Unanswered Questions
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Congratulations, joriki!
Congratulation to joriki for getting $100,001>100,000$ reputation!
Thanks for you amazing answers! You've helped a countless number of people in the M.SE community.
I will wish you, on the behalf ...
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Proposal for promoting more interesting, deeper questions
There was recently a (now-locked) thread about the prevalence of "do my homework" questions on math.se. I want to set aside for now the question about what to do about people posting homework ...
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Congratulations, amWhy hit 100k!
Congratulations to @amWhy for hitting the 100k mark today.
As far as I know, she is the first woman to also reach this amazing milestone and we are lucky that she is a participant here!
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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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Edit session for wrong spelling of mathematicians and mathematical concepts
Wrong spelling of mathematician's names and mathematical concepts is perpetuated by their presence in highly indexed resources like stackexchange.
I think that the internet would become a better ...
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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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Area 51 Proposal: History of Mathematics and Science
I've created a new proposal on Area 51 for a Stack Exchange focusing on the history of mathematics and science.
As a math student, I am constantly studying the history of the subject. I feel that ...
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User asking exercises from textbook without so identifying
A user is copying verbatim exercises from a textbook, e.g.,
Local Feature Size, Describe Conv(A U B),
Flip graph of point set,
Expected number on the convex hull, etc. Is the MSE convention that he ...
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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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New Math Teaching Stackexchange is looking for 38 more people to register for a private beta
Edit: Thanks to the 162 people who have signed up so far! You've made this proposal one of the fastest-growing proposals of all time.
The math teaching SE proposal has reached the commitment phase, ...
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Quality blocks enabled for questions
Questions are the lifeblood of any Stack Exchange site. But asking good questions can be difficult, for some people entirely too difficult to bother with. When the Trilogy sites reached traffic levels ...
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Could “Ask Question” dialog be more helpful?
The Ask Question dialog has an appropriate faint overlay text in the Title input area:
what's your math question? be specific.
(Aside: this seems to suggest ...
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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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Should we close questions asking for hints as duplicates?
This question was inspired by this question Relationship between $\operatorname{ord}(ab), \operatorname{ord}(a)$, and $\operatorname{ord}(b)$, which I first came across while reviewing close votes.
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questions asked over 100 times
I just saw another question with the limit of $(1 + 1/n)^n.$
A few months ago, somebody asked some other multiple repeat question, I wrote to check any of the last 137 times it had been asked. he ...
