Well, I've contacted the team about the blacklisting, but so far I did not get a reply, so we go ahead with manual labour and implement the blacklist later.
@hBy2Py Who cares?! We'll make it up as we go along. We've been struggling with rough-and-ready solutions for so long, always patching things up, adding stuff, discussing something new. It appears to be impossible to break anything at the moment. We can't make it worse.
Since we're in the Stack Exchange Beta, it's always stressed that easy questions should be avoided, in order to attract experts. I'm not entirely sure whether the questions I have fall into that category, though.
These topics include:
spdf notation
Atomic Structure
VSPER Diagrams
VB Theory
Pe...
I am sure there are people around who want to do that. I am just not one of them, unfortunately. I would rather write canonicals on slightly more interesting topics.
Read this , No display through DVI/HDMI during CrashFree3 operation I am using the M4A89GTD Pro onboard DVI output on this motherboard. Everything works fine until yesterday. When I turned on my computer yesterday, there is no display on screen. The system gave 5 short beeps, then nothing is happ...
In SEDE, using Chrome on Windows, comments and strings are both formatted in the same shade of green:
(Snip is from this query)
Now, I'm sure many out there will have bones to pick with my query syntax and formatting and whatnot, but all of that harassment aside: it seems to me that this woul...
@M.A.R. true, however there are also many more close voters, ...
@Martin-マーチン well I have been trying to add to it in topics that I read... but I am just an undergrad and just read generally, it needs input from more specialists, imo
I posted it here coz i could not find the answer. Can u, MR.Klaus , tell me the reason why this is off-topic? Ammonium perchlorate composite sounds like physics ? It sounds like chemistry to me. And if all the terms can be looked up in a 30 sec cursory search, why couldnt u please do that for me? I would be very obliged to get the answer. I have been breaking my head on this thing for days. Its easy to say "I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because all terms can be looked up in a 30 seconds cursory search.". If u can answer it, answer it. Or dont. I dont need ur comments. — sooraj3 hours ago
No, it doesn't, at least not strictly.
According to Wikipedia (emphasis added):
One of the most common variations on this reaction uses malonic acid $(\ce{CH2(CO2H)2})$ as the acid and potassium bromate $(\ce{KBrO3})$ as the source of bromine. The overall equation is:
$$ \ce{3CH2(CO2H)2...
(IMO, anyways)
From an answer to @M.A.R.'s recent Meta.SE post
> Plenty of users who can describe the issue or just take a screenshot and say "what is this" - people who know what they want help with and usually tried to find it but just have no clue what to type into the box or look for in order to find that help.
The fact that all of this information is so dispersed across so many different areas is amplified by the fact that we sometimes use some pretty odd names for our features that seem completely obvious to an experienced user, but someone brand new has absolutely no idea. As someone who works in the...
I think Klaus decided to do the right thing. He could have written that first comment as an answer and it would probably have gotten a thousand upvotes...
@hBy2Py Half the time, these get closed as HW anyway.
I feel like HW is "misused" on stuff that, while admittedly crappy, is not homework.
There might be a case for application of "lacks sufficient description"
i.e. why aren't you sure whether it's a solid?
For example, the Wikipedia article writes
> ALICE is a rocket propellant which consists of nano-aluminium powder and water. After mixing, the material is frozen to keep it stable.
I mean, it's fairly obvious to anybody with chemical knowledge, but Wikipedia doesn't explicitly state which state of matter it is. If this person had quoted this line and said that they're not sure whether it's liquid or solid... I think the response would have been different.
First of all I would like to apologise to all our users on the southern hemisphere for giving it this name. I know you are heading towards autumn and similar to winter bash you are a bit left out. Sorry. (You could propose a different name though.)
Recently there has been some movement on meta...
I was originally thinking that as long as it wasn't a specific exercise, that we'd be more lenient about questions where, e.g., someone doesn't really know where to start thinking about a thing
But I guess if we leave aspects of it vague, then the community can decide whether a question falls into one of the three Bad Zones™ or not.
@orthocresol Yep, this is why I was thinking we might restrict the scope of the new close reason to things that are explicitly exercises (HW, tests, etc.)
@orthocresol <nod>... the question of whether to specifically scope the close reason to exercises or not will have to have community feedback/informedness/discussion
Because I can see arguments for going either way
@Martin-マーチン It's a great start, Mart, thanks for putting it together
Can't help you much with github, I don't use it :P
I'm planning to write up an answer to martin's meta post on specifically what is going to be done
I personally don't think that all [reaction] questions need to be cleaned up. I am going to work on the assumption that community voting has distinguished the crappy from the good
Therefore we probably don't need to look at questions beyond a certain score.
Those questions just need to have the [reaction] tag removed, which will automatically happen when the SE community managers ("CMs") step in and do their magic.
anyway, I should not say all this now, since I am planning to type it again later.. haha
@hBy2Py ok, has been cleared. seems SE chat search updates quite regularly, as many of those messages already do not show up in the search results
in fact the search results are already empty now (<5 min after I finished clearing them)