Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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-1 reputation for downvoting. How does it work?
We know that when you downvote a post, you lose 1 reputation. This makes sense because you don't want people randomly downvoting questions without a strong reason behind it. But I have a few doubts ...
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Schedule Post for Questions
I have noticed that the Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange is very active when I am asleep and barely active when I am awake. Is there a schedule send feature so that I could post my ...
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Answers not always sorted by votes
Has something recently changed that allows answers with lower scores to end up higher up than answers with higher scores?
I think I've seen this a number of times now in the past few weeks, and the ...
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transcription how-to
I just learned that questions about transcribing music are off topic.
I do agree that if someone has a tune that they're having trouble notating, they shouldn't be able to just come here out of ...
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Does SE have any policies I should be aware of before requesting a text transcript of an audio recording
I have a recording where someone was talking about a piano's having some kind of problem, but I couldn't find out what it was due to primarily being hard-of-hearing. I can't find anybody to help me ...
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why my profile has this odd icon?
Highlighted in the image below. This icon appears in all sites with my account:
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How I can make attention to an earlier question I can answer now?
I think I've found a better or probably the correct answer to an earlier question. How is this answer found by the OP and other users?
Shouldn't it be shown as active now? I couldn't find it yet.
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(Apology) Dear Moderators (Doktor Mayhem, Dom, and Matthew Read),
This is Maika Sakuranomiya, an established user in Music Stack Exchange. I would like to apologize for my bad behavior.
I've signed up as a user here last Autumn, and I've been constantly violating ...
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Duplicate UI - in what conditions do they appear?
I recently saw four different duplicate UIs in questions that are closed as a duplicate:
(1.)
This question already has an answer here:
Minor key and its chords
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This question is an ...
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Displayed reasons for declined flags
When I go through my list of flags, I see four different messages to those that were declined:
"Declined"
"Declined - flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that ...
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Are there any bots here other than Community and Feeds?
I saw two bot users so far on this site: Community (-1) and Feeds (-2). So I have a question: are there any bot users on this site other than the two?
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Asking an unanswered question again
If I have a question which was unanswered, or if I didn't receive satisfactory answers for it, do I ask the question again (by typing the whole thing again), or there is a way of bringing back this ...
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Can I delete a post of mine via the app?
I cannot seem to find the delete button on the app (Android phone).
I clicked on the three dots on a post of mine and I just got the option to flag it.
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Can anyone downvote on a question if they feel like it?
I have read a few questions on downvoting. There are a few people who downvote on a question, questions which at times don't need a reason to be downvoted. Since there is no reason justified in doing ...
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(Solved) I'm nearly certain that I'm being serially upvoted, but it's NOT being reversed
There have been three occasions now when I've received a bunch of suspicious upvotes, and so far (edit: all five occasions), the system's failed to catch it.
The first time, I was literally sitting ...
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Constant downvotes were due to III+ chord / harmonic minor?
This question is a continuation from I am constantly getting downvotes on my posts for no reason.
It looks like my posts like this are receiving unexpected downvotes:
The diatonic chords are:
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Gogehat's question - clarity
Gogehat's question Why isn't there a closely related key to C minor that has D as tonic? is in question here.
At first his / her question was so unclear. So a bunch of users began to guess ...
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Really old questions on the “Close Votes Review”, with no votes
Just now as I opened the Close Votes review tab, there were some really old questions:
Is there a term for music composed of everyday sounds?
Is there a single command for vertical padding in ...
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Issues over a closed question involving a strange chord
Here is the post in question: Chord has every note of the harmonic minor scale. Name?
Transcript of events that have occured:
Maika Sakuranomiya: What is the name of the first chord in these bars? ...
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Is this a bug: There are no review queues available to you?
I was looking through the website, when I came to my profile. Then, spontaneously, I decided to go check the review queues out. When I clicked on the review queues icon this is how it looked:
Is this ...
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Why were my two answers deleted?
I posted my first answer on Why did Beethoven include "in the Lydian Mode" in the title of String Quartet, Op.132 - 3? and it was later removed by Community:
So then I posted a second ...
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Are Dom, Doktor Mayhem, Matthew Read, and Community the only moderators on Music Stack Exchange?
When you reach 10,000 reputation, we can access to moderator tools. However, only Dom, Doktor Mayhem, Matthew Read, and Community have a diamond moderator sign next to their names. Are they the only ...
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Why can't I make comments over notifying users about content issues?
Doktor Mayhem has posted this comment to me:
Maika, editing out that word was okay, but making comments like yours about something so minor is really not appropriate. If you have an issue with a ...
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Question over Neil Meyer's answer
Neil Meyer has posted this answer to one of the questions about minor key harmony: Minor key and its chords
The chords are:
Tonic (minor) (A-C-E)
Supertonic (diminished) (B-D-F)
Mediant ...
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Why did I lose 6 reputation after deleting a post with a negative score?
I deleted one of my answers because it had a score of -1 which brought a -2 reputation penalty to me. However, instead of gaining 2 reputation, I lost 6 reputation. What is going on?
Link to ...
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Comment is Gone
I got this comment on one of my answers:
Did @RailroadHill become Maika Sakuranomiya? All the comments on the thread here is mixed up.
(A comment on this answer: Does anyone play 11th chords?)
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How to get notes and staves to show up without images? [duplicate]
I noticed with the second answer on my polytonality question, that the answerer was able to get notes and staves to show up using some kind of code instead of images. I am wanting to post a question ...
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I am constantly getting downvotes on my posts for no reason
I am currently active on Music Stack Exchange. I've been posting a lot of answers and questions - and a bunch of them had received unexpected downvotes, and on one of them, user45266 tells me that it ...
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Requesting Bansuri/Venu tag
I humbly request Bansuri/Venu tag. Bansuri is Hindustani Classical flute, while Venu is Carnatic Classic flute (from melodious South India).
Update: Bansuri tag created March 13th 2019 by Community
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Why was my question closed?
Is there a set of closely related keys in modern popular music? - This question has been closed as unclear what I was asking. I could not know why.
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How to ask for showing Youtube links that are in foreign language meant for beginners?
I have discovered some really good videos in Youtube that would help beginner's questions concerning note reading, chords, staff etc.such I have encountered here in the last few weeks I've been in ...
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Questions with accepted answers: May I upvote and post other answers?
Is it appropriate to answer questions with accepted answers and to upvote other answers?
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How can I find a question that was recently asked?
I've read a question this morning and can't find it again.
is there a possibility to search by date?
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combining accounts
I've just stumbled across my first account here, back on Feb. 06, '12, answering the question 'As a guitarist, how can I learn to sight-read music?'
How can I combine that account with the present ...
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How to use preformatted text *without* abcjs rendering it as abc music [duplicate]
When I put text like "Bm" into preformatted text it gets rendered by ABC JS as chord symbols.
Is there a way to override this?
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Is it allowed to ask for general feedback on arrangement?
There is a SE site called Codereview that is a splendid complement to Stackoverflow. In the latter one you typically ask questions that has a clear answer. But on Codereview a question is typically ...
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Attaching the melody?
If my question or answer includes a short piece of a melody, what's the best way to include it?
An example would be a question to identify a song I remember from a long time ago, and I only remember ...
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My tags keep automatically changing to acoustic, even though I put in physics
How do I fix this?I notice it when I pressed post question but then a red box appeared, the questions stay the same but the tags were changed.
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Could my migrated question be reinstated here, please
I asked about Mozart as a performer. It was closed by one person and migrated to music fans. A great place for the question to sit and rot and not get any attention.
https://musicfans.stackexchange....
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Size and format of images
I asked a question about notation and someone suggested that I submit an image. In what format and size should it be?
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How to earn the voting badge 'Vox Populi"?
I have done quite a bit of reading, researching on this site voted here and there and then I got the recommendation from the system to earn the badge Vox Populi there was only 3 or 4 votes left, so I ...
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Unilateral closure: “You're not going to rewire what you hear as consonant or dissonant”
The moderator who unilaterally closed How can a layperson in 2017 hear the Perfect Fourth as dissonant, to empathize with the Renaissance's judgment? commented:
Both questions "Instead, how can ...
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What Music History questions are on- and off-topic?
https://music.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic no more than states:
music theory, notation, history, or composition
But this doesn't distinguish between on- and off-topic questions. So what are the ...
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Remove the “harminoca” tag and merge with harmonica
https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harminoca
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Suggesting tags for care of various body parts
Related: Tag for pain/ergonomics?
Inspired by Should drummers have blisters/calluses on their hands?, I would like to propose the following tags:
care of hands
care of voice
ergonomics
care of the ...
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Could a tag be added for mallet percussion?
Could a tag be added for mallet percussion? It's so different from drumset, snare, timpani, etc. There isn't even a marimba tag, so I couldn't use that as a workaround.
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Different images on same thing [duplicate]
Is that default behavior, to show the global badges per sub-site specific images?
for example, look this:
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How do I block a tag?
I know this a dumb question, but StackExchange has so many great features spread about, that I find it difficult to find everything.
I searched in a few different places for "block tag" and got ...
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Let's have a tag for “instrument-choice”
Example of a question where this tag would come in handy: How expensive is it to play bassoon in high school?
