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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A post was deleted. Can I add a comment?
I added a comment to Could 3I/ATLAS be a fragment from a collision involving a TNO and an interstellar object?. Suppose events happened as you are supposing, except that this was long ago around ...
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One small case of moderation and non-answer
In this question, I had posted an answer with quotation to show that, while the statement of the question is about rotations, the fundamental underlying confusion lies in the fact that the OP does not ...
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Dangling comments after mass deletion
There were a bunch of back-and-forth comments on this answer of the question Beating the uncertainty principle for musicians I'm not really concerned about the deletion of my comments, I know the deal....
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Regarding questions who don't precisely state such and such, is the "Spherical Cow" implied? [closed]
And by spherical cow I mean not real or figurative animals but those high-school level physics assumptions people make. So, if not explicitly stated otherwise, are we to assume things... ... Such as (...
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Can I "steal" a question from the Chemistry Stackexchange that I think would do better here?
Specifically, I think this question on the Chemistry stack is really more appropriate here. As best as I can tell, the physics stack also doesn't have this question yet, and I would be interested in ...
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The rise of LLM-powered users
A decent fraction of our newest power users are partly or entirely powered by copy-pasting LLM output. If you've seen a bit of this stuff, it's pretty easy to tell. This is an interesting situation. ...
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Is a white hole non-mainstream or mainstream physics?
Is a white hole considered non-mainstream or mainstream physics? It is speculative, but could theoretically exist. Asking because there are white hole questions on this site.
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Should we have an annual "tell me about this year's physics Nobel" question?
There've been some in the past (example), but there's no canonical annual question.
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My hardware is sick --- is it OK to ask about it on this site?
My hardware is sick --- is it OK to ask about it on this site? There is a tag "[everyday-life]", but I'm not sure it would cover my question. In my case, the computer monitor got troublesome,...
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Single question or multiple questions?
When is a question with multiple questionmarks still one single question and when isn't it too broad if it needs those multiple questionmarks?
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How to get people to answer/look at questions that have answers, when all the answers are highly upvoted, but are also all wrong
If I'm trying to get help with something by asking a question on PSE but all the answers are wrong and yet are upvoted, then the question tends to get ignored. It seems people are less inclined to ...
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Sophisticated questions about textbook errata shouldn't be closed as homework-like
I disagree with the closure of the question linked below, but I can't put the question in the reopen queue myself and I don't want to use my unilateral-reopen superpower. So let's talk about it ...
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Closing votes always less understandable
I still don't understand the reason for many closed questions on PSE. The last case is the following question. It seems to me a perfectly understandable question, hitting a central issue in the ...
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Clarification about off-topic questions [duplicate]
I'm not familiar with the Physics Stacks Exchange question closing criteria, and I'd appreciate some clarification on the subject. For example, if I ask a question about a potentially empty space ...
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Unanswered StackExchange questions are now part of an LLM benchmark
For the past year, there's been a bunch of new users signing up and posting LLM-generated answers, of uneven but generally increasing quality. It turns out that some of this is associated with a new ...
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