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How to ask a question on real problem to solve?
For what it's worth, I used to teach an introductory course where we assigned eyeglasses problems very similar to your question when we taught optics. The banner above your closed question links to guidance about the relationship between "homework questions" versus "homework-like questions"; have you read those links? Can you link to "the guide" whose steps you list? We might need to edit it to clarify our policy on homework-like questions.
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What is the benefit of undeleting a question?
@NorbertSchuch I think it is at least three. But this question is about undeleting. If the asker here clicks the "undelete" button, more things have to happen before the question's status actually changes.
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Answers in the comments
The excellent answers that @JonCuster writes after repeatedly being reminded that, if the margin is too small, the answer box is right down there, serve all by themselves as justification for politely encouraging folks to upgrade comments into answers.
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Why was a temp ban made permanent when I didn't post anything while I was banned?
Emotional offal is the worst. I hope your support network is robust. Best wishes.
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nonsensical downvotes and what to do about them
What are you proposing that the moderators do? We don't have access to identifiable votes, and we can't compel people to write comments.
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Is there a website on the internet that allows people to ask physics questions so they can learn physics?
Note that deleting your questions makes it harder, rather than easier, for you to regain your asking privilege; see e.g. physics.meta.stackexchange.com/q/8851/44126.
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Why is non-English content apparently allowed on this website?
The declined comment count does not ever go down. But any negative consequences of a bad flag age away after a week, as I understand it
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Why is non-English content apparently allowed on this website?
The preceding comment has been flagged (by someone else) as "no longer needed," which I find so hilariously self-referential that I've decided to preserve it for a while.
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Are partial answers to homework questions allowed?
If your partial answer answers the question, that's okay. But in that case, you should leave it up, rather than having your answer disappear and reappear. You can always save drafts elsewhere, such as in a text editor on your own computer, or in the Meta sandbox, or on stackedit.io. And if a good question has been closed, and has failed one or more reopen reviews, you might consider re-asking the question yourself (giving appropriate credit) in a way so that its fit with our community is clearer, and including your answer there.
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Are partial answers to homework questions allowed?
Using a deleted answer to circumvent the community's decision on question closure is an abuse of the system. Don't do it, please.
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Is telling a user that they can publish their non-mainstream ideas on viXra.org inappropriate?
I share the understanding of viXra evidenced in this answer. My answer to "where should I publish?" has always been the counter-question, "where are you reading?" Folks who are reading widely will eventually find a publication where they look at the accepted papers and say, "I could write down my idea that well." That's when you look at acceptance guidelines. I once had someone tell me that their brilliant idea had come after they had read an article in Discover Magazine; they managed to talk themselves into understanding that they didn't really know the literature.
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