Recent Questions - Engineering Meta Stack Exchange most recent 30 from engineering.meta.stackexchange.com 2021-04-11T22:32:22Z https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/feeds https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/rdf https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/632 1 Can something be done about this User? Solar Mike https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/10902 2021-02-07T15:48:12Z 2021-02-18T12:00:22Z <p>This user is repeatedly rude and abusive.</p> <p>They posted rude comments (the same ones yesterday that were removed, and now they are reposted.</p> <p>See <a href="https://engineering.stackexchange.com/q/40209/10902">most difficult subject in physics/mechanical enginering - want to know</a></p> <p>This user also posted on Electrical Engineering and that post was removed.</p> https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/630 0 2020: a year in moderation JNat https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1082 2021-01-19T19:28:29Z 2021-02-01T14:16:49Z <p>As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have <a href="https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22year+in+moderation%22+is%3Aquestion">a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months</a>.</p> <p>As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web:</p> <blockquote> <p>We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.<br /> -- <a href="http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/">A Theory of Moderation</a></p> </blockquote> <p>That doesn't eliminate the need for having <a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/">moderators</a> altogether, but it does mean that the bulk of moderation work is carried out by regular folks. Every bit of time and effort y'all contribute to the site gives you access to more privileges you can use to help in this effort, all of which produce a cumulative effect that makes a big difference.</p> <p>So as we welcome 2021, and in keeping with tradition, let us look back at what we accomplished as a community... by looking at some <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/pU1Al.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><em>exciting</em> stats</a>. Below is a breakdown of moderation actions performed on Engineering over the past 12 months:</p> <div class="s-table-container"> <table class="s-table"> <thead> <tr> <th style="text-align: left;">Action</th> <th style="text-align: right;">Moderators</th> <th style="text-align: right;">Community¹</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Users suspended²</td> <td style="text-align: right;">2</td> <td style="text-align: right;">12</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Users destroyed³</td> <td style="text-align: right;">21</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Users deleted</td> <td style="text-align: right;">2</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Users contacted</td> <td style="text-align: right;">4</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Tasks reviewed⁴: Suggested Edit queue</td> <td style="text-align: right;">110</td> <td style="text-align: right;">435</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Tasks reviewed⁴: Reopen Vote queue</td> <td style="text-align: right;">40</td> <td style="text-align: right;">156</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Tasks reviewed⁴: Low Quality Posts queue</td> <td style="text-align: right;">91</td> <td style="text-align: right;">320</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Tasks reviewed⁴: Late Answer queue</td> <td style="text-align: right;">32</td> <td style="text-align: right;">225</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Tasks reviewed⁴: First Post queue</td> <td style="text-align: right;">228</td> <td style="text-align: right;">1,804</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Tasks reviewed⁴: Close Votes queue</td> <td style="text-align: right;">211</td> <td style="text-align: right;">762</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Questions unprotected</td> <td style="text-align: right;">24</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Questions reopened</td> <td style="text-align: right;">21</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Questions protected</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">16</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Questions migrated</td> <td style="text-align: right;">6</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Questions flagged⁵</td> <td style="text-align: right;">1</td> <td style="text-align: right;">209</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Questions closed</td> <td style="text-align: right;">392</td> <td style="text-align: right;">112</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Question flags handled⁵</td> <td style="text-align: right;">153</td> <td style="text-align: right;">56</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Posts undeleted</td> <td style="text-align: right;">2</td> <td style="text-align: right;">45</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Posts locked</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">18</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Posts deleted⁶</td> <td style="text-align: right;">175</td> <td style="text-align: right;">1,392</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Posts bumped</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">1,560</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Comments undeleted</td> <td style="text-align: right;">5</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Comments flagged</td> <td style="text-align: right;">2</td> <td style="text-align: right;">99</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Comments deleted⁷</td> <td style="text-align: right;">334</td> <td style="text-align: right;">584</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Comment flags handled</td> <td style="text-align: right;">83</td> <td style="text-align: right;">18</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Answers flagged</td> <td style="text-align: right;">2</td> <td style="text-align: right;">406</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Answer flags handled</td> <td style="text-align: right;">340</td> <td style="text-align: right;">67</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">All comments on a post moved to chat</td> <td style="text-align: right;">4</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div><h3>Footnotes</h3> <p>¹ &quot;Community&quot; here refers both to <a href="https://engineering.stackexchange.com/users">the membership of Engineering</a> <em>without</em> <a href="https://engineering.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators">diamonds next to their names</a>, and to the automated systems otherwise known as <a href="https://engineering.stackexchange.com/users/-1">user #-1</a>.</p> <p>² The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.</p> <p>³ A &quot;destroyed&quot; user is deleted along with all that they had posted: questions, answers, comments. <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/88994/what-is-the-difference-between-a-deleted-user-and-a-destroyed-user">Generally used as an expedient way of getting rid of spam.</a></p> <p>⁴ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 2 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 2, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.</p> <p>⁵ Includes close flags (but <em>not</em> close or reopen votes).</p> <p>⁶ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.</p> <p>⁷ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).</p> <h3>Further reading:</h3> <ul> <li><p>Wanna see how these numbers have changed over time? We posted a similar report here last year: <a href="https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/610/2019-a-year-in-moderation">2019: a year in moderation</a></p> </li> <li><p>You can also check out <a href="https://stackexchange.com/search?q=title%3A%222020%3A+a+year+in+moderation%22">this report on other sites</a></p> </li> <li><p>Or peruse <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/359735/208518">detailed information on the number of questions closed and reopened across all sites</a></p> </li> </ul> <p>A big thank you to <a href="https://stackexchange.com/users/620/shog9">Shog9</a> for writing the queries and script to facilitate fetching and posting this data to all the sites in the network, and to <a href="https://stackexchange.com/users/459488/brian-nickel">Brian</a> for the subsequent work making the whole thing more user friendly.</p> <p>Wishing everyone a happy 2021!</p> https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/628 4 User vandalizing their own post with 'delted question deleted question.. deleted question' Buraian https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/28616 2021-01-14T22:34:02Z 2021-01-15T13:56:13Z <p>I'm from physics stackexchange. There's this user who's been going around self vandalizing his own posts and other posts. I would flag each, but it's gonna take a while with the quantity of posts he has effected right now, hope the moderators can have a look <a href="https://engineering.stackexchange.com/users/28922/deleted-account">(see here)</a></p> https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/626 1 Is this the correct section to as about fluid dynamics of small fans? FarO https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/4544 2020-09-29T19:05:23Z 2020-09-29T19:05:23Z <p>I'm trying to design a stator to be 3D printed and applied to a normal computer fan, to increase flow and so on.</p> <p>I would like to ask (after providing more data) about the expected velocity distribution of the airflow so that I can model the blades accordingly.</p> <p>Is Engineering.SE the correct place? it looks engineering to me, even if hobbyist.</p> https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/625 1 Can we have a "pump specification for newbies" Q&A mart https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/61 2020-09-08T08:05:09Z 2020-09-08T08:05:09Z <p>I actually started one, then deleted because I was unsure. The question would be along the lines of:</p> <blockquote> <p>We get lots of naive question on pumps and pumping systems. This site could use a concise guide to help these people get started.<br /> <strong>what are the first steps in selecting and specifying a pump?</strong></p> </blockquote> <p>My answer would be &quot;write down medium, flowrate and system curve or pressure diff. and find an appropriate centrifugal pump, if no centrifugal pump fits investigate other pump types&quot; in a few more words.</p> <p>However, when starting on an answer, I felt that a few things need consideration:</p> <ul> <li><p>it's a huge subject: A concise getting started guide necessarily leaves out a lot. For an experienced engineer I will be obvious what was left out, for the target audience, not so much.</p> </li> <li><p>OTOH, <em>some</em> questions clearly would benefit from even such a bareboned guide</p> </li> </ul> <p>Ultimately, is such a Q&amp;A something we (or rather some of us) want for this site, what should be the scope and most importantly who would put work into an answer?</p> https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/623 0 Is it ok to ask for a refernece for stress-strain curve data? user190081 https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/17409 2020-08-18T12:59:09Z 2020-08-19T13:25:57Z <p>So I need to find data from a tensile test of a steel (any steel), I need a curve with &quot;a lot of points&quot;, not just the usually important ones. Is it ok to ask for that in the main site?</p> https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/620 5 Private Beta Site: Materials Modeling Tyberius https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/27153 2020-05-19T03:07:54Z 2020-05-28T19:25:33Z <p>If this is off-topic, I can take it down, but I think its valuable to support other science sites in the network.</p> <p><a href="https://materials.stackexchange.com/">Materials Modeling SE</a> entered private beta at the end of April. The site aims to address research level questions about both the theory, methods, and implementation behind modeling systems ranging from molecules and proteins, to nanoparticles/sheets/tubes and polymers, to crystals and topological materials. Users come from a wide range of disciplines (chemistry, material science, computational science, drug design) and use a wide range of different modeling frameworks (molecular dynamics, electronic structure theory, Markov models/statistical mechanics, fluid dynamics, machine learning). We have already had a few questions that seem to supplement engineering research: <a href="https://materials.stackexchange.com/questions/493/how-is-the-phase-degradation-of-concrete-modeled?r=SearchResults">Phase Degradation of Concrete</a>, <a href="https://materials.stackexchange.com/questions/329/what-has-caused-this-apparent-stagnancy-in-the-development-of-more-efficient-so?r=SearchResults">Development of Solar Cells</a>.</p> <p>The site is coming up on the decision whether it can move to public beta and we would really appreciate your support. If any of the topics above interest you, or you think there is something in the realm of material simulation/computation that could be addressed well there, please consider joining the site and asking/answering/upvoting some questions. We think this site could have real value to the scientific community and it has already attracted a healthy amount of attention from experts across different fields, but we need the SE network clearly sees that value to ensure that the site is maintained.</p> <p>For more discussion of the scope of the site: <a href="https://materials.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/31/what-topics-can-i-ask-about-here">Topics</a>, <a href="https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/29831/how-can-this-proposal-be-clearly-distinguished-from-chemistry-physics-computat/29832#29832">Distinguishing Features</a></p> https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/619 0 Is this a good question for engineering.stackexchange? Roger https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/26928 2020-05-04T21:15:31Z 2020-05-04T21:15:31Z <p><strong>Is this an appropriate qustion for the engineering.stackexchange group?</strong></p> <p>Note that in the body of the question, I want to ask a simple question and I want to differentiate that question from the research that I did into trying to answer my own question. So I thought I will litterly be using the word 'Question' in bold and 'Background' in bold to differentiate the two. The backgorund area will have a discusion of components that various news sources (cited sources) claim are difficult to mass produce.</p> <hr> <h2>Start of question text:</h2> <p><strong>Title: Components of Production Machine that makes Melt Blown Fabric used in N-95 Masks</strong></p> <p><strong>Question:</strong></p> <p>What are main components of a machine for producing Melt Blown Fabric suitable for N95 masks[1]? Which of these parts are difficult to mass produce and why? </p> <p><strong>Background:</strong></p> <p>Various research and citations......</p> https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/616 2 Science stack exchanges helping other science stack exchanges! Nike Dattani https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/18132 2020-04-07T22:29:04Z 2020-04-07T22:29:04Z <p>The Physics Meta promotes support for all Science sites on Stack Exchange, in <a href="https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/915/consider-supporting-proposals-of-other-se-science-sites">this</a> post. The same meta post is now on several other science SE Meta sites.</p> <p>The Engineering SE is one of the sites that has benefited from this (and is currently still benefiting from this, if you look at the &quot;Sites in Beta&quot; section of that Meta post).</p> <p>Let's give back to the younger science communities, now that we here at Engineering have graduated out of the Commitment stage, and let's help some of the other sites in Beta, as they are doing for us.</p> <p>Below is the post from the Physics Meta (now on several others too).</p> <hr> <p>Science proposals need your help! Consider committing to these, to make them successful &amp; scientific:</p> <h1>Committers needed</h1> <p><a href="https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/122958/materials-modeling?referrer=M2UxZTQwZTkwYzZlMTlmNzkwNmFiNWJiY2NjN2MzYWMxYjRjZDYyYTBmMDczMmY0ZDQ5Y2Y4NTk5NTI5MTE0MP1yF5vq6CYpA5droatHF1JKh4_Kp0zvdwLyY7_HJQOC0"><img src="https://area51.stackexchange.com/ads/proposal/122958.png" width="300" height="250" alt="Stack Exchange Q&A site proposal: Materials Modeling" /></a></p> <hr /> <h1>Site definition needed</h1> <hr /> <h1>Sites in beta</h1> <p><a href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/categories/7/science?tab=beta">Science</a> and <a href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/categories/8/technology?tab=beta">technology</a> sites currently in beta include:</p> <p><a href="https://space.stackexchange.com/"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/t253k.png" width="300" alt="Space"></a> <a href="https://robotics.stackexchange.com/"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/uP1Y2.gif" width="300" alt="Robotics"></a> <a href="https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/FlxKZ.png" width="300" alt="Earth Science"></a> <a href="https://hsm.stackexchange.com/"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/353zN.png" width="300" alt="History of Science and Maths"></a> <a href="https://engineering.stackexchange.com/"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ei2RL.png" width="300" alt="Engineering"></a> <a href="https://matheducators.stackexchange.com/"><img src="https://area51.stackexchange.com/ads/proposal/64216.png" alt="Mathematics Educators" /></a> <a href="https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/qpQZm.png" width="300" alt="Astronomy"></a> <a href="https://opendata.stackexchange.com/"><img src="https://area51.stackexchange.com/ads/proposal/51674.png" alt="Open Data" /></a></p> <hr /> https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/614 0 Is a question on the engineering of a respirator mask on-topic here? AliceD https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/24399 2020-01-29T11:55:58Z 2020-01-31T01:10:24Z <p>Since the changes in the teacher's lounge I'm unable to ping any mods that haven't been active there. So that's why I am spamming your meta :) Here we go:</p> <p>There is this <a href="https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/89917/how-exactly-do-respirators-seal-out-pathogens">question</a> that has been rejected over at Bio (too engineering-like for us Biologists) and over at Medical Sciences because of kind of obscure reasons imho (see <a href="https://medicalsciences.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1129/how-exactly-do-respirators-seal-out-pathogens">meta</a>). Anyway, I asked around on the teacher's lounge and they referred me to your site.</p> <p>Is the linked question on topic here? I kind of like the question and it appears to be well researched.</p> https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/612 1 I seem to have multiple accounts somehow (?) GPS Pilot https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/6188 2020-01-16T02:58:05Z 2020-01-16T13:25:22Z <p>Apologize in advance if this is a noob question.</p> <p>Here on engineering.stackexchange.com (logged in via Google), I am known as GPS Pilot and my reputation is 21. </p> <p>Then I logged into space.stackexchange.com via Google. There, I am known as user3358338, and my reputation is only 11.</p> <p>Can I do something to link / consolidate these accounts? </p> https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/610 1 2019: a year in moderation Shog9 https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/5 2020-01-01T16:47:34Z 2020-01-03T04:13:49Z <p>It's New Year's Day in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu_Time" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Stack Exchange land</a>...</p> <p>A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:</p> <blockquote> <p>We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.<br> -- <a href="http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/">A Theory of Moderation</a></p> </blockquote> <p>While there certainly are <a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/">Moderators</a> here, a significant amount of the <em>moderation</em> is done by ordinary people, using the privileges they've earned by virtue of their contributions to the site. Each of you contributes a little bit of time and effort, and together you accomplish much.</p> <p>As we enter a new year, let's pause and reflect, taking a moment to appreciate the work that we do here together. And what could be more festive than a big pile of numbers? So here is a breakdown of moderation actions performed on Engineering over the past 12 months:</p> <pre><code> Action Moderators Community¹ ---------------------------------------- ---------- ---------- Users suspended² 0 13 Users destroyed³ 4 0 Users contacted 1 0 Tasks reviewed⁴: Suggested Edit queue 106 358 Tasks reviewed⁴: Reopen Vote queue 42 155 Tasks reviewed⁴: Low Quality Posts queue 33 235 Tasks reviewed⁴: Late Answer queue 23 173 Tasks reviewed⁴: First Post queue 278 1,597 Tasks reviewed⁴: Close Votes queue 153 459 Questions reopened 16 10 Questions protected 0 10 Questions migrated 7 8 Questions flagged⁵ 4 122 Questions closed 267 196 Question flags handled⁵ 46 80 Posts unlocked 0 2 Posts undeleted 3 28 Posts locked 0 45 Posts deleted⁶ 121 1,386 Posts bumped 0 1,365 Comments undeleted 2 1 Comments flagged 0 293 Comments deleted⁷ 331 702 Comment flags handled 59 234 Answers flagged 12 356 Answer flags handled 181 187 All comments on a post moved to chat 5 1 </code></pre> <h3>Footnotes</h3> <p>¹ "Community" here refers both to <a href="https://engineering.stackexchange.com/users">the membership of Engineering</a> <em>without</em> <a href="https://engineering.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators">diamonds next to their names</a>, and to the automated systems otherwise known as <a href="https://engineering.stackexchange.com/users/-1">user #-1</a>.</p> <p>² The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.</p> <p>³ A "destroyed" user is deleted along with all that they had posted: questions, answers, comments. <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/88994/what-is-the-difference-between-a-deleted-user-and-a-destroyed-user">Generally used as an expedient way of getting rid of spam.</a></p> <p>⁴ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 2 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 2, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.</p> <p>⁵ Includes close flags (but <em>not</em> close or reopen votes).</p> <p>⁶ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.</p> <p>⁷ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags). </p> <h3>Further reading:</h3> <ul> <li><p>Wanna see how these numbers have changed over time? I posted a similar report here last year: <a href="https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/592/2018-a-year-in-moderation">2018: a year in moderation</a>...</p></li> <li><p>You can also check out <a href="https://stackexchange.com/search?q=title%3A%222019%3A+a+year+in+moderation%22">this report on other sites</a></p></li> <li>Or peruse <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/341507/2019-a-year-in-closing">detailed information on the number of questions closed and reopened across all sites</a></li> </ul> <p>Wishing you all a happy new year...</p> https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/608 1 Old questions at top of feed show being recently modified? GisMofx https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/2559 2019-12-27T22:33:24Z 2019-12-28T00:40:41Z <p>I see years old questions at the top of my feed which show as being modified recently but nothing within the actual post shows evidence of that. </p> <p>For example this question: <a href="https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/14658/arduino-cnc-which-vacuum-pump">Arduino CNC - which vacuum pump?</a></p> <p>Is this a bug or is the question actually being “modified” such that it seems like a “new” question and is being kept to the top of the feed?</p> https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/606 1 Delete or answer? fixer1234 https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/12772 2019-10-13T06:30:43Z 2019-10-13T06:30:43Z <p>I posted a question, <a href="https://engineering.stackexchange.com/q/31439/12772">How can thin wire in generator windings carry the high output current?</a>. It turns out it is answered by a previous question on another site, so I want to close the loop and not leave it hanging unanswered. It can't be closed as a cross-site duplicate. I can either summarize and attribute the other answer or just delete the question.</p> <p>I'm happy to do either. I haven't spent much time on Engineering and don't really have a sense of how useful the thread will be here. If it won't add value, I'll delete it.</p> <p>I flagged it for advice, but it looks like the moderators here are stretched thin. I'm open to an assessment from any site regulars so the mods don't need to deal with it.</p> https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/605 48 Moderator resignation user16 https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/0 2019-09-29T20:05:27Z 2019-09-29T20:05:27Z <p>Effective today, I am resigning as moderator on Engineering and Software Engineering. </p> <p>I find that <a href="https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9000/moderator-resignation-notice">Robert Harvey's resignation</a> expresses my thoughts more eloquently than what I would write, so I'll simply reference his post.</p> <p>It's been an honor, and I sincerely wish the communities well.</p> https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/603 3 Forcing a selected answer for those absent users Solar Mike https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/10902 2019-08-14T06:33:09Z 2019-08-14T14:20:39Z <p>So, the "community" pushes questions to the top that are ancient which do not have a selected answer.</p> <p>Could moderators select an accepted answer to remove these questions from the top - if people need the information they should be searching anyway so it won't mean we loose the information. </p> <p>As an example (one of many you can find), see this question, has one answer and the author of the question is very absent...</p> <p><a href="https://engineering.stackexchange.com/q/17966/10902">mechanics of materials Mohr</a></p> https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/601 1 Can I ask about career in industry? o-0 https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/21295 2019-07-30T02:01:53Z 2019-07-30T02:09:17Z <p>I want to ask about career change: going from a postdoc researcher in the field of biomedical devices into industry. Could I ask it here? This is the only place that has the tag related to biomedical devices. Please advice. Thanks.</p> https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/599 0 Had 130 rep removed and all I get is "User was removed" Solar Mike https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/10902 2019-05-25T04:52:33Z 2019-05-25T12:19:39Z <p>So, all you get told is "User was removed", why not at least tell us which question(s) were affected so we know.</p> <p>Bad enough we did not deserve to loose the rep... but at least telling us which questions could make us feel better.</p> https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/598 0 Are questions about GDP/GMP compliance, methodology, batch records etc. on-topic? CKM https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/20353 2019-05-06T18:58:04Z 2019-05-06T18:58:04Z <p>The idea would be to find out how some of these things are being done in systemic or domain-specific manners, to help make process improvement choices. </p> https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/596 4 Does anything happen to serial downvoters? Solar Mike https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/10902 2019-04-02T17:33:47Z 2019-04-02T18:12:41Z <p>Just had 4 separate questions downvoted in quick succession - what happens to those who do it?</p> <p>And how can we find out who is responsible? Or at least get confirmation that something happens?</p> https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/593 2 Pavement Engineering on Topic? Chadley08 https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/18841 2019-01-03T14:18:30Z 2019-01-04T14:53:22Z <p>Are questions regarding pavement engineering allowed on this exchange? The Q&amp;A topics include specific pavement design software and pavement design principles in engineering.</p> <p>I read through this on the <a href="https://engineering.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic">meta</a>:</p> <blockquote> <h3>Questions on Engineering Stack Exchange are usually well-received when they:</h3> <ul> <li>Identify a specific engineering problem</li> <li>Require expert engineering knowledge to solve</li> <li>Include any relevant drawings, images or references that may be necessary to understand the problem</li> <li>Excite or challenge experienced professionals in the field</li> </ul> </blockquote> <p>The Q&amp;A we have had thus far meets these criteria. I can provide some example Q&amp;A if necessary.</p> https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/592 4 2018: a year in moderation Shog9 https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/5 2019-01-01T04:41:21Z 2019-01-18T22:17:14Z <p>It's New Year's Day in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu_Time" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Stack Exchange land</a>...</p> <p>A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:</p> <blockquote> <p>We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.<br /> -- <a href="http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/">A Theory of Moderation</a></p> </blockquote> <p>While there certainly are <a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/">Moderators</a> here, a significant amount of the <em>moderation</em> is done by ordinary people, using the privileges they've earned by virtue of their contributions to the site. Each of you contributes a little bit of time and effort, and together you accomplish much.</p> <p>As we enter a new year, let's pause and reflect, taking a moment to appreciate the work that we do here together. To that end, here is how the moderation done here on Engineering breaks down by activity over the past 12 months:</p> <pre><code> Action Moderators Community¹ ---------------------------------------- ---------- ---------- Users suspended² 1 13 Users destroyed 27 0 Users contacted 1 0 Tasks reviewed³: Suggested Edit queue 69 668 Tasks reviewed³: Reopen Vote queue 22 297 Tasks reviewed³: Low Quality Posts queue 22 380 Tasks reviewed³: Late Answer queue 17 259 Tasks reviewed³: First Post queue 84 1,905 Tasks reviewed³: Close Votes queue 77 2,088 Questions reopened 14 6 Questions protected 5 7 Questions migrated 8 0 Questions merged 3 0 Questions flagged⁴ 1 225 Questions closed 276 303 Question flags handled⁴ 131 95 Posts unlocked 0 1 Posts undeleted 1 32 Posts locked 2 30 Posts deleted⁵ 176 1,046 Posts bumped 0 2,228 Comments undeleted 2 0 Comments flagged 145 285 Comments deleted⁶ 304 694 Comment flags handled 295 135 Bounties canceled 1 0 Answers flagged 3 445 Answer flags handled 336 112 All comments on a post moved to chat 1 0 </code></pre> <h3>Footnotes</h3> <p>¹ &quot;Community&quot; here refers both to <a href="https://engineering.stackexchange.com/users">the membership of Engineering</a> <em>without</em> <a href="https://engineering.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators">diamonds next to their names</a>, and to the automated systems otherwise known as <a href="https://engineering.stackexchange.com/users/-1">user #-1</a>.</p> <p>² The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.</p> <p>³ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 3 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 3, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.</p> <p>⁴ Includes close flags (but <em>not</em> close or reopen votes).</p> <p>⁵ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.</p> <p>⁶ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).</p> <p>Wishing you all a happy new year...</p> https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/588 2 Is this the right site to ask about passive acoustic design in a building? Nathan Tuggy https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/17568 2018-11-13T21:25:42Z 2018-11-14T02:29:12Z <p>I'm considering design ideas for a meeting place that would function (if somewhat less well) even without any electricity. (It would also likely be built with less sophisticated materials to maximize availability.) Crucial to this idea is that its construction would need to (mostly) passively serve two quite different acoustic profiles: one to maximize resonance to encourage unified group participation, and one to minimize echoes to allow one or a few speakers to be clearly heard.</p> <p>Is this the right site to ask about a specific design idea that could enable this?</p> https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/585 3 Are "what's going on here" questions on-topic? Moo https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/17904 2018-10-17T20:07:57Z 2018-10-18T01:28:26Z <p>I have an apartment in a city which overlooks a building site for a brand new 57 story skyscraper - I have been here since the site was first cleared, and have followed the progress with great interest.</p> <p>Considering the city I live in has an earthquake risk, the direction the construction has taken hasn't quite been what I would expect for a 57 story tower... So I am now curious as to what's currently going on and would love some input.</p> <p>Are questions such as "what's going on here" or "what's this structure for" supported by photos and descriptions of activities to date on topic for this SE?</p> https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/584 0 Is my account broken? user4139 https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/0 2018-10-13T18:18:31Z 2018-10-18T01:23:37Z <p>I just got off a question ban. I asked a question got up votes but I've been banned again. What did I do wrong??? There must be some mistake or glitch. Please don't make me wait another 6 months to ask another question!</p> <p><a href="https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/24136/which-is-the-best-extendable-pole">Which is the best extendable pole?</a></p> https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/582 0 Can I use Engineering Meta SE for a Sandbox? user4139 https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/0 2018-10-12T05:31:23Z 2018-10-12T11:36:22Z <p>I have problems writing a good question here and don't want to risk getting banned for another 6 months or more. Is there a way that I can Sandbox here like in Worldbulding.SE? </p> <p><a href="https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6168/sandbox-for-proposed-questions">https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6168/sandbox-for-proposed-questions</a></p> https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/580 1 food-processing tag? New Alexandria https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/104 2018-09-21T16:24:52Z 2018-09-22T11:27:06Z <p><a href="https://engineering.stackexchange.com/q/23493/104">I was looking at this Q&amp;A</a>, and it got me wondering if there may be value in creating an explicit food/beverage tag. Many of the people here, or new audiences, may be focused on a specific area like that, and have more engagement with a 'higher-intent' tag.</p> https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/542 0 Would this question about computer memory and BIOS be a good fit for Engineering SE? candied_orange https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/8415 2018-02-18T12:39:10Z 2019-12-21T00:03:25Z <p>Noticed you guys have an (as yet undefined) computer engineering tag. Does <a href="https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/366145/131624">this</a> seem like your cup of tea?</p> <blockquote> <p>I'm writing a little toy operating system using a mix of C and Assembly (it's not meant to be good/fast, just meant to learn from). I know that I can issue an interrupt (i think it's INT 0x15) to check the size of installed memory, which the BIOS does for you. My question is, how does it do this? There obviously needs to be a catch-all function that it performs, because it can't guarantee two systems have the same amount of memory.</p> </blockquote> <p>When there is a bit of doubt I prefer to ask the community before migrating or referring people. Hope you don't mind. </p> https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/287 7 How can I ask a good question on Engineering.SE and receive quality responses? Mahendra Gunawardena https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/110 2015-04-28T22:20:44Z 2020-10-01T12:11:58Z <ul> <li>What information should my question contain? </li> <li>What should I include or not include?</li> <li>Do I need to provide background to my question?</li> <li>What can I assume the people reading my question will know?</li> </ul> https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/170 14 Should our beta icon be changed from Eg to Eng, or an icon? Deer Hunter https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/users/420 2015-02-10T14:13:04Z 2018-09-17T08:26:30Z <p>I have noticed that Cognitive Sciences SE and probably others use three letters in their blue (beta) icon. Engineering uses two (Eg). It's non-intuitive, and I feel e.g. "Eng" would fit the name better and be more discoverable / guessable. A gear would be even better, like the plane icon at Aviation SE.</p>
https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/feeds
engineering.meta.stackexchange.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2019-47
73708
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:UMY6SZQEJC4MGZEOCZFNQ5KD5N4STJBY
<urn:uuid:181d4170-4503-409a-97dd-7fc98d391fd4>
2021-04-11T22:32:22Z
151.101.193.69
application/atom+xml
sha1:UKECB2ZBUFL4Z7UZCE2PHSJ7KGUBFIQ7
<urn:uuid:504e1ec3-cdc0-4d4d-81ae-af0e5236f8e9>
https://engineering.meta.stackexchange.com/feeds
response
<urn:uuid:156192b8-d180-4669-b767-b280a356bda0>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-17
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for April 2021
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-40.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/