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I am also resigning as a moderator
An election is a big process for the community (and for SE team to set up), and now that Qiaochu's resignation will set one in motion, I am going to take the opportunity to resign as well.
To be ...
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Main Chatroom Etiquette Rules
The previous owner of the Mathematics chat Asaf Karagila drafted some etiquette rules for the chat. They were deleted, so I am reposting them so that they might be observed.
It's nice of you to drop ...
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Announcement: private contacts by moderators
I am writing this post to discuss a possible small upcoming change in moderator policy. I post this here on Meta (instead in the Mods only discussion room) because
The topic is not sensitive.
There ...
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Could those named “User XXXX” please consider changing their names to something more distinctive?
It might be completely unremarkable if there were only a couple of such names on this server, but lately there are many people now going by monikers such as user3432 and user5633, who've accumulated a ...
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Why restrict my ability to change my vote once I have editing priveleges?
Yesterday I intended to upvote an answer, but accidentally downvoted. I did not notice this and did not change it within the five-minute window for changing votes. Later that day I noticed a drop on 1 ...
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When closing question for lack of effort, leave a comment to OP explaining what to do
Recently there was an extensive discussion about closing the questions containing only the problem statement: Proposal: Discourage questions that are nothing besides a problem statement
(At the ...
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fix or explain?
When I encounter an unformatted or badly formatted post, I usually leave a comment such as this one explaining how to fix the problems rather than fixing them myself. This is not just because I don't ...
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Administrative Note on Moderator Rolls
We are in the process of implementing a policy for "absentee moderators" — Any moderator who is not active on the site for a period of six months is subject to removal of their moderator ...
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Change of moderators - I resign as well
As mentioned in Zev's post, an election will be coming up for Math Stack Exchange, so I will take the opportunity to resign as well.
The answers on the main site can be fascinating and enlightening, ...
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What's the recommended way to raise a possible proof as a question?
I am a self-taught math amateur who came to this site primarily to learn. It is a great place for asking any mathematical question! The site has provided me with an unprecedented ability to gain ...
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Reviewing without a trace
I just wanted to remark on something which happens more and more often since the new review system was deployed.
Some poor guy posts a non-answer, which gets into the review queue. Then people review ...
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More granularity in locking questions
Is it possible to have more granularity in of time-span for locking questions? Currently the available choices are 1 hr, 1 day, 1 week, and permanent. There are times where longer, but not permanent ...
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Feature request: always display upvotes and downvotes separately
One annoying problem I've experienced in the past is the following: I downvote something that I think is bad but that is not obviously bad (e.g. it is not spam). Exactly one other user upvotes in ...
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modularizing answers
Sometimes in answering a question I need to derive an intermediate result that might be of interest in its own right. It seems to me that in such a case it's best to post a separate question asking ...
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Slightly spammy behavior
I don't know if it's too early to call this a problem, but two usernames with seemingly identical style, notation and subject matter have spammed a total of 10 questions today. (Not that asking a lot ...
