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Type of questions to be asked here? [duplicate]
I am a self learner. I took admission in a college for graduation (correspondence) in bsc after long time quitting school. I have several books on different topics of mathematics but I am unable to ...
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Expiration of a bounty [duplicate]
I started a bounty for one of my questions because it hadn't received much attention, but even after it ended, there wasn't any relevant answer to the question? In such a case, am I allowed to re-ask ...
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Names of downvoters should be listed.
As the question suggests, names of the downvoters should be listed along with the voting arrows, because then anyone can vote however they want. Even if the question is good, due to hostile relations, ...
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MathJax doesn't render dynamically… Why not? [duplicate]
When I post this:
\sum_{n=0}^\infty\binom{n}{k}x^n=\frac{x^k}{(1-x)^{k+1}}\tag{1}
... all I see is string of code, not the nifty looking math symbols.
When I post the above to a test site, however, ...
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“Off-topic” close reason for when an the original poster genuinely has no idea where to start [duplicate]
I know the "off-topic" close reason tends to spark debate, but I had to speak up when I came across this question.
I don't understand why this problem was marked as "off-topic," or why it was ...
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Why allow multiple parallel edits but accept only one?
As I just found out, multiple people can edit a question at the same time.
I happened to be the one to submit last. The red notification that told me that I cannot submit that edit was really pretty, ...
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I had reputation of 104 it fell down to 96 the next time I logged in. Why is that?
I had reputation of 104 it fell down to 96 the next time I logged in. Why is that ?
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Why was my Question Offtopic?
I ask yesterday this Question and today it is marked as off-Topic.
After that I read the help Center Guidelines, but I miss the point why my question is not in the scope.
I hope someone can explain ...
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Very few statistics people here [on hold]
Whenever I ask a statistics question, it takes people too long to comment on the question or answer it (if at all). All types of questions get answered directly except statistics questions (at least ...
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Undeletion of deleted question
Can I undelete a question I deleted on meta SE? If I can will I be able to get back all answers and comments on that question?
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Why are privileges reversed when the deduction came from starting a bounty?
Edit: I agree with with tim's answer here: http://meta.stackexchange.com/a/11986
What are some justifications for not implementing it this way?
It doesn't really make much sense to me- I've lost 450 ...
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Should we close/lock old questions with many answers at some point?
From time to time you see someone posting yet another answer to very old questions which have many answers. It is almost always the case that the newly added answer is in fact a duplicate or a ...
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abuse of equal signs
I am referring to questions like THIS
Expressions like "3 = 6" are an abuse of notation and, as such, make doing mathematics correctly harder instead of easier.
Mathematics is peppered with ...
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Regarding LaTex and Other Alternative Math formatting
I've noticed that different users have written LaTex code using either commands inside two $ signs or simply connected a single term to a & symbol. How many different ways are there of coding ...
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Can I try to tell experienced users not to answer bad questions?
I have recently started using the website and I am trying to do my best with moderation. I flag questions very often, I edit posts when they can be improved, I have written a few of those "What have ...
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Effect of usage of tags on reputation.
Suppose I made a tag and it is used by many people everyday, so will it increase my reputation?
And also, suppose no one uses it even once for a long time, i.e. 6 months, then?
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Clarification of what should be closed as a duplicate [duplicate]
Until today the word "duplicate" was clear to me, or so I thought, but I have just been confronted with the following situation: there is a question A from 2011 (with an accepted answer) and one ...
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Should you number questions?
I see a lot of questions with titles like "limit question 4" or whatever. Should you number questions? It seems like a poor way of titling questions.
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An answer with a negative vote count still giving you a positive reputation
An upvote for an answer gives you 10 reputation points. A down vote gives you -2 reputation points. Say for example you get two upvotes and five downvotes, then you would have a vote count of -3 and ...
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Users providing only answers in Maple [duplicate]
This question is about users who stubbornly only provide Maple code and their output as answers, even if the question does not ask for it.
Yesterday I decided to review some low-quality posts (there ...
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Intended use of “seeking personal advice” close reason
In case you missed it, there's a new close reason:
Seeking personal advice. Questions about choosing a course, academic program, career path, etc. are off-topic. Such questions should be directed ...
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Introducing a delay for updating the post preview box
When typing up or editing a question the completed version is shown in the box below. When editing this means that the whole text is constantly being refreshed which is just plain annoying. Would it ...
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How many questions get closed, and how often are they edited or reopened?
How many questions on Mathematics SE got closed during the last 90 days? For what reasons? How many of the closed questions were edited or reopened?
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How do I have a question moved, if I have a valid answer, but others mark it to close
I usually have better answer to my game related math questions on SE or gamedev, I want to get my question moved to gamedev
Sharing items to a particular number of people
You can see I have a ...
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Will un-accepting an answer affect someone's reputation?
If I accepted an answer, but later choose to un-accept it for whatever reason, will that person lose reputation points?
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Appropriate way to place sound arguments when reopening a duplicate marked question
The possibility to reopen a duplicate marked question is a nice feature. This action is usually based (at least I do hope so) upon sound arguments. Is there a way to attach or combine these ...
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Distribution of Reputation: Power Law?
I recently came across the notion of a scale free network, see Scale Free Network. These networks tend to have power-law distributions. I was wondering if reputation in SE was distributed like this, ...
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“Don't shout” warning without capitals
I started working on an answer and first just typed three lines of arithmetic expressions with numbers into the edit box. When I later returned to the page and the content of the edit box was ...
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Merging of two different accounts
There are two accounts under my control. If I merge them into one (I saw the concept of merging in a previous meta post) will my reputations on both be added up to one?
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Math Review - Proposal on area 51
I created a new proposal at area 51 its called Math Review (http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/90443/math-review) and it is intended to be a Q&A site concerning troubles one find while ...
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What are good ways to ask about (famous) open problems?
I understand that asking a question about a famous open problem is viewed as a bit of a red flag and not encouraged, which makes sense of course.
Is there a way to stay within protocol/etiquette ...
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What is wrong with opinion based questions? [closed]
What is wrong with opinion based questions?
Soft questions are usually opinion based.
Maybe there is a good reason why opinion based questions should be closed.
That's fine with me.
However, what ...
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What does the review count number mean? [duplicate]
I just got to 10K points, and the orange number next to "review" in the top bar went up dramatically, but when I click on "review", I see nowhere near that number of items for review. What does that ...
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Why can we not down vote comments? [duplicate]
Why can we not down vote comments?
That is my question. Why not? Just like answers or questions which we think are not much helpful why not allow to downvote comments which ...
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Is cross-posting the same question to multiple sites not allowed when it is on-topic everywhere?
I recently asked this question Why Newton wanted lines to be generated by continued motion of points rather than by apposition of parts? in MSE. I did get response on the day of my submission of ...
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Should (summation-method) be a synonym of (summation)?
Not so long ago the tag-synonym summation-method $\to$ summation has been suggested. I wonder whether this is the best choice of synonym.
Both from the questions currently tagged with this tag and ...
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Please could someone explain to me why my question is a duplicate?
Please could someone explain to me why my question is a duplicate?
Thank you in advance for your help.
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Please don't flag posts containing re-purposed ImageShack image URLs as spam
It has recently been noticed that ImageShack does a horrible thing: they re-purpose old image URLs for advertising purposes. This can lead the impression that some older posts are actually spam, for ...
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How do I not embrace the root of my mathjax problem?
When one has a
$$problem$$
in order to get to the
$$\sqrt{problem}$$
it's sometimes a good idea to get some confidence by embracing those parts of it one already knows
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I am not getting answers for my questions
I had asked two specific questions on "mse" but haven't got any answer for my questions. The first question is this for which I even offered a bounty of $50$. The bounty period expired but no answers ...
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Why was my proposed edit rejected even though it was correct & the same edit was made later?
I asked Problem in understanding the proof of boundedness of a convergent sequence. yesterday & received some decent answers; however the answer posted by @Brian M. Scott explained lucidly my ...
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Accepting your own answer
Why does MSE allows accepting your own answers on your question?
As I cannot upvote my own post, I think accepting your own answer should also be prohibited or there should be an option that if 5 or ...
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Controlling of Stack Exchange accounts
How many people are allowed by the stack exchange community to control one stack exchange community? Is is allowed that one account can be controlled by more than one people and is it allowed for one ...
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What if a question is both off-topic and unclear what you are asking?
I often see a question in the reopen queue that was closed as unclear what you are asking, but was also lacking context.
If the OP edits the unclear what you are asking part, and it enters the ...
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Is there any way to subscribe to a thread so you get email notifications?
I asked a question without subscribing, but now I'm not being notified of answers. Is there any way to subscribe so that I'll get those notifications?
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Double display of formulas
Lately I've been experiencing some problems with the the display of formulas. Occasionally I get something like in this picture.
I'm using Chrome on Windows 7. So far I couldn't find anything that ...
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How to handle user that seems to just copy existing answers?
I tend to spend more of my time poking around looking at existing questions/answers on MSE than answering them myself, and recently I found an old question which had two identical answers ...
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The ping system doesn't seem to work for me. [duplicate]
In the past week or so I tried pinging other members, but the system doesn't seem to work for me.
Here for example I am writing @Jochen I am trying to ping a member with the handle Jochen, and it ...
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Images upload: is it changed?
What is changed in the upload of images? I can not upload with my old MacBook! Or simply I have some connection problem?
when I click on the image icon a pop up is open with the words ''Click Here to ...
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Reputation tab and graph
Normally when you click on the Reputation Tab of your user profile you have 3 options to display with Post, Time, or Graph.
Unfortunately, lately I haven't been able to use the Graph option to ...
