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See questions recently posed by “high-rep” users
Often times I just browse through some of the questions on MSE, and I've noticed that many of the questions posed by lower-rep users (for example, <500) don't show as much effort, aren't as ...
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MathJax 2.6 beta
Today we are entering the public beta phase of MathJax v2.6 beta. We are asking you to try out the new output. Be aware, this one will offer a new set of fonts. I will allow Peter Krautzberger to ...
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What is the difference between voting to close as a duplicate and flagging as a duplicate?
I am aware that to flag you only need 15 reputation points. Only users with 3k+ reputation can cast votes.
If a post is flagged as duplicate, what happens then? In particular, what is different from ...
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New posts and post changes don't have their MathJax parsed.
You know the small grey box that says "a new answer has been added" and when you click it the answer appears? Yeah well, MathJax is not parsed. Look:
I got that post when I clicked the grey box. I ...
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What to do with questions of the form “Someone or something says ___, are they right?”
"My friend/professor/teacher/parent/solution manual/etc. says ___ are they right?"
What should we do with these types of posts? I feel like it's missing a ton of context. We don't know what the ...
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Student posting assignment questions - what action to take?
I am currently undertaking a course in topology, and I've noticed a particular user post many questions which are taken directly from the past two assignments we've been given. They joined about a ...
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Can't use the sandbox
I am new to the community and I have been advised to use the sandbox to edit long posts so as not to disturb the frontpage of the site. But I think I am not able to use it yet because I can't "edit" ...
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Suspicious behaviour in low quality queue
I was reviewing the Low Quality queue and there were about 27 queued items to review (unusually high in my opinion; I don't think I've ever seen more than about 5 at a time). It seems that nearly all ...
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MathJax not rendering in comments and post preview
The problem with comments seems to have resolved itself. If we used the "show x more comments" link, the MathJax would become unrendered in all comments on that page. However, this is either ...
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Tag management 2015
Tags need a regular cleanup. This is a customary thread for tag synonyms etc.
Rules of the game are basically the same:
post your suggestion as an answer here if you see
a particularly bad tag (a ...
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Do proof verification questions fit the website- evade duplicate tag - sometimes answer for them is just 'yes'
What to do when a question just wants a yes/no answer.
In the case of this question of mine, the answer was a 'yes' or a 'no - and here's why'. In the case of questions with the proof verification ...
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Do we need the “cite” link below every post?
Since September 11, the "cite" option for posts on main has been promoted from being inside "share" to directly below the post, cf. here.
Now, since the argument for requesting its promotion was that ...
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Sandbox for drafts of long, complex posts [closed]
This sandbox is intended for saving drafts of long, complex posts, especially posts whose composition takes a long time. It serves to localize to one thread the front-page "bumps" caused by edits to ...
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Are picture environments not allowed in MathJax?
In a WordPress blog post of mine I used the following LaTeX code:
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Formatting Sandbox
Basically same as Formatting Sandbox in meta.SO, but since this and Statistical Analysis are the only 2 sites (I know) supporting TeX formatting, I believe we also need one here for testing it.
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I'm not a robot?
Sometimes when I answer a question I'm asked to confirm that I'm not a robot. I'm pretty sure that I'm not, but why this question? Is there some special situation in which this question is posed? or ...
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Not able to copy and pass the link below on my Ipad for the “are you a robot test”.
I just noticed I can't ask question on the math forum because of the "are you a robot" test which ask to copy and paste a link that I can't paste in the tiny box.
My brother encountered the same ...
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Are user names in the audits completely random?
Recently I passed some reputation threshold and started receiving tasks of reviewing suggested edits/first posts/late answers.
Among the first kind of tasks, there are some (as I guess) fake ...
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What to do in this case of bad formulated question?
Sorry I couldn't be more explicit in the title, but it really seems a quite particular case.
An user posted the following question on MSE:
$\gcd(0.5,2.5)=1$ or $0.5$?
One easily sees the discussion ...
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How do we dispute a declined flag?
I flagged this post as primarily opinion based. It was declined. I think this decision is incorrect and would like it adjudicated if that is possible. If there is no facility to dispute declined ...
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Is voting encouraged in elections?
Is it encouraged that all users must vote for a moderator, like in a democracy?
The only time I ever voted was on this site, a few months back. I had no idea about any of the users, so I just voted ...
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Can many people use a single account? [duplicate]
Can many people use a single SE account? This would lead to much faster accumulation of rep. It could also lead to certain posts being better than others (due to different authors), or even conflict ...
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Is it appropriate to ask for references and book recomendations?
More specifically:
Occasionally I would like to read a proof of some major theorems, but, as I don't want to bother people by asking them to write it here -
I believe it is far better if I could ask ...
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(limits-without-series) tag relevance
I have made a new tag, namely limits-without-series. In the tag limits-without-lhopital there is no mention of series expansions. Moreover, this tag was made because OP knew about L'Hôpital's rule but ...
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Show “how to ask” advice before a new user asks a question
Many questions by new users end up closed as duplicates or for another reason related to the lack of familiarity with the site. I won't go into details; they are much discussed.
I propose to enable ...
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Down-voter transparency suggestion
Is it possible to have 3 categories of transparency with buttons 1. Incognito ( as at present most of the time) 2. Down-voter accepts visibility voluntarily. 3. Visibility request by down-voted ...
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Is it wrong to make a second account if you've reached your monthly asking limit?
Basically what's in the title: I've reached my monthly question limit and I considered making a second account, but I won't until I know if this is frowned upon or not here.
Is it wrong to make a ...
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23answers
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MathJax basic tutorial and quick reference
To see how any formula was written in any question or answer, including this one, right-click on the expression it and choose "Show Math As > TeX Commands". (When you do this, the '$' will not ...
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What is the correct policy here with respect to rollbacks?
Today I saw multiple edits by the same user that seemed to destroy the formatting of the original question. See here and here. Other edits by this user do seem to be in good faith, see here. In both ...
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Deleted question (on Meta)
I'm curious why this question was deleted? Sure, it's a little weird, but I'm guessing there's an easy answer to it. (And the OP has asked it again, on main. Again.)
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What will be the first language that has its own special Math.StackExchange?
Recently StackOverflow started a Russian version of the site because of the huge contribution of the Russians to the IT and English StackOverflow.
My question is:
If the SE management team decide to ...
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Blacklist the [completeness] tag
Completeness is an important notion in mathematics. Metric spaces can be complete, a theory can be complete, a logic can be complete, and set of propositional connectives can be complete, and many ...
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Getting logged out
Since the last 2 or 3 weeks, I've been getting logged out of all stackexchange and stackoverflow sites. It started on my iPad and now it's happening on my iMac too. This happens randomly. It just ...
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User cannot suggest edits to this question.
I often will suggest formatting edits to questions where the math is not formatted well. On occasion, I'll receive the message that the user cannot suggest edits to this question. Is it me or the ...
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Stalked by a downvoter? [duplicate]
I had four downvotes today, all within a couple of hours of answers I posted within the last few days. It strikes me as odd that they would all gain any sort of attention suddenly within such a short ...
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Guerilla reposting of a question that no one answered
Recently, a question and its variants were posted on MSE (and cross-posted on MO as well, if that matters) using different new user accounts:
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1answer
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Am I the only one getting addicted to this site? How do you manage time doing other things?
On one hand, this site is a blessing because we can all learn a lot quickly looking at some technical questions/topics being discussed. On the other hand, this could also be addictive. Maybe set ...
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Down vote for new user
I registered an account for Math Exchange this morning. While trying to learn Latex and type neatly the solution for the user Cherry_Developer in here and here, I got down vote. I get very unhappy ...
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Requests for Reopen & Undeletion Votes, etc. (volume 01/2015 - ) [current version]
The purpose of this thread is to help focus the attention of the community on posts that may require exceptional handling. This includes requests for reopen and undeletion votes. A request should be ...
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What's up with the citing feature?
There seems to be relatively new functionality in math.SE: an ability to cite questions and answers. It includes the title, author, and a url.
How does this work in the various edge cases: ...
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How to interact with the others?
Well, I want to know how to interact with the other user, i.e., can I add someone, send messages or other social network service?
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Is bad form to answer a question that would probably be closed for lack of context?
Sometimes I see a question from a new user, the sort of question that's followed by a "What have you tried?" comment. I suspect that if it were flagged, it would be closed.
Is it considered to be ...
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Why were these questions closed as duplicates?
The question Need Examples to Understand Choice Function and Choice Structure is in no way a duplicate for the following question:
(P(X),CR) may be a choice structure even if R is not a rational ...
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Starting a private conversation [duplicate]
Is there a way to exchange contact data (for example the email address) with a user using a private channel? Sometimes I think that some user could become a friend and I don't know how to contact ...
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How to send private messages?
How do I send private messages to another user on the website? More specifically, how can I send private messages to a moderator on the website?
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Why can't I perform this action for another 39 seconds?
Why does the system logic sometimes prevent me from submitting a question?
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How to send Questions to specific users? [duplicate]
At the bottom of the Ask a Question page, MSE asks:
"Know someone who can answer? Share a link to this question via email, Google+, Twitter, or Facebook."
Well, what about users on this site who've ...
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Can't find post about propositional logic, probably deleted.
There was a post on m.se a few days ago, I want to say Thursday or Friday night (SEpt 17th or 18th 2015) where a user was asking for help showing some propositional logic result without using truth ...
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Why do some flags take so much longer than others to resolve?
I flagged this post as an unclear question a few hours ago. I raised the same flag later on another question, and it was resolved within a few minutes.
I'm curious to know what goes on behind the ...
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A question I answered seems to have been deleted
From what I understand, based on my read of this answer and this question, a question with an upvoted answer cannot be auto-deleted or manually deleted by the poster, but one of those things seems to ...
