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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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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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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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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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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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confusing censorship
EE.SE (Electronics Engineering Stack Exchange) is a Q&A (Question-and-Answer) engineering website. Unlike other sites, discussion and open-ended "projects" are a poor fit here. ...
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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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Where can I ask about Electrical components or circuits?
Actually, that IS design considerations. Go ahead and ask your question.
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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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What should I edit in my previous questions?
I didn't down vote any of your questions (or answers,) but I can see why you might not have gotten any upvotes:
Language problems. It looks to me like English is not your native language. You use ...
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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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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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Replace question based on comments
Good question - thanks for asking it. The object of the site is to collect answers to (on-topic) questions for future use.
I would recommend a variation of one of your options, namely:
Post an answer ...
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Strange voting activity on my answers
I guess my main concern is that I don't want anyone to think I am somehow behind this.
I will be offline soon as it's past end of day here. I just wanted to put your mind at rest: I've done a quick ...
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Is it allowed to ask if a contributor is for hire as a consultant?
Posters that would welcome such an offer likely:
are signed up with their real name, so you could search them on the web
leave contact details in their profile pages
For others, it should be assumed ...
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Was the "Tour" removed?
The tour is now back in the top bar drop-down menu.
See the earlier version of my answer below, where SE said this was an unintentional change which they were fixing. It has now been fixed (at least ...
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Free/Open Source software marked as freeware and when edit suggested (twice), got rejected both time
Your edits were nit-picks that added no value to the answer. In the context of the answer, "freeware" is good enough. It indicates that the software can be used without payment, which is all that is ...
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Anomalous reputation scoring behavior
You can see the chain of events under the reputation tab under your profile:
Your edit was at 07:26 which would have bumped it on the front page and 25 minutes later it received a downvote. Then the ...
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can anyone tell me how to scale down PNG images i put in an answer
When you upload images using the "add images" button, the images get copied to Imgur, and multiple resolution copies are made in addition to the original. By default, the original is selected. However,...
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Why was this question deleted by "community"?
The question got deleted because the user account itself was deleted.
The account was deleted by the user himself.
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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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