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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Why did so many posts in May 2023 not get any votes from anyone other than me?
Why is no one voting on good questions
I was the only one that voted on the following questions despite many of them having multiple comments from other users, and a lot of views, and a lot of effort ...
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Canonical or exemplary questions
I saw a question about Gaussian on reddit/comp_chem that contained a long input file without any code formatting. I wanted to find a good example of a Gaussian ...
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Why has this answer not received a single upvote in almost 6 months?
As with the following three threads:
Why did this question not get any votes in the last 5.5 months despite getting 61 views and comments from at least 3 different people?
Why is nobody voting on ...
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Why did this question not get any votes in the last 6 months despite getting 49 views and 4 upvotes on a comment?
As with the following two threads:
Why did this question not get any votes in the last 5.5 months despite getting 61 views and comments from at least 3 different people?
Why is nobody voting on this ...
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Recognition Day! Thank you to all the users who have continued to make this site possible!
MMSE has helped so many researchers over the last ~3.5 years, and a large part of this was made possible by the users that have voted on so many of our posts. Also, seeing how many of our avid users ...
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A new close reason? VLQ questions for which the user is not making any effort to improve *extremely* LQ parts of the question
Specific examples can be found, but I'll avoid singling out any specific users or their questions unless it's really necessary. Basically, some questions have such extreme lack of care in the ...
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Why is nobody voting on this question, but so many people are voting on the comments?
I'm curious why at least 4 people have voted on the comments without voting on the question, here:
Voting wasn't this way from 2020-2021 and much of 2022. Similar questions in the past have had over ...
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Please use hyperlinks instead of raw URLs
Instead of writing:
"I have been following the example laid out in: https://github.com/maxhutch/deprecated-quantum-espresso/blob/master/PHonon/examples/example15/reference/zno.ph.in"
the ...
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Have we had any posts on MMSE that were generated by AI or written wtih the help of AI?
The Quantum Computing Stack Exchange has had several cases of posts that were deleted due to looking like they were written by ChatGPT or written with ChatGPT's help.
Has MMSE experienced this, ...
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One question per post please
If your post contains more than one question, or even looks like it contains more than one question, please do not be surprised if people click the following button:
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Demanding references for answers to questions that are not reference requests
I propose that for questions that are not tagged with the reference-request tag (i.e., questions that are not of the form "What are some good references for X?" or similar), answers are ...
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Please do not add "middle sidebar ads" on this site
What is going on in the SE network
Many sites in the tech category suddenly got a Meta post saying that their main sites will be getting some huge and very colorful ads in their sidebars on May 10th. ...
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Please provide your full input file and your full output file (and error message if there is one)
If your question is related to a calculation that didn't work, please provide your input and output files in a code block. We have a 30,000 character limit, which ...
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Why do we ask you to use ```code``` blocks rather than screenshots?
code blocks are easier to read (we can give an example of code next to a screenshot if needed)
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How to address questions that can have multiple answers?
Some questions start with 'how' where the user asks how to achieve a certain task. Usually, there are more than one ways to achieve that task. Now when we are writing the answer, which of the ...
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Balancing negativity with positivity
If you come to a main or meta site only to downvote or leave negative comments, some people might question your motives. If you really want to help, why are you not upvoting good content or leaving ...
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Preferred English version to use on MMSE
Is there a preferred choice of English (US or British) version that is preferred while asking questions and writing answers on ...
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We are on the brink of getting answers to the following closed questions:
The idea/origins of this question is from the comments on this answer:
How it differs from that answer is that the answer linked maintains questions which are still "alive" and are closed to ...
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MMSE editing policy
Unfortunately, all edits on questions or answers lead to the question being bumped to the top of the front page. This is something that happens across the Stack Exchange network, and MMSE has no ...
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Conditions under which a question should be deleted
I have been extremely supportive of nearly all questions here. I've never downvoted a single post on this site, yet I've voted on 5000+ posts. I encourage users not to downvote, and to avoid voting to ...
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Clarifying close vote reasons
Due to the close votes on this question: Transiesta warning (Error on inverting X6/C7 with error: 1) (one of them being an "opinion-based closure" and the other being "needs more focus&...
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Removing "duplicates" from mailing-list/forum RSS feeds
In many of our chat rooms (e.g. the Quantum ESPRESSO one), we use RSS feeds to inform us when new discussions take place on mailing lists or forums. However we get feed items posted not only when new ...
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Why do we not allow links to Google Drive files?
This post applied not just to Google Drive but to similar file sharing platforms such as Sharepoint, Dropbox, etc.
Google Drive is not accessible to all users, depending on their country of residence
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2022: 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 preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Be careful with edit summaries!
For a while, I've been planning to write a series here (MMSE.Meta) about tips on how to get along well with people in the SE network (which can be hard at times, when people are very passionate!).
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Just out of curitosity: Would anyone closer to UTC+8 be interested in becoming a diamond moderator?
It was agreed on Meta that we'd wait a while before our next election: We had an election relatively recently, shall we keep our current moderation team for a bit longer?
My opinion on that has not ...
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Please remove the hyperlink in the sentence "Would you like to automatically move this discussion to chat?"
Under certain conditions, the following message appears:
"Please avoid extended discussions in comments. Would you like to automatically move this discussion to chat?"
except with a ...
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Congratulations on another strong Winter Bash for Matter Modelers in 2022!
As Winter Bash 2022 comes to an end I want to thank everyone who participated!
This is a follow-up to last year's post: Congratulations! Matter Modeling rocked at Winter Bash 2021! I was initially a ...
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Looking for a deleted post
If you're looking for a deleted post that you would be able to see if you had the URL (e.g. if it's your own post or if you have enough points to view deleted posts), here's a place where you can make ...
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"ab-initio" vs "ab initio" when we cannot use Italic font?
For titles, the Stack Exchange network does not allow us to use Italic font, without resorting to the use of MathJax, which we've agreed not to use in titles, in these discussions:
MathJax or Unicode ...
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Bounties! At the end of each month I plan to give away a lot of my rep via bounties. Please suggest questions to receive bounties :)
SE tracks our users who earn the most rep yearly, quarterly, monthly, and weekly. I often find myself at the top of all of these lists, and I figure that if I'm on the top of all of these lists, it ...
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Is MMSE the right site for asking materials science questions?
I am Materials science Ph.D. student. I just want to know is it the right site I am in to ask my question related to materials science related field?
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Who should I try to recruit to help answer these questions?
I would be willing to devote more of my time and energy towards increasing our user base to include experts in the following areas if you can let me know who the appropriate experts are!
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Why did this question not get any votes in the last 5.5 months despite getting 61 views and comments from at least 3 different people?
This is a question about a specific-question: Force convergence in Wannier orbitals based DFT code
I am curious to hear opinions about why this question didn't deserve any votes over such a long ...
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Unanswered questions that also appear elsewhere
Many of our questions get repeated as GitHub issues or in other places. Once in a while it might be helpful to check here to see whether or not questions have been answered elsewhere so that they can ...
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Why have people stopped voting?
We have hit another all-time weekly low in voting:
Previously in the week of Sunday April 10 2022 we had an all-time low of 106 votes on the main site.
Recently in the week of Sunday August 21 2022 ...
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The next step in the evolution of MMSE: upgraded reputation levels!
After:
a failed proposal in 2018,
a new proposal in August 2019,
entering the commitment phase in December 2019,
entering Private Beta in April 2020,
entering Public Beta in May 2020, and
having ...
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The MMSE Sandbox
Similar to this sandbox, you're encouraged to write drafts of your questions here before posting them on the main site, if you think this may be beneficial. I was tempted to come up with a set of &...
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Why has MMSE activity reduced so much after 9 January 2022?
There seems to be a drop in usage after the red vertical line:
We had:
59 posts and 33 questions in the "week of" 2 January 2022, and
59 posts and 31 questions in the "week of" 9 ...
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A faster process for migrating questions from other sites?
Occasionally a question gets migrated from a different site to this one (e.g. Chem.SE, Physics.SE, etc.). This often happens after a diamond moderator from a different site consults us in the MMSE ...
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To what extent do we want to enforce the use of MathJax and ChemJax in MMSE posts?
If I write a 2000 character answer that has one reference to the molecular formula H2O, is it necessary for this to be changed to $\ce{H2O}$?
Already the above sentence looks a bit weird because the ...
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Interest in turning on the YouTube viewer?
In Astronomy SE meta I asked Interest in looking into adding the YouTube viewer? and the justification was straightforward; in my answer there I documented almost 40 previous posts with links to ...
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MathJax in titles: Can we give users a warning prompt (or an error prompt) when they try this?
There's many reasons not to use MathJax in our titles: MathJax or Unicode in titles? Does it matter? (pun intended)
Ask yourself why Stack Exchange immediately disqualifies all questions with MathJax ...
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The logistics around referring our users to other places
It's extremely rare, but I occasionally see people referring our users to other forums or mailing lists.
We have migrated a tiny number of questions to Engineering.SE but only when it became apparent ...
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MMSE Art Gallery
Similar to Journal of the Matter Modeling Stack Exchange, we have had some great pictures posted on this site. Here's an appreciation thread for all the beautiful pictures!
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What ads are you seeing on this site?
As someone who regularly advertises MMSE to many people, how MMSE looks when people visit it upon my recommendation, will affect my personal reputation.
I recently noticed that with only 141 rep on ...
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Since our community agreed that we don't want unregistered users participating on the site, what shall we do if the SE company does not listen? [duplicate]
Considering the average number of votes we see on Meta posts here, the 11 upvotes on the question Does the Matter Modeling community want to ban unregistered users from asking questions? and 9 upvotes ...
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Journal of the Matter Modeling Stack Exchange
Some of our answers (or questions) here rise to the level of a "mini-publication" for their high-standards in original research or educational/pedagocial value. This is an incomplete list of ...
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Which of these two formats do we prefer for reference lists?
Format #1
Format #2
I'm not looking for a 1-dimensional poll which simply counts nothing but a single number (difference in number of upvotes) like some Meta posts across the network try to do, so ...
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A summary about edits
Posts can be edited (often by users other than the post's original author) for numerous reasons. Each SE site will have its own culture and policy, hopefully described on the site's Meta, as this post ...
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