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2025: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
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Congratulations to Craig Gidney for hitting 50,000 reputation!
Way to go Craig!
Some contributions of Craig's to QCSE that I have appreciated:
His answer on whether quantum computing is mature enough for a computer scientist with no physics background;
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Why the lull in traffic? Is it network-wide?
Checking site analytics it appears that at least Summer 2025 in the Norhtern Hemisphere has been particularly quiet on QCSE.
All posts/questions/answers from April '22 to present:
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Re-tagging locked posts?
With the clean-up of the deprecated mathematics tag finally completed, there are 5 questions which remain tagged this way because they are currently locked:
Nielsen & Chuang Exercise 2.1 - "...
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On deprecated posts
Because of how fast the quantum programming frameworks are evolving, there are by essence a lot of posts that become "deprecated", in the sense that the information they bring may at some ...
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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
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Citation Feature Request II
It would be nice to have a link on questions/answers that generates a (bibtex) citation. There is a lot of great original content produced on this site, and proper attribution should be made as easy ...
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What's the best policy for rapid revisions to multiple questions?
I've recently seen the front page loaded with a lot of (good) edits to previously asked questions; often the edits are not from the OP but rather from others with the authority to edit.
I believe that ...
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Code blocks with a blank line at the end of a post don't render correctly without a newline after the triple ticks
Here is the source of a code block:
```python
import math
print("test")
```
it looks like this when rendered; note the triple ticks don't show (...
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Should we decrease the number of close/reopen votes to 3?
A number of sites on SE have since a while reduced the number of votes needed to close/reopen a question to 3. As far as I can tell, this has been generally received well on those sites, as it allows ...
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Why the pile-on of downvotes for one (somewhat impudent) question?
One recently (June, 2024) asked question from a newer user rapidly received four downvotes. From what I can tell of the question, the wording was a little off and somewhat impertinent but the ...
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How should I change my recent "Counterexamples in quantum information" post, if at all?
Two days ago I created the overall well-received post Is there a comprehensive list of counterexamples in quantum information?. Yesterday I got a comment---which in ratio got a fair amount of upvotes ...
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Is it possible to enable markdown parsing of links in comments on questions and answers?
In the body of a question or answer, I can e.g. write [Shor94] to include a reference to a paper, and similarly I can link to other resources — but in comments I seemingly cannot, as I recently ...
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Should we close it or leave it up?
Update: The question was closed, then re-opened by 5 community voters, then "locked", and it currently remains "locked".
Today I rushed to ask a question that by its nature will be ...
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2024 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #3 — your "graduation" election — on Quantum Computing has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators are:
They will show up on the moderators ...
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