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Why is the review queue empty?
The review queue is a filter, which shows a list of questions with a certain criteria. The idea is not to show the entire list of questions, but only these which are flagged by a group member for ...
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New tag request: “roboticstoolboxmatlab”
I maintain the Robotics Toolbox for MATLAB, and although I have my own support forum (tiny.cc/rvcforum) I've noticed quite a few support questions on SE which are hard for me to find. A new tag might ...
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Retag suggestion: robotic arms vs. arm CPUs
The overwhelming majority of the questions tagged as "arm" are about robotic arms. Some of them are about the ARM CPU, which is the abbreviation of "Acorn RISC Machine".
My suggestion would be, ...
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Are questions about robotics competitions on-topic?
I have a question about Vex Worlds 2019 that I would like to ask on Robotics.SE. It's not really related to robot hardware or software, but about a robotics competition.
I've looked at https://...
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How to deal with answers (and questions) which contain false information?
There are some answers (and some questions) on R.SE which contain false technical information. In the argumentation chain leading up to the final answer or question concepts and methods are mentioned ...
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Was there a change to the Community Bot that stops it from bumping questions?
We normally see a few new questions per day, and then of those we normally only get what I would call "good" questions maybe 2-3 times per week.
The thing that had kept the site seeming more fresh ...
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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, ...
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Is a 3d printer a robot?
This questions asks if a printer, implying a 3d printer, is a robot. I think that's a good, fair, question, and is substantially different than the question that it's marked a duplicate of. ...
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Reminder - Please vote to close questions you think don't belong!
First, I want to thank all the site regulars; the community wouldn't exist without you.
I was appointed pro-tem moderator about 2.5 years ago now. At the time, I wanted to "lead the charge" on ...
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New tag request: “wonderworkshop”
My company (Wonder Workshop) would like to direct hobbyists, students, and educators to discuss the more technical aspects of our robots here at robotics.stackexchange.com . And specifically we'd ...
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New site look coming soon & Code of Conduct available for review
New Site theme coming soon
A few weeks ago it was announced on Stack Exchange Meta that new site themes were rolling out across the Stack Exchange Network.
Initially 10 Stack Exchange sites will ...
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Should we seed this community to boost activity?
The activity in this community seems to have plateaued somewhat since its start five years ago. Seeding this site at this stage may initially appear odd, but it could stimulate growth, define the ...
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Are we a perpetual beta?
In regards to this question and a comment made by a Stack Exchange Community Manager, perpetual betas exist in the Stack Exchange. Considering that we have been in beta for five years, is there a way ...
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Topic scope of “Robotics”
I can not find the description of the topic scope of "Robotics".
I would like to know I can ask questions about how to code XYZ for Pepper and things like that. I saw most of the Pepper questions are ...
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“Graduation” of this Community
This is a question just because I am curious. I am following this SE site for a long time and I got the impression that is was in beta stage for a long time so I checked the Area 51. What I saw was ...
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Drone community spin-off?
UAV's (unmanned aerial vehicles), a.k.a. "drones", could be considered a hybrid offspring of Aviation and Robotics.
Since many questions pertaining to drones are considered off-topic in the Aviation ...
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What should our policy be on identification questions?
A new user asked a question about what a mechanism in a picture was. I'm sure we have had such questions before, and I think we have generally allowed them, but a recent one attracted several "unclear ...
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4 years later on the servo vs hobby servo tags
4 years after the last discussion I can find on this topic it looks like after around 2014 the hobbyservo tag fell out of use and the servo tag has become a catch all, as it seems that the majority of ...
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Can we add chat status to the main site?
I've noticed that on other sites, on the right-hand side under "Blog" and "Hot Meta Posts" there is a chat status - people in the room, last user to comment, and the time at which the last comment was ...
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Suggestions for changes to the code language of tags
Thanks to Shog9♦ we have had Code Language (used for syntax highlighting) enabled on Robotics.
I have gone through all tags with more than 5 questions, picked out tags which I think might benefit ...
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Discusson about the necessity of syntax highlight
As far as I have noticed the site does not have any syntax highlighting capability.
The following annotation does not work:
<!-- language: c-->
and the ...
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Out of question body area bound MathJax-ed matrices
In this question there are wide MathJax formatted matrices, which overlap with the "Hot Network Questions"
I am using Mozilla Firefox 49.0.2, and I do not know if this occurs with other browsers.
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Is there a need for Industrial Automation SE?
Since ther is currently no place (other then this, when it is robotics relates) to ask industrial automation related questions (PLC programming, Motors and drives, HMIs Control systems etc.) I started ...
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Which, if any, external resources are link-rot approved
Link rot is a real problem, but when I see a link rot notice on relatively robust links, it makes me wonder where the line is.
How much information should be reproduced here rather than referenced on ...
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is asking for a conference paper appropriate?
Is it okay to ask for a journal paper solving a specific problem? Right now I'm researching quadrotor landings and am having trouble finding a paper on quadrotors landing on platforms where the ...
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Artificial Intelligence beta has started
After previous failures, the AI site has its probably last chance to join to SE network. This is very related to robotics, since robot is a container for AI, so I believe a lot of people here have ...
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Should we be so quick to put questions on hold?
I see a number of questions (https://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/10313/design-of-scara-joint-problem) where a combination of english as a second language and a question from a user new to the ...
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Consideration of “Soft Robotics” tag in Robotics.SE
As I would like to ask a question, is which related to the Soft Robotics, one would contend that the existence of such tag (with due attention to considerable activities in this field of robotics) ...
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Why have separate quadrotor and quadcopter tags?
I have just edited the quadrotor tag, and added suggested text for both the excerpt and full tag wiki, which were lacking. However, I then noticed that there was also a quadcoptor tag (which I must ...
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Phantom Review Queue
My review queue on the site toolbar typically has some number. When I got access to my first moderation tool, I thought that this was the number of items in the review queue, but it was never ...
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Robotics Stack Exchange question checklist
Here is a short list of questions to check after you've written a question (and to think about before you write the question):
Have asked a practical, answerable question based on an actual problem ...
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Proposals for new Close reasons
Beta sites like robotics have three custom close reasons.
We have been using the current custom close reasons for some time, so I think now might be a good time to review them and collect suggestions ...
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Are 3D printing questions on-topic?
With the dawn of https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/, I thought we should (re-)evaluate if questions about 3D printing are on topic here on robotics.SE.
I guess if the question is mostly about ...
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Help me evaluate a FIRST Robotics proposal?
When a proposal for a new site nears the end of its "definition", it undergoes a review by the Community Team to see if it should move forward.
I need your help.
Below are the top "example ...
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How should we handle questions with ethical concerns?
A recent question† started me thinking about whether, as a site, we wanted to declare questions with obvious legal and ethical problems to be off-topic.
† What open source software and ...
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Question that links to inappropriately named video
The recently asked question Best power solution for my robot includes a link for a video demonstrating the gait of the quadreped... all well and good. Unfortunately the title of the video leaves ...
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unanswered vs unaccepted
What is SE's qualification for "unanswered"? Because many unanswered questions do actually have answers. I am guessing that by unanswered, they really mean unaccepted. meaning that the original ...
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Closing a question - only option for another site is Robotics Meta
I tried to vote to close this question on image processing, but when I clicked, "This question belongs on another site in the Stack Exchange network" the only option I could select was the Robotics ...
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What would you think about broadening the topic to include Arduino, Raspberry Pi and Embedded Systems in general?
I recently participated in the Embedded Systems 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 ...
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Embedded Systems StackExchange
The fledgling Embedded.SE is likely to be short-lived affair, with a proposal for it to be killed off already
Given the significant over-lap between that site and this, I have suggested that the ...
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Who controlls the [controller]?
There are only 4 questions tagged with controller. Is this tag really necessary?
Shouldn't this be synonymous with [control]? The term is also related to [driver]. It can also stand for an ...
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Shopping recommendation not listed as cause for closure
I've found that, on posts I vote to close, the top reason I vote to close is that they are shopping recommendation questions. There is no shopping recommendation pre-canned selection, though, so I ...
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Should we build out AI topics and tags?
Given that the Area 51 StackExchange site for Artificial Intelligence got shut down, should we make an attempt to appropriate those questions into robotics?
E.g. this question about POMDPs
By "build ...
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FIRST Robotics competiton proposal
As a long-time user of SE sites, I'd like to ask a few questions to the members of robotics.SE. I am a huge part of working on a FIRST Robotics Competition (Including FRC, FTC, and FLL, link here); ...
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Am I flagging questions correctly?
The way I read the question guidelines, I thought that all questions asked here should be about robotics and have one correct answer. Accordingly, I have been flagging every question that doesn't meet ...
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Advanced Search
Is there some sort of advanced search that will let you search for questions that have some number of comments but no answers?
Chuck's idea from this post made me wonder about an admin tool that ...
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How to discourage answers in comments
I can't tell you how many times I have seen a question get answered with a comment, then languish in the "unanswered" category. I think these questions are not very in depth, and don't require a long ...
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Suggested tag synonyms
Having just acquired enough reputation to suggest tag synonyms, I took a quick look through the list of tags. I was able to successfully suggest one new synonym, but was unable to do so for other ...
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Let's get critical: Mar 2015 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love Robotics Stack Exchange, 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 ...
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Introducing the new, general purpose Engineering SE site
For those of you interested in asking more engineering focused questions (e.g. mechanical, structural, computer, systems, etc...), we have just launched a new, general purpose Engineering beta SE site