@F'x: Indeed a question like that should be deleted, and as it has a negative score and no answers it will be automatically deleted in a few days. We're trying to adopt a hands-off where possible moderation strategy to encourage community moderation, though obviously that will make more sense after the community grows a bit bigger.
In the short term I left it so that the OP would have a chance to see my comments. Gotta tell new people what's expected if you want them to learn quickly.
color --> http://physics.stackexchange.com/tags/light/synonyms (light)
The issue is that color can also mean the qcd color. Either we burninate the tag, or we do this:
Make color a synonym of light
Mention in the tagwiki explicitly that it meand light color and not qcd color
Mention "For QCD c...
How about this: (1) go through list of color questions and retag any that don't deal with visual color (2) rename color to visible-light (3) make light a synonym
Too many ninja powers.... The other day, dmckee managed to edit a comment way ater he made it.. Any list of all these powers so I can take necessary steps to barricade myself against a mod-ninja attack? =P
Half the light questions will need to be retagged as EM waves
What special privileges do diamond moderators have?
Diamond moderators are human exception handlers. The main function of diamond moderators is to follow up on flagged posts but they also have some special abilities necessary to handle rare exceptional conditions:
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I'm thinking perhaps I can create the synonym without performing the merge, so that way people who try to use light will be redirected to visible-light in the future, but it won't affect existing questions with light
I mentioned this in a comment on meta but there are no polarisation questions anymore so I don't think we need to deal with that. But if we do, I can just use the mod ninja tools on it. I don't mind unilaterally performing spelling corrections, but I'm kind of reluctant to just create less obvious tag synonyms on a whim.
Yep :-) I'll have to work out some plans to get the PSE community involved with this (not really as a condition of the sponsorship, just because it'll be good for the site)... ideas are welcome of course
The system seems to think that quantum-mechanics is my favorite tag. I do NOT know QM. I can barely understand half the QM questions. And the system is highlighting all of them.. For some reason, the only way for me to get rid of the QM highlighting is to add it to the ignored-tags list. And then it becomes half-transparent. Which is just another way of highlighting it IMO.
And I guess adding tags to my favorite list will override this, but the thing is, I don't HAVE favorites. I like all of 'em (OK, except a few where I never know what's going on)
Ooh cool found a nifty solution. There's always an MSO thread for every problem ;)
Perhaps I'm getting ahead of everyone, as this appears to be a new feature and this may already be planned. But in case it isn't, I shall request it.
If you frequent a tag very often, it appears that if it is not a part of a tag set of yours, or part of your favorite tags, it will get set as a "...
The microstates of a system are said to be unobservable. I can introduce the entropy as a measure of the number of microstates, which lead to the same macroscopic variables. So in this detailed definition of entropy, there are two theories at work, where one can be viewed as approximation to the ...
@Nimza: ''good book on quantum mechanics that uses high level math?'' Ask this as a question, rather than here (where only short comments are possible), and I'll answer.
@Manishearth: ''I never understand statistical thermoD'' - try Part II of my Lie book - it starts off with a self-contained discussion of nonstatistical thermodynamics, and is essentially independent od Part I. It assumes very little technical sophistication, except for a few places, where you can skip the proofs without losing track of what is going on. And if you don't understand something, you can ask, and I'll explain. (This also helps me improve the next version of the text.)
color --> http://physics.stackexchange.com/tags/light/synonyms (light)
The issue is that color can also mean the qcd color. Either we burninate the tag, or we do this:
Make color a synonym of light
Mention in the tagwiki explicitly that it meand light color and not qcd color
Mention "For QCD c...
What special privileges do diamond moderators have?
Diamond moderators are human exception handlers. The main function of diamond moderators is to follow up on flagged posts but they also have some special abilities necessary to handle rare exceptional conditions:
They have access to all the ...
