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When is the optimal time to ask a question, or put a bounty on a question?

Perhaps a dumb question, but I'm wondering if there is a better time of the week (or even day) to post a question, or put a bounty on a question to make sure it gets the most traffic. I assume ...
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How did we deal with correction promoting sound yet non-standard spelling?

In the post originally termed: "What is the difference between a causal system and a memory system?", someone corrected the term "memory system" to "memoryful", as ...
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Is this question appropriate for this group?

https://ham.stackexchange.com/questions/19966/interpreting-gps-signals-from-auxiliary-3-5mm I asked this question in the ham radio stack, and they suggested seeing if maybe this group finds it ...
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Celebration: using anniversaries to open and publicize DSP topics

We are celebrating in France the 250th anniversary of Joseph Fourier, who is relatively little known as a mathematician. He had many activities, including being a Prefect (Governor), published little ...
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Are work-related questions on-topic?

I'm still at University, but I would really like to know if it is possible to find any work related to DSP where I live (Buenos Aires, Argenitna). I don't think South America is the right place to ...
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Stack Exchange Signal processing in the real life: meeting contributors

[On meeting "Stack Exchange Signal processing" contributors] Current answers: Finland, Hämeenlinna, Olli Niemitalo France, Greater Paris area (Nanterre), Laurent Duval The Netherlands, ...
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How can we "encourage" askers to actually *edit* questions than rather just clarify in the comments?

This happens to me far too often: I ask people to clarify something crucial about their question, and I already add the edit link in bold in the comment, and they still just comment. This is still ...
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Questions on the usefulness or validity of published signal/image processing techniques

The DSP literature increases steadily with more or less useful papers. Sometime, a potential promising ideas get little notice. It could be that the paper (if not obviously wrong) has not reached its ...
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Is this question appropriate?

The question https://dsp.stackexchange.com/questions/24108/what-are-hot-research-topics-in-computer-vision-and-image-processing-for-phd-res doesn't seem appropriate on two accounts: It is too vast ...
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Are questions about VHF antennas off-topic here?

I am not sure if this is a good place to ask technical questions—e.g.: power required to transmit data over [x]km—about VHF antennas; or if electrical engineering would be a better stackexchange site ...
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Allow new users to post images

I often see questions from new users that really need some pictures in order to be answered, but the low-rep users aren't allowed to post pictures. Currently the workaround is for them to host the ...
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Dealing with Misleading questions and answers [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What to do with Q&A's like this which are ill composed, inaccurate and contain full of half truths This is in reference to the following question: Theory behind ...
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MATLAB or Signal Processing?

Signal Processing community now has really set a good high standard of answer by now. Most important aspect i believe are We have seen deep understanding of algorithms including all relevant ...
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Is it okay to ask a question and answer it as well?

As per this link from FAQ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/its-ok-to-ask-and-answer-your-own-questions/ - it may not be a bad idea if i ask the question for the very purpose of answering it ...
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Question on posting questions of breadth VS depth

I wanted to ask this on the meta before going all out on the actual SIGPROC site. What I would like to know is how is one supposed to go about asking Sigproc questions that related more to breadth ...
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