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Inability to post question due to unwanted criteria
Being a devoted member of the forum , I wanted to discuss a genuine question. But some unwanted errors showed up notifying that improvement of questions needed:
But I can't find any such issues. Can ...
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editing answers? [closed]
Is editing answers to reflect the question frowned upon?
I can see answers that answer a question and add extra, irrelevant information My attempts to tighten a answer are reverted because they "...
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Minor Edit - ° to degrees
I noticed in this answer, there was a minor edit:
This edit in my opinion seems redundant and unnecessary. More importantly, it was approved. I would like to know why was this edit allowed and in ...
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How can you explain your downvotes?
Translated:
Dear friends, I have come to you with an open heart, with an open soul. I am a chemist and I have eighteen years of education, including five years of university. However, my country and ...
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Targeted troll comments
I have been receiving some troll comments in some of my older posts. Now, I have been busy with work stuff, so couldn't care less about this. So, I flagged these comments and moved on. Today I see for ...
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Reputation "lost" but not showing in reputation timeline - bug?
This user apparently lost some reputation points and now the reputation is stuck at "1". On checking the reputation graph, OP peaked at 295 points and then "lost" 93 points. So, ...
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How are we detecting AI answers?
I've seen a lot of talk on the SE metas (metae? metapodi?) about AI answers, but I haven't seen any methodology for detecting it. I've run a few answers (that looked suspicious: really well-written ...
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Textual description of complex reaction schemes involving organic compounds on Chemistry.SE
I came across a question with this figure:
The image was not described. I would like to edit these questions such that the image or even the question itself has some text describing what's in the ...
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Why was this user's question downvoted?
I noticed that this question received a lot of downvotes.
It seemed like a sincere question with a reasonable amount of effort and thought put up although there was a clear scientific gap which got ...
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An autoban that's not yet lifted - what can I do? (FIXED)
Thank you all for all of your help in refining the questions I had and reopening a lot of them.
The edits were done to such an extent that I couldn't have seen better versions of those.
I shall ...
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Let's fix broken links!
I have a database of broken links on chem.SE. Would anyone like to take a stab at replacing the links and better describing the links (if needed) so that if they break again it's easier found?
If this ...
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How can we be friendlier?
We've often discussed the lack of friendliness in chem.SE whether it's just something a few of us notice and specifically call out, or unfriendliness is something a new user laments about.
While it's ...
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ECHEMI.com - Site that blatantly copy the contents from Chem.SE
The site called ECHEMI.com blatantly copy the contents from chem.SE without any attribution. The latest one was this post where one of the comments mentions the scraper site: https://www.echemi.com/...
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Duplicate Profiles - DUDE_WITH_J
DUDE_WITH_J - Profile 1
DUDE_WITH_J - Profile 2 (changed to just DUDE)
DUDE_WITH_J - Profile 3
These two users have the same name, with different DPs and different rep values. Profile 1 is new here, ...
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Hello Big Brother. I mean, Google
Unless you've been in hibernation during the past year and a half you've probably heard of changes roiling the IT world, including due to the launch of new generative AI products sucking all attention ...
Buck ThornMod
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