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What is Engineering stance on questions "checking" the correctness of ChatGPT answers?
For example, let's say I asked chatgpt to make a calculation about a certain subject, I checked out the math and the equations and it is all a-ok.
However, I copy and paste the answer on engineering, ...
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What's SE Engineering stance on chatGPT answers?
Currently there are some users providing what looks like unfiltered chatGPT answers to questions. I know that Stack Overflow had temporarily banned answered like that https://stackoverflow.com/help/...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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What is the right way to ask this question?
I asked: How to concentrate magnetic fields using the least amount of material possible for a fixed area
But I think its a low quality question. For a few reasons:
perhaps my drawings aren't that ...
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Suddenly I have to do a Captcha check
Over 14k points on here and now I get asked to do a captcha before posting wtf?
What has changed?
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Any way to stop the poster destroying this question?
The Op keeps removing this post :
https://engineering.stackexchange.com/q/52906/10902
Can it be locked?
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2022 Community Moderator Election Results
Engineering Stack Exchange's "graduation" election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators are:
NMech will be joining the existing crew shortly. Wasabi and ...
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2022 Community Moderator Election
The 2022 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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2022 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.
Engineering Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, ...
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Announcing a “Graduation” election for 2022
Summary: Engineering Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for an election on September 19th, 2022, as your “graduation” election!
The timeline:
On September 12, 2022, I'll post a question ...
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what if i copy-paste "Can freewheel of coaster brake be used in combination with derailleur?" to this se?
see https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/85544/can-freewheel-of-coaster-brake-be-used-in-combination-with-derailleur Can freewheel of coaster brake be used in combination with derailleur?
is ...
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New bioacoustics SE site may be of interest to you
The Bioacoustics Stack Exchange has reached the Beta stage and is LIVE! It is also in a critical stage, and we need your help to keep it alive. Bioacoustics uses methods from physics, engineering, ...
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Engineering not working on Mobile app
So all I get is "Request failed. Tap to retry."
Quit the app and gone back in but same thing, however it works for the other 7 sites I use regularly... Works on the laptop though.
Any ideas?
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2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
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Would this question about wheelies on scooters be on-topic on Engineering?
Would this question https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/681885/295887 about wheelies on scooters be on-topic on Engineering? Someone commented that it wasn't about physics, and I kind of see his point....
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Why are we using the asterisk in equations & formulae to signify multiplication, when it is not required?
For several weeks I've noticed a trend where asterisks are being used in equations, formulae or mathematical expressions to indicate multiplication, when they are not required. It's as if equations ...
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Will our beta label be removed?
Since we learned that Matter Modeling is graduating and Quantum Computing is graduating and Freelancing is graduating and Retrocomputing is graduating and Economics is graduating, I'm curious if ...
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Adding EE and Home Improvement options to "belongs in another stack" close? [duplicate]
There is a "belongs in another stack" close category, but it only has one option defined here, "Meta", which seems to be a rare offender.
Do moderators (or anyone) have the ability ...
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Can something be done about this User?
This user is repeatedly rude and abusive.
They posted rude comments (the same ones yesterday that were removed, and now they are reposted.
See most difficult subject in physics/mechanical enginering - ...
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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User vandalizing their own post with 'delted question deleted question.. deleted question'
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 ...
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Is this the correct section to as about fluid dynamics of small fans?
I'm trying to design a stator to be 3D printed and applied to a normal computer fan, to increase flow and so on.
I would like to ask (after providing more data) about the expected velocity ...
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Can we have a "pump specification for newbies" Q&A
I actually started one, then deleted because I was unsure. The question would be along the lines of:
We get lots of naive question on pumps and pumping systems. This site could use a concise guide to ...
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Is it ok to ask for a refernece for stress-strain curve data?
So I need to find data from a tensile test of a steel (any steel), I need a curve with "a lot of points", not just the usually important ones. Is it ok to ask for that in the main site?
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Private Beta Site: Materials Modeling
If this is off-topic, I can take it down, but I think its valuable to support other science sites in the network.
Materials Modeling SE entered private beta at the end of April. The site aims to ...
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Science stack exchanges helping other science stack exchanges!
The Physics Meta promotes support for all Science sites on Stack Exchange, in this post. The same meta post is now on several other science SE Meta sites.
The Engineering SE is one of the sites that ...
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Is a question on the engineering of a respirator mask on-topic here?
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:
There is this question that has been ...
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I seem to have multiple accounts somehow (?)
Apologize in advance if this is a noob question.
Here on engineering.stackexchange.com (logged in via Google), I am known as GPS Pilot and my reputation is 21.
Then I logged into space....
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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Old questions at top of feed show being recently modified?
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.
For example this question:
Arduino CNC - which vacuum ...
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Delete or answer?
I posted a question, How can thin wire in generator windings carry the high output current?. It turns out it is answered by a previous question on another site, so I want to close the loop and not ...
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Moderator resignation
Effective today, I am resigning as moderator on Engineering and Software Engineering.
I find that Robert Harvey's resignation expresses my thoughts more eloquently than what I would write, so I'll ...
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Forcing a selected answer for those absent users
So, the "community" pushes questions to the top that are ancient which do not have a selected answer.
Could moderators select an accepted answer to remove these questions from the top - if people ...
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Can I ask about career in industry?
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 ...
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Had 130 rep removed and all I get is "User was removed"
So, all you get told is "User was removed", why not at least tell us which question(s) were affected so we know.
Bad enough we did not deserve to loose the rep... but at least telling us which ...
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Are questions about GDP/GMP compliance, methodology, batch records etc. on-topic?
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.
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Does anything happen to serial downvoters?
Just had 4 separate questions downvoted in quick succession - what happens to those who do it?
And how can we find out who is responsible? Or at least get confirmation that something happens?
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Pavement Engineering on Topic?
Are questions regarding pavement engineering allowed on this exchange? The Q&A topics include specific pavement design software and pavement design principles in engineering.
I read through this ...
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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Is this the right site to ask about passive acoustic design in a building?
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 ...
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Are "what's going on here" questions on-topic?
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 ...
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Is my account broken?
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 ...
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Can I use Engineering Meta SE for a Sandbox?
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?
https://worldbuilding....
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food-processing tag?
I was looking at this Q&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 ...
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Can I get a notice when I have a comment liked or flagged?
Often people vote or like a comment, but unless I check every comment I post I will not get a notice. Is there any way to get notice when my comments gets liked? What about when a comment is flagged? ...
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2018 Community Moderator Election Results
Engineering's first moderator election has come to a close and the 2 new moderators are:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering, and share your ...
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Moderator election: |candidates| = |positions available|
Firstly I welcome all the candidates, and I hope their nomination will be successful. :-)
Here I see a little... uncommon thingy. We have two positions, and also two candidates.
Is it for sure okay? ...
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My questions marked a favorite but still down votes? Is this unusual behavior?
More of my questions have been marked as favorite but are still down voted to the point of a question ban. Can a handful of people out of thousands down vote a user into a question ban?
https://...
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Can the ban on questions be shortened by a moderator?
6 months or more to asks another question is extreme just for asking bad questions which I thought were good. Once the asker is up to a point of bad questions regardless the length of time that passes ...
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2018 Community Moderator Election
The 2018 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,...