Please use this tag when you want to draw attention to a specific question on the main site. For example, if you want to draw high-rep users to closed/reopen/edit a question, if you want to discuss the necessity of locking/protecting a question, etc. Do not use if your intention is to discuss/ask ...
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What is our policy on questions that are quite clearly homework?
What's the policy with questions like
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1368/prove-a-bn-an-bn
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1350/is-the-set-of-polynomials-of-degree-2-a-vector-space
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Infinite monkeys typing on infinite keyboards, will they ever produce silly answers like on this question?
I'm referring of course to Given an infinite number of monkeys and an infinite amount of time, would one of them write Hamlet?
The question is legit and not bad, the first few answers were serious ...
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Deleted questions
I had previously posted some questions, and they have now been deleted without notice. I am not certain of what happened to them. If I could be shown the questions and given an explanation by a ...
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What's going on with this Batman question?
Can somebody explain to me how the question Is this Batman equation for real? has come to grow so immensely popular in such a short time?
I mean: it was posted 17 hours ago and it already approaches ...
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Why do some users delete their questions after receiving an answer?
It has happened several times now that a question is deleted by its author a few minutes after I post an answer.
I suspect it's because the question is a homework question and the user wants to ...
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Can we finally kill .999=1?
This has been mentioned before (notably, here by Akhil). But this question is tenacious indeed. For the past three(maybe four days), it has jumped up to the top. Frankly, I am tired of seeing it. I ...
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Why are people voting to close “probability and infinity”?
What is the justification for voting to close http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/5340/probability-and-infinity?
Please explain why if you are downvoting this
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Questions not accessible from main page
It appears that certain questions are not accessible from the main page, e.g. this question:
Re-writing sign basis. I finally got it over the user's page, but the links on the main page or the tag ...
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Too much noise in comments drowning out the mathematical content
Please observe the following thread Proving that the given Diophantine equation has a solution.
There is a long boring argument/discussion about whether it should be posted, who should post it - how ...
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Why was “Rational numbers - sticks and stones” deleted?
Could some 10k or ♦ mod shed some light on why this question was deleted?
I understand that there may have been a good reason for it, but the error page I'm getting doesn't really explain it, beyond ...
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Re: Mathematicians whose names are commonly mispronounced
I am strongly in favour of closing this question.
There are other formulations that would have been appropriate:
Are there any dictionaries, online sites, etc that give the correct pronunciation of ...
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“What are the implications of the discovery of the kalle-numbers ?”
I don't like the way this question is worded, but I don't want to take unilateral action against it. I feel like it is breaking some kind of implied social norm but as far as I can tell there is ...
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Quotes question should be closed
I have voted to close "What is your favorite Math Quote". I think this question is outside what we hope to silly filling up the site. My comment indicating that it should probably be closed has four ...
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math.SE is no reddit… or is it?
I'm surprised and worried by the fact that the question about Collatz conjecture stays opened.
Let me explain myself. There were many cases, when different people couldn't agree whether some ...
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Why is “infinity minus infinity” a Community Wiki question?
I have an inquiry on the grounds of curiosity. The following question has been marked Community Wiki on August 31st:
What is the result of infinity minus infinity?
From my understanding, you have a ...
