The h Bar - 2013-05-05

« first day (913 days earlier) ← previous day next day → last day (4009 days later) »

Brandon Enright

4:53 AM

The quality of the StackExchange web interface / webapp is making me spoiled. MathJax makes it doubly so. It's rather hard to use an old PHPBB install now.

2

Eiyrioü von Kauyf

@Brand

@BrandonEnright +1

Brandon Enright

@EiyrioüvonKauyf thanks :-)

Eiyrioü von Kauyf

5:25 AM

once you go to LaTeX, you can't go back. i personally wonder how i ever parsed all of those parentheses

Brandon Enright

I'm still a TeX virgin but I'm slowly getting a hang of the basics.

Eiyrioü von Kauyf

lol i only type equations. i still don't do documents in it. the people that are able to take real-time notes with latex ... wow

5:40 AM

@ZettaSuro it turns out that I was using commentblocker, so it's my fault and not SE's fault that I couldn't see the comment sections...

2 hours later…

7:43 AM

0

Q: Why did this post get downvoted? Dodgy Physics?

I wrote an answer to a question about temperature and dimensional analysis. I am skeptical about the motivations. I cannot see at the moment if it was not just a random downvote by someone having fun. However, if I have overlooked something an broken some vital law it would get appreciated if som...

0

Q: Should something be done about the misspelling of (e.g., Nobel laureate's) names?

The name 't Hooft is quite often misspelled on the main site. At least 12 questions/answers with tHooft At least 51 questions/answers with t'Hooft or T'Hooft At least 4 questions/answers with Hooft or hooft Feynmann occurs in at least 23 questions/answers. Feinman once. Fynman once. Einstien ...

discussion editing

4 hours later…

11:45 AM

24 hours ago, by Crazy Buddy

23 hours ago, by Crazy Buddy

1) Have I improved in my English skills (I think you may all know how crazy I was (in my English) when I joined here...)

Duh... Duh... -_-

2 hours later…

1:46 PM

@BrandonEnright @Gugg Generally as long as the meaning isn't changed, it's all good. I've approved a handful of yours, generally they're OK. But I would suggest you ask on Meta Stack Overflow and get some guidelines.

(meta.physics is OK as well, but on metaso you'll get more experienced answers)

Don't you think gaining Rep is difficult on physics than on maths?

@BrandonEnright also, you can review your suggested edits here

@exploringnet Used to be. Not so sure about now

But probably is

Math is a year or two older than us

@ManishEarth Even the Physics.SE is more sticking to rules , Maths mostly go lenient with questions.

that too

Maths has a lenient HW policy

@ManishEarth Yes. Thats why sometimes I feel bad for some questions.

1:56 PM

on Phy?

@ManishEarth Yes here.

So many questions get closed, for not having strong conceptual background.

@exploringnet Yes, because SE's primary goal isn't to provide help

16 hours ago, by David Zaslavsky

Steve, Stack Overflow's not the only site on the whole Internet to get help with programming problems. Stack Overflow's design goal is to be a repository of useful questions and answers. Nothing else. That's what it's for, and that's the way we (Stack Exchange and the "community" around it) strive to keep it because it is an extremely useful resource - and we don't want to dilute that. If the format doesn't suit your need, well, use something else (including the chat rooms provided for Stack Overflow). — Mat 9 hours ago

@ManishEarth Yes I have seen that. Even visited SO to upvote this . :)

ah

So..yeah. We're strict on HW questions for two reasons:

- What Mat said

- They bring down the overall quality of the site

While we don't shun easy (but conceptual) questions, we aim for an expert audience

2

Now what about this latest question these must be closed.

2:00 PM

Check out physicsforums. There are so many HW problems there. Not a place I'd like to participate

I had joined Math and physics same time but Math is par 2K , physics is below 1K. :)

@exploringnet 2K/1K?

ah

@ManishEarth Reputation score.

Yeah, your usage of "par" confused me

I can't even see the distinct +- score on a post here. :(

can you get that distinct scores here?

2:06 PM

+4/-3

@ManishEarth can you tell what is +- vote count on this post?I need some more rep. to see it. — 007 yesterday

^^I would never get pinged by that

Why?

Comment pings work only if:

- The recepient owns the post

- The recepient has edited the post

- The recepient has bountied the post (not sure)

- The recepient is a moderator who has closed/reopened the post in the past

Not otherwise

Okay , got it!

Can anyone add content in others answers?( Like graph . ) while editing?

Yeah

Try not to make radical changes

Even if the original answer does not contain that?

Answer is not a CW post.

2:11 PM

Yeah

It's up to others whether or not to approve it

Someone did that on my answer on math. . Well it made the post good. :)

And I got another upvote after it. :P

@ManishEarth Hey While editing site doesn't load a new editing page.... For 2K+ rep users. Seen just now on math.

@exploringnet Yep

Thats bad for others .

What have others done ? Everyone should be given that facility.

@exploringnet It's to ratelimit

For those not experienced with editing, there should be a hurdle so that they treat it as a big deal. I don't want <2k users rampantly making minor edits; since two other people need to review it.

The inline edit feature gives off the aura that editing is a more fluid thing

Low Quality Posts
Identify, then improve or delete low-quality posts.

Can I delete too?

2:21 PM

yep

Nope

You can recommend deletion, which puts it at the top of the queue for people who can delete

(flag as well)

2K opens two other things to review too.

Suggested edits?

Yes.

And?

That ought to be it

LQ and SA

CV/RV open at 3k

Low Quality Posts
Identify, then improve or delete low-quality posts.

2:24 PM

Yes

You mentioned two other things, I was wondering what the other things were

I thought that /links had been enabled on math

Nvm

:)

I'd say that about 50 people join math, whereas only about 5 join physics everyday.That is a big difference.

yeah

1 hour later…

3:55 PM

@ManishEarth should we have this type of question

this: math.stackexchange.com/questions/323334/…

NC

Technically off topic on Math.SE as well

Such questions belong on Quora

@ManishEarth Just posting as soft question, you may change it into CW.

For a good collection of physics .

CW is immaterial

Blog - Stack Exchange: The Future of Community Wiki

Grace Note on August 19, 2011

When you mark a post community wiki on a Stack Exchange site, that means …

this post can be edited by anyone with 100 reputation

this post does not generate any reputation for anyone when upvoted or downvoted

The main advantage of community wiki — more editing — was nerfed when we introduced suggested edits. With suggested edits, anyone, even an anonymous user, can edit anything — so long as another experienced user reviews and approves their edit.

This leaves many wondering — what’s the point of Community Wiki? …

At the end in blog "Community wiki is for that rare gem of a post that needs true community collaboration. That’s when community wiki shines." I think that would be a rare collection for site.

Or let others comment on this.

@007 I can get a million other ideas for such posts

Just look at the [big-list] and [soft-question] tag on Math.SE

You'll see what I mean

The point is that such posts are anyway off topic, regardless of CW policy

SE is for non-open-ended questions

physics.stackexchange.com/faq#dontask

4:02 PM

Yes these questions are closed after 2-4 months when they go out of seen.

yep

It's a good question. Not here.

many in big-list are also closed.

After 2-4 months is the keyword

Closing is useless then

1 hour later…

Eiyrioü von Kauyf

5:22 PM

ok i think we should run a regex or something to fix 't Hooft's name. he uses StackExchange fyi

5:40 PM

Hey.

Eiyrioü von Kauyf

?

6:40 PM

@eiy nice idea, but SE generally doesn't do that :s

We c an fix it normally

3 hours later…

Eiyrioü von Kauyf

9:52 PM

it's rude :S, he is THAT physicist i mean, it's like having einstein spelled einztien :/

« first day (913 days earlier) ← previous day next day → last day (4009 days later) »

Transcript for

May '135

The h Bar

General chat for Physics SE (physics.stackexchange.com). For M...

join this room
about this room

00:00

06:00

12:00

18:00

all times are UTC

site design / logo © 2024 Stack Exchange Inc; legal

mobile