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My rude/offensive flags on insulting comments were declined
Some of the comments called into question here reminded me of someone that I hadn't thought about in years, my 10th and 11th grade electronics teacher. Hey, Mr. Gibbs - if you're reading this, thanks ...
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My rude/offensive flags on insulting comments were declined
The way I've had the situation described to me by some of the other moderators is the following:
If a user is responsible for perhaps 5% or so of the monthly site
"value" (for one arbitrary ...
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My rude/offensive flags on insulting comments were declined
Personally, I'D prefer a more liberal removal of snark by our mods, especially toward newbies. I've seen snark comments in our meta removed by SE community, and see that as a guideline.
That said, ...
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I was smacking my screen cause I thought it had to be a display failure
That was a legitimate question that should not have been closed. It isn't about how to design something, but is definitely about the design of something. It's about the technology itself, which is ...
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My rude/offensive flags on insulting comments were declined
I think is is partly a cultural issue, and partly a clash of what people perceive as is this sites goal. The following might seem a bit exaggerated, but this is just the result on concentrating on the ...
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How can I help? Novice in Electrical
You are not a novice user. You have been around for nearly two years. On every StackExchange site on which you've posted questions, you have been told patiently how to improve them, and how to ...
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How to add a schematic if my mobile device can't run the schematics editor?
We take any kind of schematic, as long as it's clean.
Get a piece of paper, a ruler, a pen and get drawing and draw a clean schematic:
Make sure you use the right schematic symbols
don't use any &...
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Nix the reverse tag
I would agree; many of the questions tagged would be covered by the reverse-polaritytag latest questions tagged with reverse-polarity.
The first question in the ...
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My rude/offensive flags on insulting comments were declined
I see that my extended comments on Tim Post's answer are similar to other 'answers' which are comments on the broader subject - so I'm converting them here to an 'answer" with some additions and ...
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Are software usage questions on-topic if they belong to a logic analyzer?
Asking about some detail of software that is for electrical engineering or related to equipment primarily for electrical engineering is on topic. We often get questions about Eagle, LTSpice, MPLAB, ...
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My rude/offensive flags on insulting comments were declined
I'm active on a few SE sites, and read EE.SE fairly regularly. IMO, most of the example comments are not that bad:
Enough with those stupid wiring diagrams already!
"Stupid" clearly refers to ...
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How to use several similar CircuitLab schematics in one post without redrawing the whole diagram?
Here is a way:
Create the initial schematic the usual way. Do you stuff on CircuitLab, and when the first version is done, click "Save and Insert". That makes you go back to EE.SE, and there ...
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Free/Open Source software marked as freeware and when edit suggested (twice), got rejected both time
Yes, I rejected your edit.
Because yes in the context of the answer I do not care.
An edit causes all kinds of stuff to happen (including my time in reviewing it) and for the purpose of using ...
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Is EE Stack a free design and advice website?
Yes!
It is most definitely a free advice website, and do not share your experience that the majority of the question are "design this thing".
Pure "design this for me" questions are not received ...
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Can I answer my question with a comment screenshot?
In general what you're proposing is OK but don't do it as a screenshot, instead copy the comment(s) as text to the answer and give credit to the person that wrote it with a link to their profile. It's ...
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My rude/offensive flags on insulting comments were declined
I'll post this as a related "answer" in its own right. If it gets a life of its own I'll leave it here and delete it from its position as an appendix to my answer. If it gets beaten to a pulp I'll ...
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Where can I ask about Electrical components or circuits?
Actually, that IS design considerations. Go ahead and ask your question.
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Are questions about cell phone CPUs on-topic here?
I would say that questions about cell phone CPUs are subject to the same rules as every other type of CPU - shopping questions are off-topic, but design questions are fine.
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Is it ok to ask for help getting started
This really depends on how you ask your questions.
If you ask
How do I design [insert large, complicated system here]?
then your question will probably be too broad. If the answer would look more ...
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I downvoted an answer today and that downvote shows to have deducted my reputation by 1. Why?
Another way to look at it is, once you've earned a few hundred reputation points, you can spend those hard-earned points moving bad answers down.
Downvoting bad questions is free, but downvoting a ...
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My great question is downvoted and wrong answered
What should i do?
You should move on.
Your questions are being downvoted because of your rants and unprofessional comments, not because of some conspiracy or:
(from your prior comments)
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Contacting a user for editing feedback
Flag them for moderator attention. That's what we're here for.
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I want to bulk-edit a domain change for Rod Elliott's Audio Pages
Phew! All done!
Manually changed every link, and did some very minor cleaning on the respective answers (and sometimes the questions, while they were already bounced to the front page).
Also got me ...
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Why did this question get closed?
That question was crap and stupid and not about electrical engineering. It looks better after some edits, but here is the entire original question text:
I need the dependence of my led(approximate ...
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How can I help? Novice in Electrical
This is getting ridiculous.
You have clearly learned nothing from your previous questions here. Attempting to answer this question would be pointless, and just repeating what was previously said ...
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Are there any other changes I should make to this question to get it reopened?
While I appreciate the effort you have put into editing your question, it is still far too broad. The nub of it seems to be:
How do I write multiple streams of real-time data to a filesystem?
And ...
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Votes cast: month, week
This indicates how many votes you have cast this month and this week.
Why the number of votes for a month smaller than the number of votes for the week? That's because the month is 2 days old and ...
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Why do we have an electricity tag if one can't use it?
The tags electrical and electricity were already banned back in 2015 because they not useful in the context of this site. Every question asked in this Q&A is about electricity/electronics, so ...
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