314 | 2017-08-20T09:25:41.000 | |discussion|on-topic|scope| | <p>As a normal user, sometimes my <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral" rel="nofollow noreferrer">peripherals</a> don't work as expected. Here is the question I want to ask:</p>
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<p>I have a PS3 controller, but my computer doesn't recognize it when plugged in for the first time for a couple ... | Would questions about peripherals asking in user perspective be on-topic? |
<p>Posting that question to DIY.SE was the right decision on your part. If you posted it to EE.SE, it would get migrated to DIY.SE. The EE.SE members are good with principles and design, but an electrician would be better with knowledge of the building codes.</p>
<p>Other than that, you can post a link to your DIY.S... | 6317 | 2017-08-20T18:19:27.260 | |discussion| | <p>I asked a question about surge protectors on <em>diy.stackexchange.com</em> (<a href="https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/121445/surge-protector-for-appliances-per-appliance-non-standard">Link to the question</a>) and did not receive an answer. I assume the reason is the lack of sufficient expertise on that site... | Are questions about consumer electronics such as this on topic here? |
<p>I'm inclined to make the tag <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/motor-controller" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'motor-controller'" rel="tag">motor-controller</a> and merge both <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/esc" class="post-tag" ... | 6340 | 2017-09-01T20:09:38.297 | |discussion|tags|tag-cleanup|tag-synonyms| | <p>The tags <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/esc" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'esc'" rel="tag">esc</a> (113 questions) and <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/speedcontroller" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'speedcon... | Tag merge/synonym proposal: [esc] [speedcontroller] |
<p>Look into the stacks which Dave had mentioned. If you find that EE.SE would be a good fit, you're welcome to give it a try. If it turns out that some other stack is a better fit, we'll benignly migrate your question there.</p>
| 6349 | 2017-09-20T15:39:10.513 | |discussion| | <p>I would like to ask a question about CPU design; I am no sure whether it belongs on this site or not. It is at an architecture level, rather than at the level of transistors and other components.</p>
<p>Where would the appropriate place be to ask a question about CPU design?</p>
| Where to ask about processor design |
<p>I have restored the answer, but it could be improved by the OP.</p>
<p>I'm not sure why, given that the question included the suspicion that there is no solution to the problem as posed, a proof of it would be considered a non-answer. It at least deserves to be discussed.</p>
| 6352 | 2017-09-21T10:52:13.547 | |discussion|deleted-answers| | <p>My question is regarding a mod-deleted answer to: <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/329935/25328">Digital Logic circuit - exam question</a>. In this day and age with modern design methods, it seems to me that a software algorithm used to solve a difficult design problem or prove it is unsolvable, is a... | Software proof that a hardware design problem is unsolvable - why was the answer deleted? |
<p>Yes, we do have a view for most upvoted. </p>
<p>Go to <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions</a><br>
Select the <code>votes</code> tab.<br>
<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/iP9W1.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com... | 6354 | 2017-09-22T01:41:21.303 | |feature-request| | <p>Looking for a list of questions with the most upvotes. Like most up voted questions of the day, week, month, all time. </p>
<p>Does this exist?</p>
| Is there a list of the most up voted questions? |
<p>I know I come late to this.<br>
I had the same experience with members of my family. The say they can't find anything on Google and are astonished when I can find it immediately.<br>
I have come to the conclusion that searching on Google requires a certain mindset which I (and probably you) have, but a lot of people... | 6380 | 2017-11-22T17:10:37.747 | |feature-request| | <p>I seriously think we need this choice under the close flags...</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/mWamG.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/mWamG.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
<p>There are just so many questions that obviously fit this category and need to b... | Let me Google that for you |
<p>Your revised version of the question no longer has anything to do with the moderators. Note that this time the question was closed by 5 ordinary users.</p>
<p>One reason it got closed may be that you state a very unusual and seemingly silly requirement, but refuse to justify it. That makes it sound like it is ind... | 6384 | 2017-11-23T21:35:01.247 | |discussion|bug|moderation|moderators|unanswered-questions| | <p><strong>The question in question has been reopened and closed but is still need to be open so more answers can be given. I will gladly read even if it is hypothetical and upvote.</strong> </p>
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<p>I have a question about my Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange post: <a href="https://electronics.stackexch... | Unfair use of Moderation tools |
<p>The question got deleted because the user account itself was deleted.</p>
<p>The account was deleted by the user himself.</p>
| 6412 | 2017-12-15T20:03:13.190 | |support| | <p>See the question <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/344999/4512">Is this circuit OK for a Nixie Tube clock?</a>.</p>
<p>I know it wasn't a great question and it was at -2, but it did have one answer at +2, and that answer was accepted. One of the two points in the single answer ended up not applying ... | Why was this question deleted by "community"? |
<p>According to the canonical post on the subject <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/86997/what-can-i-do-when-getting-we-are-no-longer-accepting-questions-answers-from-th">What can I do when getting “We are no longer accepting questions/answers from this account”?</a> the answer is that possibly you can,... | 6414 | 2017-12-16T04:48:38.787 | |discussion| | <p>I have tried to fix and make my low quality questions better to no avail, if I do anymore the questions I get more down votes. Can I do stuff like answer questions with in my ability and edit grammar mistakes to gain the privilege back?</p>
| My question banned is still active after months? |
<p>You really need an education in electricity and magnetism up to the point where you can understand <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_equations" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Maxwell's Equations</a> before even thinking about Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Electrodynamics (virtual photons).</p>
| 6416 | 2017-12-17T04:54:48.167 | |discussion| | <p>I really love it here and I don't want to loose any more privileges. I've revised the question but it only got me more down votes. It is with in the scope of this sight but 5 people out of 1000s decided it was off topic. Once on hold or closed the question is practically dead. Can some one actually help me with this... | Why is this question still gettng downvoted? |
<p>This is getting ridiculous.</p>
<p>You have clearly learned nothing from your previous questions here. Attempting to answer this question would be pointless, and just repeating what was previously said anyway.</p>
<p>Go read the previous answers:</p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6331/... | 6420 | 2017-12-21T22:08:53.010 | |support|editing|reputation|homework|promotion| | <p>I am learning so much here, but have a ways to go. What are ways that a low rep novice user like myself be of assistance? </p>
| How can I help? Novice in Electrical |
<p>I think the most important thing when it comes to editing is making sure the question is readable (good grammar and punctuation) so it looks presentable. Get rid of all the text speech. Changing equations is another way to make questions look good. Sometimes there are formatting errors. </p>
<p>The next thing that ... | 6424 | 2017-12-27T14:39:19.947 | |support| | <p>As someone who went from 500 rep to 3k rep in a couple of month's, I've come to miss some of the "privileges" of having low rep.</p>
<p>In the same way that moderators might want to simply "vote close" rather than insta-close a question. I want to simply make a suggestion for an edit rather than an insta-edit. I wa... | How do I make a suggested edit? |
<p>Relevant Post: <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/440/tex-delimiters-should-be-changed?rq=1">TeX Delimiters should be changed</a></p>
<p>Basically, the initial SE implementation of MathJax decided to use the <code>$ ... $</code> syntax despite the following notice in the documentation:</p... | 6427 | 2017-12-27T19:31:22.857 | |bug|mathjax| | <p>I noticed that in our Stackexchange, the inline for Mathjax is different from the Math SE or Physics SE.</p>
<p>For the Math and Physics SE, the way the inline for their equations for Mathjax equations is: <code>$ equation $</code></p>
<p>However, on our website, the way we inline our equations is: <code>\$ equati... | Why does our inline syntax for Mathjax different from say, the Math SE? |
<blockquote>Perhaps I should ... give the OP a day or two to comply.</blockquote>
<p>Absolutely not!<ol></p>
<p><li>There is a good chance you'll forget to come back and vote to close. There is no mechanism within SE for a reminder.</p>
<p><li>It noises up the site and dissipates volunteer energy. It's fine to tel... | 6429 | 2017-12-29T20:40:29.897 | |discussion|vote-to-close| | <p>On occasion, when I come across a particularly bad question (e.g. homework with no attempt; or requests such as "why doesn't this work", where no schematic or sufficient detail is given), I'll go ahead and immediately vote to close.</p>
<p>I'm beginning to wonder, though, if this is in bad form. Perhaps I should do... | Typical grace period before voting to close questions |
<p>I wondered about that myself, and I eventually concluded that it's the number of answers that the question has.</p>
| 6435 | 2017-12-31T10:09:42.280 | |support|flagging| | <p>When viewing the flag history page, I find that each entry has a number following the title of the flagged post. For instance:</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/zW7CY.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/zW7CY.jpg" alt="example flag entry"></a></p>
<p>What does the circled num... | Profile flag history: What does the appended number represent? |
<p>While I appreciate the effort you have put into editing your question, it is still far too broad. The nub of it seems to be:</p>
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<p>How do I write multiple streams of real-time data to a filesystem?</p>
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<p>And the answer is that you need a filesystem driver that supports having multipl... | 6437 | 2018-01-02T07:41:14.310 | |support|closed-questions| | <p>I have searched long and hard for information on how to save photo/video taken by an NTSC camera to an SD card and also save other data taken from sensors to that same SD. I have not yet figured it out, but am still determined to find an answer. The question that I ultimately <a href="https://electronics.stackex... | Are there any other changes I should make to this question to get it reopened? |
<p>It's just your vote, meaning that you think it is fine as it stands. If enough people agree with you, no action will be taken. But it still gives people with different opinions the opportunity to vote, too.</p>
| 6443 | 2018-01-07T19:41:49.910 | |discussion|review-queue| | <p>Does the previous actions by other users count in, as if it is like "no <em>more</em> action needed" or is it some kind of vote which is meant to indicate that it is OK, no matter what previous opinions are?</p>
| How is "no action needed" interpreted? (review queues) |
<p>[Let me preface by saying that I don't have a general prejudice against specialized EE software questions and EE lab equipment questions. I've asked and answered a few of those myself.]</p>
<p>The question boils down to: "<em>How to work the zoom on the Saleae logic analyzer chart?</em>" It's more of a software (... | 6449 | 2018-01-09T12:12:05.400 | |discussion|support|on-topic| | <p>I have a question regarding the usage of the PC-based software that is delivered with a Logic Analyzer.</p>
<p>I see that some software questions seem to be on-topic already, e.g. <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5748/are-questions-on-working-with-plc-programming-software-on-topic-here"... | Are software usage questions on-topic if they belong to a logic analyzer? |
<p>Too many of your complaints say "depending". That is to say, "depending on if the work is good or bad". I retort that good work is good work, and bad work is bad. I am never ok with bad work. </p>
<p>But I'm super ok with hand-drawn <strong>graphics</strong>, as long as it is good work. As to your points: </p... | 6450 | 2018-01-09T12:50:51.210 | |discussion| | <p>I've noticed a user who seems to answer mainly via a picture of scribble and maybe a few words instead of writing it down, using the circuit simulator and MathJax.</p>
<p>An example would be <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/349018/65584">this</a> answer. [The <a href="https://electronics.stackexcha... | Is answering questions in pictures of scribble acceptable |
<p>There is already a mechanism that requires sufficient rep to edit answers. If your rep is too low, then edits go onto a review queue instead of just happening. That lets others who presumably know the system more than someone with low rep decide whether the edit is something that should be allowed.</p>
<p>This ap... | 6462 | 2018-01-13T17:27:59.137 | |discussion|editing| | <p>I had an odd thing happen a month or so ago when I answered some question, (unfortunately I forget which) but the OP was one of those user's that does not seem to accept what people are telling them.</p>
<p>I logged in to discover a pending edit on my answer from the OP trying to change the context of the answer to... | Should an OP be able to edit answers to their own question? |
<p>Comparing two products would be off-topic, but a more general discussion about how to measure what you need would be fine.</p>
| 6465 | 2018-01-20T17:39:40.140 | |discussion| | <p>Are shopping question where a user(Me) has done a bit of research but is noob and doesn't want to stupidly spend money on a High end(> 150$) electronic measurement device and is comparing two products but cannot figure out which one suits his needs valid?</p>
| Regarding the shopping questions! |
<p>I disagree that we should banish all things Ebay or otherwise. We do have the option to close out the OP in a hurry if it is that bad.</p>
<p>Speaking of bad, what concerns me more is an OP with little to no skills who wants to build a Tesla coil from an Ebay power supply. That is like trouble squared.</p>
<p>Yet ... | 6469 | 2018-01-23T13:24:46.383 | |discussion|close-reasons|vote-to-close| | <p>There's numerous instances where inexperienced users bought things off the internet that didn't come with anything resembling sufficient documentation, often even of very basic things like operating voltages, and expect us to compensate for the shortcoming of the seller.</p>
<p>I think we should not tolerate these ... | Explicit close reason: "OP bought undocumented stuff, asks us instead of seller for documentation" |
<p>As others have stated, your question is simply too complex. </p>
<p>As a volunteer, seeing something as complete as that it tends to put me off. I could spend all day analysing and simulating parts of it but that really is way too much time for this hobby pastime. Moreover, without being able to sit down with it ho... | 6483 | 2018-01-30T18:29:54.623 | |discussion|bounty|unanswered-questions| | <p>Original question: <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/352304/review-request-diy-dc-to-50mhz-differential-oscilloscope-probe">Review request: DIY DC to 50MHz differential oscilloscope probe</a></p>
<p>It is getting completely ignored (save for two comments), despite an outstanding bounty and sev... | Why is my "circuit review" question getting no attention? |
<p>No you can't <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6503/can-spell-check-of-electronics-terms-be-updated#comment15599_6504">blame google chrome</a>, at least not directly. You'll have to look further and/or deeper into language settings and spelling dictionaries, possibly even saved mipselling... | 6503 | 2018-02-20T14:39:30.600 | |bug| | <p>The spell checker doesn't seem to know many common electronic terms. This is quite surprising for an electronics forum. Is there a library file somewhere that can be updated with common electronics terms such as inductor, MOSFET, ferrite, and I'm sure many others?</p>
| Can Spell Check of Electronics Terms be Updated? |
<p>The behavior is expected, as you are commenting on Marcus' answer, the OP in this case is the answerer.</p>
<p>In general 'OP' is used for who posted the question, but in the case of comments, the author of the commented post gets notified of all comments and that's why there is no need to tag him. (sorry for the r... | 6505 | 2018-02-26T15:59:29.650 | |support| | <p>I'm trying to address a comment to the person who answered my question using @name. This is similar to what was described in <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/657/names-disappearing-in-comments-why">this thread</a>, except in my case, I'm the original poster, and I'm addressing only one p... | Trouble addressing a comment using @name |
<p>That's how much score (upvotes) remain and how many questions you need to answer until you get that tag badge (bronze badge for <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/circuit-analysis" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'circuit-analysis'" rel="tag">circuit-analysis</a> in... | 6508 | 2018-02-27T21:10:14.687 | |support|user-accounts| | <p>OK so once you get to a certain rep you get to see these numbers. </p>
<p>Help is useless.</p>
<p>Anyone know what they mean?</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/4VNvu.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/4VNvu.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
| I give up, what do the score stats mean? |
<p>Just to clarify what I think the situation is. Please correct me if I have misunderstood the current rules: -</p>
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<li>When making an <strong>answer</strong>, if you want to mention such and such a book as being quite useful then, this should not be regarded as a problem. Of course, any book recommendation is a ... | 6512 | 2018-03-05T08:50:57.730 | |discussion| | <p>Here we have <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/891/are-book-recommendations-a-good-fit-for-this-site">Are book recommendations a good fit for this site?</a> a thread for book recommendations.</p>
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<p>I'm pleased that I learned about The Art of Electronics from this question... | Why book recommendations questions are off-topic? |
<p>Standard practice would be to add a comment under the question, and then nominate the question to be reopened, which places it in the review queue to be examined by other community reviewers.</p>
| 6513 | 2018-03-05T12:06:46.950 | |discussion|closed-questions| | <p>Today, User Andy aka closed <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/359830/beta-for-inverting-amplifier-via-op-amp">a question</a> as duplicate. I however disagree with this, as in my opinion this question was regarding something far more specific than the general solution provided in the question i... | A question was closed as duplicate, but I dissagree with it (I am not OP). What is the correct way of bringing this up? |
<p>The help entry states</p>
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<p>Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange is a question and answer site
for electronics and electrical engineering professionals, students,
and enthusiasts.</p>
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<p>Seems pretty clear to me.</p>
| 6520 | 2018-03-19T03:49:48.990 | |discussion| | <p>Double checking; there aren't any restrictions ahead of time <em>for whom</em> the "Stack Exchange network of websites" are available, are there? </p>
<p>Surely this is just a poor choice of words, and the author has been to busy to notice the up voted <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6... | Is this site for everyone? |
<p>Tags are used to describe the topic of the question (<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/help/tagging">see help center</a>):</p>
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<p>A tag is a word or phrase that describes the topic of the question. Tags are a
means of connecting experts with questions they will be able to answer by
sorting que... | 6526 | 2018-03-19T20:44:24.837 | |discussion|legal| | <p>I've seen it happen several times, someone will ask how to build a railgun, or how to charge large capacitors to high voltages while demonstrating a level of skill and attention to safety that can only be described as (to be polite) "here, sign this disclaimer, this is your problem now, I'm out of the legal blast ra... | Kill Yourself Tag |
<p>So, you had a choice of courses of action on getting your questions closed do you:-</p>
<p>a) Try to learn from the experience and stop posting nonsense or ridiculously broad unanswerable questions.</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>b) Accuse the volunteers here who are freely giving their time and effort of picking on you.</p>
... | 6528 | 2018-03-20T19:15:52.967 | |discussion|scope| | <p>When ever I ask a question it is always the same group of people down voting and closing my questions and got my banned on questions. Isn't that serial behavior and is not tolerated?</p>
<p>It may take longer to close, so be it, that way it is sure that the questions was closed with bias. When the same users down v... | Same mob of people keep closing my questions. Serial closing? |
<p>Questions regarding how to write firmware for microcontrollers is on-topic here. It is also on-topic on Stack Overflow.</p>
<p>Be aware however that SO does not allow tool or library recommendation questions, so questions like "which IDE/tool/library is best for..." are off-topic there. But it is however perfectly ... | 6536 | 2018-03-29T10:30:09.187 | |discussion| | <p>Sometimes I have a question about the IDE meant specifically for use for a microcontroller (e.g. System Workbench for STM32, TrueStudio).</p>
<p>At StackOverflow most people are focussing on PC/Linux, not to microcontrollers. But Electrical Engineering is focused to hardware design, not software related questions.<... | At which forum should I ask questions about microcontroller (software) IDEs? |
<p>I'm not a mod, so had nothing to do with declining the flag.</p>
<p>However, that question is about computer architecture, which is on topic here. The question itself isn't great because it gives very little context, and doesn't even speak to anyone not having detailed knowledge of its tiny corner of the world. B... | 6550 | 2018-04-10T10:51:36.463 | |discussion|flagging| | <p>I raised an off topic flag with the specialisation of "Blatantly off-topic (this question has nothing to do with electronics design)" for the question <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/367427/it-ttt-block-in-assembly-language">IT TTT block in assembly language</a> which was declined. I would l... | Reasons for a declined flag |
<blockquote>Should I ask for help finding a chip in the EE forum?</blockquote>
<p>No. We don't do component recommendations here.</p>
| 6552 | 2018-04-13T09:01:51.543 | |discussion| | <p>I'm looking for a specific chip, which I know how to use - just can't find one with enough parallel channels (so its not really a knowledge question as such...) but can't find a suitable candidate. I've looked on all the usual sites, but can't find one. Is this a reasonable question to ask in the EE forum, if not - ... | Should I ask for help finding a chip in the EE forum? |
<p>I'd say the line is between how to do 'something' with the software (in-topic) and how to 'use' the software or how it works (off-topic).</p>
<p>Think about it: it should be about engineering, not software support. In that case I think it's fine.</p>
| 6558 | 2018-04-16T07:53:50.997 | |discussion|asking-questions|scope| | <p>If I have a question about features of <a href="https://www.solidworks.com/category/electrical-design" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Solidworks Electrical</a>, specifically about it's features to draw schematics for power electronics, would they be welcome here?</p>
<p>A possible alternative would be Engineering.SE, bu... | Are questions about Solidworks Electrical welcome here? |
<p>Close 'em. They are "homework questions" (whether or not they are actual homework), which is a category that is of dubious long-term value to the site in general.</p>
| 6560 | 2018-04-16T18:24:05.987 | |discussion|homework| | <p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/171026/mj13">This</a> user has asked 3 very similar questions in a short span of time (one of which was an exact duplicate of another older question which I answered).</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/SCJAK.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https:... | Similar questions on same topic, mark as duplicate? |
<p>This site is ultimately driven by <b>good</b> questions getting asked. Asking good questions helps the site. It doesn't matter whether you also answer questions or not.</p>
<p>The important point is that anything you post, whether questions or answer, be of high quality. I just looked at your question history, a... | 6574 | 2018-04-27T23:45:06.070 | |discussion| | <p>How is someone perceived asking more questions than answering them?</p>
<p>As the website is mixed between experts and beginners, there is obviously going to be an imbalance. But someone like myself still learning to ask more questions than answers, it generally looked down on? I find on StackExchange the bar is se... | Too many questions? |
<p>This indicates how many votes you have cast this month and this week.</p>
<p>Why the number of votes for a month smaller than the number of votes for the week? That's because the month is 2 days old and the week is 4 days old, at the moment of writing.</p>
| 6579 | 2018-05-03T01:13:29.983 | |support|design| | <p>The <em>Votes Cast</em> section on the user-profile activity page, has <em>Month</em> and <em>Week</em> fields. What do these indicate?</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ivTcb.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ivTcb.jpg" alt="votes cast section"></a></p>
| Votes cast: month, week |
<p>It can mean Original Post, or Original Poster, and often used interchangeably both here and on the web in general. It's very old internet slang/shorthand that pre-dates Stack Exchange/Stack Overflow. See <a href="https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/424366/does-op-mean-original-poster-or-original-post">"Does ... | 6586 | 2018-05-11T00:47:39.393 | |discussion| | <p>I came across a question asked by a new user. The new user was refered to as OP in the comment section. I'm not familiar with what it means in that context. Can someone clarify this for me? Is there a particular background story to that acronym?</p>
| Acronym OP for a new user |
<p>It shouldn't matter, if its a good question, you've tagged it appropriately and there are a reasonable amount of 'experts', someone will look at it. If your question is getting views and you aren't getting answers, it's probably a good time to see if it's a well written, answerable question. If it isn't then you mig... | 6602 | 2018-05-22T16:24:43.880 | |discussion| | <p>Quick inquiry about proper behavior on this stack exchange. I wrote a question recently and posted it during a period where not a lot of active users are active. Thus, my question didn't receive a lot of views or answers. </p>
<p>My question was, is there a proper behavior regarding question bumping? I know that ed... | Manual bumping of a question |
<p>It does seem like Intel and Altera are getting close to finalizing the acquisition. The www.altera.com website warns it will be redirected to intel.com on 6/30/2018.</p>
<p>Here's my proposed set of actions:</p>
<ul>
<li>Create the tag <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/intel-fpga" cla... | 6609 | 2018-05-30T19:16:26.003 | |discussion|tags| | <p>Since Altera was acquired by Intel in 2015, Altera brand was withdrew. The company (Altera) completely became a part of Intel and all social media accounts were renamed "Intel FPGA". <sup><a href="https://twitter.com/intelfpga" rel="nofollow noreferrer">1</a>,<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/intelfpga/" re... | Which tag(s) should be used for Intel FPGAs? |
<p>Here is what I think was missing in the question:</p>
<ul>
<li>The inclusion of the contents of page 81, instead of just a reference (now fixed)</li>
<li>A few words of explanation on what is a "Adam 4055 module". You provided the link, which is good, but it isn't enough. Just like the missing contents of page 81, ... | 6619 | 2018-06-15T09:59:45.523 | |discussion| | <p>I just posted a <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/379970/36640">question</a> on EE. I am not used to this peculiar SE guidelines, where could I found it if any.</p>
<p>I have received <a href="https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/78917/discussion-between-jlandercy-and-andy-aka">few comments</a> from ... | Having problem to understand how to improve a question I posted |
<p>Battery capacity vs. lifespan was discussed here many times (<a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/329217/battery-capacity-and-duration">example</a>), and so was wire gauge vs. voltage drop (<a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/263690/determining-suitable-wire-gauge-for-led-str... | 6622 | 2018-06-23T08:05:30.503 | |discussion| | <p>I am working on a permanent lighting array for my bicycle. I'm not an electrics or electronics person, but this is a real plan and I intend to complete it.</p>
<p>I have current and voltage measurements, wire gauges/lengths, and specs of my battery source.</p>
<p>Is it on-topic for this site to lay all that data ... | Are "check my working" questions on-topic? |
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<p>Still, at least a couple of times I have revisited the question/answer the following day, and found replies that made me regret my down-vote. For instance, I may read a response that points out subtleties of the original post that I hadn’t considered.</p>
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<p>In this case you should actu... | 6627 | 2018-06-29T02:46:59.677 | |discussion|feature-request| | <p>I try to use down-votes judiciously, and only do so when I truly feel that the -1 is deserved. </p>
<p>Still, at least a couple of times I have revisited the question/answer the following day, and found replies that made me regret my down-vote. For instance, I may read a response that points out subtleties of the o... | Why are down-votes locked |
<blockquote>
<p>Neither answer actually addresses its question:</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Completely matter of opinion. Both identical answers do address the questions imho.</p>
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<p>In the first case, the question specifically asks about connecting to thru-holes without solder, whereas the answer implicitl... | 6636 | 2018-07-11T21:02:22.927 | |discussion|support| | <p>These two answers were posted by the same user, both to old questions (one of which is almost 8 years old).</p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/384155/111988">How can I make connection on pcb (circuit board) holes without solder (for prototyping)?</a></p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackex... | Does this constitute spam? |
<p>After the errant tag has been removed from the question (i.e. the question has been correctly re-tagged) then the (now unused) tag <em>should</em> be auto-purged from the list of tags - assuming that it is not in use elsewhere. This happens after a certain period of time. when the auto-purge scripts are run, which I... | 6647 | 2018-07-26T13:43:08.367 | |support|tags| | <p>This <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/371361/identification-of-a-part-on-a-power-lines-lightning-arrester">question</a> has the tag <strong>lightn</strong>
which has no other references.</p>
<p>It's easy to delete the tag at the question itself, but how does one get the tag removed from the... | Found what appears to be effectively a bogus tag - what to do? |
<p>You're not the only one. See <a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/371881/why-am-i-getting-the-moderator-engagement-survey">this SO post</a>. You should be getting an email soon saying something like</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Please forgive us, we just goofed</strong></p>
<p>I would like to sin... | 6651 | 2018-08-01T18:37:21.400 | |bug|moderation| | <p>Just wondering how many folks out there received this in their inboxes recently ... i'm a little perplexed since I'm <em>not actually a moderator</em> on any SE site. </p>
<p>Seems weird since the questions are implying an actual diamond-user (were you elected or appointed, etc.)</p>
<p>Did any other 20k+ non-mods... | Stack Exchange Moderator Survey email - including non-moderators? |
<p>Our <a href="https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/15/electrical-engineering">EE.SE chat</a> is the only place on EE.SE to ask about paid freelance consultations.</p>
| 6682 | 2018-08-30T02:50:15.337 | |support| | <p>If I was looking to pay for free-lance consultation on circuit-project, where on this site would I start?</p>
| Looking to pay for consultation on circuit-project. Here? |
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