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Meta 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 3d ago by meta user‭

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Meta 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 7mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Lundin‭

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Meta 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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Meta 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 8mo ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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Meta 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 8mo ago by Lundin‭

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Meta 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 8mo ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Meta 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 8mo ago by Lundin‭

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Meta 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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Meta 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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Meta 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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Meta 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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Meta 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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Meta 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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Meta 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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Meta 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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Meta 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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Meta 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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Meta 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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Meta 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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Meta 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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Meta 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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Meta 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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Meta 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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Meta 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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Meta 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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Meta 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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Meta 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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Meta 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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Meta 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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Meta 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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Meta 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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Meta 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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Meta 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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Meta 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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Meta 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

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Meta What is the added value - still unclear

Hello, I come from EE.SE. I just would like to help you to build this site. And I have some observations: First of all, it is still unclear what is the added value of this site with respect to the ...

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

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Meta Tagline/Mission Statement/etc.

The line at the top of the list of Questions is currently: General Q&A about the design and function of electronic and electric power systems, their theory, and tools specific to those fields. ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Meta Are we there yet?

Are we ready to let the world know about this site yet? What, if anything, do we still need to do or set up first? I have created a bunch of help pages that are intended to give newcomers a good i...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Andy aka‭

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