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• Question #640e4
• Is there a facility on Socratic that will enable me to draw triangles and place markings on them in an attempt to illustrate answers ?
• Maybe I just need somebody to slap me silly but I don't seem to be alone here. Could there perhaps be a more obvious "Post this question somewhere other than History" indicator? (Thank you)
• How do you edit the additional information provided when you ask a question on Socratic?
• Question #e2c70
• Why hasn't Prealgebra been made a subject yet?
• When you follow a subject, what does that allow you to do?
• What happened to the option "mark as duplicate" in the edit question dropdown? I no longer see it.
• Why do we see questions that nobody has asked?
• Why can other people see thank you notes we have sent on our profile page under 'Activity'?
• Question #34156
• Could there be a Socratic Geography section in the future?
• Are the majority of questions here actually asked by people?
• What is the best way to create my own images that I wish to import into a Socratic answer?
• Question #83c4f
• Is there a way to delete wrong answers on Socratic?
• How old are questions really?
• In my socratic account, I, myself have not set my profile photo. It thame automatically. How? I don't even have that in my phone.
• How will I get to know if someone answers my questions?
• Can I get to know who got help from my answers ?
• What happened to this question?
• Why could'nt I view the profile picture of some persons on Socratic like Kyx's profile?
• Can we become anonymous in socratic org just like in yahoo answers??
• Question #d4785
• What benefits do I get for answering questions here?
• Why are so many of my views from San Francisco?
• When you delete a message after sending it to someone ,is the message visible to the person whom we send the message ?
• Question #5089b
• I remember when I started on Socratic there was a list of how many answers I had written in each topic. For example, it would indicate a number for number of answers in "solving trigonometric equations". What happened to this function??
• Is there a way to view what questions are requested by others for an answer?
• Can I take a picture of my problem on a computer? Just asking because that is so much easier than writing it out.
• Who is the largest contributor on Socratic?
• Can socratic be something that could be put on a resume? Just curious.
• What is encouraging contributors to write long answers when the same thing can be explained in two to three lines?
• Help me prepare a Do's and Dont's list for Socratic.org?
• What is the most viewed question on Socratic?
• How can we improve collaboration between questioners and answerers?
• 'Focus on teaching: think about future' are basics that are followed on Socratic. We need to follow the same motto while editing an answer but that may change the 'authorship' (though NOT when answer is featured). Does Socratic has a plan to change this?
• Is it possible to get an incorrect answer on Socratic?
• Why can't we edit our own comments?
• What is the "Happy Cakeday" icon on my bio for?
• Is it possible for you see how many people viewed your answer?
• Instead of solid colors in your profile, can you customize it or is that not available?
• Does Socratic.org have a Whatsapp Group?
• Why can't we simply type questions in the Android app, and why can't we answer other questions like on the website?
• Why some people have a longer streak than It should have, I have seen a few people by now that have streak that is very long in numbers but I can see that in the summary of contribution of every day that they wrote nothing on recent days. Is this a bug?
• Question #1f592
• Question #23b85
• Is Link Owl part of the Socratic team?
• Why can't you click on the person's name, the ones like Someone from the United States to go to their profile? It is always in black, unlike the the other peoples'. Examples down below(?)
• Does asking a question but not answering one on a certain day still continue the streak?
• Question #58ecb
• Why can't I delete my own answers?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of SOCRATIC?
• How to change the dp of Socratic?
• Question #75c5f
• Is there a way to stop receiving the 'Just asked' emails only?
• In what basis the 'students helped' counter counts?
• Why does Socratic look different on different browsers?
• I was just challenged to provide the source of a quote that another contributor disagreed with. When I quoted the source but not the web address of the quote. When it is necessary to provide the web site book reference, precisely?
• Question #4a9cd
• Question #79ca4
• Question #cfa02
• Question #5bfc1
• What will happen to a user who posts abusive content?
• How can I edit answers on Socratic?
• Question #1bd75
• I am correct that if an answer is flagged as needing to be checked, then a different answer is added, followed by the deletion of the original (questioned) answer, the flag remains on the question; it does not disappear with the (deleted) answer?
• Now how many people have joined socratic?
• How can I know on which date I joined Socratic?
• Are most of the questions asked on Socratic school-related?
• How to manage this? The Preview shown is different from the Output. there are editing symbols (ie: ' * ' - stars used for bold,italics..) seen after posting
• Is there any way to tell if a Socratic user is online or not?
• 'Answers' of some 'answered questions' are often not found when the question is opened later. Why does this happen? Thank you.
• Is there any way I can monitor the edits and changes to my answers? Most contributors made a comment when the changes are made. Most edits add value to the answers and are welcome. Some however change the meaning of the answer.
• When you insert an image, a line pops up that asks for the image source to be inserted. What exactly is to be placed here?
• Is there such a way to get more tags?
• Every once in a while, I get a message from another contributor asking for something further to an answer I have posted. How do I send a response?
• When an answer is featured, if the answer was updated by another user, does that mean the final answer featured is credited for all the contributors?
• Question #351c4
• Is there any way I can switch my email for socratic?
• How can I cite an answer posted on Socratic?
• Question #78ee6
• Where can I buy a Socratic shirt? Do you guys have stickers or other stuff to sell?
• How can Socratic see my contributions in countries?
• Is there a better way to handle questions that remain incomplete than supplying arbitrary information to be able to clear them from the history?
• Question #3384d
• What do you do / can you do when you find the answer to a question is complete nonsense????
• Are Question area tags handled differently in some way?
• Text editor as language guardian?
• Who is safety owl?
• How may I edit spellings in a question? Once it is answered, there is no option available to change the words.
• How can I request deletion of an old question that appears to be unanswerable?
• "Unanswered" filter is cleared on returning to list. Can it be made sticky?
• Question #d1b16
• I think this has been answered before but I can not seem to find it. How to I get to an answer in its "non-featured" form? There have been comments posted on one of my answers but (maybe its lack of coffee but...) I can only see the featured version.
• Question #124fb
• Why do the vast majority of people asking questions never say thanks for the answer?
• Could we have the ability to add a comment to a question edit?
• When a comment shows that an answer was updated and that there was minor formatting changes, what does this mean?
• About how many people who are part of Socratic answer questions and how many of them just ask questions?
• I believe this is a scam or unauthorized advertisement?
• Why there are so many nearly identical questions of the form "How do you find the roots, real and imaginary, of #y=...# using the quadratic formula?" dated about 1 year ago?
• Question #e5e29
• How can I write my biography in Socratic?
• Does Socratic have more unanswered than answered questions?
• Can we have another flag for the "U.S History? I don't think that's the American flag :)
• Can people be encouraged (reminded?) to write a biography once they become regular users? It’s just nice to know something about the questioner and can help you to pitch the answer so it’s at a more appropriate level.
• How can I put inline spaces in my explanations here on Socratic?
• Is there any way to find answers I liked (clicked the heart button on)?
• How can you restore your answer?
• How to but put multiple line spacing between paragraphs? By default, no matter how many multiple line spacing you add, the display gives single line space.
• In my profile, how do I get to a page that shows all my Notifications at once, if possible ? So far, I've found the drop down menu for this, but this doesn't allow for prolonged viewing of these, or working with them as a whole. Thanks !!
• Is there a way to display an image in a comment?
• Active days goes down?
• Question #f372d
• Is there any way to sort questions by date?
• Is there a way to change my "handle" or username? I know I can change my display name, but how would I change my handle?
• How do you receive lots of thank you notes? Thanks.
• Questions are getting changed? [Recent changes]
• What was the first question to be asked on socratic?
• What time does a new streak day start in Eastern Time Zone?
• Lag or my internet? [info on the new look of the impact map]
• Old questions: quite often I'll work hard to answer a question, only to find it's from 2 years ago. I imagine that questioner isn't still waiting and checking for the answer! So, to maximise my time, how can I answer new questions over old ones?
• Adding maths formatting in a question?
• Is there a possibility that we can zoom in on members' impact maps?
• Is there a meet-and-greet discussions thread in Socratic?
• Can anyone give me an idea about scratchpads and how I can use them?
• How to access the individual topics here on socratic in each subject? I once bookmarked a link but couldn't find it.
• Is there any way to insert graph in comments?
• Given the recent announcements that Socratic as we know it is soon to be dead. Can I have the option of having all of my contributions deleted from the web site?