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Reason for question closure unfounded
My question has been closed on the grounds of "Questions on the use of electronic devices are off-topic as this site is intended specifically for questions on electronics design." Whoever ...
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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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How to edit the question to address the likely reasons that it was closed?
How low have mains frequencies gone? What areas once used 30 Hz, and why?
Votes are +10/-3, there are three good answers with summed votes +18/-0, and the answers.
The stated close reason is:
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Can you lose privileges with loss of rep?
Suppose your rep is just over the borderline of a new privilege (eg. reviewing the edit queue), and you get downvoted, or downvote something yourself.
If the loss of rep brings you under the ...
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My great question is downvoted and wrong answered
What should i do?
That is the question, specifiq question on a possibility of making some device.. i tried to stick all the rules: "Instrumental amplifier as a guitar preamp"
But it was downvoted by ...
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Question about RAMS engineering closed as "opinion-based"
I'm surprised to see that this question How to roughly know if a electronic scheme will fail soon and protect from it? has been put on hold as primarily opinion-based.
It could (maybe) have been put ...
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May I ask about my B Sc computer science project?
We're doing a bachelor's degree project about formal methods applied to external hardware security. In practice I wonder how much we can abstract and simplify a model of external hardware specifically ...
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Why was this question migrated from StackOverflow to here, and can we please revert that? [closed]
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/283084/does-cpu-work-like-gpu-when-it-comes-to-prediction-and-if-statements
is clearly formulated in a way that emphasizes what the programming-...
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Is this question ok for electrical engineering?
I have an idea for a sports equipment invention "a new product" that a track and field athlete can use to practice and train his sport. The technology involves a laser beam. I'm wondering if my idea ...
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Is there any way to revoke an outdated question, when my need is somewhat similar? Or do I have to create a new one?
I have a question similar to this . It's nearly 5 years old.Is there a way to re-ask this question?
Or
Can I ask a question Similar to that without getting down voted?
Coz, I posted a question like ...
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Can I ask About Blynk in Electrical Engineering
Can I ask questions related to Blynk in Electrical Engineering?
Blynk is an App that allows comunication between A Phone,Tablet and etc. with Microcontrollers such as Arduinos.
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Why is the wireless tech comparison too broad?
Earlier today, I asked the following question
Comparison of wireless communication technologies: bluetooth vs wifi
One comment stated
I'm sorry but I think this question is too broad and too ...
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May I, or may I not ask part specific questions?
I'm new to the world of microcontrollers. I would like to know whether the part I selected is pertinent to my specific case, or if I have misinterpreted something.
The question guidelines ...
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What to do with these seemingly contradictional answers to two questions?
While looking around for identifying some components on ee.se, I stumbled over the following two questions:
Identifying a resistor with implausible or impossible color bands
Identifying this resistor/...
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Answer flag declined because of the age of the answer
Do antistatic bags have conductive interior, exterior or both?
This is the Question with the answer that I flagged.
I came upon this question by way of a link from a comment on an answer to a ...
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Can this question be fixed?
Why is hardware multithreading not more common in embedded systems? was put on hold for being "opinion-based". Is there any way that the question can be refined to be answerable (by SE standards)?
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Can I flag a question for deletion even if it was answered?
I'd like a question deleted since the problem was solved and the situation was probably unique so it is probably not relevant for anybody anymore:
How to make Quartus II find the Altera DE2 board?
I ...
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Kindly suggest how to improve my question
I've gotten downvoted again as I'm learning what I think is quite difficult:
How to wire a system for Nios 2 in Qsys?
I've had some problem and I might be asking similar question over and over but I'...
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How can I improve this question?
I put in a question where I try to learn FPGA and I got downvoted for no reasoned mentioned. Could you help me improve the question since it is not a bogus question and not a bad question since it is ...
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Is a linux question for FPGA on-topic?
I want to know how and if and when / where the run linux if possible with my FPGA (Altera DE2). Can I ask about it here or should there be another forum for that question?
Update
I asked it on SO:
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Why was my flag declined?
I flagged this answer as "Not an answer" because it's a link-only answer, and this is our policy on that and the FAQ states:
Answers that do not fundamentally answer the question may be removed. ...
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Was my real-time programmering question off-topic?
I want to learn real-time programming. I asked this and it's near getting closed:
What features distinguishes real-time from other types of os?
Should I not at all have asked this question or could ...
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Questions about where to buy something is offtopic?
Recently, one of my questions got closed by the moderator Kortuk. This is the question
In summary, it's basically "where can I buy a certain kind of LED?" Kortuk closed this as "shopping advice does ...
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Where are the hams?
So am working on answering this question:
Can I merge two impedance matching circuits?
but it seems like I'm the only person trying to do an in-depth analysis of it. Does this site have anyone with ...
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This would have been popular on Chiphacker. *How* should I post it here?
I want to post the following question.
How does the TI Evalbot pcb-on-wheels avoid damage from ESD?
If you haven't heard, TI is running a $125 discount on their Stellaris-based Evalbot. And it's ...
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