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'''PhysicsOverflow''' is a [[physics]] website that serves as a [[Scholarly peer review#Postpublication|post-publication peer review]] platform for [[academic paper|research papers]] in physics, as well as a [[collaborative blog]] and [[online community]] of physicists. It allows users to ask, answer and comment on graduate-level physics questions, post and review manuscripts from [[ArXiv]] (which lists PhysicsOverflow discussion pages among its trackbacks<ref>https://physicsoverflow.org/30425/we-have-arxiv-trackbacks?show=30425#q30425</ref>) and other sources, and vote on both forms of content.

In addition to the two primary forms of content, the PhysicsOverflow community also welcomes discussions on [[List of unsolved problems in physics|unsolved problems]], and hosts a chat section for discussions on topics generally of interest to physicists and students of physics, such as those related to recent events in physics, physics academia, and the publishing process. While there are no explicit rules for civility, the community tends to be hostile to uncivil discussion, and tangential discussions are quickly moved to chat.

==History==

PhysicsOverflow was started in April 2014 as a physics-equivalent of [[MathOverflow]] by Rahel Knöpfel, a physics PhD at the [[University of Rostock]], high-school student Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir, and Roger Cattin, a retired professor of computer science at the [[Fachhochschule|University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland]].<ref>https://physicsoverflow.org/8347/ name="history-of-physicsoverflow<"/ref> The site was eventually expanded to include a ''Reviews'' section in October 2014.<ref>https://physicsoverflow.org/24235/the-reviews-section-is-out-of-beta</ref>

==Moderation practices==

PhysicsOverflow is well-known for its liberal moderation policy and hesitation to block contributors except for spam, as reflected in the website's bill of "user rights".<ref>https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6196/what-is-physics-overflow-and-how-is-it-linked-to-physics-se</ref><ref name="physicsoverflow.org">https://physicsoverflow.org/user-rights</ref> The content is largely community-moderated, much like MathOverflow, although exceptions have been recorded.<ref>https://physicsoverflow.org/31863/violation-of-policy-to-close-questions</ref><ref name="https://physicsoverflow.org/review">https://physicsoverflow.org/review</ref>

Although the site's moderation policy is publicly available as part of the moderator manual, the site has been criticised for the excessive dispersion of policy-related material, such as the FAQ, the Bill of Rights, the moderator list and the Community Moderation threads , leading to reduced transparency.<ref>https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_ra1Ss1E-rWN3cyRC1zalAtT1U/edit</ref><ref>https://physicsoverflow.org/faq</ref><ref>https:// name="physicsoverflow.org"/user-rights</ref><ref>https://physicsoverflow.org/users/special</ref><ref> name="https://physicsoverflow.org/review<"/ref><ref>https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6196/what-is-physics-overflow-and-how-is-it-linked-to-physics-se#comment25091_6213</ref><ref>https://physicsoverflow.org/22268/physics-overflow-moderators-what-their-exact-role-and-powers</ref> In response, the site's administrators posted a bulletin of all moderation-related content on the site on the homepage.

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==References==

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