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I am having trouble posting answers here using my Samsung mobile device. When I try, I get an error. To clear the error I refresh the page, which works except now I always have to pass a CAPTCHA. Is ...

As I have not found a similar meta question googling site:chemistry.meta.stackexchange.com, I am asking: What is/should be the mod policy to address answers (usually posted by low rep users), that are ...

My primary interest in becoming a mod was primarily to grow the site and make answers more authoritative with edits and cleaning up citations. While this can be done as a non-mod, I had access to ...

This question: Accuracy of pH meters in MgSO4 solution discusses a specific pH meter and the user's frustration with how he's getting different values each time he tests. The premise of his question ...

I faced a nearly 3-day long read-only restriction in my initial days at Chemistry SE. I believe it was only a few days after I posted this question (I posted it on 1st Dec 2024, I got the restriction ...

It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of ...

I am going out on a limb here to make a humble request to all of the seasoned StackExchange Chem veterans that you limit the sarcastic responses to new contributors. The idea here is to encourage ...

Near-simultaneous cross-posting is always bad. The primary concern is answer fragmentation. Generally, flagging for moderator assistance to migrate is the way to go for questions that are less than ...

It seems difficult to flag questions for fix here - why is this so difficult? Many recent questions have broken images so I have flagged that but these answers have been been removed. Broken image (as ...

I see there are many edits allowed from experienced users that have no useful edit summary and appear to make no attempt to actually improve experience For instance see https://chemistry.stackexchange....

It's been about two years since the splashy release of ChatGPT brought chatbots to the general public's attention, (about a year after another AI tool, GitHub Co-Pilot, made a splash in the developer ...

Being a devoted member of the forum , I wanted to discuss a genuine question. But some unwanted errors showed up notifying that improvement of questions needed: But I can't find any such issues. Can ...

Is editing answers to reflect the question frowned upon? I can see answers that answer a question and add extra, irrelevant information My attempts to tighten a answer are reverted because they "...

I noticed in this answer, there was a minor edit: This edit in my opinion seems redundant and unnecessary. More importantly, it was approved. I would like to know why was this edit allowed and in ...

Translated: Dear friends, I have come to you with an open heart, with an open soul. I am a chemist and I have eighteen years of education, including five years of university. However, my country and ...