Unanswered Questions
166 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How to encourage visitors to search the site?
Yes, this is a likely duplicate. I should have searched meta first. In that self-referential spirit....
There has been imo an uptick of late, possibly seasonal, in homeworkish posts, many likely ...
Buck ThornMod
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