Questions tagged [discussion]
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2025 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #2 on Matter Modeling has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators are: Please thank them for volunteering and share your assistance and advice with them ...
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2025 Community Moderator Election
The 2025 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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Why does Camps delete my answers? Leaving matter modeling due to poor admin
Camps has once again deleted one of my answers that had already been as the accepted solution to the question. This behavior is completely unacceptable behavior towards volunteer efforts. I am leaving ...
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2025 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here. Matter Modeling Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election on 2025-...
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Announcing a “Graduation” election for 2025
Summary: Matter Modeling Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for an election on July 8, 2025, as your “graduation” election as a result of having lost your beta label in 2021. The timeline: ...
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2024: a year in moderation
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 ...
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User purposefully deleting question after an answer has been provided
If I remember correctly, once there is an answer given to a post, the post cannot be deleted by the author. I experienced this in some other SE sites where if the author tries to delete a question, ...
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Homework etiquette on MMSE
This question is motivated by a series of questions in the past few days from one user who was clearly progressing through setting up a calculation and working through their errors one by one. Some of ...
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The "almost" arbitrary scaling requirements in reputation for gaining new privileges
The user privileges in MMSE grants access to various site tools, with a higher reputation granting access to more tools, reflecting a level of trust in the user's actions. As seen from the image below,...
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How to Re-Open Questions Labeled as `Closed`
I have noticed that some questions on the platform have been closed, most likely because OPs have not responded to comments asking for clarification or additional information. As far as I understand, ...
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What is the minimum length required for an answer and how is this enforced?
Is there a minimum length required for an answer to meet the minimum requirements for answers on this site? Two of my short answers were recently suggested to be lengthened since their length fit ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here might be ...
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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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