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How can we grow this community?

Codidact's communities have a lot of great content that is helping people on the Internet. Our communities are small, though, and sustainable communities depend on having lots of active, engaged p...

10 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by Peter Mortensen‭

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What residential wiring questions are on-topic here?

I'm not very familiar with this site but was pointed to it by a comment. That made me wonder, what exactly is the scope of this site when it comes to residential wiring? For example, Basic wiri...

2 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Lundin‭

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Professional vs Hobbyist advice and potentially dangerous projects

This discussion was prompted by answers to this question. While the answers are good (basically, when designing for the medical field, either be or hire someone knowledgeable about the specific re...

2 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by Sclrx‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Lundin‭

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How to request a mass-change in capitalization for tags?

In my effort to clean-up and organize tags on EE.CD I arrived at a point where there are a lot of old tags with wrong capitalization. How should I request the staff to change them? Should I post ...

3 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Tag creation/deletion criteria

Because of recent discussions regarding whether vague terms like voltage and ground should be valid tag names or not, it is clear that we have no consistent rules here. These terms are about on-top...

2 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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Tag naming guidelines.

I've done a lot of work on tags lately and I'd like to share with the community some thoughts about the way tags should be named so that maybe it could become part of the FAQ and so hopefully lead ...

3 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Lundin‭

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How to deal with design review questions?

A while back someone suggested that we added a section for reviews to the site - How about a new section for code reviews? From that meta thread we gathered that: There seems to be community con...

1 answer  ·  posted 7mo ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Big tags overhaul - 1st part - please delete those tags!

I've just finished a first clean-up of the tags pages, where I consolidated tags, provided synonyms, wrote guidance text and defined some hierarchy. As a result there are quite a lot of "dead" tag...

1 answer  ·  posted 7mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  edited 7mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Tags about quantities: should we have them?

I've noticed there are a lot of tags referring to general physical quantities (e.g. current, voltage, frequency) I'm not sure if they are useful. For example, what usage would have the tag voltage...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Lundin‭

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Apparent loss of reputation in last 24 hours

Has anyone else noticed a loss of reputation recently. I thought I checked yesterday and my reputation was a hundred points higher at 1889. Now it is at 1789. My vote summary doesn't indicate a los...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by Andy aka‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Should posting on Meta affect reputation?

When we launched this community, we did not yet have the ability to set different reputation grants for different categories. We've had this for a while but we failed to follow up before now, sorr...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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How about a `basic-circuit-block` tag?

I'm in the process of giving the tags page some structure, writing tag descriptions and creating synonyms and some hierarchy. I'd like to know the Community stance on a new tag I'd like to add: b...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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Is English translation of technical terms on-topic?

Quite often, I find myself knowing the technical term of an electronic component in my native language, but not the proper English term. For example when translating a manual or other technical doc...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Creating a FAQ: how to read a datasheet

After reading various low quality questions Someplace Else today, it (once again) occurred to me that a whole lot of people, mostly hobbyists and engineering students, have no clue how to do the mo...

4 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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Should a fake user's posts be deleted if the fake user has subsequently been deleted by the site

The question below was raised by a "new user". The identity of the "new user" was deleted because it was found to be an alias of an already suspended user: - So, why is the question still active...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Andy aka‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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A community-maintained list of abbreviations used in electrical engineering?

At Somewhere Else, we started an initiative to make a community-maintained list of abbreviations used in electrical engineering: What are abbreviations used in electrical engineering? I think it c...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Wish to have comment votes

Every time I visit Codicact I miss the comment voting feature. There is no way to know if some comment is rubbish or a gem because the opinions of others are hidden from future visitors. I wish t...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by KalleMP‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Easy way to convert over long comment into an answer

Easy way to convert over long comment into an answer. It would be great if while typing a quick comment to a question you realise that you are about to exceed the character count and it is a valid...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by KalleMP‭

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Misuse of mod privilege?

This question may be only for @Olin Lathrop but I would like to hear others opinion When I had asked the question he just said that "What's the question?"- 'This "question" is just lecturing on co...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 2y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Code formatting appears to be broken

I posted a post containing C code in the Papers category here, using the ```c formatting which works elsewhere on Codidact. The code does not get formatted with color coding, though it gets fixed ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Lundin‭

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Let's make all downvotes public

One of the aggrevations Elsewhere were all the vandal and retribution downvotes. They never took the problem seriously. Now it's happening here. Andy was the latest target, twice, recently. I'v...

6 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by coquelicot‭

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Still getting downvotes - what are you guys doing about it?

It's still happening: - Can someone actually do anything about this? This has happened on stack exchange before but this is ridiculously more far fetched than what has ever happened there. Do y...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Andy aka‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Creating an "Insights" category

Looking at the "papers" category, I found that several papers do not fit the very purpose of this category (that's the reason I've not upvoted them). Nevertheless, they are relatively well written,...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by coquelicot‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Why am I receiving so many downvotes at once?

Why am I getting these downvotes? It started last week (or the week before) and now it seems like it's getting contagious: - Seems like this site has some of the same outrageous inclinations as ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Andy aka‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by luap42‭

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Are reference requests on-topic?

Are reference material requests on-topic here? For example, I am looking for a textbook discussing hydrogen fuel cell design, preferably oriented towards something that could be made in a high sch...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Darth_Muldoon‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Lundin‭

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How to treat data communication questions?

This question here about the OSI model was closed as off-topic. How should we treat questions about data communication? What is definitely on-topic here: Embedded systems programming, including...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Do we need tags for supply voltages?

Someone just created the tags 208VAC and 230VAC. If think we need to create a policy about tag usage related to supply voltages. Clearly, stating the supply voltage is highly relevant information ...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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React feature guidelines?

I think we should try to come up with some consensus regarding how to use the new reactions feature, more specifically the "outdated" and "dangerous" options. Which kind of posts should these be us...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Quality control of the site

Let's take a look at the state of affairs for the past few weeks on this forum. For the past two weeks, some users has been posting a lot of questions, a lot of them self-answered. This is not a p...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Mu3‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Mithical‭

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Are questions about electronics market trends on-topic?

I'm curious about the market trend of certain kind of components (specifically, 0603 ceramic capacitors) and if I should start worrying about these getting phased out. I started to write a question...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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Can a paper be a tutorial or textbook-like?

Although I joined Codidact from the beginning, I was never truly active and lost track of the development of the system and this site in particular. I've read the help and the "paper" category loo...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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What are the guidelines for porting one's answers from ElectricalEngineering.SE, if any?

I've noticed that in the edit account section there is a (inactive) link to one's content on a StackExchange site. This made me wonder if it is appropriate to transfer some content from EE.SE manu...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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How about a new section for code reviews?

I just felt like what if we have a separate section for code reviews. This section is strictly meant for code reviews in domains like DSP, VLSI( for instance "Verilog" programming) ,Embedded system...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by aditya98‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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Questions about the style of "Papers"

This page: https://electrical.codidact.com/help/papers says: A paper is more than just a few paragraphs, and more in depth than most answers. The starting level for a paper is about a detailed a...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by leventov‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Why are posts that users clearly approve of being closed?

One of the most annoying things about stackexchange has always been the borderline fanatic post closing or duplicate marking. Another question in meta was posed some time ago about the added value ...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Kranulis‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by leroy105‭

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What should rep gain/loss be on Papers?

The Codidact team has recently informed us that it is now possible to have different rep bumps on different post types. See this new answer by Monica to the old meta discussion that created the Pa...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Lundin‭

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is this too obvious for a post?

I recently realized something blindingly obvious that I'd overlooked for a few years - that I can generate a servicable PWM triangle wave from a micro by using two PWM outputs with timers set to sl...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Pete W‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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User's reputation score not displaying on top ribbon

It appears that a user's reputation score has disappeared from the top ribbon at the side of the user's login avatar/picture. Is this an intentional thing?

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Andy aka‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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I can not upload pictures

I can not upload pictures when I start a new answer to a question (I have no problem when I edit an old answer). When I click the "insert picture" button, nothing happens and I do not see the windo...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Circuit fantasist‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Circuit fantasist‭

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Can I ask about debugging/fixing a broken product?

I've taken a part a broken roomba down to the PCB. I can connect the PCB directly to the battery and connect the charging cable & charger to the PCB. I'm wondering if I could post about asking...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by dustytrash‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Nick Alexeev‭

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Paper disappeared - and my rating as well

Strange things occurring in the "papers" category: my paper entitled "the capacitance multiplier revisited" has disappeared, and my vote rating has been erased. Any insight ?

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Michaël Bensimhoun‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Are questions about proper cable repair on-topic?

Would a question about cabling repair be on-topic? My main focus would be to learn about the proper workmanship to do a professional, not just makeshift, repair on an automotive sensor cable.

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Martin‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Homework questions / "ask an engineer".

Our on-topic page currently lists homework questions as mostly off-topic, in the following manner: No interest in understanding or learning, "Just gimme da anser!" There has to be some element ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by coquelicot‭

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Please find other ways to hide inloved questions that prompt close

I have not been present in the hard and very productive work performed by what must now be a pretty spectacular team for the last 10 months. Having returned and found my cherished Electrical Engin...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by KalleMP‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Creating an additional "user"

That may seem a pointless question, but life has taught me to be careful and to ask before any "somewhat unusual" steps. Also, despite it could be a Codidact question, I think it is also dependent...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by coquelicot‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Name of the OP in the list of questions

Is it possible to add the name of the OP near each question inside the question list? Only the name of the "last activity" person appears there. For me, that would help. I would like to see somet...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by coquelicot‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Can recommended features questions be asked?

I am planning to buy an oscilloscope and my applications can be some smps projects, microcontroller based projects,hobbyist projects but not heavy industrial applications.Can I ask questions like w...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by aditya98‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Can I ask a question to which I have a possible answer?

For many years I have been working on unraveling the basic ideas behind famous circuit solutions. Thus I gradually managed to accumulate a collection of circuit principles and clever tricks. I have...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Circuit fantasist‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Are BOM cost optimization questions on-topic?

Are BOM/PCB assembly cost cost optimization questions on-topic here? I can see how chasing down specific parts, prices and vendors ought to be off-topic, so I don't mean outright shopping/second so...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Getting rid of "company tags" early on

I just made a post about using "company tags" over at Software Development: We know from SO that company name tags were always problematic since: Questions are about products, not companies. Gi...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Lundin‭