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|bug|status-completed|favicon|site-design| | 2 | Halp! The favicon is faceless! | <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/5fZKM.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>I have a Retina display, and the favicon is faceless, plain, and depressing everywhere I go. Can we please fix this?</p>
<p>Easy Repro Steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open Chrome (haven't tested it on anything else)</li>
<li>Zoom in (co... | <p>I'm getting the same issue in <a href="http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/8489/arduino">chat</a> without a retina display.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/l8i16.png" alt="no icon"></p>
<p>The root of the problem appears to be different than what Shadow points out since it's pulling from a <a href="http... | 2014-02-12T00:17:51.227 |
|discussion|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms| | 3 | Using board names as tags | <p>Given that the site's focus area is Arduino, creating tags such <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arduino-uno" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'arduino-uno'" rel="tag">arduino-uno</a> does not seem to me, as ideal. I think that just the board name without Arduino prefi... | <p>Based on the answers given (Thanks @Butzke!), I felt it prudent to create a tag list of sorts for all the official boards. Feel free to add any missing board with the desirable tag name. If you disagree with any of the tag names, please mention so in a comment.</p>
<ul>
<li>Uno - <a href="https://arduino.stackexcha... | 2014-02-12T03:00:03.660 |
|discussion|tags| | 10 | How should board revisions be handled? | <p>The boards undergo significant changes across revisions. Is there a need to create separate tags for the different revisions or should we just specify the revision in the question without having separate tags?</p>
<p>The Uno for example underwent multiple changes going from R2 to R3 such as a new microcontroller(At... | <p>Given my understanding of the target audience here, revisions shouldn't be reflected in tags. </p>
<p>Only if the revision is germane to the answer/question should it be raised; No need to force people to try to understand what revision they have just to tag a question.</p>
| 2014-02-12T05:01:19.607 |
|discussion|site-scope| | 15 | Are clone-specific questions on topic for this site? | <p>There are a lot of different Arduino clones of varying quality on the market. Obviously they are mostly equivalent to the standard ones, so hopefully the majority of questions should be widely applicable.</p>
<p>However, there may be cases where a clone's features, layout, and/or spec deviate from the norm, whether... | <p>[Terminology note: in this answer I'm using the word "clone" as the original poster used it; most of the devices he and I are discussing would be called "derivatives" in the <a href="https://blog.arduino.cc/2013/07/10/send-in-the-clones/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Arduino taxonomy</a>.]</p>
<p>Yes, clones are absol... | 2014-02-12T10:47:42.527 |
|discussion|site-scope|content-quality| | 16 | When should questions be considered shopping recommendations? | <p>I just found this question: <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/91/is-there-a-color-lcd-display-for-an-arduino">Is there a color LCD display for an arduino?</a> Should it be considered a shopping recommendation?</p>
| <p>I totally agree with Robert, but I wanted to add something:</p>
<p>It is important to note that Arduino.SE is <em>nearly</em> unique among the entire StackExchange network, as it revolves around a fairly extensive <strong><em>product line</em></strong> rather than an <strong><em>area of study/work</em></strong>. (... | 2014-02-12T13:08:05.023 |
|discussion|site-scope| | 22 | Is it OK to ask questions about "Arduino compatible" micros (not clones)? | <p>There are many Arduino compatible micros and derivatives. I'm thinking specifically here of the <a href="https://www.spark.io/" rel="nofollow">Spark Core</a>.</p>
<p>It's not a clone, but uses the Arduino Sketch language and is wi-fi IoT oriented.</p>
<p>Are question related to Arduino compatible devices applicabl... | <p>Yes. Arduino has encouraged derivative hardware from the start. In the <a href="https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/Introduction" rel="nofollow noreferrer">introduction on the official site</a> they say:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>All Arduino boards are completely open-source, empowering users to build them independently an... | 2014-02-12T14:02:38.863 |
|discussion|site-scope| | 59 | What should our "policy" be for questions that wouldn't survive on EE but aren't exactly fit for this site? | <p>I recently posted <em><a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/273/when-should-i-use-a-transistor-mosfet-and-when-should-i-use-a-relay?noredirect=1#comment394_273">When should I use a transistor, mosfet, and when should I use a relay?</a></em> to see how the community would react. (Only 3 views so far so... | <h3>We are looking at this wrong.</h3>
<p>This question <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/273/when-should-i-use-a-transistor-mosfet-and-when-should-i-use-a-relay?noredirect=1#comment394_273">When should I use a transistor, mosfet, and when should I use a relay?</a> clearly shows knowledge on the part... | 2014-02-17T16:19:23.857 |
|discussion|site-scope|content-quality| | 65 | Should we ban "how to hack XYZ" from our site? | <p>I can picture questions like this popping up everywhere:</p>
<ul>
<li>How do I hack a treadmill?</li>
<li>How do I hack my alarm clock?</li>
<li>How do I hack my garage door opener?</li>
</ul>
<p>Some of those things aren't really <em>meant</em> to be hacked. We already have one question like this: <a href="https:... | <p>The example questions you give are poor examples of the kinds of questions we want to see on the site and should not be allowed.</p>
<p>Questions should ask something specific. Like this:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>How can I log the distance and time from my treadmill to an SD card using an Arduino?</p>
</blockquote>
... | 2014-02-19T01:44:07.890 |
|discussion|site-scope| | 68 | Are questions asking for libraries on-topic? | <p>We have questions such as <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/233/are-there-any-good-and-maintained-libraries-for-using-ds2482-i2c-to-1-wire-bridg">this one</a> on the site right now. My gut feeling (coming from Stack Overflow) is that such questions are off-topic. <em>However</em>, I feel as if the... | <h2>I do believe that they should be allowed.</h2>
<p>Arduino is a <strong><em>line of products and their accessories.</em></strong> (Also with their code.) SO is different here. Some users are even pushing allowing shopping questions. This is very similar to a shopping recommendation.</p>
<p>I say that we leave it f... | 2014-02-20T00:10:55.957 |
|discussion| | 84 | Support for UDOO & Integrated Arduino Boards | <p>Should we support tags of specific boards like the UDOO & Raspberry Pi? While a Raspberry Pi is different from an Arduino, the UDOO essentially is an Arduino Due and LInux Quad-core computer integrated into one device with shared processor communication. With that being said currently the UDOO has some issues wi... | <p>I don't think most UDOO questions are on topic here... Unless the question is related to only the Arduino part of the system. If you can replace UDOO with Arduino in the question and it still makes sense, then it'd be on topic.</p>
<p>Problems with the UDOO IDE are totally off topic. If we allow people to ask any U... | 2014-02-24T16:34:02.187 |
|discussion| | 88 | How to handle bad language? | <p>I've noticed a couple of instances of minor profanity on the site, mainly in comments. It's not been directed at anyone, nor has it been particularly vulgar. However, it's definitely into territory which some people would consider somewhat offensive, or at least unprofessional.</p>
<p>How should we respond to insta... | <p>The relevant documentation on this is confusing at best.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/help/behavior">behaviour page</a> has the notice: <code>Please note that expletives are not allowed. If you use expletives on this site, you may be issued a warning or a suspension.</code></p>
<p>However... | 2014-02-26T12:52:22.077 |
|bug|reputation|users-page| | 93 | User reputation leagues broken? | <p>It looks to me as if the user reputation leagues are broken. To access them, one would go to the <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/users">user list</a> and hit the link labelled "<em>weekly / monthly / quarterly reputation leagues</em>" at the bottom.</p>
<p>Is that something that should already work at th... | <p>The reputation leagues are now up and running.</p>
<p><a href="http://stackexchange.com/leagues/288/week/arduino/">http://stackexchange.com/leagues/288/week/arduino/</a></p>
| 2014-02-26T20:01:24.960 |
|discussion| | 102 | When to close a question or to give it a chance? | <p>I was reading this question (<a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/q/484/46">Arduino as USB HID</a>) and was surprised that it already had two votes to close as being off-topic only after a few minutes of being asked.</p>
<p>I started discussing with @AsheeshR that although I would agreed that the question is ... | <p>I won't come as a newbie on a forum and give lessons to the people who built it, but that question, should not be closed because of what it is asking, because what it asks is definitely possible using AVR only code, cf my <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/484/arduino-as-usb-hid#comment845_484">com... | 2014-02-27T16:13:49.003 |
|discussion|events| | 115 | What should we do for Arduino Day 2014? | <p>From the <a href="http://day.arduino.cc/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">official Arduino site</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Arduino Day is a worldwide celebration of Arduino’s first 10 years. It's 24 hours full of events – both official and independent, anywhere around the world – where people interested in Arduino can meet,... | <p>Partner with Instructibles.com. The people there are CRAZY for the Arduino!</p>
| 2014-03-01T12:01:51.453 |
|discussion|site-promotion| | 117 | What should we do with the Arduino.cc promotion link? | <p>A while ago, when i proposed this site, i put up a link on the <a href="http://playground.arduino.cc/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Arduino playground</a> to the Area 51 proposal of Arduino:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/bEgRJ.png" alt="arduino.cc sidebar"></p>
<p>Now that we're public, should i change i... | <p>AskUbuntu was launched by Stack Exchange and Canonical and is now linked to prominently from the top bar of Ubuntu.com</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/1Oyh6.png" alt=""></p>
<p>Ask Ubuntu is also linked to from the installation GUI. This is beneficial for the site as it generates a lot of traffic. </p>
... | 2014-03-02T00:30:41.357 |
|discussion| | 123 | Can we get a way to accent Yún? | <h2>The Arduino Yún board, has an accent in it's name.</h2>
<p>Unless you're using a modified/Spanish/Italian keyboard, it's hard to add the accent. It obviously isn't a huge deal, but I thought it might be something to think about. Could we:</p>
<ul>
<li>Just ignore it? (Note: I didn't tag it <a href="/questions/tag... | <p>I wonder if HTML entities like <code>&uacute;</code> pruduce Yún in stackexchange markdown? ... it seems they do.</p>
<p>This is handy if you have a tenkeyless keyboard or can't remember decimal numbers for every accented character.</p>
| 2014-03-04T03:24:24.093 |
|feature-request|status-completed|favicon| | 141 | Could we get a more interesting favicon? | <p>Some SE sites in beta have <em>slightly</em> customized favicons. They are motifs instead of letters, like for example <a href="https://poker.stackexchange.com/">Poker</a> and <a href="https://chess.stackexchange.com/">Chess</a>. I think 'AR' doesn't really relate to the site. Could it be changed to something like t... | <p>I'm a little late to the party here. Perhaps I should have created a new meta discussion.</p>
<p>I was part of the first(?) Arduino.SE closed beta which was eventually merged into EE and SO. This was the favicon I created for that purpose. Licensed under the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" ... | 2014-03-08T14:27:30.080 |
|bug|status-completed|favicon| | 149 | New favicon doesn't show up in many places | <p>We got a <a href="https://arduino.meta.stackexchange.com/a/145/37">new favicon</a> almost two days ago that looks like an infinity symbol. Unfortunately, this isn't showing up in a lot of places, including the dropdown:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/BPQbU.png" alt="enter image descriptio... | <p>Our sprite maps and favicons were out of date. Fixed in build rev <code>2014.3.17.1464</code>. </p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/K08te.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
| 2014-03-15T12:59:35.840 |
|discussion|moderation| | 151 | Should moderators be censors? | <p>Yesterday I have seen <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/221/what-can-i-do-if-i-run-out-of-flash-memory-or-sram/239#239">one of my posts</a> deleted by one moderator with one comment to justify deletion.</p>
<p>I don't deny the justification for deletion (my post was little more than a link to a v... | <p>In the interest of openness, I would like to say that I had flagged the answer as NAA based on an accepted policy for link only answers that holds across the network. I completely agree with the moderator action taken in this case and I do not think there was any overreach here. The problems on letting poor content ... | 2014-03-16T09:26:12.060 |
|discussion| | 163 | Are there any guidelines/limitations for someone that promotes the company he works in? | <p>I noticed today <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/a/849/470">this reply</a> which seemed like a biicode promotion, and after checking the user profile I saw <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/a/848/470">another answer</a> referring to the same company.</p>
<p>A look in the profile details of the us... | <p>While I cannot see the answers at present, in my experience of moderation over the past year, I have seen that sometimes people really don't know about Stack Exchange policies on self promotions. They are genuinely trying to answer the question, and an answer sometimes does happen to be an off-site resource being de... | 2014-03-20T18:00:44.897 |
|discussion|site-scope|content-quality|closed-questions| | 188 | When does a question ask for too much information/too specific, making it useful to a limited number of users? | <p>This Arduino SE community has a more laid back scope than most sites. We have a fair number of shopping questions, which aren't allowed on most other sites. However, <strong>that doesn't mean that we shouldn't close a question if it's asking for too much information.</strong> I don't mind helping people out, but I h... | <p>I've used SE for some time now, but only signed up when the Arduino section was established. In my opinion there is the official Arduino site which caters for the advice and recommendations type of question, and SE has built up it's reputation by being a straight forward Q&A site. Look at the 'Hot Network' quest... | 2014-04-09T02:00:19.507 |
|bug|status-completed| | 191 | Why isn't our Twitter account tweeting? | <p>So we have a Twitter account, <a href="http://twitter.com/StackArduino" rel="nofollow">@StackArduino</a>. However, it hasn't tweeted, has no profile picture, and isn't linked to anywhere. Why is this, and can the account be "activated"?</p>
| <p>Ah, that would ultimately be an oopsie on our end. We had it configured properly (yay), but almost immediately something happened to un-configure it (ugh), and we didn't re-configure it (d'oh). It has just been fixed, and should be working soon!</p>
| 2014-04-13T16:38:17.827 |
|discussion|status-completed|tags| | 193 | Do something about [optimisation] tag? | <p>I just noticed the <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/optimisation" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'optimisation'" rel="tag">optimisation</a> tag, and two possible problems with it.</p>
<ol>
<li>"Optimization" is <a href="https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=... | <p><strong>Now it's <a href="/questions/tagged/status-completed" class="post-tag moderator-tag" title="show questions tagged 'status-completed'" rel="tag">status-completed</a>.</strong></p>
<p><em>Changes:</em></p>
<ul>
<li>Edited question and renamed to <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/ta... | 2014-04-16T18:23:54.000 |
|feature-request|status-completed|tags| | 212 | Wire tag vs. wires tag | <p><a href="http://arduino.cc/en/reference/wire" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Wire</a> is useful. "Wires" as a tag is not. I've edited the question that has <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wires" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'wires'" rel="tag">wires</a> and removed it (... | <p>No one really can nuke <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wires" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'wires'" rel="tag">wires</a>. There is a system background process that is ran daily that cleans up tags without any questions.</p>
<ul>
<li>Tag it <a href="https://arduino... | 2014-05-22T23:47:31.727 |
|discussion|status-completed|site-scope| | 218 | Redesigning Help Docs/Tour - Part Two: Full Site Scope Definition | <p><em>This post is on behalf of all of the mods.</em></p>
<p>This is designed to be a sequel to this post:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><em><a href="https://arduino.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/159/lets-customize-our-tour-section">Let's customize our tour section!</a></em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>To be a successful S... | <p><strong>Upvote this if you agree that we should change it to the draft posted (original post).</strong></p>
<p><strong>Downvote this if you agree that we should <em>not</em> change it to the draft posted (original post).</strong></p>
<p><em>This is just a community wiki post designed to get an unbiased consensus o... | 2014-06-08T16:32:13.857 |
|discussion|site-scope| | 1220 | Questionable question: book recommendation | <p>I just came across <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/q/3514/37">this</a> question:</p>
<blockquote>
<h2>Can anyone tell me the best books for studying UAV?</h2>
<p>It's kind of hard to get full guide from the internet. I just wanna buy a book for UAV guide. I gotta make DIY drones. I'd appreciat it ... | <p>The most obvious point I see is that it's not about Arduino. A UAV could certainly involve one or more Arduinos, but it sounds like most of the relevant subject matter is more general than that. The best course of action seems like closing it, with the potential to re-open if it's made more Arduino-specific.</p>
<p... | 2014-07-30T14:55:18.017 |
|discussion|support| | 1225 | What to do with my question which contained a wrong premise, as shown later? | <p>I have asked a question:</p>
<p><a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/3638/what-happens-to-the-sketch-memory-when-arduino-is-powered-off">What happens to the sketch / memory when Arduino is powered off?</a></p>
<p>In one comment a likely solution was found (DS18B20 returns 85 deg C after power up), ... | <blockquote>
<p>Should I delete it completely[...]?</p>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>No.</strong> <em>Technically, you cannot delete it since there are answers.</em></p>
<p>First of all, <strong>do you have your question solved?</strong> If so, accept an answer/post an answer/comment, upvote the answers, and move on wi... | 2014-08-11T09:51:02.940 |
|discussion|site-evaluation| | 1229 | Let's get critical: Aug 2014 Site Self-Evaluation | <p>We all love <a href="http://arduino.stackexchange.com">Arduino Stack Exchange</a>, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what will their first impression be? Let's try to look at this site through th... | <h1>Final Results</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/3440/mcu-type-atmega16u2-not-avaliable-in-eclipse-avr-plugin">MCU Type ATmega16U2 not avaliable in Eclipse AVR Plugin</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Net Score: 6</strong> (Excellent: 6, Satisfactory: 1, Needs Improvement: 0)</p>
<hr />
<ul>... | 2014-08-26T03:01:21.323 |
|discussion|site-design|tagging| | 1237 | Can we modify the highlighted questions color? | <p>I found pretty difficult to distinguish between an highlighted and a non-highlighted question on the Arduino site. Is it just me?</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/a0Uce.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
| <p>Unfortunately we can't change that. All Stack Exchange sites use the same design during their beta phase. If/when we graduate to a full site, we'll get a custom design.</p>
<p>With that said, the difference between highlighted and non-highlighted seems reasonably clear to me. Perhaps you need to adjust some display... | 2015-01-08T16:22:51.547 |
|discussion|site-evaluation| | 1250 | Let's get critical: Feb 2015 Site Self-Evaluation | <p>We all love <a href="http://arduino.stackexchange.com">Arduino Stack Exchange</a>, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what will their first impression be? Let's try to look at this site through th... | <h1>Final Results</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/8185/increasing-payload-size-above-32-bytes-using-nrf24l01">Increasing payload size above 32 bytes using nRF24L01+</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Net Score: 6</strong> (Excellent: 6, Satisfactory: 2, Needs Improvement: 0)</p>
<hr>
<ul>
... | 2015-02-22T03:02:37.810 |
|support|bounty| | 1256 | Featured Questions | <p>There is no section saying 'Featured Questions' in the 'Unanswered Questions Tab'.
How do I find those questions that have active bounties on them?</p>
| <p>The "Featured" tab only appears if there are featured questions to show. Currently, I don't think we have any active bounties, which is why the tab isn't there.</p>
<p>Also, as far as I know, the tab appears on the main home page and under "Questions". It doesn't appear in the "Unanswered questions" section.</p>
| 2015-04-15T11:20:21.843 |
|discussion| | 1258 | Questions with no concrete answer? | <p>Let's say I want to create a robot to follow a line, but make this as fast as possible. </p>
<p>Can I actually ask a question like: "How can I make a line following robot as fast as possible".</p>
<p>I would say that the question is way too broad, but what if I really were wondering this or wanted to discuss about... | <p>An answer doesn't have to be concrete, but it should be at least a "lightly packed gravel" answer. As for your question, you're walking on the line. If you put a ton of research into your question, figure out most of the parts of the design, and ask a well-written question about the parts you cannot figure out, it's... | 2015-04-20T13:00:32.430 |
|discussion|content-quality|users|new-users| | 1264 | How to attract highly skilled / knowledgeable users to Arduino.SE (instead of EE.SE or SO) | <p>Before I started to tinker with Arduino some months ago, I was already a heavy-user of StackOverflow (I am a professional programmer) and at times EE (home-made electronics now and then has been a hobby for almost twenty years).</p>
<p>As such, when I started the Arduino think I was glad to find out there is an Ardu... | <p>Fundamentally, the way to get skilled and knowledgeable posters to answers Arduino questions <strong>is to discontinue this site</strong> and put those questions back where they belong and where - as you have observed - there are already pools of knowledgeable people to answer them.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the existe... | 2015-05-28T19:38:14.543 |
|discussion| | 1267 | Where to announce/discuss stuff? | <p>I've just received an email from the microsoft insider program, where they spotlight windows 10 IoT support for Arduino</p>
<blockquote>
<p>We’re also excited to announce our partnership with Arduino, making Windows 10 the world’s first Arduino-certified operating system. Learn more about Windows Remote Arduino a... | <p>The blockquote you included in your question reads to me like part of an advertisement, so there's really not a good place for it on this site. If that's not the message you want to spread (i.e. if I'm misunderstanding what you mean by "announcement"), please let me know.</p>
<p>You are of course welcome to ask que... | 2015-06-12T13:47:00.297 |
|discussion| | 1277 | I answer a question, and then the OP deletes the question. Grrr |
<p>I saw a question about an hour ago, it looked reasonable. It was about passing an array of values to a function. I answered it, it took 10 or 15 minutes, including making up some example code.</p>
<p>Half an hour later I go to check on whether I made any typos, but couldn't find any history of the question at all... | <blockquote>
<p>Is this acceptable behaviour?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Yes and no. If there was a reason for deletion, it may be OK. However, there doesn't seem to be any reason the OP would delete. Otherwise, I'd say no. It's really dependent on the situation.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>How do you deal with people that ask... | 2015-08-04T07:17:01.610 |
|discussion|site-scope| | 1279 | What would you think about broadening the topic to include Raspberry Pi, Robotics and Embedded Systems in general? | <p>I recently participated in the <a href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/70800/embedded-systems">Embedded Systems</a> private beta. It will be closing down next Friday, because there was not enough activity. In the meta post on the closing of the site, Andrew, a Robotics pro-temp moderator suggested that fo... | <p>Personally I would vote <strong>not</strong> to, on the following grounds:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>On the figures quoted, the merged site would go from around 10 questions per day (here) to 30, however of those 30 only 10 would be relevant to people interested in Arduino. This effectively dilutes the number an Arduino-enth... | 2015-08-08T09:43:38.333 |
|discussion|feature-request| | 1285 | Can we have a "OP does not respond to queries" close reason? | <p>Example question:</p>
<p><a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/10285/unexpected-timer-conflicts-uno">Unexpected Timer Conflicts (Uno)</a></p>
<p>Marked as unanswered. However a reply (later converted to a comment) asking for more information has been completely ignored.</p>
<p>How can this ever be ... | <p>If there isn't enough information to answer the question then I think "Unclear what you're asking" is a suitable close reason.</p>
| 2015-08-21T23:37:41.720 |
|discussion|tags| | 2289 | Processing, signal-processing and text-processing tags | <p>Could we rename Processing (the language) tag to Processing-lang, and merge signal- and text-processing tags to data-processing tag. </p>
| <p>What does data-processing mean?</p>
<p>Although it's clear what <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/processing" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'processing'" rel="tag">processing</a> refers to -- and I agree with renaming that tag to clarify that it's about the <em>proc... | 2015-09-04T15:26:07.297 |
|discussion|moderation| | 2292 | User always tries to promote their product | <p>If you see all the post from this user <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/users/4169/visual-micro">Visual Micro</a>. A great deal of his/her answers lead the user to a single product. Is this allowed by SE policy and should be flagged?</p>
| <p>Users are allowed post good, relevant answers that talk about their own product or website as long as they disclose their affiliation with the product or website in the answer. </p>
<p>Overt self-promotion should be down-voted or flagged as spam.</p>
<p>The Help Center has a <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.... | 2015-09-14T21:46:10.717 |
|discussion| | 2294 | A questionable rejected edit | <p>Now I'm not one to quibble over minor matters (I'm quite a <em>laissez faire</em> type of chap), but I recently made an edit to a <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/14782/im-looking-for-a-way-to-serially-communicate-with-a-multi-mesh-arduino-slave-net">question</a>, which I was surprised to see rej... | <p>I made an edit a little while back (quite an extensive one, like yours) but while I was doing it the OP made a minor change. Since the OP can edit immediately, my edit was rejected. I think I tried again (laboriously retyping the corrections) and while I did that, the OP made <em>another</em> change! Pffft!</p>
<p>... | 2015-09-16T23:39:53.513 |
|bug| | 2307 | Are we in our own special time zone? | <p>I thought SE measured time in UTC, but I just got notified that I had earned the "<a href="http://winterbash2015.stackexchange.com/a-new-hope" rel="nofollow">A New Hope</a>" hat whose criteria are described as "ask, answer, or vote on December 18th" – as I write this UTC is 15:48 on Thursday, December 17, 2015.</p>
| <p>In case you haven't seen it yet, balpha addressed this <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/245122/">on the network meta</a>. From there:</p>
<blockquote>
<h2>Leeway on date-based hats</h2>
<p>Unless the requirement mentions a specific timezone, hats that are date-based are often awarded for 14 hours before and... | 2015-12-17T15:49:02.243 |
|feature-request| | 2314 | Lots of abandoned (and/or unanswered) questions | <p>Would it be possible to delete questions that have no reply from the OP at least a few months or user is inactive and there are no good and useful answers.</p>
<p>There are quite a lot of questions that should be deleted because the OP has vanished that just clutter arduino.stackexchange.</p>
<p>For ex: <a href="h... | <p>I would say some caution is required. Just because the OP has vanished, it does not mean that the question is redundant/useless. I Just remember what I heard from a lecturer back at college, many moons ago: </p>
<blockquote>
<p>If you have a question, but are too scared to ask it, for fear of looking the fool, th... | 2016-01-20T19:39:45.690 |
|discussion| | 2330 | Could some "Achievements" have negative impact? | <p>I was looking at the achievements and I noticed that some might actually have a negative impact on the value of this SE website.</p>
<ul>
<li>Vox Populi/Civic Duty (Use the maximum 40 votes in a day/ Vote 300 or more times)</li>
</ul>
<p>May cause people to spam votes in order to get the achievement.</p>
<ul>
<li... | <p>I was going to make a comment as it was going to be a bit long.</p>
<p>This is more of a general SE meta topic seems all sites have these achievements available. </p>
<p>Also badges don't equate to privileges which are earned by making meaningful contribution to each SE site.</p>
<p>So if there are people who wan... | 2016-02-18T09:18:03.273 |
|discussion|editing| | 2332 | A rash of minor edits | <p>This is not a question (really), but recently I have seen a rash of 10-20 suggested edits, more or less each day, over the past few weeks or so, where the only change was to remove the "Thanks". Now, don't get me wrong, the "Thanks" shouldn't be there, there is a post on SE Meta about it, and I'l... | <p>There's a rejection reason called "no improvement whatsoever" that applies here. That edit didn't do <em>anything</em> to make the question easier to read or understand, and goodness knows it could've used some of that.</p>
<p>Some folks get all bent out of shape about "thanks" at the end of questions, but I've yet... | 2016-02-21T08:37:11.420 |
|discussion| | 2340 | Why does the migrate dialog only list Arduino Meta? | <blockquote>
<p>This question is probably due to my lack of understanding of the inner workings of the review queue code, and the procedures associated with it. This question also <em>may</em> not be SE Arduino specific, in which case I would be happy for it to be migrated to SE Meta. </p>
</blockquote>
<p>If you ar... | <p>I think it is because we are "only" a Beta site. Once we graduate, I think more migrating options become available.</p>
<p>As a moderator, I can migrate to other sites, and have done in some cases. I usually ask their moderators first, and quite often they decline to accept them. However migration <strong>does</str... | 2016-03-15T05:06:20.373 |
|bug|status-bydesign|tags| | 2346 | Unable to see all the tags in the next tag badge | <p>Maybe this is not the right place to ask this kind of question (sorry i this is the case).</p>
<p>I'd like to know why in my <code>Activity User Page</code>, under the section <code>Reputation, Next tag badge</code>, if I click on Choose which bag to tack I can not see all my top tag. In other words, as you can see... | <p>A bunch of those tags are not eligible for becoming tag badges yet - a tag must appear on a minimum of 100 questions to be considered for tag badges.</p>
<p>The tag badges you cannot track are those that are not eligible to tag badges.</p>
| 2016-04-04T15:31:16.760 |
|feature-request|tags| | 2349 | Extra tag that would be great if were included | <p>I have recently posted about using a 2-Wire speaker with Arduino Esplora, however I couldn't tag it correctly because there was no <code>arduino-esplora</code> tag. The Esplora tag would be very useful in case anyone posts about an Arduino Esplora, and anyone looking to answer questions about the Arduino Esplora. Th... | <p>A tag should be created (from scratch) if you use it. It doesn't have to exist in advance.</p>
| 2016-04-10T17:24:46.870 |
|bug|support| | 2354 | How to earn the Vox Populi badge, | <p>The Vox Populi badge is described as :"Use the maximum 40 votes in a day".<br>
However I tried to get this one a couple of times now and I never got to more than 31 votes. Then I get the message "You have used all your votes for today".<br>
It looks like a bug to me or there should be a requirement to have "XX quest... | <p>You have 30 votes per day. This is the limit.</p>
<p>And in addition to that, you get an <strong>extra 10 votes</strong> on questions. <a href="http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/05/vote-for-this-question-or-the-kitten-gets-it/">Read this blog post to find out why</a>.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>You can vote <strong>30... | 2016-04-21T11:08:46.797 |
|discussion| | 2356 | Ok guys, I'm new to this level of review, how does re-open work? | <p><a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/review/reopen/15243">This question</a> is very vague, and they've provided a <em>little</em> more info, but really not enough. I'd like to encourage the user to get in and provide more info.</p>
<p>But if I click re-open, is my ONE re-open vote enough to re-open it? If i'm ... | <p>I'm not surprised the question was closed:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>hi guys How can I serial monitor repport send the atmega328 and save in chip? thanks. </p>
</blockquote>
<p>That's incredibly vague. In fact, it doesn't make sense.</p>
<p>OK, he edited it, but the damage was done. A lot of people didn't understand ... | 2016-05-15T11:40:14.457 |
|discussion| | 2367 | Dealing with Answers that should be comments | <p>I realise it's a deficiency in the SE system, but a new user (from memory) can't post comments to questions or answers, unless it's their own.</p>
<p>A lot of users throughout SE as a whole do this, post an answer that really should be a comment on a question or the answer in question because they can't offer said ... | <p><strong>Flag it and let a moderator take a peek.</strong> We have the tools to directly convert an answer to a comment (so that it looks like it was posted by the user who posted the answer) or delete the post altogether. We also have the know-how to properly respond to the user to educate them about Stack Exchange ... | 2016-07-30T00:06:55.413 |
|discussion| | 2369 | Old questions, marked as recently modified, but no new content | <p>This one, for instance: <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/18667/esp8266-returns-invalid-cause-4">ESP8266 Returns 'invalid' - Cause 4</a></p>
<p>Right now, Aug 7, 2016, 8:31am EST, the Top Questions page says this question was modified 7 hours ago. But the newest time stamp on the question... | <blockquote>
<p>Does up/down-voting bump the question? </p>
</blockquote>
<p>No, voting does not bump questions. <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/48578/226837">Only answers and edits</a> do.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Or is it something recent that has been deleted? If there is no new content, listing it as hav... | 2016-08-07T12:46:54.980 |
|discussion| | 2370 | Is an ESP8266 running Arduino code question allowed? | <p>More and more questions seem to be asking about ESP8266 programed via the Arduino IDE and running "Arduino" code, and quite a few about ESP8266 and NodeMCU.<br>
1. Is it OK to ask about ESP8266 programed as an Arduino?<br>
2. Should questions asking about ESP8266 programmed using LUA, etc. be closed as off topic?<br... | <p>As Arduino-branded boards now include Intel- and ARM family-based boards, the lines can get kind of blurred. If an Arduino-branded, ESP8266-powered MCU board were to appear, should we include it as on-topic but exclude AI-Thinker ESP-01 or other ESP-xx boards?</p>
<p>An alternative to including ESP questions is to ... | 2016-08-10T12:20:45.937 |
|discussion|site-scope| | 2381 | Are online Arduino simulators on topic? | <p>For example, could I ask a question here about how to use Arduino features in <a href="http://circuits.io" rel="nofollow">http://circuits.io</a>?</p>
| <p>I don't see why not. As long as the question isn't about how to use the <em>simulator</em> itself (they should support their own product in that respect). Bear in mind that simulators don't always mimic real life hardware. Exact timing constraints, and marginal voltage levels might not be reproduced in the same way ... | 2016-10-10T00:55:53.577 |
|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|retagging| | 2383 | What is the process for deleting/merging duplicate tags? | <p>What is the general procedure for deleting or merging tags that are duplicates/synonyms of other tags?</p>
<p>As I understand, unused tags will get deleted automatically after a period of time.</p>
<p>Where tags should be merged, is there a process where the less established tags get migrated over to the more esta... | <p><em>Although this question is answered I found <a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/250930/6075112">this</a> post on meta.stackoverflow that is also useful. (Credit to Kedarnath)</em></p>
<hr>
<p>One way to remove tag is just remove the duplicate tag from all the tagged question (and even replace it with the ... | 2016-10-10T15:56:08.120 |
|discussion| | 2389 | What is the standard practice for when the OP edits the question to include the solution? | <p>What is the standard practice for when the OP edits the question to include the solution?</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/21309/error-while-loading-libtinfo-so-5-solved">error while loading libtinfo.so.5 - SOLVED</a></li>
<li><a href="https://arduino.stackexcha... | <p>A good method is to leave a comment to educate the OP that what he/she has done is not in-step with the Stack Exchange system. After all, the aim of this site is that the community builds up and educate other users, in order to improve the overall quality of the site. </p>
<p>We then leave it up to the OP to do the... | 2016-10-15T15:44:28.820 |
|discussion| | 2395 | How should I respond to questions that only provide code snippets? | <p>I've been seeing this trend where people, who post questions that are related to problems with their code, just post the part of their code that they think is "pertinent" for the public. How should I respond to that? It's getting quite annoying and I don't know if any of you are seeing this too. </p>
| <p>It's a well-known problem. I set up a web site a while ago: <a href="http://snippets-r-us.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Snippets R Us!</a> to address this issue.</p>
<p>I've seen plenty of times a post that "this must be the problem" (posting a couple of lines of code) and "this can't possibly be the problem" (om... | 2016-11-04T02:41:39.800 |
|discussion| | 2400 | What if a comment solve the question? | <p>Good days all! </p>
<p>I am new to this forum, and I am trying lo learn how the "rules" here.
After reading several post, such as <a href="https://arduino.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2367/dealing-with-answers-that-should-be-comments">this</a>, <a href="https://arduino.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2397... | <p>Stack Exchange considers comments to be ephemeral - that is, they may be deleted. Thus an "answer" which is just a comment is ultimately not helpful. However initially you may make a comment to test the waters, and then if the OP acknowledges that this is the correct answer, we now have this problem that you mention... | 2016-11-18T03:43:09.823 |
|discussion| | 2403 | Pin 13 - Frozen | <p>Our beloved chatroom: "Pin 13" is frozen (due to inactivity).</p>
<p><strong>Can we re-open the chatroom?</strong></p>
<p>Theoretically, we could start a new chatroom, but that wouldn't be a very neat solution (it can be hard to find anything back, if we keep making new "Pin 13"'s.</p>
<p><strong>Can we avoid get... | <ul>
<li>75% of users on this site turn up, ask one question, get their answer, and are never seen again.</li>
<li>22% of users on this site turn up, ask one question, don't bother waiting around for an answer, and are never seen again.</li>
<li>2% of users on this site are those that show an interest and either want t... | 2016-11-26T08:42:59.943 |
|discussion|feature-request| | 2412 | Should Arduino SE get a documentation section? | <p>Arduino, along with a couple of other subjects, are quite precise. I mean, all programming questions mostly consern the Arduino IDE and I find that the Arduino.cc's tutorial section rubish.</p>
<p>After looking at what Stack Overflow has in there documentation section, I would find it very convinient and great if w... | <p>I'm not sure documentation per se is going to be useful. As Nick has noted reading documentation is something that many of our incoming users ("Ardueenies") are averse to doing.</p>
<p>Another thing they seem averse to doing is searching. The number of duplicate questions we get seems to be rather high. So instead ... | 2016-12-21T00:55:07.773 |
|discussion| | 2413 | Electorate badge description | <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/CiTIh.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/CiTIh.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
<p>The Electorate gold badge description says <em>'Vote on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions'</em></p>
<p>The word <code>que... | <p>You are changing the meaning with your suggestions. The meaning is:</p>
<ul>
<li>Vote on 600 <strong>questions</strong> - first requirement</li>
<li>25% or more <strong>total votes</strong> are on questions - second requirement</li>
</ul>
<p>So for example, you might have made 2400 votes, and of that 2400, 600 are... | 2016-12-21T16:10:36.710 |
|discussion| | 2420 | Be wary of accepting edits that are comments of third parties | <p>There are still the usual new users, who, as they are unable to leave a comment, try to suggest an edit to the OP's question, in order to get their point on to the page...</p>
<p>I recently rejected <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/22212">this edit</a>, which was by a third party, w... | <p>One argument could be that the OP can make edits without needing permission, so you should look more cautiously at suggested edits. It is effectively a red flag that this was <strong>not</strong> the OP. However I'm inclined to agree that if you can't make comments (yet) then you shouldn't be able to slip "comments"... | 2017-01-19T23:15:32.680 |
|discussion| | 2421 | Rejected edit results in loss of constructive code modification | <p>I rejected this <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/22215">suggested edit</a> from an anonymous user, as it clearly conflicted with the original post. The odd thing was though, the edit actually seemed to be rather constructive, as it modified the code (not in an insignificant way), and... | <p>You can always post it as a community wiki. That way you are not taking the credit for the work of someone else.</p>
| 2017-01-19T23:25:12.360 |
|discussion| | 2424 | Voting to close new users' questions without comment | <p>This question, <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/34127/how-to-compile-the-bootloader-mega-2560-to-57600-speed">How to compile the bootloader mega 2560 to 57600 speed?</a>, by a new user, has four close votes, but no comments.</p>
<p>Yes, it is a terrible question, <em>as it stands</em>, and yes, ... | <p>[I want to use this post, <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/43104/how-to-merge-2-batteries-socketof-6v-each">How to merge 2 batteries socketof 6v each</a>, as a reference.]</p>
<p>I think guys that doesn't know the Ohm's law and doesn't know how to program are beyond redemption. And they want hel... | 2017-02-02T03:42:25.867 |
|support| | 2426 | Does Arduino beta have a community ad? | <p>I realize beta sites don't have ads <em>on</em> the site, but I'd like to put one <em>for</em> the site on rotation at <a href="https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/">https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/</a> (they are being renewed for the year now).</p>
<p>If not and someone wants to whip something up, please d... | <p>Here, I widened your graphic a bit:</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/2obGY.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/2obGY.png" alt="Widened graphic"></a></p>
| 2017-02-02T15:40:13.083 |
|discussion| | 2431 | Am I allowed to ask a question about explaining what some lines of a code does? | <p>so I have recently started working with Arduino boards and C++, I was doing this project and with luck (meaning I tried random lines of code) I got what I wanted. </p>
<p>However, I don't want to learn this way so I want to ask the members in this site to explain how each line of code works (not the really basic on... | <p>As long as you are asking about a couple of lines of code. Don't post an entire sketch of hundreds of lines and expect a line-by-line explanation.</p>
| 2017-03-03T09:39:22.390 |
|discussion|content-quality|beta-progress|new-users| | 2433 | Does a (legitimate) desire to graduate from beta lead to be (excessively) tolerant of poor questions and/or answers? | <p>I'm new (approx 2 months) to the SE community and right now I'm active only in two of its sites: Arduino beta and Electrical Engineering (EE). But I'm already amazed by how opposed the cultures of these two sites are.</p>
<p>EE has a somewhat wack-a-noob attitude and is very unforgiving of users that don't show any... | <p>As someone who has to respond to flagged questions (for moderation) I can say that I don't personally let a <em>bad</em> question through in the hope that the site comes out of Beta. I don't know exactly what criteria Stack Exchange uses for graduating a site, but I think there is an element of "does the site look ... | 2017-03-29T09:26:53.260 |
|discussion|badges|vote-to-close| | 2443 | Voting to close a question, within a question, does not count towards your review total | <p>Today I realized that if I am in a question and I vote to close it, for whatever reason (and I am not the first person to vote to close the question), it doesn't count towards my review count. That means that those close votes don't go towards your Custodian/Reviewer/Steward badge count.</p>
<p>In order for it to c... | <p>I'm still a little confused by "if I am in a question and I vote to close it" but I take it you mean arriving at the question from outside of a review queue.</p>
<p>If so, then yes, this is correct, and you're right, this is network-wide behavior. The intent of the Custodian, Reviewer and Steward badges is first to... | 2017-05-18T14:43:33.437 |
|discussion| | 2450 | Arduino.SE graduation: will users lose privileges? | <p>Arduino.SE is graduating. Woohoo!</p>
<p>When a site graduates the reputation required to earn certain privileges eventually rises. My question is: will users lose privileges earned under beta rep thresholds, as their rep will be below the new thresholds? Are earned privileges kept after graduation?</p>
| <p>Yes, I believe that the "full site" privileges will apply once we get the site design (which as Alex said could well be months away).</p>
<p>For reference, here is the current <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/help/privileges">privileges list</a>. Compare to the numbers for a full site such as <a href="htt... | 2017-07-17T16:57:35.830 |
|support|formatting|markdown| | 2454 | Does Arduino support embedded YouTube videos? | <p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/298854/351462">Over on Meta Stack Exchange</a>, I am attempting to compile a complete list of Stack Exchange sites which support YouTube embedding.</p>
<p>Searching on Arduino Meta, I was unable to find any discussion of whether embedded YouTube videos are supported. Becaus... | <p>There's only one way to find out.</p>
<h1>Testing YouTube URL Embedding</h1>
<p><strong>Regular</strong> <code>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gocwRvLhDf8</code></p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gocwRvLhDf8" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gocwRvLhDf8</a></p>
<hr>
<p><st... | 2017-08-01T14:09:03.980 |
|discussion| | 2456 | Lots of views in one day | <p>I noticed that this question (<a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/q/43188/13425">Burning Arduinos one after another</a>) got almost 4K views in one day. That seems odd since the average on arduino.se seems to be about 25 (guestimate). Is this view count correct?</p>
| <p>It was probably a HNQ (Hot Network Question) - see the side bar that appears on everyone's page. If the question looks interesting it will draw in a lot of views. I can even imagine that the title "Burning Arduinos one after another" might have got people interested.</p>
| 2017-08-01T18:36:55.387 |
|support| | 2467 | 3 Total posts awaiting review | <p>In my status bar on Arduino stackexchange (not meta) I see in the top bar a square, brown with 3 in it and hovering shows: 3 total posts awaiting review.</p>
<p>However, if I look in the review list, all reviews show 0 items (including from meta data).</p>
<p>Where can I find these 3 posts?</p>
<p>I see this sinc... | <p>That used to happen to me too. There is some explanation along the lines that you recently reviewed something so it is dropped from the list, but the count on the top bar is a cached one.</p>
<p>See:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/288767/queue-counts-inconsistent">Queue counts incon... | 2017-08-09T12:47:44.907 |
|discussion| | 2474 | Are we a little stingy about upvoting questions? | <p>I felt like questions with accepted answers were upvoted less often here than on other SE sites, so I decided to have a look at the Data Explorer:</p>
<pre><code>select count(distinct Id) from Posts where Score > 0 and CreationDate > '2017-07-01' and AcceptedAnswerId is not null; --35
select count(distinct Id... | <p>I have to confess I often upvote the question I answered, even if I don't like it that much. Every upvote helps a question hit the HNQ list, which means every answer to it will earn much more reputation that it would otherwise. I know it's pretty much rep chasing (frankly, I don't like HNQ), but those are the rules ... | 2017-08-12T14:12:35.530 |
|support| | 2490 | Editor keeps making unwanted modifications to my answer | <p>I'm not really sure where to ask for moderator help. @ChrisStratton is engaging in an edit war on <a href="https://arduino.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2436/31794">my answer</a> to <a href="https://arduino.meta.stackexchange.com/q/15/31794">Are clone-specific questions on topic for this site?</a> because he doesn't like... | <p>The question asks:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>However, there may be cases where a <em><strong>clone's</strong></em> [emphasis mine] features, layout, and/or spec deviate from the norm, whether by mistake or by design.</p>
<p>Should this site include questions which relate to specific clones, or would that be off-topic?</p>... | 2017-09-25T09:13:41.287 |
|discussion| | 2496 | What to do with "company secrets"? | <p>After answering a <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/45294/esp8266wifi-library-severely-slowed-down-my-embedded-system-project">post</a> today, OP said to me:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Actually, my real code is not as short as it looks in this demo code.
I am not allowed to post the real code for so... | <p>You answered the question in good faith, and if you can reproduce a problem in the posted code, and post a solution, then that may help someone some day.</p>
<p>If the OP comes back and says "actually that isn't the real code" then you can request the real code, or say "pffft, in that case I can't help you".</p>
<... | 2017-10-05T14:13:12.653 |
|discussion| | 2499 | What to do with low quality posts? | <p>Yesterday I review several years old question with zero answers, voting to close them, which started a debate with perl1234 and gre_gor.</p>
<p>I voted with this explanation:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it's a year old
question with no answers.</p>
</blockquote>
... | <p>You can't close a question because it doesn't have answers, but you can <strong>and should</strong> vote to close a question if it has been long abandoned by the asker in a state which makes it <strong>unanswerable</strong> - and especially if they've failed to respond to comments requesting clarification.</p>
<p>N... | 2017-10-25T14:35:19.700 |
|discussion| | 2504 | How to deal with dead question? | <p>What we do with <strong>dead</strong> still-open questions?</p>
<p>By <em>dead</em> I mean that the OP had not return to Arduino SE for over a year (and probably will never come back), and therefore the question will be never closed, even if it had acceptable answers posted.</p>
<p>Case: <a href="https://arduino.s... | <p>I don't think that you necessarily mean <em>closed</em> but rather <em>has an accepted answer</em>, and as such, is thus removed from the list of unanswered questions. I noticed such a question yesterday: <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/46062/hc-12-with-arduino-mega">HC-12 with Arduino Mega</a>.... | 2017-10-31T08:30:26.517 |
|discussion|flagging| | 2519 | Attention: some of your recent flags have been declined - please review them before flagging this post! | <p>Sometimes, when flagging an answer, this message appears:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Attention: some of your recent flags have been declined - please
review them before flagging this post!</p>
</blockquote>
<p>What I am supposed to do? I follow the link to the review, but I can't see any action, button, link or nothi... | <p>You can actually view a list of your flags and how they were handled if you would like to review. If you go to your user profile on the <code>Activity</code> tab, you can click on the <code>XX Helpful Flags</code> and you get a list of all of your flags.</p>
<p>I don't know exactly how the algorithm for warning wor... | 2018-02-08T08:55:28.833 |
|discussion|flagging| | 2530 | Declined spam flag | <p>I raised a spam flag <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/a/50385">on an answer</a>, that doesn't answer the question, but it's tying to sell a product.</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ELoKU.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ELoKU.png" alt=""></a></p>
<p>I now reali... | <p>That was my mistake. When I saw the flag I thought it was a flag on the comment, not the answer below. Due to the way the page appeared on my monitor I only saw the comment which mentioned where the product could be bought, and assumed that was what the flag was for.</p>
<p>You are quite right that the answer in qu... | 2018-03-03T02:31:26.723 |
|discussion| | 2543 | Trouble with posting code correctly | <p>Why is it that the code I have posted appears jumbled up but looks normal when inserted between brackets?</p>
| <ul>
<li><p>Format your code in the Arduino IDE (or in whatever code-entry editor you are using). In the Arduino IDE, it's the 'Tools | Autoformat' menu item.</p></li>
<li><p>Copy/paste your code into Arduino Stack Exchange's question or answer text-entry box. (If you're trying to show code in a comment, forget about f... | 2018-10-06T00:47:34.600 |
|discussion|specific-question| | 2565 | 6 downvotes in 6 days - what am I doing wrong? | <p>I've recently joined Arduino.SE but am a 7K+ reputation member of both SO and U&L.</p>
<p>Every community has its different mores, and I'm guessing that I've not yet grokked this one's.</p>
<p>My <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/users/53509/tom-hale?tab=reputation">reputation page</a> shows -12 reput... | <p>This site doesn't tend to up or down-vote much which therefore skews the votes you do get. As an example, I got 77 votes for <a href="https://cooking.stackexchange.com/a/88504/43247">an answer on Cooking Stack Exchange</a> where I basically posted a photo of a kitchen strainer which took me a couple of minutes to ta... | 2019-02-15T06:27:58.593 |
|discussion|meta| | 2571 | Is it allowed to ask a question if you've already have an solution/answer? | <p>Is it allowed to ask a question if you've already have an solution/answer?</p>
<p>This could be done to get alternative options/solutions for algorithms. But on the other hand may distract from people who are actually struggling with a real problem.</p>
<p>Also, for algorithms/improvements, you have programming or... | <p>You're kind of in a borderland area there :)</p>
<p>I would say:</p>
<ul>
<li>If you are looking for other ways to implement something, or</li>
<li>Your code uses the Arduino API or Arduino libraries, or</li>
<li>You have something that "works" but you don't know if it's the "right" way of doing it</li>
</ul>
<p>... | 2019-03-17T10:27:11.457 |
|discussion| | 2573 | Flagging: "Not an Answer", "Very Low Quality" or something else? | <p>I've had a couple of flags declined which has made me wonder if I fully understand the use of particular flags on Arduino:SE, so I'm going to post this as a question here in the hope of getting some guidance.</p>
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<p><strong>Flag: Not An Answer</strong></p>
<p>A little while back, I flagged <a href="https://a... | <p>Just another perspective to add to the discussion:</p>
<p>I look at the answer with the thought of another person having a similar issue who has found this page through a search.</p>
<p>Sometimes it does not answer the exact question the OP has asked or has strayed out of the OP's bounds, I think to myself, if I c... | 2019-04-04T23:57:47.237 |
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