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### How do I contact the poster of a deleted answer?

Poster A gave an upvoted and accepted answer to a question. Poster B also answered the question, but then deleted his answer—perhaps after a quick glance at A's short and simple answer, considering ...
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### Is it wrong to write an answer for my own question for a proof that doesn't exist anywhere on the web? [duplicate]

Today, I answered my own question How to derive the formula to determine the length of chord intercepted by a parabola on a line?. I proved a result which is not available anywhere on the web as well ...
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### About a specific question that had a +250 points of bounty but no one answered [duplicate]

Days ago I saw this: "...is there any chance to change the rules of bounty that if someone would not answer then the OP should get his/her points back?" Today I saw that bountied question Some ...
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### At 5000 point I received a new privilege.

I recently reached 5000 points and I got a message, saying I have a new privilege. "Approve tag wiki edits" What does this mean?
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### Wrong accepted answer and inactive users [duplicate]

I was browsing through some of my answers to check if some improvements are necessary. Then I've found this post. The answer of alexjo is not right-but accepted. The solution of the equation is not ...
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### Dirichlet Theorem Proof by induction [on hold]

Any one has any idea how to prove it? "if we put n items into n-1 boxes then there will be a box with 2 items" I have tried like Base case: for n=1 => 1 item, 1 box Hyp: for n=k => k items , k-1 ...
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I found only one instance where this shouldn't be allowed: If you wanna do this twice (to set a bounty again on the same question). Also, from this answer (by 40 votes): "Abuse potential aside, it ...
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### How should my question be tagged

I have a question about my Mathematics Stack Exchange post: A math/beauty question How should this question be tagged?
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### How do I make sure my question is not a duplicate? [duplicate]

A couple of questions that I have asked on this site have been marked duplicates and I have seen people attach the link of the previously asked question quickly (not just on mine, but on all other ...
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### Want to post many problems for exam

I am in a serious issue now. I have an exam in the next few days and have a lot of questions to ask to the community at MSE. I had been procrastinating since to ask all of these problems. ...
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### Collaboration on Proofs

I'm a burgeoning computer scientist and interested in collaborating with others on proofs and solutions to difficult problems, both for fun and for publication purposes. I'm wondering whether there is ...
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### Duplicate tag on my question [duplicate]

(Sorry I don't know whether it is called a tag or something else so) Recently I posted this which soon was marked as duplicate though questions to which it is compared as duplicate neither satisfy ...
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### Is it okay to give an answer with only “Yes” or “No” with no further details supporting the conclusion?

I came across this question and so far the answer with only three letters "Yes" received 50+ upvotes. The answer contains no details, shows no research effort and cites nothing; but it is well ...
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### What are the current statistics of migrations to other sites?

Are the current statistics of questions migrated to other sites visible somewhere? I suspect it is available through https://math.stackexchange.com/tools/posts/migrated/stats for > 10k rep users, so I ...
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### My question was automatically deleted

My question on Mathematics Stack Exchange (A different type of exponentiation) was automatically deleted for the reason "RemoveAbandonedClosed". Why?