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Hello all. I have noticed a surprising behaviour of time in the Forum. I mean time as it s mentionned near each post, & as it is mentionned at the bottom of each page. Here times are GMT-7. when I open some other page, it is GMT+2, which I prefer. It is quite disturbing. What is happening? Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedSorry, I had to write it down to figure it. When I log-in, time commutes to time of my PC. Now you know my time zone. Sorry for disturbing. But it remains a strange behaviour. Michel.

Please correct me if I am wrong here but I think that this Science Forum has huge potential for the GCSE Revision 'market' in the UK. Potentially thousands of school children can be switched on to this site to look for revision podcasts or animations which can excite their interest in science, and educate them as well. It would need some pretty hefty input from some of the solid contributors here, but the level of knowledge shown here is phenomenal (and this is coming from an ex-postdoc in Biology). The homework may have to be opened up for direct answers though. You are so good, but you can reach out to so many without compromising your standards. What about it g…

I don't care what you see elsewhere; what matters to this forum is what you see here. Name one user who was banned for their ideology being counter to the moderators' (as if that were possible). We keep a log of banned and suspended individuals (for reasons other than spam), and this is one reason why: for the transparency against this kind of accusation. Users are not banned because of their ideas, unless the specific expression is not permitted (e.g. libel, prejudice, ad hominem). They are banned because they break the rules. Trolling is posting provocative material without the intent to engage in meaningful discourse. Those banned for trolling were given sever…

Here (http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showthread.php?p=528868#post528868) I was responding (with quote being employed) to 2 different people and my post was merged. This was confusing to me, and maybe to the posters themselves. Can you discontinue this practice? Thanks in advance.

Would someone like to explain it to me?

I'm seeing all kinds of leptons, quarks, organisms, primates, experts, etc. on this site....I guess I'm wondering; whats the full hierarchical scale, and how does one advance?

Hi Friends. I rarely found such site related to such amazing science discussion.I must say I am really pleased to see such site which sharing good knowledge. The science and of topics are simply amazing and so informative. Keep the site as it is because it is simply the best. Color combination of background and font I like most. Speed of response also the best. No need to any changes. Thanks.

UPDATE: Nevermind. I have found this: "If you do not want to receive visitor messages, you may disable the visitor messaging system." Before update: When I delete a visitor message, I would really its existence and what it was and who made it to disappear. That didn't happen when I recently removed a visitor message. Personally, I don't like the idea of visitor messages. We have a PM system. I would like to either be able to remove all traces of deleted visitor messages and/or the ability to simply turn off the visitor messaging system on my profile. Thanks, Genecks.

Just wanted to say really nice site - looks like a lot of members of whom are smart and nice, nice format, great answers. I'll definitely be back. Hopefully I can educate and be educated.

Where do you think post on mathematical physics should be placed, in the physics or mathematics sections? My initial feeling is in the modern and theoretical physics section within physics. In response to my suggestion of examining papers and preprints (see here) I was thinking of inviting a critique of a preprint of mine. I would say that the work is closer to mathematics than physics, but uses lots of physical language and is highly motivated by physics. For example, papers of a similar nature have been published in Journal of Physics A. (Not that I have submitted it for publication there.) Any thoughts?

Hi, I have tried to determine where to put superstring/M-Theory posts. They seem all over the place right now. At this point I'm surprised they don't have their own forum or, are at least mentioned under a forum. LOL! This is probably because they fit into any one of 4 out of the 5 Science categories and, according to many, even Pseudoscience and Speculations. Suggestions? If the answer is already posted somewhere, sorry I missed it. Thanks! Rusty

The thread titled: The Technological Singularity: all but inevitable ? now has all postings from all people responding to the different people posting all merged together so that no one is sure of who they are even responding to anymore. This is not the usual practice here in this forum. Will someone please correct this. Thank You, Dr.Syntax

http://wave.google.com/help/wave/about.html#video I was just thinking that if you admins were ever bored, and this interests you, then it might be cool to try and implement into Science Forums. I haven't actually used Google Wave yet, because I need an invite still , but the video about it looks interesting, especially the part about implementing it's APIs in other websites to make use of it's functionality if you have it. If you don't have it, I assume it wouldn't make much difference to the actual forums themselves. Just an idea, hopefully you like it. If google wave takes off in popularity once it's fully released, I would ideally like all my favourite …

I don't see many critiques of published papers or preprints on this forum. I was wondering if a separate category (maybe several as subcategories of physics, chemistry, mathematics etc) would be of interest to the users of this forum? My thought being it could potentially up the quality and level of the posts. Though, reading and analysing papers is hard work. It may not get much further than listing the papers and presenting the abstracts. What to others think about this? Are such threads inline with the forums aims and objectives? Cheers

I agree with the system where you cannot give rep to the same person twice... But I recently gave negative rep to someone (for a stupid post which was scientifically wrong, and also off topic), but then I found that the same guy had posted a very decent post somewhere else... but I wasn't allowed to give positive rep (I had to spread it a bit first). It turned out that the person wasn't a stupid spammer/troll, but I just had just found his/her worst post first. I wanted to encourage him/her to stay because of the other post... but now I gave only a negative message. Therefore I propose to change the system a bit so that you can only give positive rep to the same …

well, why?

Embedding videos isn't available? Or am I doing it wrong? Thanks.

what happened to it? It was the ultimate resolution to threads such as the current 'Are there any relevant secular reasons to oppose gay marriage?'. Bring it back!

Can someone please tell me what the requirements are to be allowed to post in the politics forum? A subject near and dear to my lil heart is being discussed and I'd like to know if there's any hope of being able to participate before it peters out.

When did we start getting the ability to give negative reputation? I just noticed that we can now select "I disapprove" in the reputation box.

because they feel like it for some reason such as: it`s useless, or they decide it is off subject ? I have never been accused of breaking any rule or being offensive. This person just informed me he is going to start deleting my messages if they don`t measure up in his opinion. Is this allowed ? Dr.Syntax

So, one of the hot button topics on these forums is global warming. I'd say it's definitely in the top 10 most discussed topics. I mean seriously, there are 85 threads with "global warming" in the title: http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/search.php?searchid=843042 But where to discuss global warming? It seems to be spread out between General Discussion, Other Sciences, and Biology (Ecology and the Environment). How about a separate subforum for Earth Sciences? This would include things like Geology, Geophysics, Oceanography, and the Atmospheric Sciences/Climatology. Then finally these global warming discussions could have a real home!

everytime i try to use the 'new posts' function the forum returns an out of memory error. i've seen this happen with carnac before but not the search function.

Just a thought. It looks like you just went through an upgrade. How many people actually use pda's? I think I'm getting tunnel vision.