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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Post deleted by community bots [duplicate]
My four posts (this, this, this and this) got deleted by community bot due to inactivity. This happened after targeted downvoting. I’m little bit sceptic. I don’t think those post deserve to be ...
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A different avatar on Math.SE., Physics.SE and Graphic.SE [duplicate]
This morning I have seen that my avatar is different in the other communities than TeX.SE. Why is there this changed? How to have all avatars the same for each community?
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Is it a duplicate if the same question exists in another site?
I often see some questions which are the same or similar to other questions on another site (Like AOPS, Math Overflow, etc.)
Is it a duplicate if other questions in OTHER SITES can answer the question?...
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What should be the attitude and response to the following phenomenon?
Suppose, there is a question (a math problem). It is answered by User A. The answer is, basically, that there is no solution. The answer is upvoted. Then (after, say, a year) comes User B and posts an ...
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Did the avatars change recently?
The question is in title.
My wife notice that my avatar changed from the last time she saw it. Being blind, I did not pay attention to this.
Now, it is very pale yellow. Is there a way to restore it ...
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How should I rewrite the beginning of the linked post?
How should I rewrite the beginning of this post?
It seems people aren’t commenting since it’s difficult to understand.
Any suggestions are welcomed.
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Request to add a new privilege on MSE - the right of reply
It should be only fair that, when someone casts a downvote on MSE, the recipient of the downvote had a chance to respond. This is known at large as the right of reply or "the right to defend ...
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Is Stack Exchange still used? [closed]
I don't know if this is a smart question to ask (I'm pretty sure it can be categorized as an offtopic)
But my question is
Is this website still used or is it dying like Facebook or some other social ...
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Are we closing short questions too hastily?
I refer to this question, which I was spending a couple hours preparing the answer for only to find it already closed by the time I could post it.
This is not the only instance in recent memory – I ...
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What counts as an allowable answer
Suppose user A posts a math problem and his answer to it. He then asks if his/her solution is right. Now user B posts, as an answer to A, that the answer is correct.
I have been told that user B is ...
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Imgur's "old, unused, and inactive content"
Imgur plans to change its Terms of Service on May 15, 2023. Part of this will be the removal of "old, unused, and inactive content".
Many of the images on Stack Exchange have imgur links. ...
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How (or where) can I ask something in order to understand a specific part of a specific book?
I'm reading a book (Varadarajan's "Geometry of Quantum Theory") and I don't understand what it says about the universal covering group of the Galilean group. I'm afraid that the policy of ...
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Should I split my (specific) post up into two questions after posting?
This is pertaining to my recent question What are the algebraic and geometric multiplicities of the eigenvalues of a Kronecker (or tensor) product?. I chose to ask about both the algebraic and ...
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Don't close solution verification as dupe, instead remove questions with the tag of [solution-verification] appearing in search
Unless the dupe target contains exact question with exact same proof (without further generality), I'd recommend not closing as dupe. I know, it can be frustrating when one sees the same question ...
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What is Math SE's policy on posts in languages other than English?
What is Math SE's policy on questions, answers, and comments which are posted in languages other than English? What should I do if I see something written in another language?
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New user posts 8 answers, all likely AI-generated, in the span of 82 minutes; I think we either need or are close to needing an official policy
According to Xander's answer to a previous question on AI-generated content, posting chatGPT-generated answers without disclosing they are generated by chatGPT is a violation of openAI's terms of ...
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$\mathbb Q$ looking odd in my browser [duplicate]
Did MathJax get an update? Or something wrong in Chrome?
In a question on $\mathbb R/\mathbb Q,$ the \mathbb Q seems way bolder than the $\mathbb R,$ and looks ...
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Can we put some paragraphs inside a box?
I have some paragraphs, for example,
For inline formulas, enclose the formula in $…$. For displayed formulas, use ...
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Locating a deleted answer to my question
2 days ago I posted this question:
Suppose we have
$F(z)=f(\phi(z))$ where $\phi$ is a mobius transformation which maps points of the unit circle to points of the unit circle. Suppose also that there ...
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Weaknesses of Mathematics SE — Not knowing where some difficulties lie
I think it would be useful to start a series of posts on the weaknesses of Mathematics SE for diagnosis precedes remedy.
In my humble opinion, one major weakness of Mathematics SE is that many users — ...
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Why is my question closed? [duplicate]
Recently, I posted a question but end up being closed. It states for the reason to be closed is that it is similar to this question. The exercise cited in both posts clear indicated that it has two ...
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Why does this suggested edit not show any tag changes I made?
A couple of days ago, I suggested an edit which was rejected, the reason being
This edit introduces tags that do not help to define the topic of the question. Tags should help to describe what the ...
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Answers in a language other than English
I would appreciate if someone could clarify what the policy and etiquette are about using languages other than English on MSE, or point me to an authoritative resource on the subject.
What prompted ...
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Why was this comment section deleted? [duplicate]
Over the past 24 hours, this question's comment section was summarily deleted. I do not understand why. No moderator left a comment explaining why comments were deleted. Clarification would be most ...
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Moderator misusing his powers
I wrote a very beautiful (non copied) answer to a question. The question was this
As you people can't see, I got $7$ upvotes on that answer. Now that question was closed because of a duplicate. I ...
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Topicality of Black Scholes Option pricing model
It seems to me that for math stack exchange, problems dealing with the Black Scholes option pricing model are on topic. Are they? If they are not, I think they should be. Please comment.
For example, ...
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Do all questions need to show work?
Check this question with over a hundred upvotes: If squaring a number means multiplying that number with itself then shouldn't taking square root of a number mean to divide a number by itself?
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How to ask a good proof-verification question?
Firstly, I want to thank the people who have commented on or reviewed my attempted proofs over the years. I'm not a student, so that kind of feedback is invaluable.
I've gotten a little bit better at ...
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The [mobile-web] tag info is outdated
The mobile-web tag info
For questions about the mobile versions of Stack Exchange sites. You can access the mobile version of a site by clicking the "mobile" link in the page footer.
is ...
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Visual effect of formulas in mac [duplicate]
As can be seen, some parts of the formulas overlap with each other in mac. So the visual effect is not really satisfying. How can I solve this problem?
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Is my queueing theory question completely misunderstood? [duplicate]
My question on queuing theory has been closed as "not about mathematics". It references a paper about ChatGPT, but that is completely incidental to the question.
The question and associated ...
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Fractional-Differential-Equation tag [duplicate]
Fractional Differential Equations are becoming very important. I propose to the community to consider it a tag, and also its abbreviation FDE.
To give a flavor of its importance I'm including an ...
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9to5Science scraper site is plagiarizing our content
While testing AI tools on DuckDuckGo (DDG), I noticed that the scraper site 9to5Science.com is plagiarizing much of our content (along with other SE science sites). For example a DDG search on "...
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Addressing cheating on tests
Not often, but often enough, questions such as this one appear on the site: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4658795/im-in-quiz-i-need-asap-help
This question is either a blatant troll, or it ...
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Are `math.meta.stackexchange.com` and `meta.math.stackexchange.com` the same website?
Are math.meta.stackexchange.com and meta.math.stackexchange.com the same website?
The order in which the words "math" and "meta" are swapped.
math meta
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What to do when my question has already been asked and answered, but unsatisfactorily?
I would like to ask about the classification of finite simple groups, in particular, how we can be confident that it is correct. This post asks essentially the same question, so if I were to ask, it ...
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Similar questions about the misunderstanding of limits of products
I've been noticing that we get a lot of questions like Why do I get two different answers while doing this simple limit math?
It's basically the traditional thing where people don't understand where ...
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Do we downvote all PSQ? Also a few questions about comment-answers and comment-hints [duplicate]
At the time of writing, this post has 28 views and no downvotes (or upvotes). I see it simply as a PSQ (Problem Statement Question), and it is quite possible it will be closed soon. I didn't downvote ...
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Wrong accepted answers [duplicate]
A new phenomenon I noticed on Math.SE after I returned here after a long pause is wrong accepted (and sometimes highly upvoted) answers. Looks like when most users see such answers they assume that ...
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Are my questions really this bad?
I just noticed this "recommended" badge in my profile and I'm rather confused.
I have $20$ out of the $5$ needed questions for this badge, but apparently they are "poor" questions ...
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How to deal with the negativity of a power user that picks on you?
For a while, I've been having my suspicions about a certain power user that often downvotes my questions - both here and on MO. Now, I know for certain this user has downvoted a question of mine at ...
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Follow-up on previous question about comment-answered questions
Last week I asked this question on what the current policy is on comment-answered questions.
I thought I had reached an understanding. The top answers expressed that if someone sees this, they should ...
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Format conversion problem For mathjax
Take the code “[{f_i} = {x_i}\left[ {{c_i} + \ln \left( {\frac{{{x_i}}}{{\bar x}}} \right)} \right]]” for example，I could get the proper formula displayed on the official website of "https://www....
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When is a question 'recreational'?
I was going to tag this question as 'recreational-mathematics' because it is not directly related to core syllabus topics.
Placing an integer's divisors around a circle
But then I observed that I ...
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Making my question (and sub-questions) rigorous and readable? [closed]
Question for this post: In my post, how do I make the motivation and question rigorous and readable to get a proper answer. (It received downvotes when I first originally sent it to math overflow but ...
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Asking and editing good questions, but still receiving more downvotes than upvotes [duplicate]
Not a duplicate of I have been banned from asking questions, what should I do?
I edited and improved some Math StackExchange questions as much as possible, but I'm still receiving more downvotes than ...
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Better command for $\require{cancel} \cancel{\exists}$ (There does not exist)
After searching the MathsJax tutorial pages, I couldn't find an actual symbol for $\require{cancel} \cancel{\exists}$
The way I have written it <\require{cancel} \cancel{\exists}> is the best I ...
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What is [euclidean-geometry] for?
Isn't Euclidean geometry the assumed default kind of geometry unless stated otherwise? What information is added by tagging a question as euclidean-geometry instead of just geometry?
I suppose it ...
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Treatment of comment-answered questions: what is the current policy as of February 2023?
I have noticed that quite a few questions tend to be answered in the comments.
This was apparently observed $12$ years ago to a similar extent. These questions (unsurprisingly) tend to be on the ...
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How to better ask problems from known contests?
As we know, AoPS has got contest collections, containing threads where users discuss corresponding contest problems. Therefore, is it really necessary to ask them on mathematics stack exchange, if one ...
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