Questions tagged [asking-questions]
Questions specifically about the process of asking questions on this site.
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Editing the title/body of a question hours after asking?
I asked a question which received some comments immediately. Only after the comments came in did I realize that I should ask my question differently. I edited the question then.
I now realize that the ...
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How can I fix my question? [duplicate]
Question in consideration: Mathematics as several Type-0 Grammars
I've asked the question above because I've been trying to understand the way mathematicians do mathematics from a formalist ...
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Add quantum computing stackexchange to “What to ask here” page
In the help center on the page What topics can I ask about here there is a list of sister sites that might be better suited for some questions that are still on-topic here. I propose to add quantum ...
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How can the question ban be removed: [closed]
The question is deleted and then I'm banned on MO after I asked the following question: https://math.stackexchange.com/q/3570663/702232
The question received severe criticism and got deleted on MO but ...
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If I have a question that has already been answered, but I don't understand the answer and the thread seems to be dead, how do I ask?
My post here was closed. I have the same question as another user but I do not understand the accepted answer. To me, it appears incomplete. It is missing details which I do not know how to fill in.
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Answering my own question to attract attention. [duplicate]
Sometimes I have a question and have an idea how to answer it. I'm pretty sure (see edit 1) the idea is correct but not so sure (see edit 1). However, I do want to be so sure (see edit 1), so I ask ...
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Referring to ones own questions as examples, is it an accepted practice?
Is the following unethical?
I want to refer new users on the website to questions that I have asked. I want to help them to ask better questions by providing my questions as examples.
I am asking ...
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Edition of formulas from a generic New Contributor for the first post or comment: how do they learn it?
I would like to know as curiosity, or as a reflection or thought that maybe can be useful the following question (I didn't add answers on this site Mathematics Stack Exchange and I don't help to ...
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Using text and MathJax instead of screenshot.
I would suggest the community simply close questions containing screenshots of text. I can understand a screenshot of a figure, but if the text part of a question can be easily typeset with the built-...
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Why can't I post a question about math -stack-exchange?
I am an user of math-stack-exchange an unfortunately a short time ago I have tried to ask a question but the system submit to me the following message: «You can only ask 6 questions in a 24-hour ...
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Can we please stop voting to close a question just because the question is short?
I have seen many times that somebody voted to close short questions (and probably downvoted the questions as well), even though the OP made clear that there had been good attempts. This thread is the ...
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Is asking for a specific reference to an article mentioned in an MSE question unacceptable?
I see quite a few MSE questions where the OP says "I keep reading blah blah blah" without any reference to what they've been reading. I commented on the following question:
How does one do ...
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Question does not gain answers in Math Stack Exchange. Would a migration to StackOverflow be a solution?
I recently asked this question in Math Stack Exchange but does not gain any answers even though I bountied it.
It seems either there aren‘t many people familiar with the Singular-CAS in Math Stack ...
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Why I am not able to ask questions?
In my profile I have asked 6 questions of which no have down votes. 1 have 0 votes and 4 have 1 up votes and 1 have 2 up votes. I don't have asked poor quality questions (no down votes). It's also ...
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Should I create a new question?
I forgot a minus sign everywhere and I made a question wrong.
I asked
The differential entropy cannot be negative for pdf in (0,1) but the question should have been positive instead of negative.
The ...
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Demeaning comments made by a high rep user [closed]
I have been made aware of a comment talking about me by a high rep user in this post: Trouble conveying question:
In the linked post, I was referencing a different high rep user. As you can see, ...
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Inactive posts for the last six months
I wonder how to find all the inactive for at least 6 months posts in mathstack? Thanks.
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How can I improve my question?
In what way should I improve my question to get an answer?
Since this is a pretty "classical" example, I assume that many people have seen it and can say something about it. So there must be a ...
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Trouble conveying question
In one of my recent questions, Embedding manifolds in a $3$-torus. Fact or fiction?, a commenter said that what I wrote "makes little sense."
I am having trouble putting myself in the commenter's ...
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What advice do you give to someone who's written an incomplete question below any understanding?
It happened recently and again today (post now deleted) that someone submitted a question with so little content that it was close to impossible to guess anything from it.
We all know that by the ...
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Post getting down-votes, because it's a duplicate. Can't delete.
I posted a question regarding a "new discovery" with divisibility tests and it was marked as duplicate by a user because it is very similar to other divisibility tests. I am losing reputation because ...
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How do I ask questions about a person's answer?
For the post Fundamental group of projective plane is $C_{2}$???, I think there is a mistake in Amos Joshua's answer:
If you rotate the 1 2 loop, it will no longer be connected to the 3 4 loop, and a ...
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How to ask for opinions on textbooks?
Where does one go on the Stack Exchange network to ask for opinions on math related topics? Does such an outlet even exist? This question comes to mind because I have been using the same book on ODEs ...
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Limitation on asking questions
When I attempted to ask a question on math.stackechange this message appeared...
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Why I received a message that stopped me from asking another question?
I've registered a new account several months ago, and have asked 4 questions for 4 consecutive days (until yesterday). These questions receive 1,1,8 and 11 upvotes for each. When I was asking another ...
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Modifying or deleting a stupid and trivial but answered question should be allowed for the person that asked it
Asking a math question is an effort of exploration into the delicate world of mathematics. Sometimes a person fails at making a sensible effort and asks a stupid and trivial question due to his/her ...
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How should I improve my question?
I have a question about my Mathematics Stack Exchange post: Trouble with complex numbers within a given equation.
Two things
$1.~$ Is their anyway I can get this question off the "On hold" status ? ...
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Is it OK to ask approximately one question a day from old application exams?
If I ask approximately one question a day (from old application exams) will it be considered flooding/spamming or is this perfectly legal?
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Will this site add a guided mode similar to the one recently introduced on Stack Overflow?
The Stack Overflow has an interesting guided mode which got implemented quite recently, see https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/381671/the-ask-question-wizard-is-live .
Personally I think it ...
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Question Limit due to questions not being received well
Yesterday I asked two questions for the first time on the Maths Stack. The initial question was well received and I was given many helpful answers. However, my second question was less well received. ...
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How to request easy solutions
I'm a 10th grader so my maths is nowhere near as complex as some of you reading right now. So how do I ask for easy solutions when that is subjective (dependent on the person). Should i explain my ...
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A suggestion to improve 'similar questions' suggestions: let's include tags.
Sorry for the title.
When I write a new question, right below the title, a drop-down menu opens up with suggestions of questions similar to mine.
My suggestion is to interact that menu with the tag ...
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Should there be a question on intuition for $0.999\dots = 1$?
I think that as described in this answer, Jonathan Fischoff burned a lot of reputation points asking questions to gain intuition on $0.999\dots = 1$ in MathOverflow. Even if that user really did lose ...
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No longer accepting questions? Then back and forth?
Upon some amount of time I've been allowed to ask a question again after being barred from asking. Upon asking a question I have received no negative reviews. But yet I have been barred again. May I ...
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How can I make this question better.
Range of $ y = (\operatorname{arccot} x) (\operatorname{ arccot} ( - x)) $.
I asked this question. How can I make this better? Someone in comments is saying I should add more context but I did.
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Live preview is not available
A few minutes ago, I posted a question on MSE and noticed that live preview is not available when writing a question.
I would like to ask if other users have encountered this problem too.
Thanks!
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How can I avoid immediate down-voting and how should I go about requesting feedback?
I just posted a question. I took my time to write it. I thought it was a good question. Less than an hour later, and the question has been downvoted 4 times. I thought "okay, I clearly said something ...
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Looking for An Answer [closed]
I was not sure whether to ask this question here or delete my question and ask the question again.
The problem: I asked a question a while back but I am still waiting for an answer. I was not sure ...
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Blocking to ask a question for a beginner.
Is it possible to block to ask a question for a beginner who has not take the Tour?
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How Rigid Is the Multiple Question Rule When Analyzing Mathematical Concepts?
I was wondering if there could be exceptions to the multiple question rule when analyzing mathematical concepts.
For example, suppose a user quotes a math-related paragraph on Wikipedia, and wants to ...
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Why I can't make question on stack exchange app? [duplicate]
Whenever I try to upload a question. It is showing that your limit is exhausted. Try after 7 days.
Can anyone suggest me how to come up with this problem? And ask my doubts frequently.
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Master thesis: asking people to check the math
My academic advisor quit and the project is now discontinued. Yet, I'm still registered and I intend to hand in the thesis soon. The last time my advisor checked my work was a while ago since then I ...
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Is there a limit on number of questions a user can ask in a given time frame?
Is there a limit on number of questions a user can ask in a given time frame?
Here is a similar question which was posted 5 years ago? It says the limit is 50 questions per 30 days. Has the limit ...
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How much did “advice for first-time askers” help?
Since October 2015 a "How to ask?" page is shown before a user asks their first question on this site, and they need to confirm that they read it; see here: Show “how to ask” advice before a new user ...
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How do I preview my post before posting?
How do I preview my post before posting? I do not find any preview button.
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Answered Questions With Mistaken Calculation
Suppose I ask a question which includes a mistaken calculation, such that if the calculation were to be corrected, the question would be uninteresting. The question receives an answer, indicating the ...
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I have been banned from asking question from mathematics stack exchange from two month what should I do now?
When I was banned, my reputation was less than 50, and now it is greater than 100.
It means I have improved. Also I am a beginner in abstract mathematics, so I should be given at least one more ...
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Asking questions to add to the general knowledge pool
Recently, I've seen a few examples of users asking questions and answering their own questions as a way of adding to the question pool here on MSE.
The most recent example I've seen of this is the ...
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How to begin working on a problem?
I hope the community supports this effort. We often see homework-type questions with no attempt from the OP at solving the problem. In many such cases the OP answers that they don't know how to begin.
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Is it a good idea to include source from where a question is taken?
My question is-
Should we include the source from where we have obtained a question?
Let, a question has been asked in a particular exam/paper/ or anywhere. Is it a good idea to include the details (...
