Have any of you read the book "The Joy of x"? Or "How things work"? Many people find these to be fascinating & eye-opening, and sometimes the first time they found these topics to be interesting and approachable. How about such a feature here on stackexchange: not so much a question/answer, but ...

I posted this question ( Inducing thoughts with brain waves ) and mentioned that if this was too off topic I would be willing to close it, it was even closed but is still getting downvoted. Could someone delete this post entirely, as I understand that deleting too many of your own posts can creat...

"Mark this question as favourite (click again to undo)" (or probably "favorite" á la US english, I don't remember) is what you get if you position the mouse pointer on that star that appears besides each question. What effect does that star have?

Some days ago I had an argument with a user about tension being a force on a post, since then I am constantly receiving atleast one downvote on all my posts, maybe it is not related but I believe that the person is deliberately down voting all my quetions and answers.

A while back, we had this discussion in which we tried to measure quantitatively whether the site was gaining or losing non-novice users. Since then, I've had the distinct subjective impression that the quality of discussion on the site has gone down markedly. I went through some of my own questi...