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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.
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User purposefully deleting question after an answer has been provided
If I remember correctly, once there is an answer given to a post, the post cannot be deleted by the author. I experienced this in some other SE sites where if the author tries to delete a question, ...
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Homework etiquette on MMSE
This question is motivated by a series of questions in the past few days from one user who was clearly progressing through setting up a calculation and working through their errors one by one. Some of ...
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The "almost" arbitrary scaling requirements in reputation for gaining new privileges
The user privileges in MMSE grants access to various site tools, with a higher reputation granting access to more tools, reflecting a level of trust in the user's actions.
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How to Re-Open Questions Labeled as `Closed`
I have noticed that some questions on the platform have been closed, most likely because OPs have not responded to comments asking for clarification or additional information.
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What is the minimum length required for an answer and how is this enforced?
Is there a minimum length required for an answer to meet the minimum requirements for answers on this site? Two of my short answers were recently suggested to be lengthened since their length fit ...
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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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Why did so many posts in May 2023 not get any votes from anyone other than me?
Why is no one voting on good questions
I was the only one that voted on the following questions despite many of them having multiple comments from other users, and a lot of views, and a lot of effort ...
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Canonical or exemplary questions
I saw a question about Gaussian on reddit/comp_chem that contained a long input file without any code formatting. I wanted to find a good example of a Gaussian ...
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Why has this answer not received a single upvote in almost 6 months?
As with the following three threads:
Why did this question not get any votes in the last 5.5 months despite getting 61 views and comments from at least 3 different people?
Why is nobody voting on ...
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Why did this question not get any votes in the last 6 months despite getting 49 views and 4 upvotes on a comment?
As with the following two threads:
Why did this question not get any votes in the last 5.5 months despite getting 61 views and comments from at least 3 different people?
Why is nobody voting on this ...
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Recognition Day! Thank you to all the users who have continued to make this site possible!
MMSE has helped so many researchers over the last ~3.5 years, and a large part of this was made possible by the users that have voted on so many of our posts. Also, seeing how many of our avid users ...
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A new close reason? VLQ questions for which the user is not making any effort to improve *extremely* LQ parts of the question
Specific examples can be found, but I'll avoid singling out any specific users or their questions unless it's really necessary. Basically, some questions have such extreme lack of care in the ...
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Why is nobody voting on this question, but so many people are voting on the comments?
I'm curious why at least 4 people have voted on the comments without voting on the question, here:
Voting wasn't this way from 2020-2021 and much of 2022. Similar questions in the past have had over ...
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Please use hyperlinks instead of raw URLs
Instead of writing:
"I have been following the example laid out in: https://github.com/maxhutch/deprecated-quantum-espresso/blob/master/PHonon/examples/example15/reference/zno.ph.in"
the ...