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There are no tags for low dimensional materials or van der Waals materials. Would at least one tag for this class be in order?
Currently my exposure to Chemistry is through working on low dimensional materials, like Xenes (2D, often honeycomb materials like graphene, silicene, germanene, plumbene, bismuthene, hexagonal boron ...
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Should a question about mathematical models of glucose levels be tagged with analytical chemistry?
I am studying medicine and frequently on biochemistry classes I am deferred to analytical chemistry.
I want to ask on the main site (if it would be on topic) about modeling the concentration of ...
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Can I ask in the main site about Immunohistochemistry?
I would like to ask in the main site what does DO-7 detect/recognize, does it recognize wildtype P53 or mutant P53 , when does DO-7 give of a signal, if it gave of a signal only when it found a (...
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What is SE policy/practice regarding potentially offensive screen names?
"A user has chosen a screen name that could be construed as deeply offensive. Actually, aside from the possibility that it is intended as a joke (ie tongue-in-cheek), it can't be regarded as ...
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Posting answers has become harder than the questions!
I am having trouble posting answers here using my Samsung mobile device. When I try, I get an error. To clear the error I refresh the page, which works except now I always have to pass a CAPTCHA. Is ...
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Conversion of answers to comments
As I have not found a similar meta question googling site:chemistry.meta.stackexchange.com, I am asking:
What is/should be the mod policy to address answers (usually posted by low rep users), that are ...
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Is there a reliable way for non-mods to see traffic here?
My primary interest in becoming a mod was primarily to grow the site and make answers more authoritative with edits and cleaning up citations. While this can be done as a non-mod, I had access to ...
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Question on accuracy of possibly broken pH meter
This question: Accuracy of pH meters in MgSO4 solution discusses a specific pH meter and the user's frustration with how he's getting different values each time he tests.
The premise of his question ...
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What is the purpose of read-only restriction for profiles?
I faced a nearly 3-day long read-only restriction in my initial days at Chemistry SE. I believe it was only a few days after I posted this question (I posted it on 1st Dec 2024, I got the restriction ...
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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of ...
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A vote to do away with the sarcasm
I am going out on a limb here to make a humble request to all of the seasoned StackExchange Chem veterans that you limit the sarcastic responses to new contributors. The idea here is to encourage ...
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I've bountied my 4.7 year old Astronomy SE question three times and still no answer. In this particular case, is it OK to post it here also?
Near-simultaneous cross-posting is always bad. The primary concern is answer fragmentation.
Generally, flagging for moderator assistance to migrate is the way to go for questions that are less than ...
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How to flag issues with questions?
It seems difficult to flag questions for fix here - why is this so difficult? Many recent questions have broken images so I have flagged that but these answers have been been removed.
Broken image (as ...
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Edits for no reason
I see there are many edits allowed from experienced users that have no useful edit summary and appear to make no attempt to actually improve experience
For instance see https://chemistry.stackexchange....
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What is the state of generative AI and what does it mean for Chemistry SE?
It's been about two years since the splashy release of ChatGPT brought chatbots to the general public's attention, (about a year after another AI tool, GitHub Co-Pilot, made a splash in the developer ...
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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 ...
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Handling questions that deal with verification of content in external sources
Many questions on the site share the feature of seeking clarification regarding content found in a third source that seems authoritative, such as a printed textbook or online site. An example is this ...
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Edits by Anonymous user and approved by Community Bot
This is again regarding this post. If I see the history, there are many suggested edits:
I can see there is involvement of a moderator who rolled back the edit. Even after rollback, multiple edits ...
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UPDATE: Poll to choose level of restiction on Artificial Intelligence-generated answers and associated warning banner
UPDATE - 19th March
This update is to inform all parties concerned that the banner change has been implemented and it will show up on the answer tab as a reminder. The tag status-completed is ...
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What's the point of users commenting the URL of the question itself in the comment section?
I have seen instances of (spam) users commenting the link of the question itself in the comment section and they are of course flagged and deleted. But I found a weird explanation of this in this post:...
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The banner warning against Artificial Intelligence generated answers
Sites can now request to enable a banner to warn about their policy on AI-generated content
This is a policy introduction on the Meta of all Metas, and given how ChemSE has an anti-AI (as in, use AI ...
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Anyway I can improve my answer?
My answer to "Why do ketoses undergo dehydration more rapidly than aldoses?"
I have given an answer to the above question and while it seems good, I don't see much upvotes for it, which ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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Math/Chem formatting when asking a question
I see that many questions are poorly received when the formatting is awful (pKa, OH-, etc.). I agree this is terrible, so I came up with the following idea that I would like to share.
More often that ...
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Appeal for bountying a few questions
As we reach the end of the year, Karsten had put up a similar appeal for good old unanswered questions to be bountied.
Comparison of the rate of SN1 and SN2 reaction
Inductive effect on stability of ...
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Reputation awards for edits - aren't they disproportionate?
I have had a few qualms about the awarding of reputation after editing. Let me state 2 of my cases:
Inductive effect on stability of free radical and revision link: In this question I had made a very ...
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No hats this year? Let's have some bounties instead!
There are some questions on this site that get a lot of views but don't have an answer. Some of them even have a high question score. Here are some examples (the two numbers behind the question are ...
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No answers for a question
Temperature dependence of Aldol condensations
This question has got no answers in SE earlier. I had altogether changed my question as it was a duplicate. And I was not able to post a new question. Can ...
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Improvements for the question-asking form in ChemSE
As a new user myself (just 22 days old), I feel as if the downvoting policy needs a major rejig.
I agree to the fact that downvotes must be anonymous - as if the person who is downvoting is known, ...
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Why is it so difficult to get this reputation?
I had written an answer after much work and I almost see no sign of whether it's correct, though it shows my good amount of research, usually I see responses from mods and high ranking users in my ...
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Should every downvoted answer be flagged and subsequently removed [duplicate]
Questions are asked and answered regularly on the site. Also the answers are upvoted and downvoted alike. Upvoted answers are the ones that are good in quality, are useful and accurate. On the other ...
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Closing as duplicate when the first question has no answer
A question was closed as duplicate:
What exactly is meant by standard state in thermodynamics?
However, the question it now points to has no answer:
Standard state conditions in thermodynamics
The old ...
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I had a question that did not have all of the information needed to fully answer. Is it better to rewrite the question, or start a new question?
There was this question "How do I determine temperature and pressure rise whenever mols of gases are added in a isolated room?" that I attempted to answer - but in the end I found myself in ...
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Addition of the cite link revisited
Triggered by a question on academia.se about a possibly AI generated publication under review (link), and drawing inspiration from mattermodelling.se, I became curious if their ...
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suggest to improve visibilty of the resources page
observation:
Thanks to community effort, there is a page about resources learning Chemistry. Some moments ago it was possible to answer a question related to chemical nomenclature (link) with copy-...
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Why does the "people reached" always have a ~ sign?
We know that the ~ is used before a number to say it's approximate.
But in the case of people reached, the uncertainty comes when 1000 people is passed (after it all numbers has a k to denote kilo or ...
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