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Hello! I'm a student at Oxford University currently studying Philosophy and Law. I find myself learning small percentages of other subjects, due to the nature of conversation in a 'universities environment'. I live in a rented detached abode - with six room-mates; we all have our own opinions on life and delve into our imaginations to answer many of the unanswered questions, for self-fulfilment. We were browsing 4c, and it lead us here; more directly towards the 'Speculation' section. We also noticed that 99% of all threads made in that section are immediately over-run with moderators and administrators - who immediately dismiss any idea when, to their knowledge, …

Sorry, I don't know how to do that, the images are on Wikipedia and I only post the link to them. If a mod can do it and/or someone explain how I could make them smaller when linking to them I would be grateful. Is it possible to somehow rescale images while linking to them without uploading or editing the images themself? Would be great with such an option since a lot of pictures are to big to fit well into the forum posts.

I've been getting a lot more spam than usual and the spam filter hasn't been catching it. It would be a big deal (since I haven't been able to update, really at all) but every time I get a new comment I get a notification sent to my email address. Its kind of a pain dealing with 10+ new junk mails every day to my inbox. Is there a way to either raise the filter strength or stop sending notifications to my email? I looked through the wordpress toolbox/ settings and I can't seem to find out how to do it. thanks

While posting a thread on the upcoming Egyptology Exhibit at the Franklin Institute I realised that there was nowhere to post that sort of information. Perhaps a sub heading in General Discussion? Like the Book Sub forum? In this case it was Egyptology, but I dare say people would be interested in art collections that are touring and that type of thing. Perhaps a museum opening a new wing? We wouldn't want High School Science fairs or pop star tours, but important exhibits in their field would be of interest to members and they might not hear about otherwise. Just a suggestion.

What is trolling? I've seen that users have been baned or suspended because of that. The only description I can find is "singing". Thanks

We had one of these threads a few years ago, and perhaps it's time for another. What don't you like about SFN? Features, bugs, people, content, staff, whatever. What bugs you?

I think it would be nice if this forum had an environmental board to discuss issues like this By Captain Paul Watson "On the beach on San Juan Island, Washington, Allison Lance walks her dogs every morning. She carries a plastic bag in her hand to carry the bits and pieces of plastic debris she picks up. Each morning she fills the bag, but by the next morning there is always another bag to be filled. Joey Racano does the same in Huntington Beach further south in California. The harvest of plastic waste is never-ending. Allison's and Joey's beaches, and practically every beach around the world is similarly cursed. Recently in the Galapagos I retrieved…

I've noticed on the AJAX post editor that the label on the submit button is, well, often mislabeled. I've seen "Vote Now" and "Cancel" (so there's two cancel buttons)

Seriously?

I just did some tinkering. Does SFN feel slower, faster, or just the same for you? (Google Webmaster Tools informed me that SFN is slow, so I figured I'd mess around a bit. Hope it worked.)

nice. what hack is it you use?

well we have a lot of element collectors in the chem section and i recently got some U238 metal i can sell to the members since i dont need the entire amount i bought. i just want to know if i can offer some up for sale on this forum or not thanks''oh and i have all the shipping regs covered

Hi. I have a PM stuck in my Inbox (don't remember if I had one and got corrupted or it's new). It has no subject, no sender, no nothing. Date is 01-01-1970 (Unix 0 IIRC) With no subject it's unclickable and attempting to get the message via txt or csv gives me an error page. I haven't tried deleting it in case anyone wants to investigate. Error page contents follow: ------------------- Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/private.php on line 849 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [path]/includes/class_core.php:3254) in [path]/includes/functions_file.php on line 147 Warning: Cannot…

I understand that this is a Science Forum but there will be many people like myself who will not be up to the Math and Science of some of the members. Some of us will be asking questions, puting our point of view and disagreeing with some of your Theories. Please allow the Questioners to partisipate in this Forum without disrespecting them. I, myself am an Electronics Eningeer who is interested in Theoretical Physics and Partical Physics, among other things, so let me learn from your knowledge without being ridiculed for my lack of knowledge on some subjects. We are not all Matheticians...Just Free Thinkers

My suggestion is the creation of a "one on one" debate section. It doesn't have to actually lock other people out from it; they could just be ignored. The purpose is to increase the fairness and quality of debates, when one side is vastly under-represented. Having partaken in a few threads where I'm the minority, things get confusing very quickly with lots of people making all kinds of arguments, some of which are repeats, bringing up already resolved issues, and occasionally all demanding their specific posts get answered. There's also plenty of flawed arguments and misunderstandings. The minority then has to either spend an awful lot of time reading everything or wi…

My Master Thesis "Agricaltural and Enveronmental science" Why was that thread locked? For something like that, which was in the right place (I think), it got locked? Perhaps tag on explanations so other users don't have a "Wtf...?" moment?

Having read with interest the numbers of threads, in the past few weeks, attempting to discuss religion through a circuitous route in a Science Forum, I think it would be extremely good sense to start a new forum for this debate. The Science Forum has grown substantially quite recently, with new members from all continents, many of them believers. Any new thread which hints at religion or Creationism can be easily diverted to such a Forum and avoid the type of emotionally draining debate which has dominated certain 'taboo' topics. Does this make sense?

I think that is just what this site needs, and then under it can be geology, meteorology, volcanology and anything else that you can think of

Hypocrites.... Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedBecause im more enlightened and intelligent than the entire website combined,you close my threads? Please....Get real! I know why you close my threads ,because too many retards! Yeah,i see you. Now ima get my Dog.... Ugh,retards.Its just a magician,saying thank you....Pfft. This website is so hypcortical its ashame. Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedand um,if a person isnt as smart as i am,that person shouldnt be allowed to close my threads,period! Where is my apology? This is why the world is messed up because somehow,the retards are in control.No offense,i on…

I recently have been told that I got a new message from here, but when I look, all of them are read, except for one with no title that says it was sent at January 1, 1970. I'm guessing that that is a bug. =Uncool-

and i'm not talking about the kick flinging contest mods start every once in a while.. so, what gives a mod the right to ban somebody from IRC? and what penalty is there for a mod who issue an unjust and prejudiced ban? edit: also aren't all bans in SFN subject to the notification of the duration of the ban? aren't you allowed to know when the ban will be lifted?

I made to threads on artificial liver or kidney and looking at it well it should be only one thread but I cannot go back and fix that? What I'm I doing wrong.

why do i get logged out every time i go to a new page on this site? its getting wearing having to sign in every minute

Sorry to interrupt this debate but it annoys me that at the top of each forum is the following message: Hello elas, It appears that you have not posted on Science Forums for over a month. Why not take a few moments to ask a question, help another member or just participate in one of our many discussions? I know from past experience that if I give a simple mathematical explanation such as in this case, the cause of negative charge (in reality it does not exist i.e. it is apparent not real); it will quickly be transferred to ‘speculations’ or ‘trash’ accompanied by a ‘warning’. So will someone please delete the message so that I can enjoy reading the forums in sil…

Hi there, I am new to SFN and have only made 2 or 3 posts, but I am unable to reply to a thread within the politics section of the site...is this due to permissions associated with new users? Thanks