Questions tagged [discussion]
This tag is used for questions that ask users to discuss an idea, concept, or problem in an abstract way. A discussion question may not necessarily have a clear-cut right or wrong answer and is often subjective. On Meta, you do not need to use community-wiki mode for subjective topics unless you are asking a "poll" question.
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Is the deletion of that post a sign of better enforcement of quality standards?
Here is the post in question.
If the answer to my title is yes, I'd be glad to hear that, and I'll be the last one
being against better quality standards.
What infuriates me is that none of the ...
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A frustrating closure of a valuable question [duplicate]
This question by a new user was closed with no comments from close voters, after an answer had already been posted, with a close reason that makes no sense. Most of the close voters have no ...
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In what generality should a question be asked?
Let's say I'm working on a problem $P$. I ultimately want to solve $P$ myself, but of course I am open to help from others. Let's say I know (or suspect) that an affirmative answer to a much simpler ...
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Was this question closed for being about an ambiguity rather than being ambiguous?
This question was just asked and quickly closed and downvoted, with 'lack of clarity' given as the reason. However I think the question is about as clear as it can be when it's asking about maths from ...
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Place bounty on another user's old question or re-ask?
I have the same question as Separable polynomial mod $\mathfrak{p}$, which was asked in 2013 and is unanswered. Should I reask it myself (and link them, of course), or place a bounty on the existing ...
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Is MSE ok with how younger users may type?
I was just wondering if this website is tolerant towards the way younger people on this website may type (such as the use of slang) (assuming they are following the guidelines of course).
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My question highlighted a typo in my reference book, what should I do? [duplicate]
My question here
A tricky integral inequality in analytical mechanics proof
has just been replied.
The answer revealed that the reason why I could not find a solution myself (sufficient but not ...
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2024 Election Results: Congratulations to our new moderator!
The 2024 elections are over. By analyzing the OpaSTV file with the voting data, I'd like to welcome to the moderators' team the winner of the 2024 moderator elections, who is:
Shaun
In the name of all ...
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The gold badge was not awarded to me for what reason?
Currently, this question has over $10,000$ views. It is a famous question. I think Gold badge should appear on my profile page.
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Downvotes, No answers and Bot deletion mechanism on Meta
There are 3 interrelated things I want to list here and then ask a question:
It seems like (and there may be an official document that I am not aware of, to be transparent) downvote in meta is not ...
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Can I use math formulas from this community in open source non-CC projects?
I am planning on using some math formulas I get from this community in open source projects with a basically completely free use no attribution needed license subject to how close to that license ...
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I finished writing a question, and then realized it is a duplicate. Should I post?
I finished writing a question, and then realized it is a duplicate. Should I post?
I swear this happens all the time to me.
Reason not to post: it is a duplicate, and will waste peoples' time with ...
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Why does this question with detailed background have 4 downvotes and 4 close votes?
I saw that this question by another user has 4 downvotes and 4 close votes (3 "missing context or other details" and 1 "needs detail or clarity").
Why all this negative attention?
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Who is going around deleting comments at random? [duplicate]
Martin R posted an answer to this question, which was deficient. I posted a comment to the effect that the answer neglected negative values of $x$.
Returning a few hours later, I saw that Martin R had ...
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User profile appears to be an ad for Australian disability insurance
User Care Assure's profile description appears to be an ad for an Australian company involved in their National Disability Insurance Scheme.
The profile was created within the last day; the only ...
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Stats on successful leave open
From looking at some FAQ, it seems like 5 close votes are needed within the aging window to close a question unless enough (again seems like 3) number of leave open votes are cast (to remove it from ...
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Why was this question closed (too niche?) [duplicate]
I asked this question of general topology a day or two ago. Admittedly it is a "niche" topic, which will attract people interested in general topology and maybe not many people outside of ...
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Close vs Open war on a question
I recently posted this question. It was closed, reopened and now closed again.
I don't understand what the problem with the question is. Other than silently closing, no one wishes to give criticism of ...
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2024 Community Moderator Election
The 2024 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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An almost 8 years old question was closed just after I added a new answer to it
This old question recently got closed. Just some days ago, I added a new answer to it.
Perhaps my action caused the closure of the question (e.g. draw close-voters' attention).
I am interested in many ...
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How to improve/phrase my specific question
Here is my question link
I realized that I didn't provide sufficient information when I first posted my question and started editing it a few minutes after posting since I got the first downvote. I ...
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What is the issue with my question?
A question of mine recently got closed for "needs details or clarity". I don't see what I could change to make it clearer and the person(s) who closed didn't provide any insight.
What can be ...
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I wonder if only advanced mathematical topic discussions are welcomed in math.stackexchange.
I am new to pure mathematics, and I am enthusiastic about it. I posted some questions and answers on math.stackexchange, but received some negative responses.
Sometimes when I was doing my homework or ...
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When are too many questions in a single post too many questions?
Working through the close votes review queue, I just failed an audit for the question Lie group cohomology: a jungle of conditions, which I voted to close as In need of Focus whereas apparently the ...
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2024 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Mathematics Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, ...
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Upcoming Moderator Election
As a few people have noticed, we are down a moderator: quid has been inactive for a while, hence their moderator status has been suspended in accordance with the process outlined on the main Meta ...
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Should the direction of this close as duplicate be in the other direction, or is this perhaps a good candidate for merging?
The well-written, well-contexted and well-received recent question Formula for bump function (+20) with nine unique answers (+19, +9, +8, +8, +6, +3, +2, +1, +1) that span a wide range of solutions ...
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Are big square roots allowed on the title?
This question appears on my page like this :
I thought the problem was because the length of the equations under the \sqrt, I got sick of it so decided to edited to ...
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My experience with closed questions
As a high schooler, I understand that the vast majority of users on MSE have attained a higher level of math education than me.
I have seen a few high level questions that have been very short, with ...
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How to make question even clearer?
How can I make this question even clearer?
Is there any two-coordinate system where e.g., (10,36) is the same
point as (36,10)?
You see we here at the Rescue Centre are at our wits' end. Half our
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Question/suggestion about a tag (Kleinian groups)
I am a bit unsure if this should be posted here or in Mathematics, but I try it here.
I was surprised to see that there was no "Kleinian groups"-tag at Mathematics and Mathoverflow. I would ...
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Why are we required to write "why this question is relevant to us"?
When I ask questions, it's always for the same reason: because I'm curious about the answer. It's not like my life depends on it, it's just a random question I asked myself while thinking about a ...
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"Close as duplicate" boilerplate text changed
When the first vote to close-as-duplicate is cast, the Math SE software also posts a comment that says
This question is similar to: …. If you believe it’s different, please edit the question, make it ...
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What exactly does 'using artificial intelligence.. not allowed ' or something like that on the math website rules mean?
It is a bit unclear as to what is meant in the math section by using artificial intelligence ... is not allowed. For example does that include using symbolic math tools such as Maple, Maxima and many ...
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Is downvoting without comment a common and/or recommended practise?
I am a new user on Math.StackExchange. So far, I've asked 3 questions, and submitted one answer. Of the questions I asked, two were down-voted, and one was subsequently deleted. All these actions were ...
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Difficulty Presenting Tables When Going From StackEdit To MathJax
stackedit.io is very convenient for polishing long answers before pasting them into a MathSE answer box. Among other things, this avoids MathSE sometimes being slow to render, during the editing. ...
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How to deal with unclear questions about geometry?
I just had a look at again a typical question about geometry.
The question starts by a rectangle, called $ABCD$.
Problem: there are two "kinds" of rectangles $ABCD$:
The "Joe sixpack&...
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Whatever happened to helping people?
I'll try to keep this brief. Time and time again, I've seen a poorly formed or off-topic question which was inevitably closed; however, I read between the lines and found a way to give the questioner ...
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How to guide users re PSQs
I’ve reviewed a fair slug of the discussion here on the meta about so-called problem-statement questions (PSQs). I know that some of us disdain them and that others defend them. I also know from ...
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Question not visible in the list of questions under a tag
My question isn't visible in the lists of questions of any of the three tags that were added. I searched using "No accepted answers" filter and went till Feb 11, 2022 (the date on which it ...
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What should be the general procedure for tags which are synonymized but not merged?
On Mathematics Stack Exchange, there are several tag synonyms which haven't been merged; meaning that both the master tag and the synonym contain some questions.1
The situation when there is a synonym ...
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How long is too long of an answer?
I recently answered my own question here and decided to lay out most of the mathematical procedure I took to solve the problem. My only concern is that this answer seems very long and I was wondering ...
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Does this matrix look like a matrix to you? It doesn't to me
$$\begin{pmatrix} a& b& c \\ d & e & f \\ g & h & i \end{pmatrix} $$
Here what I'm seeing
What is the work around for this issue?
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Is it rude to ask for confirmation/proof of my conjecture?
I have a conjecture (I promise, it is not my homework). Is it rude to ask people to give any light about its validity and the topic?
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A guided self-study anti-pattern?
I've observed a certain pattern of behavior a number of times on MSE over the years (to varying degrees), but I didn't find it discussed directly on here (although some related topics have been ...
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Tag color: blue or gray
Is there a change in the appearance of tags in MSE?? It used to be blue in color but now it is gray.
What is happening in Mathstackexchange?
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Since when does this site require registration to post answers?
I remember the discussion which led to allowing only registered users to ask questions: Let's require registration to ask a question. (It was marked status-completed in October 2016.)
IIRC, ...
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MSE's policy on restricting the use of downvotes for answers: Targeting a member or ANY non-scientific reasons? [closed]
I recently received the following public comments on how to use down-votes from a senior diamond moderator, Dr. Xander Henderson, who patiently explained me the policy of the site on how to use down-...
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Is a separate tag (differential-calculus) needed?
The tag differential-calculus was created several times in the past - almost always removed relatively quickly.1
The most recent incarnation was created in April 2024. This one still exists.2
We ...
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Erased comment? [duplicate]
Roughly an hour ago, I wrote a comment on this question. It wasn't offensive, I was merely pointing out the similarity with the arcsinh function and the obvious change of variable that it allows. An ...
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