Questions tagged [chat]
For questions about real time web chat that accompanies Mathematics Stack Exchange site.
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List of chatrooms
This is a place where we could collect list of chat rooms associated with this site. There are several rooms which have potential to be useful if more users were aware of them or more users visited ...
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Should chat have TeX support?
OK, so chat is now available... but; it has been suggested that for Mathematics we should have TeX support.
The current TeX processing has some non-trivial client impact. Before I even attempt trying ...
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Main Chatroom Guidelines
Welcome. Hello friends. My online handle is anon, and I will be your guide.
Associated with the Mathematics StackExchange is the main chatroom. I am chatroom co-owner alongside current moderator ...
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How do I invite a user to chat?
Yesterday, discussion in my question's comment section was getting long so I transferred it to chat and had a long talk with another person. Now, if I want to talk to that user in chat what should I ...
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Why is there no support for MathJax in chat?
The question Should chat have TeX support was first asked
3½ years ago, and it has been asked at intervals since then. I am not asking that question. I know that chat should have TeX support and ...
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Launching *Pearl Dive* - a chatroom where excellent questions/answers meet willing sponsors
Announcing the birth of the Pearl Dive – a chatroom dedicated to enhancing the quality of the material on the site, sieving out the pearls from the sand.
Caveat: I'm new to creating chatrooms, ...
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Should we have "messages for moderators" chatroom?
When, for some reason, I want contact a moderator I have several possibilities:
I can flag some post.
I can bring up the particular issue on meta.
I can ping one of the mods by leaving a comment on ...
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What happens when the "move comments discussion to chat" link is used?
When clicking on the "move comments discussion to chat?" link (under an answer), what actions are triggered :
(a) if the click is by the poster of the answer
(b) if the click is by a commenter in ...
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Could chatrooms serve as noticeboards?
If there is some information related to this site, which you consider important enough to share with other users, the best way is probably to use meta. But I can imagine some situations when meta ...
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What should be the role of *Welcome to MSE*?
When a constant stream of new users come to MSE and repeatedly flout policy, deluge the site with bad questions, write them as PSQs, post images instead of MathJax, then get them serially downvoted, ...
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How can I move from comment to chat?
When I need to discussion to some one about the problem in a detailed way, It seems better to do it in a chat-room instead of comments. But what is the usual way to do this.(I do this once some weeks ...
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Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat.
I know that StackExchange encourages moving extended discussions to chat. I have also seen moderators actively moving extended discussions to chat.
The question is, what's the point of this? ...
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I think I'm the target of a rude joke in chat
Today, in our In praise of Math.SE site and its users chatroom I saw the following message:
in Mathematics, 2 hours ago, by Behaviour
Just stopping by to say this user is awesome. Great ...
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Avoiding extended discussion in comments section with low rep user?
I know it's bad practice to have extended discussions in the comments section, and I understand why. But there is no way to move the discussion to chat with a low-reputation user, and in my experience ...
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Would list of chat rooms (and chat room suggestions) be useful?
To some extent this can be considered as a follow-up of this question: Increasing chat use, pros, cons and the tour. It more-or-less asks how to help in making chat rooms successful. One of possible ...
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RFC: Chat Seminars
Myself, J.M. and tb came to a wonderful enlightenment on the chat recently.
A few days ago, the chat went into a deep measure theoretic discussion and a separate room was spawned to keep the main ...
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Mathematics Meta chat room
I recently found that this site (meta) has a chat room permanently attached to it:
Welcome to chat for: Mathematics Meta
This is a general discussion room
Nobody posted there for 829 days, but ...
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How to deal with defamations perpetrated through public chat rooms?
I must premise that the present OP, albeit motivated by a personal experience on Mathematical Stack Exchange, aims to solicit an open discussion about an important general issue concerning the common ...
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Why am I the owner of the chatroom?
So I talk a lot...
Is this enough reason to give me ownership on the chatroom? Is this ownership going to last until manual removal or something else?
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Is it good, if I insert my problem on public chat to get more attention?
I've doubt on some questions. I've worked with these with my best, when I'm not satisfied with my solution or if there were any ambiguity.
I've tried to edit, set bounty etc., then I've got some ...
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Can the chat be used to discuss opinionated questions
After reading:
Where to have discussions about intuition?
It's pretty explicit that the main Q&A site isn't for gathering opinions or general extended discussion about math/math related topics (...
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Would it be a good idea to create a Bounty chatroom?
Would it be a good idea to create a chatroom for users to ask for bounties on questions (own or not)?
Say OP (user) wants/needs an answer to a question (could be their own or not).
But for some ...
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Bug in mobile version
Main question
I recently answered this question. I subsequently engaged on a huge comment thread which was eventually moved to chat by Daniel Fischer, since it spanned 43 comments. I tried to chat, ...
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Don't understand principle of "invited to chat"
I have no experience with "chat", but today I got an "invitation", then I entered the chat-room: three members, two of them do not know what they should do there/why they were "invited" ("Why is $\...
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Mathematics chat now available
Just a heads-up; Mathematics now has access to a third place, to chat in more real-time way via chat.stackexchange.
Please feel free to drop by. The "chat" link should appear at the top of all ...
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Add MathJax support to chat [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should chat have TeX support?
Adding MathJax support to chat would be really helpful sometimes. Don't know what a performance impact that might mean though...
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Retroactively moving comments to chat, when they are no longer relevant, due to edit
In a recent question of mine, @Ian and I had a rather lengthy back-and-forth about the meaning of something in my question that was unclear. At the time I deemed it relevant to keep in the comments, ...
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Why can't a user talk in a math.SE chatroom if he/she is banned (suspended) on another SE site?
Basically I wanted to ask for an arithmetic book of my interest in The Root of Math chatrooom.
I was not allowed to talk, and when I did the following appeared:
I am suspended on another SE site, ...
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Is it possible to reduce the need of 20 rep for chat? I need it for making a chat for my classmates.
I'm trying to create a chat room with LaTeX for my classmates, It is here. Is it possible to reduce the need for 20rep for them? They speak only portuguese and won't be able to make a question. But I ...
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No TeX support in chat [duplicate]
Today the StackExchange system advised me to move one of the comment exchanges to chat. I wanted to do that, but then saw that TeX is not supported and it was almost impossible to follow the train of ...
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Increasing chat use, pros, cons and the tour
The non-main chat rooms are seldom used from my observation. I tried to find meta posts in regard to the chat, but none were of a similar type to the following:
Should we be trying to increase chat ...
