Questions tagged [participation]
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1 day left to fulfill your commitment!
Users that "committed" to this site before it was launched into Beta, promised to write at least 10 questions or 10 answers within the first 6 months of Beta.
Users that fulfill their ...
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Thank you to our 9 inaugural "enthusiastic users"!
Thank you so much, to all of you that have been enthusiastic about helping create this site, and helping it grow during its first 30 days of life:
Hopefully there will be many, many more years and ...
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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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Congratulations! Matter Modeling rocked at Winter Bash 2021!
Winter Bash 2021 is now over and I want to thank everyone who participated!
I think it was very successful, and in many ways even more fun than last year.
Furthermore, one of our very own diamond ...
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0 downvotes in 2 weeks, across ~3500 users!
When examining the stats from 13 October to 3 November, we find that our ~3500 users have in total only downvoted once (on 15 October) and we went more than 2 weeks without ever downvoting. Thanks for ...
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Please make it an aim to vote on questions, even if they aren't your own
In our early days we voted 450 times on 45 posts (10 votes/post), and this shrunk to 337 votes on 55 posts (about 6 votes/post) in July, and seems to have shrunk to nearly 0 votes in the last couple ...
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Answering these particular questions will earn you extra badges!
Bronze revival:
What are the methods for calculating solvation effects in free energies and how do they compare?
How to find the projected Hamiltonian for lowest flat-band in general?
Derivatives ...
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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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Annual Town Hall Meeting!
In June 2020 I made the suggestion for us to have weekly town hall meetings, a bit like Quantum Computing SE has "The Quantum Revolution" every Tuesday and Meta.SE has "Happy Hour" ...
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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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Salvaging the DFT questions and questions that fall unambiguously within our territory, from other sites
We have a chat room with a feed that tells us whenever a Matter Modeling question gets asked on a different SE site. It's nice to be able to easily see what all the Matter Modeling questions network-...
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What time of the week would people like to hold town hall meetings (if any such thing at all)?
Many sites schedule a chat in one of the chat rooms, at a certain time each week.
Quantum Computing has the "Quantum Revolution" every Tuesday at the same hour, and Meta.SE has the "Happy Hour" at ...
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HATS !!!!! GET SPECIAL HATS ON 21 DEC, 25 DEC, AND 1 JAN!
Participation tends to drop badly as we enter the Christmas and New Year period, just as it may have dropped in November due to Diwali.
For a small and new site like ours, we might not be able to ...
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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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Matter Modelers! Try to get these hats!
It's that time of the year again, and I've picked out the hats that I think would be most valuable to our site and community if as many people as possible were to try to get them!
Gem detector
Cast ...
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Preparing for a feature request for chat rooms to have something like the "@channel" feature in Slack
I'm going through the unanswered questions list to try to get things answered, and I found this: Setting multiple new atype/dtype/itype with LAMMPS fix bond/create, for which I'd like to ping all ...
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After a successful question spree, let's now clean up the unanswered queue!
The campaign to reach 10 questions/day:
ATTENTION Matter Modelers: Can we ask 30 questions in the next 24 hours?
Matter Modeling needs a lot more questions before 28 July: Here's why
Salvaging ...
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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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Matter Modelers: Let's all wear our hats!
I pointed out last year in this question: HATS !!!!! GET SPECIAL HATS ON 21 DEC, 25 DEC, AND 1 JAN!, that activity on SE sites often drops during late December / early January, and a loss of momentum ...
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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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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 ...