I was just checking the First Posts review queue, and I found this post:
Many body quantum rotors
Strange that it should be there, given that it's from mid-November and I haven't seen it before.
Does anyone have an idea why it was there?
@Sofia I presume you mean this post. "Drive by downvotes" do occur because there's no requirement for comments upon downvoting (though a suggestion to do so is often promoted via a pop-pop box).
That said, I'm not really sure that your answer answers the question.
You really are only talking about the bucket itself
@Sofia: Getting -1 happens if someone thinks your post doesn't answer the question, is poorly formatted, hard to understand, or if they think your post is wrong.
Also, with regards to duplicate questions: note that as you type a question the system automatically searches the site for other similar questions. This helps the person asking the question avoid posting duplicates. Of course, this doesn't always work. In that case other users may note that it's a duplicate either from their personal experience or by searching the site if they suspect the question may be a duplicate.
@ACuriousMind actually it's mostly at the discretion of the existing mod team. When we feel like we need more moderators, we ask the SE team to schedule an election, and if they agree, they do it. There's no objective statistics because any objective criteria for when new moderators are needed would vary heavily by site.
E.g. the math mods are probably okay with leaving the common moderation duties to the community, more so than we do here. They do have a much larger community, after all.
in fact, probably like 10 times the activity of this site, which would suggest that even with twice as many mods, the rate of moderator action is "diluted" by a factor of 5
This is a follow-up post on John Rennie's topic The secret to getting a massive reputation is ___, and my answer therein.
I think many of us have at some point been dispirited, when an answer on an advanced topic that took a lot of effort to write received very few upvotes; and answers on basic ...
@DanielSank, are you in the room? Until this moment I didn't send you a mail with my problem. I was simply captured by a question on quadratures. It took me time, I edit very slowly. Probably, the fellow who posted the question got angry with me.
@DavidZ: how can I know if DanielSank is in some room?
If you want to discuss your question please go ahead. I may not respond immediately to all posts as I am doing chores around the house. Think of chat as an asynchronous communication protocol.
I was just checking the First Posts review queue, and I found this post:
Many body quantum rotors
Strange that it should be there, given that it's from mid-November and I haven't seen it before.
Does anyone have an idea why it was there?
