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Large number of posts in the spirit of “How do I become good at Mathematics?”
There have been a steady number of questions being asked in the spirit of:
Hi, I'm yada yada. Here's a short version of my life story and why I can't math. I currently only understand such and ...
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Do users upvote questions or answers more?
According to my profile page, I've voted on 1100 questions and voted on 800 answers. If Q is the number of question votes I've given and A is the number of answer votes, then $Q-A=300$. What is the ...
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How sometimes new people get punished and discouraged for good behaviour
Original
This post originally started off with the following case study.
I would like you to introduce to a math.stackexchange story I got
involved in. A user first asked a question on ...
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How should I give someone credit if I use their answer in my work? [duplicate]
If I asked a question here, and then used the result as part of some work I've done at university, should I reference the user who helped me?
If so, how?
Thanks
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Flag History - Link
I know this may sound stupid, but I can't find the helpful flags link on my user page. Is there any particular reason why this is the case?
On SO, I can find it under profile views, but right now, I ...
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Tangents in comments in meta postings.
The more active meta postings on MSE have often had hijacking problems, such as
Controversial comments on issues incidental with the topic of the meta post
This, of course, happens a lot on the ...
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Improper spacing after inline MathJax
The spacing after inline MathJax behaves badly for me, maybe the width of the formulae is calculated incorrectly.
On SeaMonkey and FireFox, text following inline MathJax overlaps (or if starting with ...
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Revisiting the tour of the site
Every visitor to the site is invited to scroll through the tour page:
The most concrete advice that it offers is in two boxes:
This page is moderator-editable. I'm bringing this subject up to ...
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We should blame new people less and look more at our own faults
I read posts about how we can harder punish people for "abusing" the system, as if all people around here are intrinsically bad. They abuse the system so we need to punish them harder and all problems ...
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1answer
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Can anyone offer tips in understanding why a question is not well-received?
There are the obvious reasons why a question is not well-received:
User just copied a question from homework or a textbook and doesn't explain.
A question is unclear
A question has been asked a ...
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Why are my questions being closed unnecessarily? [duplicate]
First see this:
It says:
The FAQ has contained one key bit of advice from the very beginning:
It’s also perfectly fine to ask and answer your own question, as long as you pretend you’re on ...
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1answer
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How to handle this copy-paste question?
Here I found a copy-paste question. How should we handle this case? (also read the comments)
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Align environment not working
I answered someone's question, and wanted to use the align environment. For some reason, it's not letting me. The link to the question is below. You can see in my answer that the TeX code is what ...
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3answers
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Why isn't more being done to avoid facilitating copy/paste homework questions?
I'm relatively new to this site, but I've noticed a disturbing trend during my time here: many of the questions are simply copy / pasted or even scanned and show little to no effort on the part of the ...
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1answer
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What's the reason for deleting a particular thread twice?
I'm just curious why this thread was deleted twice. I mean, what's the motivation and how this happened? (Someone proposed it for deletion or something else happened?)
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Downvoting answers because question is bad?
I have seen that sometimes answers which are not bad get downvoted because they answer low-quality posts. Is this activity supported? If yes then perhaps we should make it official by automatically ...
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Should questions asking to prove false claims be downvoted or closed?
There is this question where the poster asked for helping proving a claim that in general is not true. Many people gave counterexamples to the claim. The question received downvotes as well. Later ...
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3answers
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Should all math puzzles go to puzzling.SE from now on?
Sometimes I come up with and solve cute math problems that I then want to share with others. These are problems that don't involve any advanced math, just arithmetic and logic, maybe a touch of ...
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There should be an option to see Community Wiki questions/answers in your profile.
There should be a sorting option for 'Community Wiki' questions/answers in your profile.
This would be helpful, since you don't get notified by the upvotes you get for them.
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How does the delete queue work/is this a bug
Recently this question about psychology and personal motivation came up in the delete queue. When I came across it yesterday it had 2 delete votes, and I added my own which put it at the top of the ...
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We should react to the existence of Math Educators SE differently [closed]
This question was asked on meta math overflow. My question is exactly how should we react differently than math overflow?
Considering they are research mathematicians, and deal with senior and ...
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Low attention to Combinatorics question.
I have found myself answering most combinatorics questions with no one else doing something, I am surprised even easy question regarding the topic are usually unanswered (good for me :D) but I wonder ...
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1answer
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Migrated question appears same as an newer question; which one is the duplicate?
If point is zero-dimensional, how can it form a finite one dimensional line? (originally posted Dec. 27, 2014) was recently migrated here from physics.SE, although it already had answers. But on March ...
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Why did I lose rep from this reversal?
today I saw that I had 180 points taken from me. I see that one user who I had answered a question to had up voted many of my posts, so I guess that is fair for some to be taken. BUT, I had answered ...
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Make “question ban” help page specific to Maths.SE
The page in the Help Center concerning question bans (here) was specifically written for StackOverflow.
Since then, Maths.SE has grown fast enough for this feature to be enabled here (as of August ...
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Re: THE Mathjax tutorial on arrays and matrices [column arrangement]
The {ccc|cc} type of specification described in the Matrices/Arrays sections of the MathJax tutorial does not work for me. I communicate with Stackexchange via my telephone (Galaxy S5 over the Verizon ...
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Swype within Stackexchange loses some function.
I communicate with Stackexchange via my telephone (Galaxy S5 / Verizon). I use a virtual-keyboard facilitator called Swype (a product of Nuance). Swype works fine for me -- except when I use it in the ...
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Proof verification types of questions
Is asking proof verification questions frowned upon here -- especially if one keeps asking such a type of question?
My concerns stems from the fact if the proof is correct, users merely post ...
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Can't log into the site
I recently ran into a problem. It affects mostly the Firefox of my Nexus 4, but also my Windows 8.1 tablet earlier today.
It just seems that the main MSE site does not accept the fact that I'm logged ...
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Found broken link in help centre. Who should I notify?
In this section of the FAQ the link "Writing the perfect question by Jon Skeet" is broken. I am unsure as to who handles these things, and even if I should be posting this here. I'm not that familiar ...
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Why locked posts have no timer?
Question: Why "locked posts" don't have a timer? Is there any particular reason behind this or it is just a forgotten feature in designing system? Why only moderators should know when a "locked ...
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1answer
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Old(?) low quality questions
Recently I stumbled on some 3-month-old low quality questions (just unclear what the OP is asking for, not enough details) without any answers (impossible to answer) and no votes on the question.
I ...
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Why is a question needing more details called “off-topic”?
When voting to close, under "off-topic" we have
This question is missing context or other details: Please improve the question by providing additional context, which ideally includes your thoughts ...
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Is there anything wrong with my question?
I asked this question here. I know it is an "immediate consequence of the theorem", and sometimes we only understand the theorem and don't know how to apply the theorem in an example. So, I wanted to ...
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Too many questions on pronunciation.
While viewing the "Review Close Votes" questions with tag pronunciation kept coming (not less than 20, seriously!) and I feel they are "primarily opinion based". A user created the tag and I don't ...
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2answers
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Overboard editing of answers?
After reading a question and providing an answer on math stack exchange, I often find myself thinking about it from time to time and making more progress on a fuller understanding of the ...
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1answer
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What are appropriate ways to contact moderators in different occasions? Flag, Comment, Chat, Email?
There are several ways to contact moderators when it is needed.
Flagging a post or comment for their attention.
Pinging them by a @moderator comment beneath the post.
Going to moderators' chat room ...
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About Asking Questions Then Not Responding [duplicate]
I answered a question the other day, as did someone else (same question, I mean!). The OP has in his about me "Detail-oriented. I upvote detailed answers to my questions." I wrote a detailed ...
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Are all symbolic logic questions on-topic?
I realise that Math SE $\neq$ Philosophy SE, but what questions of logic can be posed? Particularly, can any question of logic involving symbols be asked here? (This is what I mean by 'symbolic logic' ...
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Unsure about answering-self question?
Seeing this I though this thing was promoted, and for avoiding for the question becoming boring, I didn't answer it suddenly and waited and I did mentioned that I knew the answer, maybe it's just ...
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How to see questions asked by me that were closed or maybe on hold?
How to see questions asked by me that were closed or maybe on hold?
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Spoiler-markup broken for multilined display math?
A brief search didn't turn out a dupe, but recently I have found that the spoiler-markup >! doesn't work well with multilined MathJax, especially displaystyle:
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1answer
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Can't flag a duplicates a second time. What should be done on my end
A while ago I noticed a question was a duplicate and so marked it as one using the flagging option. The other question had recently received an answer and I am pretty sure I up voted it, but I may ...
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Increase the point where reviews are disputed
I noticed two answers that arguably should have been deleted from the review queue (Exhibits A and B; see also Exhibit C given by dustin in the comments, and there are probably many others as well).
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Not marking question as duplicate?
An example
This question was asked earlier today. The accepted answer by the user "mathlove" was posted within minutes of asking.
Now consider this question. The user "mathlove" also has a very ...
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Is it okay to leave stupid comments?
I have a knack for leaving stupid jokes on a lot of posts. They don't add anything to the question except (hopefully) a little humour. I am not sure if I should leave these comments because they might ...
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What to do about obvious revenge downvoting [duplicate]
After a small argument with an user this just happened to me:
I realise my first comment may have ignited everything and that some users may disagree with me, but I believe revenge downvoting isn't ...
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How to commemorate dead users?
Honestly, I'm not sure I how to ask, or even if it's indeed a question. A few months ago, I was searching for some info on MathSE and I found an answer by a user interesting, if I remember correctly. ...
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Is it helpful to provide a reference to the math used in providing an answer?
I have always been very grateful with the answers I received on mathematics stack exchange, they often unstuck me right away. But if the best advice we can give to a student is: "study the classics, ...
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Answers with links or references
When reviewing first answers or late answers, I fairly often come across answers along the following format:
See this link for the answer: [link]
or
A proof of this can be found in book X.
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