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Inability to post question due to unwanted criteria
Being a devoted member of the forum , I wanted to discuss a genuine question. But some unwanted errors showed up notifying that improvement of questions needed:
But I can't find any such issues. Can ...
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editing answers? [closed]
Is editing answers to reflect the question frowned upon?
I can see answers that answer a question and add extra, irrelevant information My attempts to tighten a answer are reverted because they "...
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Minor Edit - ° to degrees
I noticed in this answer, there was a minor edit:
This edit in my opinion seems redundant and unnecessary. More importantly, it was approved. I would like to know why was this edit allowed and in ...
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Should a question about preparation of cadmium fulminates be deleted?
The following was flagged as content that should not be allowed on the site: Preparing metal fulminates through reaction of alcohols and metal nitrates
Upvotes will serve as a vote that you agree with ...
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How can you explain your downvotes?
Translated:
Dear friends, I have come to you with an open heart, with an open soul. I am a chemist and I have eighteen years of education, including five years of university. However, my country and ...
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Targeted troll comments
I have been receiving some troll comments in some of my older posts. Now, I have been busy with work stuff, so couldn't care less about this. So, I flagged these comments and moved on. Today I see for ...
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Reputation "lost" but not showing in reputation timeline - bug?
This user apparently lost some reputation points and now the reputation is stuck at "1". On checking the reputation graph, OP peaked at 295 points and then "lost" 93 points. So, ...
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How are we detecting AI answers?
I've seen a lot of talk on the SE metas (metae? metapodi?) about AI answers, but I haven't seen any methodology for detecting it. I've run a few answers (that looked suspicious: really well-written ...
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Textual description of complex reaction schemes involving organic compounds on Chemistry.SE
I came across a question with this figure:
The image was not described. I would like to edit these questions such that the image or even the question itself has some text describing what's in the ...
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Why was this user's question downvoted?
I noticed that this question received a lot of downvotes.
It seemed like a sincere question with a reasonable amount of effort and thought put up although there was a clear scientific gap which got ...
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An autoban that's not yet lifted - what can I do? (FIXED)
Thank you all for all of your help in refining the questions I had and reopening a lot of them.
The edits were done to such an extent that I couldn't have seen better versions of those.
I shall ...
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Let's fix broken links!
I have a database of broken links on chem.SE. Would anyone like to take a stab at replacing the links and better describing the links (if needed) so that if they break again it's easier found?
If this ...
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How can we be friendlier?
We've often discussed the lack of friendliness in chem.SE whether it's just something a few of us notice and specifically call out, or unfriendliness is something a new user laments about.
While it's ...
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ECHEMI.com - Site that blatantly copy the contents from Chem.SE
The site called ECHEMI.com blatantly copy the contents from chem.SE without any attribution. The latest one was this post where one of the comments mentions the scraper site: https://www.echemi.com/...
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Duplicate Profiles - DUDE_WITH_J
DUDE_WITH_J - Profile 1
DUDE_WITH_J - Profile 2 (changed to just DUDE)
DUDE_WITH_J - Profile 3
These two users have the same name, with different DPs and different rep values. Profile 1 is new here, ...
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Hello Big Brother. I mean, Google
Unless you've been in hibernation during the past year and a half you've probably heard of changes roiling the IT world, including due to the launch of new generative AI products sucking all attention ...
Buck ThornMod
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Handling questions that deal with verification of content in external sources
Many questions on the site share the feature of seeking clarification regarding content found in a third source that seems authoritative, such as a printed textbook or online site. An example is this ...
Buck ThornMod
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Edits by Anonymous user and approved by Community Bot
This is again regarding this post. If I see the history, there are many suggested edits:
I can see there is involvement of a moderator who rolled back the edit. Even after rollback, multiple edits ...
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UPDATE: Poll to choose level of restiction on Artificial Intelligence-generated answers and associated warning banner
UPDATE - 19th March
This update is to inform all parties concerned that the banner change has been implemented and it will show up on the answer tab as a reminder. The tag status-completed is ...
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What's the point of users commenting the URL of the question itself in the comment section?
I have seen instances of (spam) users commenting the link of the question itself in the comment section and they are of course flagged and deleted. But I found a weird explanation of this in this post:...
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The banner warning against Artificial Intelligence generated answers
Sites can now request to enable a banner to warn about their policy on AI-generated content
This is a policy introduction on the Meta of all Metas, and given how ChemSE has an anti-AI (as in, use AI ...
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Anyway I can improve my answer?
My answer to "Why do ketoses undergo dehydration more rapidly than aldoses?"
I have given an answer to the above question and while it seems good, I don't see much upvotes for it, which ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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Math/Chem formatting when asking a question
I see that many questions are poorly received when the formatting is awful (pKa, OH-, etc.). I agree this is terrible, so I came up with the following idea that I would like to share.
More often that ...
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Appeal for bountying a few questions
As we reach the end of the year, Karsten had put up a similar appeal for good old unanswered questions to be bountied.
Comparison of the rate of SN1 and SN2 reaction
Inductive effect on stability of ...
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Reputation awards for edits - aren't they disproportionate?
I have had a few qualms about the awarding of reputation after editing. Let me state 2 of my cases:
Inductive effect on stability of free radical and revision link: In this question I had made a very ...
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No hats this year? Let's have some bounties instead!
There are some questions on this site that get a lot of views but don't have an answer. Some of them even have a high question score. Here are some examples (the two numbers behind the question are ...
KarstenMod
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No answers for a question
Temperature dependence of Aldol condensations
This question has got no answers in SE earlier. I had altogether changed my question as it was a duplicate. And I was not able to post a new question. Can ...
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Improvements for the question-asking form in ChemSE
As a new user myself (just 22 days old), I feel as if the downvoting policy needs a major rejig.
I agree to the fact that downvotes must be anonymous - as if the person who is downvoting is known, ...
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Why is it so difficult to get this reputation?
I had written an answer after much work and I almost see no sign of whether it's correct, though it shows my good amount of research, usually I see responses from mods and high ranking users in my ...
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Should every downvoted answer be flagged and subsequently removed [duplicate]
Questions are asked and answered regularly on the site. Also the answers are upvoted and downvoted alike. Upvoted answers are the ones that are good in quality, are useful and accurate. On the other ...
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Closing as duplicate when the first question has no answer
A question was closed as duplicate:
What exactly is meant by standard state in thermodynamics?
However, the question it now points to has no answer:
Standard state conditions in thermodynamics
The old ...
KarstenMod
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I had a question that did not have all of the information needed to fully answer. Is it better to rewrite the question, or start a new question?
There was this question "How do I determine temperature and pressure rise whenever mols of gases are added in a isolated room?" that I attempted to answer - but in the end I found myself in ...
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Addition of the cite link revisited
Triggered by a question on academia.se about a possibly AI generated publication under review (link), and drawing inspiration from mattermodelling.se, I became curious if their ...
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suggest to improve visibilty of the resources page
observation:
Thanks to community effort, there is a page about resources learning Chemistry. Some moments ago it was possible to answer a question related to chemical nomenclature (link) with copy-...
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Why does the "people reached" always have a ~ sign?
We know that the ~ is used before a number to say it's approximate.
But in the case of people reached, the uncertainty comes when 1000 people is passed (after it all numbers has a k to denote kilo or ...
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Does the way votes are shown make sense?
In the question feed, each question shows data about votes, answers and views on the left hand side, e.g.
The answers and views make sense mathematically, and the grammar works. However, the votes ...
KarstenMod
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Brand New Idea: Make it mandatory for downvoters to comment their reason for downvoting!
(The title is meant to be a bit tongue in cheek)
To preface things:
I do not think it should be compulsory for downvoters to explain the reasoning behind their downvote since some might be doing it ...
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Why was my question downvoted and closed?
In regards to this question. Why? As a long term participant of many stackexchangr sites, I simply can not come up with any explanation except targeted downvoting.
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Answers getting deleted due to deleted questions
I have recently noted that a question that I had answered has been deleted by the Community bot along with which my answer was deleted too. Also I had no downvotes on my answer and it had 0 score ...
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Why are compound formulae not rendering properly using \ce tag?
Basically, everywhere I use the \ce tag on chemistry stack exchange, I get wrong formulae. The subscripts are becoming superscripts while the superscripts are becoming subscripts. Is it just me or is ...
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I am not able to post new questions even though I have asked good questions in the past
I have posted a total of 7 questions on CSE. Only one question received downvotes (due to a miscalculation, which I resolved), while I received 7 upvotes on the other 6 questions. Why am I not able to ...
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A moderator has been harassing me. What should I do?
Recently, I have been receiving comments from a particular (unnamed for anonymity) moderator which fall under harassment and rude/condescending (use of vulgar/strong language) category of the Code of ...
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Anonymous one-click survey for downvotes [duplicate]
Recently, I have been receiving downvotes on some of my questions and answers without obtaining a clear understanding as to why these downvotes were made. I wanted to propose a short anonymous one-...
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How to encourage visitors to search the site?
Yes, this is a likely duplicate. I should have searched meta first. In that self-referential spirit....
There has been imo an uptick of late, possibly seasonal, in homeworkish posts, many likely ...
Buck ThornMod
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Can these tags (pKa, Salt-bridge) be created?
pKa, salt-bridge, coulombic interactions are important concepts for both chemistry, biochemistry, biology aspects. One would expect them to be quite hot topics. Strangely, however no such tags seem to ...
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Reference-requests, books and closure. Where lies the fine or not-so-fine line?
The site aims to keep high standards and attract experienced and knowledgeable practitioners of chemistry. The point is to share knowledge, not "doing someone else's work", but that is just ...
Buck ThornMod
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Is ChatGPT diverting "homework" questions from science Q & A sites in general, and Chemistry SE in particular?
We have had posts previously discussing how ChatGPT might affect answers on Chemistry SE. Here, I am opening a discussion about how it might affect traffic and types of questions posed on Q&A ...
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Approach to sensitive chemistry topics ( poisons, explosives, drugs etc. )
Is there a recommended, in place approach on CH SE site to potentially suspicious questions
about sensitive chemistry topics like poisons, explosives, drugs etc?
Many of such questions manifest common ...
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Edit history doesn't show edited portion - bug?
I was trying to see what edit was made in this particular answer but the edit history doesn't show the edited portion. I thought maybe some extra spaces was wiped out but couldn't figure where was the ...
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