Linked Questions
37 questions linked to/from Proposal: Discourage questions that are nothing besides a problem statement
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Why question received negative feedback [duplicate]
I am currently using Linear Algebra Done Right by Sheldon Axler to self-study linear algebra in my free time. I'm not a student, I work full-time. I posted a question asking for help on Chapter 3 ...
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Requests for Reopen & Undeletion Votes, etc. (volume 01/2015 - 07/2018 ) [duplicate]
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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Requests for Reopen & Undeletion Votes, etc. (volume 10/2012 - 12/2014) [duplicate]
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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Requests for Reopen & Undeletion Votes (volume 07/2018 - 12/2020) [duplicate]
The purpose of this thread is to help focus the attention of the community on posts that may require reopen and undeletion votes. A request should be posted as an answer below (one request per answer)....
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List of comment templates
Inspired by this question on meta.cstheory.SE. The post at meta.Tex.SE is quite impressive.
We often leave generic comments to OP and answer posters such as "if this is a homework, please add a tag," ...
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How to ask a good question.
How to ask a good question.
This thread has advice on the following aspects of writing a good question on this site. Each item in this list links to an answer below about that specific aspect of ...
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Proposal: ban verbatim homework questions which have no accompanying text
Edit: Clarification: I think we should start closing questions which are obviously copied verbatim from a homework assignment and which consist of no other text. Questions about homework with other ...
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How to ask a homework question?
How to ask a homework question?
Can I ask a homework question here?
How do I ask a homework question on this website?
What information should I include in a question about homework?
Why don't you ...
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2014 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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Is it a “rule” of Math Stack Exchange that when asking a question, it's **never** good just to state the question?
I recently asked the following question, and within 3 minutes it got 2 downvotes:
Is there a set $A \subset [0,1]$ such that both $A$ and $[0,1] \setminus A$ intersect every positive-measure set?
(...
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Discussion: what should we do about the increasing number of questions?
Let's try this again.
For some reason I am not allowed to directly share this data (even though I think it is all accessible via data.stackexchange.com), but let me tell you roughly how the number of ...
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No offense intended, but…
I haven't been a member on here for all that long of a period of time, but I would like to point out some things that I have observed that some may be overlooking. I have visited the site a large ...
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Two announcements: new “FAQ” and new “closure rules”
I want to point everybody's attention to two changes that will impact your user-experience here on Math.SE
The first you may have already noticed: the old FAQ page has been replaced by a "help center"...
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Is it in the spirit of Stack Exchange to always make a sincere attempt to interpret the OP's intentions?
Is it in the spirit of Stack Exchange to always make a sincere attempt to interpret the OP's intentions? I believe it is.
Precision is important in maths, and where questions are imprecise it will ...
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Is deleting a question while it is still on hold too quick?
This is a follow-up (not a duplicate) to an old question on Meta:
Are we too trigger-happy about deleting (relatively) new posts?
I have noticed recently that there are lots of on-hold questions ...