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<p>As part of the migration to SE 2.0 reputation was recalculated to match the rest of our sites. See: <a href="http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/important-reputation-rule-changes/">http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/important-reputation-rule-changes/</a> for details.</p>
<p>You can also view the new point sys... | 4 | 2010-09-29T19:26:57.957 | |discussion|reputation| | <p>It was in excess of 900 when Chiphacker was still Chiphacker; now it's only 808.</p>
| What happened to my Chiphacker reputation? |
<p>I don't see a point to an electronics tag, when <em>every</em> question on the site is (at least indirectly) related to electronics.</p>
| 7 | 2010-09-29T19:32:11.987 | |discussion|tagging| | <p>Is it a good idea to tag questions with [robotics] or [electronics]?</p>
<p>Or should only the [robotics] tag be used, and all other questions assumed to be electronics?</p>
<p>Or should we adopt a system like on meta, where at least one tag MUST be specified.</p>
<p>Thoughts?</p>
| Should [robotics] and [electronics] tags be used? |
<p>I'm not sure how that could be considered off-topic. It's part of "robotics, electronics, physical computing, and even those working with an Arduino", no?</p>
| 21 | 2010-09-29T20:51:36.707 | |discussion| | <p>I'd like to get tips about electronics projects with the theme of Christmas. Is this question on or off topic?</p>
| Are questions about ideas for projects on or off topic? |
<p><strong>Short answer:</strong> Yes, they will require a merge, and yes, they are being merged. </p>
<p><strong>Long answer:</strong> For a brief interval, I had also had two accounts: my old Chiphacker mod/user account, as well as an Area51 account, so I merged the two. There weren't any other dupes that I noticed... | 29 | 2010-09-30T03:11:33.507 | |support|user-accounts| | <p>I think several people had SE1.0 chiphacker accounts and SE2.0 accounts. Will they be merged? What if they were not merged?</p>
<p>My chiphacker account and SE2.0 account used the same openid, but they did not automatically merge.</p>
<p>On SE1.0, I think an admin of some sort just merged them by hand. How does... | Will old user accounts be merged with SE 2.0 accounts? |
<p>Just to clarify the badge requirements, to obtain <code>publicist</code> <strong>that unique URL</strong> must be visited by 1000 unique IPs in 5 days (not simply share a link to a question that was already
'hot'). </p>
<p>If you can get 1000 people to view the site legitimately, you deserve a big gold star.</p>
| 37 | 2010-10-01T14:27:54.180 | |discussion|badges| | <p>I was reading this question: <em><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/4658/857">From zero to “almost pro”: Newbie trying to learn. Good, quick resources </a></em> and this image popped up:<br>
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/1KQgt.png" alt="share a link to this hot question to earn the publicist badg... | Publicist badge advertising? |
<p>Er.. what?</p>
<p>Can you provide links to your other account? Or questions and answers provided under it? I only see one "Lance Roberts" at</p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/1395">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/1395</a></p>
<p>edit: per <a href="https://electronics.stackexc... | 39 | 2010-10-01T17:39:31.063 | |bug|support|status-bydesign|user-accounts| | <p>Please merge my old Electronics.StackExchange account with my account here.</p>
| Account merge request |
<p>As both you and Robert stated, questions about the site itself belong here on meta. This is documented. You asked:</p>
<blockquote>
<h1>What is <em>your</em> level of electronics knowledge?</h1>
<p>I've seen several
variations of the type of people <strong>in
this community</strong>: [List snipped] So
what categ... | 68 | 2010-10-06T14:44:45.583 | |discussion| | <p>What questions belong on the meta site?</p>
<p>Based off of everything that is documented on the website these are the types of questions that belong on the meta site:</p>
<p>(From the banner on the top of the main site)</p>
<ul>
<li>Question about the site itself</li>
<li>What questions are appropriate</li>
<li>... | What belongs here versus the main site? |
<p>I think if you are interested in the hobbyist approach to creating a power supply for your computer, that fits perfectly. If you want to know how to wire your house from an electricians perspective, this is a home improvement task, and a different stack exchange is probably a better fit.</p>
<p>Yes, this is a good ... | 94 | 2010-10-20T13:39:42.677 | |discussion|meta| | <p>I'm trying to figure out which StackExchange is best for me to ask detailed questions about 220 volt wiring from the fusebox to my IBM Server.</p>
<p>The Electronics StackExchange appears to be the best choice at first glance, but perhaps I should ask on the Home Improvement StackExchange instead?</p>
<p>For an ev... | Is Electronics and Robotics the best StackExchange for asking about building wiring to power my 220 volt IBM Server? |
<p>In meta your badges are a separate entity. I received all of my badges on the parent site.</p>
<p>Are you missing yours? I looked on your account and you seem to have badges from answers you gave on the chiphacker site.</p>
| 96 | 2010-10-21T18:56:51.440 | |discussion|badges| | <p>Did all of the badges get reset? Does this happen yearly or is a function of the switchover from Chiphacker? Honestly, I don't care about the badges themselves, just wondering if it's a bug or if I should not flip out this time next year as well.</p>
<p>Seriously, I don't care about the badges.</p>
<p>"Badges? Bad... | Did the badges get reset? |
<p>I've seen E&R used as an abbreviation in several places by several people. I think it </p>
<ol>
<li>Is easier to pronounce (You don't try to read it "uhr"), </li>
<li>Is more iconic, and</li>
<li>Distinguishes us from the medical term.</li>
</ol>
<p>I'm not trying to say that the image needs an ampersand to ... | 103 | 2010-10-22T14:17:38.843 | |discussion| | <p>The subsite's logo is ER, which I know as Emergency Room, is that joke on purpose?</p>
| ER: Emergency Room |
<p>To answer it anyway: as long as your link ends up at the right question, it's fine.</p>
<p>Feel free to use url-shortener's to link to questions on things like Twitter, where your chars are valuable! </p>
| 111 | 2010-10-25T02:56:37.693 | |discussion|hyperlinks| | <p>According to the <a href="http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/">Attribution Required description</a>, when referencing SE material, we must:</p>
<blockquote>
<ol>
<li>Visually indicate that the content is from Stack Overflow, Meta Stack
Overflow, Server Fault, or Super User
in some wa... | Can I shorten links to just the question/answer/user numbers? |
<p>I recently posted a (<a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/16264/how-do-i-get-agilent-ads-to-run-on-64-bit-ubuntu-lucid-10-04">question</a>) relating to electronics software and had it closed as off-topic. I think that is taking an overly-narrow view of what constitutes an electronics (or electri... | 117 | 2010-10-25T23:51:36.697 | |discussion|community-decision| | <p>There <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/5635/which-freeware-analysis-software-most-closely-resembles-the-functionality-of-matl">is a question on the main page that I do not think fits our site</a>, but no one has voted to close.</p>
<p>What is everyone's opinion on this?</p>
| Does this question seem to fit? |
<p><a href="http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/01/announcing-a-new-way-to-change-your-profile-picture/">There is no longer any requirement for gravatar!</a> </p>
| 120 | 2010-10-26T11:36:57.433 | |feature-request|status-completed| | <p>Is there an alternative for displaying an avatar other than Gravatar-</p>
<p>I don't really want to sign up to the Gravatar hosting service, would it be possible to add an option so users could just use an existing image URL?</p>
<p>I have an avatar hosted on another service, it would be more convenient to just cu... | Is there an alternative to Gravatar? |
<p>Nominations for ♦ Moderators starts at about 30 days after the site graduates from beta. That gives sufficient time for users who do not participate in the beta to use the site before nominations and elections.</p>
<p>The <em>elections</em> will work much in the same way as the <a href="http://blog.stackoverflow.co... | 123 | 2010-10-26T23:49:21.873 | |discussion| | <p>What's the process for moderator elections?</p>
<p>Do they all follow <a href="http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/02/stack-overflow-2010-moderator-election-begins/" rel="nofollow">this pattern</a>?</p>
<p>Who can initiate elections? And how?</p>
| How will moderator elections work? |
<p>I believe that digital signal processing and digital signal processors are relevant topics here.</p>
<p>Processors, because they are hardware devices and electronics hardware is relevant.</p>
<p>Processing, because digital signal processor programming quite often involves having machine-language-level programming ... | 126 | 2010-10-27T15:34:11.607 | |discussion| | <p>In the last few days we have had a few questions related to DSP.</p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/5712/how-to-compare-two-audio-files">How to compare two audio files?</a></p>
<p>and</p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/5635/which-freeware-analysis-software... | Does DSP fall into our realm or Stack overflows realm? |
<p>I'd like to pitch a name idea here; I couldn't find a Q&A thread where that's being done.</p>
<h2>ElectronFlow</h2>
<p>Electronics and Robotics: Engineering and Design</p>
| 149 | 2010-11-09T20:15:42.620 | |discussion| | <p>I have noticed that we have many more questions being asked about consumer electronics that do not fall into the scope of this site. I think some of this confusion comes from "Electronics" in our name. Might there be a better name for this site?</p>
<p>I am not sure, just throwing this out there to see what others ... | Possible Name Change? |
<p>If the question can be totally answered with a link to Wikipedia/by cut-and-pasting part of the article, it should be closed as it is too broad.</p>
<p>If the question is diving into any specifics, sure, ask away.</p>
| 170 | 2010-11-23T23:23:16.533 | |discussion| | <p>What do we feel about questions for novices?</p>
<blockquote>
<p>"What is Ohm's law?"</p>
<p>"Explain the difference between AC and
DC"</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Would we be replicating the Wikipedia page?</p>
<p>Would multiple overlapping answers be a good or bad thing?</p>
<p>Would beginner questions be do... | Google and the lowest common denominator |
<p>Sadly for you Stack Overflow only has migration paths for graduated sites.</p>
<p>On top of that, I fear that the overlap with Stack Overflow isn't large enough to justify a migration path. </p>
<p>So, it's better to just ask the question here again. Duplication doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially when the ... | 173 | 2010-11-30T13:31:58.607 | |support| | <p>I'd like to transfer my questions from Stackoverflow to E&R. I made some questions there that fit better here. How is the best way to do this?</p>
| Transfer question from SO to E&R |
<p>examples:</p>
<p>Q5: What contrast voltage worked for you using Atmel's maxTouch products?</p>
<ul>
<li><em>possible tags: Atmel, maXTouch, touch, AVR</em></li>
<li><em>tags I would exclude: AVR, maXTouch</em></li>
<li><em>remaining tags: Atmel, touch</em></li>
</ul>
<p>Argument:</p>
<ul>
<li><em>AVR</em> : Has ... | 180 | 2010-12-10T01:10:53.507 | |discussion| | <p>I see E&R is using both <em>pic</em> and <em>microchip</em> as tags. <em>microchip</em> is too ambiguous to be effective. Many users may tag their question with it, seeing many matches, if they are using any old IC, or "microchip", in their design, not realizing that it is a company name. Also, any question usin... | meta-tag debate: Microchip (and PIC), Atmel (and AVR) |
<p>Should be all fixed.</p>
<p>There are synonyms in the correct direction now. let me know if there are more you have problems with.</p>
| 189 | 2010-12-16T19:48:33.383 | |discussion|tags|tag-synonyms| | <p>The following tags (specifically their synonym associations are backwards) seem awkward:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/recommend">recommend</a> should be "recommendations", e.g. "This question is about recommendations ...", as the (plural) answers will be recommendatio... | Awkward tag conjugations |
<p>So <strong>"about a job title"</strong> is too specific, but <strong>"<a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/7637/can-you-identify-this-logo/7640#7640">identify this logo</a>"</strong> is not?... How hypocritical. The question was perfectly fine IMO.</p>
| 190 | 2010-12-16T20:11:13.193 | |discussion|closed-questions| | <p>I am wondering about the reason given for closing the question: <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/7933/where-would-a-robotic-engineer-work-closed">Where would a robotic engineer work?</a>. It was closed as "too localized".</p>
<blockquote>
<p>"This question would only be relevant
to a sma... | Closed Question: Where would a robotic engineer work? |
<p>$$R1 \parallel R2 = \frac{R_{1}R_{2}}{R_{1}+R_{2}}$$</p>
<p>$$P = IV = I^{2}R = \frac{V^{2}}{R}$$</p>
| 192 | 2010-12-17T17:17:06.483 | |bug|status-completed|tex| | <p>Want (La)TeX. 'nuff said. </p>
<p>e.g. <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/8011/getting-higher-power-output-by-using-more-resistors/8014#8014">Ugly single-line equations</a></p>
<p>The problem is still here, two months later. I could add some more examples which I've read and written in the... | TeX should be supported on E&R, like on Math.SE, et. al. |
<p>When a question is borderline, I think what you need to consider is</p>
<ul>
<li>how much 'broken windows' harm will leaving this type question around on the site cause? If other users see this and think it's on topic to ask this class of question, how bad would that be?</li>
<li>is this a quality question? is this... | 193 | 2010-12-17T18:36:14.403 | |discussion|scope| | <p>We have had a number of questions come in that were clearly consumer electronics, but now we have a few coming in that are boundary questions.</p>
<p>There are a few specific instances we have just had both about <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/7992/does-leaving-a-cell-phone-on-charge-all-t... | What line do we draw for consumer electronics? |
<p>No. </p>
| 312 | 2010-12-24T01:09:35.167 | |discussion| | <h1>grep</h1>
<ol>
<li>To gather information related to a particular subject from a large amount of data.</li>
<li>To ascertain the meaning or function of an explanation.</li>
</ol>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/8231/what-are-programmable-logic-ics-of-different-complexity-used... | Is the verb "grep" too geeky for E&R? |
<p>On new sites, it is <em>critical</em> that you are visiting this URL every day:</p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/review">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/review</a></p>
<p>You want to be vetting all the new users that come in to the site, helping the ones that seem salvageable, and gently... | 316 | 2010-12-28T12:54:44.087 | |discussion| | <p>The StackExchange community is different from <a href="http://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/index.php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">other forums</a>, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">communities</a>, or <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">wikis</a>. It is a great stew o... | Asking Questions And Getting Answers |
<p>This is all taken care of.</p>
<p>Solar now redirects to solar-cell. If this does not work out well we can fix it in the future.</p>
| 330 | 2011-01-03T19:23:50.570 | |support|tags| | <p><strong>Resolved</strong></p>
<p>
All <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/solar" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'solar'" rel="tag">solar</a> should be <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/solar-cell" class="post-tag" title="show questions... | Tag Cleanup: rename [solar] to [solar-cell] |
<p>I was about to ask a question if we should even have the computer tag at all.</p>
<p>Computers is a very broad term.</p>
<p>Also 3 of the 14 questions that have been tagged with it have been closed.</p>
<p>EDIT:</p>
<p>I don't mean to start a discussion here about if the question should be opened or closed. I am... | 334 | 2011-01-06T11:19:07.613 | |discussion|tags| | <p>Should <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/computer" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'computer'" rel="tag">computer</a> and <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/computers" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'computers'" r... | Merging Computers/Computer Tags |
<p>There was a site called "Automotive Electronics Development" a couple months ago. However, it was closed down in Pruning Season as being too niche in comparison to E&R. </p>
<p>I know this because I was a follower (one of ~30). Now, it's only existence is a few comments in the Google cache that can be found ... | 341 | 2011-01-07T21:49:03.357 | |discussion|asking-questions| | <p>I'm an active member of stackoverflow.com and I was looking to see if the stackexchange suite of sites had an automotive one. This was the closest I could find. Is it appropriate to ask automotive questions on this site? It's not really a electronic automotive question...</p>
| Automotive questions appropriate for this site? |
<p>If it's about electronics or DSP, it fits on Electronics & Robotics. Write the entire question down instead of linking to a question in other forum, but I don't see an issue with additionally linking to show you have looked.</p>
| 355 | 2011-01-15T11:13:16.213 | |discussion|asking-questions|legal| | <p>Hi all, I´m usually use other manufacturer forums to search specific information with their manufacturer tools. For instance, now I´m using System Generator that is Xilinx ise design program that works through simulink (Matlab). Af first glance I wouldn´t use this site to ask questions related with SG because Xilin... | It´s a correct practice to put links to questions from other forums? |
<p>Well, we are trying to make the tools self documenting. Which tools in particular did you need guidance on, what do you think those pages should say on them to help you?</p>
| 362 | 2011-01-20T00:20:02.283 | |support|moderation| | <p>I'm looking for some documentation on the moderation tools. I am aware of the <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/tools?tab=links">tools page</a>, and I can see the various 'edit' and 'synonyms' links when I explore the site. </p>
<p>However, I really don't want to just poke around and break somet... | Documentation for moderator tools |
<p>You can flag a question for moderator attention if you think it requires a new tag and you lack the rep to create a new tag -- simply click the "flag" link.</p>
| 365 | 2011-01-22T17:24:42.320 | |discussion|tags|tagging| | <p>Hi all, I am not still have enough privileges to create new tags in this not meta site. Is there any way to suggest new tags to anyone who have enough privileges?
The new tags I suggest are: floating point arithmetic or floating point operations.
Thank you so much.</p>
| How can I suggest new tags? |
<ul>
<li>I would call <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/line-power" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'line-power'" rel="tag">line-power</a> <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mains-power" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'm... | 372 | 2011-01-24T03:26:22.200 | |discussion|tags| | <p>Another set of hilarious tags: <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/voltage" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'voltage'" rel="tag">voltage</a>, <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/current" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'c... | Tags: Voltage, current, and power (oh my) |
<p>Please see</p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/editing-help">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/editing-help</a></p>
<ol>
<li><p>You must indent code 8 spaces if you want it to be code formatted <em>as part of the list</em>.</p></li>
<li><p>If you need code formatting immediately following a l... | 383 | 2011-01-29T19:05:02.877 | |support|formatting| | <p>Something was breaking in <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/9523/2118">this question</a>. A code-formatted block follows a numbered list, and the code isn't <code><pre></code>-formatted. I'm guessing that it has to do with the many <code><</code> and <code>></code> symbols involved. Workar... | Code formatting following numbered list breaks |
<p>If we ever get a ton of Xilinx questions that would be a good tag, but until then it's going to be overly narrow.</p>
| 388 | 2011-02-02T16:40:51.387 | |feature-request|tags|asking-questions| | <p>Does anyone create a tag for the xilinx program called 'System Generator'?
Thank you so much!</p>
| Asking for a System Generator tag. |
<p>Sorry, this should be fixed now.</p>
| 390 | 2011-02-04T07:59:20.043 | |bug|status-completed| | <p>Today I found the oragne button.<br>
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/y1IuU.png" alt="suggested edits"></p>
<p>Unfortunately, when I click on it, I get sent to <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits</a>
which gives me Pa... | Suggested edits pending approval leads to nowhere. |
<p>I assume this is in reference to your question <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/9766/what-half-bandgap-voltage-reference-is">What half-bandgap voltage reference is?</a></p>
<p>The <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/revisions/01af3c32-8a39-44f8-88dc-fc832ccf3561/view-source">first... | 392 | 2011-02-05T08:55:20.623 | |support|hyperlinks| | <p>When typing in question:</p>
<p>I came across term "half bandgap voltage reference". I expect it is somehow related to ">bandgap circuit. Do you know what it is, know its schematic or principle of operation?</p>
<p>The link is not displayed correctly in the browser (while it is correctly displayed in the preview).... | Inserting link bug |
<p>Like this: </p>
<pre><code>[Link text](http://www.example.com)
</code></pre>
<p>The same syntax also works in questions. See <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/37758/inline-links-in-comments">this meta.SO feature request</a> for the original request. </p>
<p>Also, you can always click the 'help' li... | 397 | 2011-02-07T19:26:02.850 | |support|comments|markdown| | <p>I want just the text to show up as a link, no URL. I've tried the basic HTML </p>
<pre><code><a href="www.bing.com">Check out this new website I found</a>
</code></pre>
<p>but it doesn't work.</p>
| How can I use a URL in a comment? |
<p>I would think <strong><em>yes</em></strong>, it is acceptable, but not very interesting, and may not get much effort put into responses. A question should be definitively answerable (and the CW option used sparingly, not just to mask bad questions). It would be better to ask multiple questions, each with a different... | 399 | 2011-02-07T21:33:36.337 | |discussion| | <p>Is it acceptable to post a question (with the community wiki option) along the lines of:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Please review this circuit design for
doing blah and let me know how it can
be improved / is anything wrong with
it from a common design perspective:</p>
<p>--Insert Diagram Here--</p>
</blockqu... | Circuit review acceptable? |
<p>These are new privileged and changed badges, so this is by design.</p>
| 405 | 2011-02-10T14:18:47.967 | |bug|status-bydesign|badges| | <p>I logged in this morning to find that I'd received the privilege of protecting questions, which requires about half the reputation that I currently have, and, upon logging into Meta, that I'd earned the "Citizen Patrol" badge for my first flagged post: an operation which I'd done some time ago, and haven't done rece... | Random privileges and badges popping up |
<p>Does it even make sense to group multiple organizations into one tag? I'd rather tag IEEE-related questions <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ieee" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'ieee'" rel="tag">ieee</a>, SAE: <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/ques... | 412 | 2011-02-17T04:26:20.403 | |discussion|tags| | <p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/standard" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'standard'" rel="tag">standard</a> is general, and apt to be misused. Something related to <strong>standards organizations</strong> would be helpful, though. Examples: IEEE, ISO.</p>
<p>Wh... | in search of: official standards organization tag |
<p>No, you should ask it as a separate question. In your <em>new</em> question, you can reference the previous post but please do not ask a question in a question.</p>
<p>On Stack Exchange, questions are very specific and each answer is a self-contained response to that question. If you start adding followup questions... | 415 | 2011-02-18T15:36:30.520 | |discussion| | <p>There's an older question that had an answer accepted long ago, but the project in discussion is very similar to one I am currently working on. Is it okay to ask for additional information regarding the project that the question was about? The poster of the question probably had to overcome the particular problem I ... | Is it okay to ask a question as an 'answer' to a question? |
<p>Hi.</p>
<p>This is the OP of the question that triggered this one. </p>
<p>I don't understand this attitude at all :</p>
<p>1) there are many questions where you have a problem but don't yet know the solution. I need something that does X but I don't know if the solution is to buy an existing product (that I have... | 428 | 2011-03-07T14:57:48.293 | |discussion|asking-questions| | <p>Is it OK to ask questions that are really just requests to brainstorm with the community? </p>
<p>I'm referring to <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/11128/brainstorm-on-wireless-buttons">this question</a>, which just came to the top of the main page. It caught my attention because it mentio... | Brainstorming in the form of a question |
<p>OK, we made it so that the only inline math delimiter supported here is <code>\$</code> from the default of <code>$</code></p>
<p>(if you are wondering why we don't like the other "defaults" from MathJax such as <code>\(</code> and <code>\[</code> try typing them yourself in the answer box below to see why. Hint: M... | 440 | 2011-03-09T15:02:44.997 | |bug|status-completed|tex| | <p>The current LaTeX escapes of <code>$ ... $</code> need to be changed. </p>
<p>Several questions/answers have two dollar signs in the text somewhere. E&R has a number of questions with prices, and we usually use USD, represented by the <code>$</code> character, as the monetary unit. This has lead to a number ... | TeX Delimiters should be changed |
<p>We have enabled MathJax on this meta. </p>
| 441 | 2011-03-09T15:19:21.887 | |bug|feature-request|status-completed|meta|tex| | <p>As seen in the recent <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/q/434/857">sandbox question</a>, TeX markdown isn't enabled on Meta. </p>
<p>It should be. It's needed for the sandbox, and we're likely to have questions on how to do something in TeX, TeX bug reports, TeX feature requests, and, after the ... | TeX markdown needed on Meta |
<p>This was a small decoding issue when consuming data from the API (yes, we use the public API internally for things like this). It is fixed, but we cache that data for about an hour. It should work after that.</p>
| 460 | 2011-03-18T03:42:16.363 | |bug|status-completed|tex| | <p>What's this about? The question on the main site (that links to <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/434/test-the-new-latex-markdown-in-this-sandbox-question">Test the new LaTeX markdown in this Sandbox question!</a>) gives an error $\LaTeX$ ("Misplaced \"), but when meta links it... | $\LaTeX$ turning into $\\LaTeX$ in the meta titles on the main site |
<p>Looking at the number of up votes endolith's comments have got on <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/q/12217/2426">this question</a>, it seems to me that 50% of people think that shopping questions are on topic, and 50% think they're off topic.</p>
<p>So, as a compromise, why don't we agree to tag all n... | 475 | 2011-03-20T16:15:39.330 | |support|specific-question|closed-questions|shopping| | <p>Recently, one of my questions got closed by the moderator Kortuk. This is <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/11726/is-there-any-place-to-get-surface-mount-ir-leds/">the question</a></p>
<p>In summary, it's basically "where can I buy a certain kind of LED?" Kortuk closed this as "shopping advic... | Questions about where to buy something is offtopic? |
<p>Good call, we'll fix that; this is a standard image across the network.</p>
<p><img src="http://sstatic.net/stackoverflow/img/life-instructions.png" alt=""></p>
| 484 | 2011-03-22T03:11:08.117 | |bug|status-completed|design| | <p>I am not sure if this is an artifact of the new design or something that has been around, but I just loaded a page with an image that didn't load:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/maUUW.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
| Missing Image on Unsubscribe Page |
<p>OK I fixed the close reason on main, and the title on meta. Thanks for the heads up.</p>
| 502 | 2011-03-28T12:19:21.283 | |bug|status-completed| | <p>I have noticed since the change(E&R to ED) that closing questions does not have the right statement that reflects the changes form E&R to electronics design. </p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/12144/runtime-error-in-visual-simulation-environment-microsoft-robotics-studio">Examp... | Closed question statment at the bottom of question is incorrect |
<p>Beta badges have been awarded - thanks for the catch.</p>
| 525 | 2011-03-31T21:16:20.680 | |support|status-completed|badges|beta| | <p>I just got a new badge, so I checked out the <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/badges">Badges</a> page, and started looking at which badges I and other users have earned. </p>
<p>No one has earned the 'beta' badge: <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/badges/16/beta">https://electronics.stack... | Why does no one have the 'beta' badge? |
<p>This is normal, due to caching on the server.</p>
| 529 | 2011-04-08T14:19:54.520 | |support|asking-questions| | <p>I am not sure if this is really a bug or not, but right after asking a question it shows up immediately on the home page (http://electronics.stackexchange.com/), but takes about a minute before it shows up on the questions tab (http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions).</p>
<p>Every time it happens to me my f... | Asking a question it doesn't show up right away under 'Questions'. |
<p>While Powerline-communication should deal with the high voltage/mains stuff (as there is IEEE 1901 Broadband over Powerline (BPL) and PLC/PLCC, pretty much the standardized name for Powerline Communications), the low voltage stuff could be Parasitic Power, like in 1-wire applications. Phantom Power could work too.</... | 535 | 2011-04-13T23:32:17.003 | |discussion|tags| | <p>Lots of people think it's better to have a single cable that carries both power and 2-way data to a device, rather than one cable for power and a second, separate cable for data.
Do we already have a tag for that -- perhaps "powerline"?
Should we make up a new tag -- perhaps "bias-tee" or "power+data" or "cable-redu... | How should we tag questions that deal with power and data through the same cable? |
<p>I have changed the visited color to be lighter. this change will be in the next deployment.</p>
| 541 | 2011-04-14T15:56:30.970 | |feature-request|hyperlinks| | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/499/contrast-of-hyperlinks">Contrast of hyperlinks</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>We've already had <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/q/499/1240">this</a> question and it seems tha... | Link contrast in comments on main site needs to be fixed! |
<p>Every user has a Network Profile. They've put the graph there. </p>
<p>To see your graph, in your user page click on <a href="http://stackexchange.com/users/e509bf02-6c21-4bad-a298-74ba8a748762">Network Profile</a>. Then click the <a href="http://stackexchange.com/users/e509bf02-6c21-4bad-a298-74ba8a748762?tab=repu... | 544 | 2011-04-27T17:26:09.880 | |discussion|reputation| | <p>Awhile back the reputation used to be displayed by a line graph, not its a bar graph does the old reputation graph exist? Or has it been superseded? </p>
| What happened to the old reputation graph? |
<h2>The issue at hand</h2>
<p>This question is only peripheral to our scope. This example of a peripheral question happens to be about configuring an IDE, but you might find an analogy at the other end of the spectrum in physics questions - Knowing about, for example, what doping does to silicon isn't a core issue wh... | 553 | 2011-05-03T16:20:34.897 | |discussion|closed-questions| | <p>A discussion came up in chat (the transcript begins <a href="http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/922439#922439">here</a>) that started about <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/13760/how-do-i-program-avrs-on-macos-x">this question</a>.</p>
<p>Some think it is on-topic, some think i... | What should we do with questions that are fuzzy as to if they are within our scope? |
<p>Chiphacker was a Q&A site running the old Stack Exchange platform which was created and administered by <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/3/littlebirdceo">Marcus</a> and <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/21/mad-z">Maddy</a> of <a href="http://littlebirdelectronics.com/" rel=... | 586 | 2011-05-18T12:24:38.973 | |discussion| | <p>New users probably knowing nothing about Chiphacker and the intent of this question is becoming a reference for them.</p>
<p>So, what is the history of the site Chiphacker?</p>
| What is Chiphacker? |
<p>Well, this gets messy. The site support questions related to electronic design(even though our name has changed again). However, if the question is from a consumer electronics perspective it will not fair well. This often becomes quickly apparent as when you as a question like:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Is it true that... | 587 | 2011-05-19T09:59:46.070 | |support| | <p>It's quite usual to have general questions on batteries, for example:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Is it true that all else being equal huge rechargeable batteries like ones used in power tools and electric cars have better lifetime compared to tiny batteries like ones used in cell phones?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Are such q... | Are general electric battery questions okay here? |
<p>According to <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/faq">the FAQ</a>, this is the right place to ask questions about: </p>
<blockquote>
<p>the theory and simulation of electromagnetic forces</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Some of the questions you've asked on physics (such as the <a href="https://physics.stackexch... | 603 | 2011-05-23T23:14:04.327 | |discussion|electronics|website| | <p><a href="https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/176/endolith">I've asked a bunch of questions</a> on physics.stackexchange.com that I feel fall more under physics than electronics, but I'm not getting very satisfying answers. Should I just have asked them here?</p>
| Should I ask physics of electricity questions here? |
<p>Yes, it is a duplicate for two reasons: </p>
<ol>
<li>The topics are the same; all their on-topic sample questions are on topic here.</li>
<li>We want their expert users and questions!</li>
</ol>
<p>We're called Electrical Engineering, but there has been <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/question... | 605 | 2011-05-24T23:04:37.247 | |discussion|scope| | <p>The Area 51 proposal <a href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/18854/electronics-electrical-engineering">Electronics & Electrical Engineering</a> (nine months old) was recently flagged as a duplicate of this site.</p>
<p>While I've looked at your FAQ, I don't know the field well enough to be comfortabl... | Does the Area 51 proposal "Electronics & Electrical Engineering" duplicate this site? |
<p>Forgettaboutit. So the units ends up on the next line after the value just like other words do, big deal. Why must the value and its units not be allowed to flow when it's fine for other words that belong together to flow? It's OK to break "five feet" or "six volts" but not "6 V"? That makes no sense. Once... | 620 | 2011-06-10T19:30:38.173 | |support|formatting| | <p>when typesetting numbers and units, my preferred way is to have a space between them for better readability. For instance, one would typeset</p>
<p>24 V</p>
<p>instead of</p>
<p>24V</p>
<p>It is actually not only my preferred way of writing because it just reads easier, it is also the way recommended by standard... | Preventing line breaks before physical units |
<p>You hit the daily reputation cap - in every 24-hour period, the system will allow you to gain at most 200 reputation points from up-votes. For various obscure accounting reasons, you were 2 points shy of 200 when that vote was cast, hence it gave you +2 instead of the normal +10. You also got +0 for several up-votes... | 626 | 2011-06-20T17:59:06.047 | |support|reputation| | <p>I'm shocked :-)<br>
While an upvote for an answer usually is awarded with 10 points, for one answer I only got +2. Why is that? </p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/y965l.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
| Why do I get only +2 for an upvote? |
<p>You can now see if a flag was invalid or not (though not which moderator dealt with the flag). We'll continue improving the interface on that screen to clean things up a bit this week.</p>
| 636 | 2011-06-24T14:52:30.347 | |bug|feature-request|status-completed| | <p>I am not sure if this is a bug, me not knowing where to look, or a feature request.</p>
<p>I know I can see all of my flags and see how many are valid versus invalid, but I have not been able to find any way to determine which are which.</p>
<p>It would sure be nice from a learning perspective to know what was con... | Seeing what flags are marked as invalid. |
<p>This is correct; the ability to view (and act on) deleted questions and answers is a privilege earned at 10k reputation:</p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/privileges/moderator-tools">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/privileges/moderator-tools</a></p>
| 639 | 2011-06-26T09:23:05.137 | |discussion| | <p>I'm used to be able to see my own deleted answers, and it makes sense: this way I can undelete them if I want. But I also can see others' deleted answers. Is this on purpose?</p>
| Deleted answer visible |
<p>This is a test.<br></p>
<p><p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/J3rwQ.jpg" alt=""></p>
<p>I got this image uploaded to imgur by using the ctrl-g method Kevin mentioned. Thanks Kevin, it seems to work. One minor wrinkle though. When I hit ctrl-g I got this little window that had a text line in it that said som... | 641 | 2011-06-26T14:23:10.810 | |support| | <p>Let's say I'm answering a question and want to include a small schematic image in-line with the answer.</p>
<p>First, the documentation for the post editor markup language is well hidden. When I actually had this problem, I looked all around the window and found no "edit help" link or anything like it. I found so... | How to get embedded images saved on server? |
<p>Jeff's answer covers the tools the engines give us fairly well. Here's how to use them:</p>
<p>Just flag the posts as spam, and downvote. </p>
<p>If enough users flag as spam ('enough' == 5 for now), a temporary block happens automatically. There were 7 flags across the three answers and user account itself when ... | 645 | 2011-06-27T07:44:01.607 | |discussion|spamming| | <p>Recently a new user's account had to be deleted after he spammed the site three times in a few minutes. Do we have measures to avoid that he creates a new account and repeats this? Like for instance a blacklist of sites you can't link to in questions or answer? </p>
<p><em>edit</em><br>
I just realized that blackl... | How do we avoid spam recidivism? |
<p>If it is a great part of the answer it should be edited into the answer. This site is not like a forum, sometimes comments can be productive, but they should not answer the question, it should be in the answer.</p>
| 651 | 2011-06-29T11:27:26.777 | |discussion| | <p>I agree that comments often are just chat, but at times they offer valuable additions to an answer. Yet they don't seem to be included in text search indexing. Why not?</p>
| Why aren't comments included in indexing? |
<p>This issue has been brought up in various forms a decent amount on meta.StackOverflow and probably wont change by a question here. See the meta post "<a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/25404/why-does-stack-overflow-allow-duplicate-display-names">Why does Stack Overflow allow duplicate display names?</... | 654 | 2011-07-01T12:06:44.320 | |discussion|user-accounts| | <p>Apparently user names don't have to be unique, see the comments to <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/16216/how-do-i-read-a-datasheet-for-a-solid-state-relay/16221#16221">this answer</a>. Was this a good idea? In the comments I mentioned it's only clear which Mark is which because one is the OP... | Unique user names? |
<p>@lerting the post owner in a comment is not necessary. If comments are only between you and the post-owner, and nobody else is commenting, then an @lert to the post owner at the beginning of a comment will be removed.</p>
<p>You can only notify one person in a comment. So in your example, you'd be notifying the po... | 657 | 2011-07-01T13:18:56.560 | |bug|status-bydesign| | <p>In <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/16240/is-my-sparkfun-rs232-shifter-smd-faulty">this question</a> I was trying to write this comment:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>@RichardFreedman @MattJenkins @vicatcu
please check my edit to the question
and see if I have understood
correctly. Thanks!</p>... | @Names disappearing in Comments, Why? |
<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/61713/comment-reply-name-with-space">This Meta Post</a> explains how the @lerting works in detail.</p>
| 661 | 2011-07-02T05:56:25.250 | |support| | <p>In answers, when people refer to other users they put a "@" before the username, like "@someuser said this and that". What's the function of the "@"? Is it to make clear to the reader that it's a username? Or for a script so that it can convert it to a link to the user's profile (future enhancement)? In that case, w... | What is this "@" before usernames? |
<p>This problem has been reported before, for example <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/63644/pressing-enter-in-comment-box-unexpectedly-submits-form">here on meta.stackoverflow</a>. Please don't respond like <a href="https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1289/threatening-emails-from-jeff-atwoo... | 675 | 2011-07-07T20:51:54.247 | |support| | <p>Maybe this is a dumb question, but I keep accidentally posting answers or comments by hitting the Enter key to insert a paragraph break. I'm finding myself writing text in an external editor and pasting to prevent this problem. Is there a description of the text editor behavior somewhere so I can learn how it work... | "Enter" key behavior |
<p>First off, I don't care for these sorts of questions. They don't fit the Q&A model <em>at all well</em>, and if not handled carefully can balloon into an unreadable mess of everyone's Favorite Things.</p>
<p>That said, there <em>is</em> precedent for them. But it is <em>not</em>, as JGord suggests, <a href="http... | 686 | 2011-07-11T19:14:26.203 | |discussion|close-reasons|subjective| | <p>There's a question on the front page:</p>
<h1><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/16630/neat-electrical-tricks#question">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/16630/neat-electrical-tricks#question</a></h1>
<blockquote>
<p>I'm looking for any neat tricks/hacks you have come across in yo... | Does 'Neat Electrical Tricks' belong on our site? |
<p>This sounds more like home improvements to me TBH.</p>
| 688 | 2011-07-11T22:49:32.720 | |discussion|on-topic| | <p>We have a <a href="https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/12166/electric-wires">question on physics.SE</a> that is off topic there. It deals with electrical wiring, which from what I've heard is not necessarily considered electrical engineering, but I wanted to check whether such things fall under the scope of ... | Would this wiring question be appropriate on EE.SE? |
<p>I wouldn't want this to change. I like to keep various windows in specific places on the screen, and it's annoying when I click on a link and a new browswer pops up in some random location. Please, let's not have this site be like too many other obnoxios sites and pollute my screen with extra windows.</p>
| 703 | 2011-07-13T15:53:34.757 | |feature-request| | <p>I keep finding myself forgetting to open links in a new tab and losing track of where the question I was reading is at.</p>
<p>I don't see any cases that someone would be reading a question and not want a link in the question to open in a new window or tab. So would it be possible to just make this the default?</p>... | Would it be possible to have links in a question open in a new tab? |
<p>I wouldn't have given it special thought but since you're asking: I don't think it belongs here. It's about electricity, like home wiring, not about electronics, and especially not about electronic design. This isn't useful for any DIY-er, nor for a professional electronic designer. Maybe you should have mentioned a... | 711 | 2011-07-15T08:00:51.263 | |support| | <p>Today I saw a 10 kilovolt cable being dug under ground and I have detailed questions.</p>
<p>For example, I saw the cable mark and googled it and found that the cable features a copper wires shielding - I'd like to know what's the reason to have copper wires shielding in a 10 KV power cable.</p>
<p>Also I saw that... | Are question about power transmission okay? |
<p><em>I started this as a comment to Jeff's answer, but it became a bit long.. :-)</em></p>
<p>Probably just me, but I don't understand the need for the synonyms. If somebody starts typing <code>swĭ</code> she'll see <code>switch</code> and <code>switches</code> as suggestions. And instead of just having one clear ta... | 733 | 2011-07-18T19:28:32.243 | |support|tags| | <p>Under the <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/tags?tab=popular">tags tab</a> there are tags such as <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/switches" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'switches'" rel="tag">switches</a> that shows up but is a synonym of <a href="... | Are we supposed to be seeing tags that have been merged/synonym with other tags? |
<p>I find it bizarre that a serious question that involves mains power, resistive heating (and the removing thereof) and driving a fan is considered as not suited to this forum.</p>
| 741 | 2011-07-24T00:21:09.560 | |discussion|asking-questions| | <p>I am not sure if this is the right forum for my question, but I am unclear what the FAQ means by </p>
<blockquote>
<p>it is not about</p>
<p>...
consumer electronics such as media players, cell phones or smart
phones, except when designing these products or hacking their
electronics for other uses...</... | is it appropriate to ask about how to 'hack' a hair drier by removing the heating coil here? |
<p>Yes, that could be better. My suggestion for an accepted answer: fill the circle with the olive green, and make the checkmark in it white.</p>
| 743 | 2011-07-24T17:55:42.407 | |feature-request|design| | <p>I just accepted an answer to a question, but I couldn't tell that the check mark had changed. </p>
<p>Looking at them side-by-side, it is easier to tell the difference, e.g.:</p>
<p>Unselected</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/IyfzR.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>Selected</p>
<p><img s... | Should it be easier to tell that the 'accept answer' button has been toggled? |
<h2>TL:DR;</h2>
<p>I understand <code>TL:DR;</code> as a synonym for "summary", and, if it's interpreted that way, it's probably OK.</p>
<hr>
<h2>The long version:</h2>
<p>I understand your sentiments, but don't think we need to ban <code>TL:DR;</code>. I have never used it the way a literal reading would suggest,... | 749 | 2011-07-25T14:15:03.023 | |discussion| | <p>I have seen the use of <code>tl:dr;</code> a fair amount around here. Since the literal meaning of it is "Too Long; Didn't Read" I feel like it goes against the general attitude that we want on this community.</p>
<p>If the post really was too long, then why not post a comment saying the question is hard to follow ... | Thoughts on the use of tl:dr; |
<p>I have updated the description and it will show up after our next deploy.</p>
| 754 | 2011-07-28T14:05:02.807 | |feature-request|status-completed|closed-questions| | <p>The text which appears after closing a question reads:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>closed</strong> as off topic by User1, User2, Mod♦ Date at time</p>
<p>Questions on Electrical Engineering - Stack Exchange are expected to generally relate to electronics, within the scope defined in the <a href="https://electronics.... | Should the off topic close text be changed? |
<p>That's because the answer is from the question owner.</p>
<p>Self-accepts do not dock to the top of the question, but rather follow the normal answer logic. Since this has 2 upvotes currently, that means it'll sort randomly among the other answers with 2 upvotes on the question.</p>
| 758 | 2011-07-29T15:57:24.010 | |bug|status-bydesign| | <p>On <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/5413/power-up-initialization-of-hd44780-lcd-module">this question</a> the accepted answer isn't always ranked first; sometimes it's preceded by another answer with same number of upvotes. It doesn't always happen, just like for other answers with the same n... | Accepted answer not ranked first |
<p>Olin's mention of "the self-evident logic of how to ask a question" suggests that, while he may have great experience in Electrical Engineering, he has little to no experience asking questions on a forum. (I assume one is due to the other)</p>
<p>I do have a lot of experience asking questions on many forums, and I ... | 770 | 2011-08-08T10:27:15.123 | |discussion| | <p>Why are we so strict with closing questions, can't we just leave them open? It seems like it would be a lot better if we worked with the person asking the question to improve it. On PICList people can either just ignore the question or help to improve it, why don't we just take this policy instead of closing questio... | Why are we so strict with closing questions, can't we just keep them open? |
<p>I think this is really a judgment call; options 1 or 2 are both valid depending on the circumstances.</p>
<p>If you strongly feel option 1 is the best fit, go for that.</p>
| 776 | 2011-08-10T19:21:35.537 | |discussion|editing| | <p>Sometimes, there's a question that almost answers one that you have. Perhaps the title is similar, or the other question specifically excludes a point that you're interested in. </p>
<p>For an example case, <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/12480/whats-the-difference-between-npn-and-pnp-tra... | Expanding a question's scope vs. Starting a new question |
<p>I prefer 2: the original publisher. They're inherently the most up-to-date, and component manufacturers have more reasons not to let their links rot than some uninvolved third party like <a href="http://www.alldatasheet.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.alldatasheet.com</a>.<br>
If I notice one I change a link to a cop... | 778 | 2011-08-10T20:48:07.897 | |discussion|uploading-images| | <h2>On the Image Uploader:</h2>
<p>It's common knowledge that we have an image uploader (see the <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4376/please-allow-image-uploads-directly-onto-the-site">original request</a>, the <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/75491/how-to-upload-an-image-to-a-post/7... | Should we have a standardized PDF upload service/location? |
<p>This is the little-known <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1177/allow-questions-to-be-saved-as-drafts-prior-to-posting/66238#66238">Save Draft</a> feature:</p>
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<ol>
<li>We save drafts automatically for all new answers <em>and</em> new
questions once every 45 seconds. </li>
</ol>... | 783 | 2011-08-15T17:15:44.733 | |support|answers| | <p>I was answering a <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/18204/bluetooth-usb-dongle-on-peripheral-side">question</a> with 0 answers at the time, and while still in the middle of typing my answer, I got a notification that someone else had also answered the question. I clicked on the notification a... | Can't get rid of partially entered answer |
<p>It represents how useful your close/reopen/moderator etc flaggings have been.</p>
<p>Every time you flag something and the action you flagged it for gets taken your flag weight increases. If the flag is 'declined' then your flag weight decreases.</p>
<p>People with larger flag weights get their flags higher up th... | 793 | 2011-08-27T09:16:54.093 | |support| | <p>On my profile page it shows a number after "flag weight". I understand it's related to the number of flagged questions/answers, but what exactly does the number signify?</p>
| What's "flag weight"? |
<p>Usually, the 'active' list is used to mean <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=active">https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=active</a>, the list found by clicking the Questions button/IC and the "active" tab. I believe you're referring to the front page 'active' tab, locate... | 796 | 2011-08-29T13:32:30.053 | |support| | <p>Today I noticed a question disappearing from the "active" list, though it didn't appear to be deleted; at least I still could access it with the question number in the URL, and it got another vote after it disappeared as well. Can anybody explain what happened here? </p>
<p>The question in question :-) is <a href=... | Question disappearing from "active" |
<p>You had <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/18783/multiple-pulses-from-single-button-press/18785#18785">an answer which was deleted</a>, but it got an upvote. As such, the system still expects that you have +10 from it, but it isn't reflected properly on your displayed reputation or your profile... | 798 | 2011-08-30T18:07:50.680 | |support|reputation| | <p>I noticed that my daily rep counter got stuck at 190 instead of the usual 200 cap.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/EO66h.png" alt="rep overview"></p>
<p>I still get upvotes, but no rep.<br>
I tagged it as a bug, but maybe there's another explanation.</p>
| Rep capped at 190 instead of 200 |
<p>I think this is the difference between answering the asker's question, and provide a general solution which is useful for everybody. "Don't try it" may be useful for the asker, but not a general solution. General solutions can get upvotes, the solution to the asker's problem can get an accept.</p>
| 808 | 2011-09-08T18:59:34.020 | |discussion| | <p>I (and presumably other users) have been discouraged by the answers given on EE that don't really answer the question but dispute the method/solution to the problem. For example, in <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/19224/how-to-avoid-interference-in-wireless-communication/19226#19226">this q... | What is the policy towards answers such as "don't try what you're doing" |
<p><a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/812/whats-the-meaning-of-highlighted-questions/815#815">Kevin's on the right track</a> - just not completely there. The highlighting is indeed the one that is used for favorite tags. However, you probably don't have any favorite tags.</p>
<p>What happene... | 812 | 2011-09-10T12:13:28.047 | |support| | <p>Sometimes the Top Questions page shows certain questions highlighted, like the accelerometer question in the screenshot below.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/od6Xl.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>What does the highlighting mean? </p>
<p><strong>edit</strong><br>
From Oli's comment it ... | What's the meaning of highlighted questions? |
<p>We are sending out a one time verification email when you sign up to receive new answers on a questions that you ask. This is to confirm that there is a real human at the other end of these emails we send.</p>
| 817 | 2011-09-14T17:31:45.733 | |support|email| | <p>It said the following. It is really from StackExchange? I have been on this site for some time and don't think I have ever seen such a message.</p>
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<p>Please verify your Electrical Engineering Email address</p>
<p>To make sure that you receive emails, we need to confirm your email
address. All... | Got an "email verification" email. Is it really from here? |
<p>I have absolutely no idea what was broken here. It works now, so <em>something</em> has changed, but I don't know what. I even compiled and ran the code as it was back when you encountered this issue; still no luck.</p>
<p>I'll tag this <a href="/questions/tagged/status-norepro" class="post-tag moderator-tag" titl... | 835 | 2011-09-30T16:25:07.920 | |bug|status-norepro|syntax-highlighting| | <p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/16910/what-transaction-modeling-and-packet-linking-frameworks-exist">This question</a> uses an ASCII diagram and has the verilog tag. </p>
<p>To avoid syntax highlighting, I used the <code><!-- language: lang-none --></code> directive. Per the <a href=... | lang-none specifier only works in preview |
<p>Images uploaded through the image uploader in the editor are uploaded into Stack Exchange's imgur account. Images on this account should never* disappear. Should anything happen, there are a couple processes we've got going on that would allow us to correct for something serious happening.</p>
<p>The image loads ... | 843 | 2011-10-04T21:22:59.117 | |discussion| | <p>We've been telling people to put images using the included tool which hosts them on imgur and that they're supposed to be hosted there and safe from removal by the host.</p>
<p>I've seen that it isn't so, but I didn't at the time I didn't save links to particular questions and answers. Now I found <a href="https://... | For how long is imgur supposed to store images used on this site? |
<p>So what happened was that on October 25th (normally I won't expose this but since it's positive and it helps explain quite a bit, I will) the question owner upvoted your answer.</p>
<p>A day later when they accepted it they removed their upvote (by accident I imagine since...) then immediately re-upvoted it. This ... | 865 | 2011-10-26T12:25:40.620 | |bug|status-bydesign| | <p>I understand about the 200 cap on reputation gained per day by upvotes of answers. It was my understanding that the reputation gained from answers being accepted were exempt from this limit, and I'm pretty sure I've seen this in action before.</p>
<p>However, what happened yesterday confuses me and is inconsistant... | Bug in 200 points/day limit logic? |
<h1><strong>Can you ask this here?</strong></h1>
<p>Well, sure, Meta is a fine place to ask a question about promoting projects. Here are a few ways of promoting this, in increasing order of applicability to your situation:</p>
<h2><strong>Commercial advertisement</strong></h2>
<p>If you want to run a commercial ad, s... | 866 | 2011-10-27T21:55:36.250 | |discussion|support| | <p>As many of you know, I've been working on a project with fellow electronics.stackexchange user <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/4245/majenko">Majenko</a>. Much of the project is born out of conversations on this site. The electronics.stackexchange has played a pivotal role in shaping the design o... | Can I ask this here? |
<p>This edge condition was recently fixed, so it should work now.</p>
| 888 | 2011-11-18T13:16:24.300 | |bug|status-completed|comments| | <p>When you are typing a new comment or editing an existing comment, if you @lert 2 people you get the warning saying you can only @lert 1 person. This is of course by design.</p>
<p>However, if you remove the @lert of the second person within 5 seconds and then hit the button to submit the comment you receive an erro... | Can only comment once every 5 seconds error appears even when a comment wasn't posted |
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<p>should tags be descriptive of what they represent or rather convey some sort of instruction to the user.</p>
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<p>Definitely the latter, meaning <strong>the tag wiki should spend <em>most</em> of its time explaining <em>how to use the tag properly</em>.</strong></p>
<p>It can do both, bu... | 890 | 2011-11-24T14:41:41.393 | |discussion|support|tags| | <p>There are quite a few tags that need cleenup, better descriptions and wikis. My question is, should tags be descriptive of what they represent or rather convey some sort of instruction to the user.</p>
<p>Examples:</p>
<p><a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mosfet" class="post-tag" titl... | Should tags, specifically excerpts, be descriptive or instructive? |
<p>I think answers should be well-researched and authoritative. If the answer is a brief one-liner or just a pointer to a website or really needs more input to confirm, I'll leave it as a comment.</p>
| 931 | 2012-01-19T14:08:41.950 | |support|comments|answers| | <p>I tried to search for this in the FAQ and in other questions, but my doubt remains.</p>
<p>Opening <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/25305/sequential-logic">this</a> question, but happens quite frequently, I've seen that sometimes are posted comments containing what is effectively an answer t... | How to choose between answer or comment? |
<p>This is a very good place to ask questions in relation to this. I am not sure why every suggests you go to a different site, but we have been slowly growing in all of our subject areas and firmware has always been a goal.</p>
| 947 | 2012-01-25T09:00:33.257 | |discussion| | <p>I am new to Ateml (AVR) - new to embedded programming. I just looked at <a href="http://forum.atmel.com/" rel="nofollow">http://forum.atmel.com/</a> and they seem to have only two forums: "Touch Technology" and "CryptoMemory".</p>
<p>Maybe I missed something, but I have a shed-load of questions and none of them fit... | Where's the best place to ask questions about Atmel AVR software (with FreeRTOS)? |
<p>Thanks to the great work of the people at <a href="https://www.circuitlab.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CircuitLab</a> (special thanks to Yuan Wei, the developer who worked with me on this), this is now live.</p>
<p>For <s>users with at least 11 reputation,</s> <a href="https://electronics.meta.stackexchange.com/... | 963 | 2012-02-01T13:30:40.667 | |feature-request|status-completed|editing|circuitlab|schematic| | <p>I've noted that really often, questions require the use of schematics, and answers too.</p>
<p>Since I've seen some online editors, why don't we also embed one, to encourage the use of proper schematics?</p>
| Embedding a schematic editor |
<p>No, I hadn't read it. Thanks for pointing that out. </p>
<p>We try to keep our scope amicable to both experts in electrical and electronics engineering and to enthusiasts. The experts would probably like to avoid seeing 100 versions of <em>"My electronic gadget X broke, here's some fuzzy pictures of a burned sp... | 966 | 2012-02-03T22:30:26.983 | |discussion|scope| | <p>Have you read the first presentation of this site, in the <em>About</em> page??</p>
<p>It says: </p>
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<p>This is a free, community driven Q&A for electronic hardware hacking enthusiasts.</p>
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<p>Isn't what many people here try to avoid???</p>
| The real scope of this site |
<p>I don't think the discussion on the question you linked is really a great example. I don't see any reason why a schematic can't have color on it unless it causes it to actually be unreadable, which I have never seen.</p>
<p>I am not sure there is even a problem so it is hard for me to support an FAQ discussing some... | 982 | 2012-02-12T02:07:15.137 | |support|schematic| | <p>Could we have a FAQ or wiki on how to best embed a schematic?</p>
<p>The discussion on this question: <a href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/26484/how-arduino-power-supply-works">How Arduino Power supply works</a> shows that the process can be confusing, particularity to newcomers.</p>
<p>Having ... | FAQ or wiki on how to best embed a schematic |
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