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### Do we really need time limit on editing comments [duplicate]

I find time limit on editing comments annoying and doubt that it is needed at all. My problem is typos that I can't fix if I noticed them too late. If my comment is not answered I post the corrected ...
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### Do all questions need to show work?

Check this question with over a hundred upvotes: If squaring a number means multiplying that number with itself then shouldn't taking square root of a number mean to divide a number by itself? ...
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### How to ask a good proof-verification question?

Firstly, I want to thank the people who have commented on or reviewed my attempted proofs over the years. I'm not a student, so that kind of feedback is invaluable. I've gotten a little bit better at ...
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### The [mobile-web] tag info is outdated

The mobile-web tag info For questions about the mobile versions of Stack Exchange sites. You can access the mobile version of a site by clicking the "mobile" link in the page footer. is ...
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### Text in “Closed“ box goes beyond right boundary (on mobile devices)

On mobile devices, the text in a “Closed” box may extend beyond the right boundary of the box. Up to now, I observed this only on the Mathematics Meta site, and only for questions which are closed ...
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### Visual effect of formulas in mac

As can be seen, some parts of the formulas overlap with each other in mac. So the visual effect is not really satisfying. How can I solve this problem?
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### Can we have a section on the right side of the site for showing ongoing contests and linking to the problem sets?

Recently many questions consisting of the problems from the application for Ross Mathematics Program have appeared at MSE. I did not know of it and came to know of it when a user unintentionally ...
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### Is my queueing theory question completely misunderstood? [duplicate]

My question on queuing theory has been closed as "not about mathematics". It references a paper about ChatGPT, but that is completely incidental to the question. The question and associated ...
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### Why was my question on Ontario lotteries " flagged as spam or offensive content", closed, deleted? [duplicate]

I asked https://math.stackexchange.com/q/4660623 for myself as a private person, out of curiosity. I am not affiliated or backed in any way by any lottery company. Post Closed as "Not suitable ...
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### Fractional-Differential-Equation tag [duplicate]

Fractional Differential Equations are becoming very important. I propose to the community to consider it a tag, and also its abbreviation FDE. To give a flavor of its importance I'm including an ...
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### 9to5Science scraper site is plagiarizing our content

While testing AI tools on DuckDuckGo (DDG), I noticed that the scraper site 9to5Science.com is plagiarizing much of our content (along with other SE science sites). For example a DDG search on "...
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Not often, but often enough, questions such as this one appear on the site: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4658795/im-in-quiz-i-need-asap-help This question is either a blatant troll, or it ...
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### A hide/show feature

There is a question here on math.meta.stackexchange requesting hide/show features for posts. The person was then asked to ask the same question on the meta.stackexchange, where their request was ...
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### bad break in bounty banner

The bounty banner looks bad. I’d be surprised if it’s always looked like this and I never noticed, so I suspect something was broken. Here’s a screenshot: There are two related problems with this. (I ...
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### Are math.meta.stackexchange.com and meta.math.stackexchange.com the same website?

Are math.meta.stackexchange.com and meta.math.stackexchange.com the same website? The order in which the words "math" and "meta" are swapped. math meta meta math
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I would like to ask about the classification of finite simple groups, in particular, how we can be confident that it is correct. This post asks essentially the same question, so if I were to ask, it ...
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### Similar questions about the misunderstanding of limits of products

I've been noticing that we get a lot of questions like Why do I get two different answers while doing this simple limit math? It's basically the traditional thing where people don't understand where ...
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### Close vote immediately followed by a reopen vote

I voted to close this question as "needs more focus" when it already had four duplicate close votes. When I voted to close, it got closed as a duplicate. Since I didn't think that it was a ...
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### What triggers the automatic reverse voting?

I have gotten a few "bursts of downvotes" in the past few weeks that look something like this in my inbox. I would assume the site would automatically catch this and reverse it, as happens ...
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### View count different in main list and search result

A question of mine is currently in the Top list (most recent) and has had 13 views. However, if I search for "mirror symmetry in partial sum plot", it is listed in the search result with 2 ...
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### RH and objectively bad questions [duplicate]

I do understand that random reformulations of the Riemann hypothesis aren't good questions, but apparently related questions can also be seen as bad. My questions was closed with the usual message: &...
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### A Query around Question Bans

I am currently under a question ban where I can't ask any questions. One thing I have tried is to put different questions in place of deleted questions. See examples below: https://math.stackexchange....
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### Do we downvote all PSQ? Also a few questions about comment-answers and comment-hints [duplicate]

At the time of writing, this post has 28 views and no downvotes (or upvotes). I see it simply as a PSQ (Problem Statement Question), and it is quite possible it will be closed soon. I didn't downvote ...
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### How do rid my question of hanging quantifiers?

According to a user (who deleted his comments) my question contained hanging quantifiers which prevents people from fully understanding my post. The problem is when he rephrased my question (in the ...
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### Can I post these things here

Can I post problems that are partly unsolved (not the highlighted ones, rare ones) on math stackexchange with the research or working that has been done before, hoping that some users may find it ...
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### Is a new and interesting but long proof appropriate for the [proof-verification] tag (and the site)?

Let's imagine that an MSE user believes they've proven some non-trivial open problem, perhaps something on the edge of recreational (packing, magic squares, etc). They have a proof that can be ...
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### Self-closing oddity

I recently asked a question, and in a comment Eric Wofsey observed that it was substantially similar to an earlier question I had not seen. I agreed, and voted to close my own question. I expected ...
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A new phenomenon I noticed on Math.SE after I returned here after a long pause is wrong accepted (and sometimes highly upvoted) answers. Looks like when most users see such answers they assume that ...
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### Tag management 2023

New year, new tag management thread. Rules of the game are basically the same: Post your suggestion as an answer here if you see A particularly bad tag (a rule of thumb: “if I can't imagine a person ...
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