Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Lengthy “blog style” attempts to answer - how to treat them?
As prompted by Russell to open a discussion on Meta :)
I don't doubt they are done in good faith, and I applaud any effort to learn a new topic, but how should answers that seem to be an attempt by ...
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Should I edit questions to place a large image below the text?
With new questions I often see a large image at the top and the description and question only below that.
I used to edit these questions to place the text on the top, so you can read that first. This ...
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Should we blacklist the [constant] tag?
Quite a few questions that are about constant voltage or constant current sources are often incorrectly tagged with constant and either voltage or current. We already have constant-current (and ...
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Should the [operational] tag be made a synonym of the [operational-amplifier] tag?
The operational tag often appears on questions about op amps. In many cases questions would be tagged with both operational and amplifier instead of the single, correct operational-amplifier (at least,...
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Schematic diagram background colour preferences
Should we have any recommendations regarding the schematic diagrams we post? In particular, I find it quite problematic to read schematics on a black background such as this one: -
Taken from here. ...
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What should the [transfer] tag be used for?
The transfer tag currently has no wiki guidance and is generally used on questions for one of two purposes:
Questions about transfer functions, in which case the question is often tagged both ...
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Answering the *individual*, or answering *the question*?
This question will likely be quickly closed: How to make a POE switch?
In itself, the question is valid, although a bit broad. We could expound on what constitutes a Power-Over-Ethernet switch - from ...
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What does the community think about homework answers?
There have been a few users that have continually posted answers to homework questions. This has been discussed here. I think the best course of action is to allow the community to downvote these ...
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Why is somebody editing my questions?
I don't post many questions, but the few that I have --- somebody is coming in and making VERY MINOR edits.
I mean like picayune grammatical or punctuation changes. Trivial stuff. Example -- I put 3 ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election Results
Electrical Engineering's fifth moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the new moderator is:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly—please thank them for ...
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Why was this question on T Flip-Flops closed? Can we reopen it?
T-flip-flop without using a clock - This is a perfectly reasonable question in my opinion, and there is also a datasheet from Analog Devices of a T Flip-Flop that does not use a separate clock, that ...
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Merge / synonymize [current-source] and [current-sink] tags?
I noticed that we have current-sink which has no tag wiki. I was going to add some information to the tag wiki but I noticed that we also have current-source, which mentions current sinks and (...
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Does Digital Design fall into our realm or Stack Overflows realm?
Lots of digital electronics, FPGA Design, Register Transfer Level (RTL) Design questions have been asked and continue to be asked on Stack Overflow, a site for programmers.
Take a look at this one, ...
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Make pga tag a synonym of programmable-gain-amplifier tag?
Yesterday I created programmable-gain-amplifier (and added the tag info for it) after I answered a question yesterday about such an amplifier which used pga. There are a few questions which use the ...
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Do you want the electronics questions from Stack Overflow to be moved to Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange?
I have created a question on Meta Stack Overflow to request blacklisting of our favorite tags like fpga, analog-to-digital-converter, asic etc. on Stack Overflow so that questions on those topics ...
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Why did my suggested edit to improve a good question get rejected?
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/278965
This was the question: Why does decreasing the voltage also decrease the circuit frequency?
It's a good question but was closed ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election
The 2021 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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2021 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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Burninate [small] tag
I don't see the usefulness of the [small] tag. There are only 4 questions tagged with small.
I suggest to burninate it.
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2021 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Electrical Engineering is scheduled for an election next week, ...
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Possibly clarify the “shopping” OT closure rule
Appropriate closure?
This closed question below (OT, the "shopping" issue) wasn't actually asking for reviews of commercial electronic devices, or for component purchase recommendation. ...
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How to deal with datasheet requests
We have quite a lot questions that basically state
I need a datasheet for XYZ, but haven't been able to locate one.
I'm assuming the search for ...
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What is this closed question lacking in clarity?
What can cause voltage irregularities across an IC chip?
The question seems to me straightforward and answerable, though since only one person tried I understand there is a problem with it. Probably ...
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Are problems regarding headphones off-topic?
So I found this Stack Exchange site and I have problems with the left earbud of my wired headphones, and after overdoing such instructions here, I decided to ask about my problem with my earphones so ...
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Are questions of the form “What is the best way to explain concept/phenomenon X in answers” appropriate for EESE and/or EESE/Meta?
There are times, in the process of answering questions, that there is a mismatch between what I am hoping to convey, and how some site participants interpret what I am trying to convey. (I will give ...
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Migrated question that might have been relevant on here
Just seen this question:
https://engineering.stackexchange.com/q/39823/10902
migrated from here to Engineering.
I added a comment that the most similar application of that sort of safety was in car ...
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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Time to burninate [small-electronics]?
There has been a tag small-electronics on this site, and I have no idea what it means. Is there such a thing as small and big electronics? I suggest to delete the tag small-electronics
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Homework answers on demand
Four questions from this person have been answered by the same member and appear to contravene what is said here: -
How do I ask and answer homework questions?. In particular, this advice is given: -
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What is the Etiquette for Solution Verification of Homework?
I'm wondering what the standard procedure for getting my homework's solution verified by the community is.
I was thinking of going through the following steps:
Posting the original question.
Showing ...
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The topic of wholesale energy markets
I am interested in posting some questions on EE.SE on the topic of wholesale electricity markets as opposed to Economics.SE
This topic is taught in many 400-level undergrad EE degrees that have a ...
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Can we have cite button?
Math SE has got a cite button to give citations on homeworks or etc. Can we have it here too?
Do we want a cite button? What are the advantages\disadvantages?
A quote from math stack exchange to ...
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Suspicious upvotes
Quoting from a posting on Arduino Meta: "User dannyf gets every day since October upvotes on three to five old answers. That makes around 2400 points in two months."
Looking at this bit of ...
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How can we discourage [deletion and] reposting of questions by the same user?
We've recently seen a number of incidents where a user posts essentially the same problem several times.
Sometimes, they delete the old question and post [almost] exactly the same thing again, ...
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How should we deal with Phone/Tablet charging questions?
We seem to get a lot of questions from people who want to do something related to charging a mobile phone or tablet. Sometimes they want to build a charger, sometimes they merely want to buy one.
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Discussion about voting of answers to a question on VHDL
I believe that this answer which got 22 upvotes is wrong for the following reason:
The author's claim that "s_out is only going to change once - to the value it was when the loop ended, which in ...
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How should technically incorrect answers be dealt with?
Can I use the Meta site to discuss technically incorrect answers so that the the community could reach a consensus that the answer was incorrect and appropriate action can be taken?
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Poster edited the question in such a manner that it became hard to identify the original problem
Reccently I came across this phenomenon: In some questions, the mistake that led to the question was pointed out by other users due to either someone answering the question or pointing out the mistake ...
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Why has my question received downvotes and has been considered as duplicate?
A question of mine about ground has received three requests to be closed and has received like two downvotes. The three requests say that my answer is a duplicate, probably of this other question.
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How do we stop the upvoting of incomplete questions and unattempted homework?
How do we stop the upvoting of unanswerably incomplete questions and unattempted homework?
I could list examples, but we've all seen plenty, so that's beside the point.
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Handling users who persistently try to use EESE as a blog or discussion forum
Stack Exchange sites are founded on the principle of being distinct from the rest of the Internet by trying to do one thing, and do it well.
That one thing is to provide specific answers to specific ...
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What were the most significant events in the EE community (from 2014-2015)?
I have a question about my Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange post: What were the most significant events in EE community from (2014-2015)?
Hello, my name is Ane and I'm a business student working ...
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Stepping down as a moderator
I'm stepping down as a moderator.
StackExchange has developed too many systemic problems.
I don't think that putting time into StackExchange is the right thing for me to do.
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UPDATE:Posted answers could cause a battery to explode. New user cannot add an answer
Found incorrect answers on your site. Posted answers could cause a battery to explode. New user cannot add or correct the answers to protected question. Do I just walk away or what can I do? Thanks.
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Would it be a good idea to have more “this question belongs on another site” options?
While reviewing our close dialogs, I noticed that as of now, only migration to
meta.electronics and
superuser
is possible.
I'd propose we add multiple:
StackOverflow because there's the occasional &...
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Can overaggressive, unproductive, targeted negative commenting here be unproductive? Did it happen on my question? Can it be reduced?
For years I'd sensed an edgy, unfriendly arrogance from occasional interactions with some users here in Electronics SE that I don't experience in any other science and engineering SE site, along the ...
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Is there a reason for [tag:texas-instruments]?
Is there a rationale for the texas-instruments tag?
I don't see how that's a sensible category for engineering questions – if you want to talk about something like msp430, there's a tag for that, and ...
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Adding a community specific close message for homework
After checking the stats on custom closing messages, homework seems to come up at least 30% to 50% of the time. Because of this, creating a custom closing message would be beneficial.
Homework ...
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What do we do about a deeply wrong answer to a homework question?
A multiple choice homework question is posted, of which only two answer choices fit even the most obvious requirements, and it is then a simple matter to figure out which actually matches the problem ...
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What do you think about starting and electronic repair site in Area 51?
There is currently no place for some consumer electronic repair questions on stack exchange, maybe it would be good to create a site specifically for those questions and maybe even electronic hobbyist ...
