Another thing to test is whether the revision history plug in works, and how does it look? http://question2answer.org/qa/28116/how-does-the-q2a-edit-history-plug-in-look-like http://question2answer.org/qa/27862/revision-history?show=27868#a27868

"As to the tags, we could use the arXiv as an inspiration, like math-phys, gr-qc and etc." Brilliant idea.

Oh yes, the possibility to view the edit history is important... Strange that it does not work by default (without the need to install a plug in)

Oh yes, the possibility to view the revision history of posts is important I think. Strange that it does not work by default, without having to install a plug in ...

On the new Astronomy SE site, I have seen a blog post promoted that gives some advice about what important meta questions have to be considered by an upraising new site. My plan for this post is to steal and adapt these ideas for our purpose and to evaluate what has already been clarified, and … Continue reading →

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Ok, I'm planning to write a longer comment soon, but for now, could you add "Stack Brane" to the title poll?

*Stacked Brane

Done ... I thought new suggestions can be added by the "Other" poll options ...?

They can't; they don't display.

Anyway, now I voted for both.

1. Concerning Applied Physics, what applications of Research-level/Graduate-level Physics would be *so* important to discuss? 2. Yes, it is certainly necessary. I have added a little proposed faq at the bottom of this comment... 3. I propose that the tags be really something like specific versions of catergories. I.e. "Heterotic String Theory" or "…

First Important question in the FAQ... Question: Am I allowed to discuss non-mainstream theories? Answer: No. --What is a non-mainstream theory-- A non-mainstream theory is basically an idea which has not been published in a reputable journal or ArXiV. --Can I ask why a non-mainstream theory is considere…

Just some thoughts: As I already stated in other comments, I think we should try to blinldy mimic SE as much as possible, because it is proven to work. We just want to tweak some details that we don't like. Ok, we have to decide a name and a logo, but let's keep the FAQs and topics as close as possible to SE. The polls should be in the following direction: "What do you think it…

Thank you. When I wrote the last post a almost forgot to mention that idea! ;)

I believe that you was capable of summarizing everything that I could agree! ;) Now, about Question #1, I am not sure about the existence of "Non-Mainstream physics" as a subsection (or sub-field, tag or whatever). I fear that it can give not only an excuse for well-known crackpots to promote their ideas as it would not be very efficient anyway. The members of the "Anti-Lorent…

But if we are going to use a "Non-Mainstream physics" as a subsection, we will need of course to rely on moderators to move the non-standard topics correctly. Lubos may be "sufficient and necessary" to this. ;)

Ok I see, the idea behind the Hidden Sector thing was rather that is should be one of the rare crackpot and troll free zones, it was probably too confusing...

Thanks again for this nice and wise comment :-) You could write a post here too to poll about what is not wroking on SE and should therefore be changed if possible ... ;-) Cheers

LOL the list containing Non-Mainstream physics, Engineering, and Applied phyisics whas rather meant to denote things that should rather be off topic than sections to have ... :-D. However having a section to redirect non-standard topics to is an interesting idea too ...

Yep the at times even hostile treatement (by downvote or even closing) of legitimate or even good advanced questions on Physics SE (new ones are only sporatically coming in anyway) is what saddens and annoys me too since quite some time. And many of them get simply ignored... For example about this question http://physics.stackexchange.com/q/80589 (of a user coming from MathOverflow) I was worr…