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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Why does "Similar questions" rarely ever show similar questions?
While posting questions, I always make sure to write an appropriate title, explain it well, and format my questions clearly, and I always go through all the questions shown under 'Similar questions.' ...
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Posting a solution from elsewhere and asking whether it's correct
I have seen postings on math.stackexchange starting "I found this solution somewhere on the internet to [problem x.y in textbook]" (often without information about where they found it, just ...
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Should my comment have been deleted?
This MathSE posted question is excerpted below:
$$\int \frac{x+3}{x^2+5x+2}$$
besides going with imaginary numbers how should I proceed to solve this integral?
I was trying to factorize the ...
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What should I do if I am asked to close an old question that does not meet current standards?
I now realize that many of the closure proposals I was voting for are from posts that date back several years (in this case I received a report from someone who flagged a post from 2016 but I can't ...
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Requests for Reopen & Undeletion Votes (volume 01/2022 - today)
The purpose of this thread is to 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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What is wrong with my question on the definition of tangent plane?
I asked this question yesterday, and edited it today to include clarification.
It is - I think - a fairly honest and straightforward question, and I have provided a detailed explanation of my thinking ...
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Dealing with answers in comments.
I have noticed, of late, people providing answers/copious hints to the question in comments instead of actually adding an answer on their own.
Other people might choose not to answer, as the ...
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Several posts on the same topic in a short amount of time - check for suspicious activity
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I was wondering if there was a rule that prevented the same account from asking many similar questions (essentially the same type of problem but with different functions) in a short period of ...
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A list of questions on Boyd & Vandenberghe
Work in progress. To be updated whenever the opportunity arises.
I take the liberty of compiling a list of questions on Math SE pertaining to theorems, lemmas, examples and exercises from Boyd & ...
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I asked A question On MSE, Which I now think can receive more attention from MathOverflow
I recently asked a question On MSE, which was answered by one user, after I used bounty for first time. Later I re-bountied it for more clarification. Still I think it lacks more details, And can ...
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Tag management 2023
New year, new tag management thread.
Rules of the game are basically the same:
Post your suggestion as an answer here if you see
A particularly bad tag (a rule of thumb: “if I can't imagine a person ...
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Why are fundamental questions dismissed on MSE?
I was not allowed to ask questions once before and followed the site recommendations of editing posts and answering questions to regain the right to ask questions, which I did regain successfully. ...
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Listed unanswered question appearing as answer.
Answered or unanswered?
Please suggest what changes need be made to consider my answer as answered. Thanks
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Mathematical modelling of good forces and bad forces [closed]
In reference to this paper.
$A(t)$ : the accomplishment of a mission
$F(t$ : functionality defined as time derivative of $A$
$F_N$ : normal functionality $F(t_0) = F_N$
$M(t$) : bad forces degrading ...
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What happened to the Protect/Unprotect button?
I have noticed that the "Protect/Unprotect" button no longer exists where I was used to see it. Has this functionality been eliminated (site-wide or network-wide)?
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Why do I get a down vote when asking for clarification about notations and explanations about proofs?
Recently in some of my posts, also here, and here, I have been getting down votes. The latter two, others have voted back up to make it zero. I am just wondering if people on MSE don't like questions ...
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The duplicate thread
This thread is intended to help with closure of duplicates. The main use case are situations where a first attempt at duplicate closure was not successful.1 The creation of this thread was decided ...
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What's the deal with Lambert W function questions?
I have seen a large amount of questions that are:
solve $x^2=2^x$
Why are there so many of these questions? Who's assigning these questions? Why did I never see them when I took high school ...
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Why was my question down voted and deleted, even though I mentioned my level (learning on my own in the Internet) and showed source and my reasoning?
I have a question about my Mathematics Stack Exchange post: Can a residue class $(a \textrm{ mod } n)$ have a negative $n$?
My question is: could someone provide me feedback on why this question was ...
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Addressing Questions with Zero Effort and Detachment from Mathematics: Community Guidelines
I've noticed an increase in questions where the OP claims to have been detached from mathematics for a long time and provides zero effort in their question, here is an example. How should our ...
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How do I get unblocked from answering questions? [duplicate]
I was blocked from answering questions and am wondering if and how I can get unblocked. If anybody knows how to do that please tell me.
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Someone's answer is completely copied and pasted from my answer, and their answer got accepted.
Someone's answer to a question is completely copied and pasted from my answer (except they didn't use Mathjax), and their answer got accepted. I don't mind, but I just think it's strange behavior, for ...
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List of Generalisations of Common Questions
Here is a list of generalised faqs to which other questions may be deduped against, split by topic (please edit the question).
Arithmetic arithmetic
Laws of signs (minus times minus is plus): Why is ...
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Clarification on Including Solution Attempts in Questions
I have a question regarding the guidelines for providing context in questions. Specifically, I'd like clarification on whether mentioning solution attempts (no complete step by step solution) falls ...
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What question (or answer) of your own are you most proud of on MathSE? [closed]
I'm sure many of them will go over my head but have you posted a question or answer on MathSE that you were really proud of, and if so what was it?
I recently just had my first question that, and I ...
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Should I leave my question open?
I have a question posted here which is relatively unanswered. It's understandable as I have really been trying to figure out a way to phrase a question in a subject area I know next to nothing about.
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You have a history of asking low quality questions [duplicate]
I asked a question yesterday it was this. But now when I am asking a question now it says an error that I have a history of asking low quality questions and I am now allowed to ask question only once ...
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How to draw Venn Diagrams in Math Stack Exchange?
How to draw Venn Diagrams in MSE using MathJax? Please help me out.
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Enforcement of Quality Standards
Math SE has a long-standing policy regarding what constitutes a Good Question. The policy is intended to ensure that the collection of questions and answers here is of high quality, is searchable, ...
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Common mix up between tags [homotopy-theory] and [homotopy-type-theory]
I have noticed a very common missuse of tags: the tag [homotopy-type-theory] is frequently used where the tag [homotopy-theory] should be used instead. Just in the last few questions, two questions (...
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How can I improve my question on the factorial formula?
I thought I asked a decent question but it has been downvoted. I don't know how I can improve it. Please provide suggestions.
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Is this number-of-subsets question appropriately structured for Math.SE?
This question has apparently been kicking around for about a week now. While the core content is interesting, at this point it seems to be mostly an opportunity for the poster to go on at length about ...
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Isn't this question opinion-based?
I saw this question. But I'm surprised to see it's not closed for being opinion-based. It looks like a poll actually. It doesn't cope with math itself.
There can even be 1000 answers and each answerer ...
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About [probability-theory] tag
Almost four years after this discussion, and I think that the current situation is not ideal and we need some rethinking. Users keep tagging with probability-theory questions that should be tagged ...
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Proposal for an informal "side room" for the StackExchange Mathematics forum
I would like to propose an informal side room the mathematics forum maybe called "Mathematics_SideRoom" or "Mathematics_Informal" or "Mathematics_Opinion" or "...
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What should I do with my downvoted duplicate post?
My post has been downvoted, and I'm not sure what the appropriate action is for me to take.
On the one hand, there's contribution from other users so the post can't and shouldn't be deleted.
On the ...
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How to write limits with single dollar signs?
When I want to write limits with single dollar signs the index ($x\to n$) goes after the $\lim$ sign:
$L=\lim_{x\to 0}f(x)$
But when using double dollar signs the index (correctly) goes below the ...
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What can we do to deny bot-users a platform for their content?
I hardly ever visit Meta so forgive me if this has been addressed already. I just wanted to flag an issue:
The user Statistics Tutorial is a bot. So far I have deleted, along with other community ...
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Math Stackexchange vs CrossValidated
I know that the website for statistics and machine learing related questions is Cross Validated. And there is a separate website for Data Science.
However, questions in the past on statistics that I ...
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What is this font for the numbers?
I recently commented on a question and I used the proper MathJax formatting for the numbers and letters:
Some minutes later my net became a little laggy and I refreshed the page. Then I lost my ...
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What is our policy on AI-generated content?
The author of this answer (now deleted) claims that it was generated by AI (artificial intelligence). This claim could certainly be false (for example, if the user wants plausible deniability for an ...
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Edit Recent Posts to Display HTML-Tables with Markdown
Users have been using $\rm\LaTeX$'s array environment for displaying tables. For instance, in the MathJax Tutorial's "Table" section,
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Searching for a deleted answer to my question
A week ago I posted this question: anonym (https://math.stackexchange.com/users/1060773/anonym), How do I compute the Fourier Coefficients of a Riesz Product?, URL (version: 2023-09-06): How do I ...
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What types of mathematical writing questions are suitable for Mathematics Stack Exchange?
I find it quite strange that every time I discuss mathematical writing, some people suggest closing the topic.
For example:
Does 'hence' (thus, therefore) need a comma after it?
How to avoid ...
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Should the tag "generalization" be blacklisted?
The generalization tag contains no real mathematical content and does not help to organize the site in any meaningful way. Despite that, the tag has been recreated and deleted multiple times. It has ...
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Stack exchange goes to different question than in URL
When I type in https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/47 into safari/chrome, checking its suggestions did not replace the URL, stack exchange goes instead to Can you recommend a decent online or ...
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Is it a bug that post score differ in user's page and post page?
I noticed this in a user's page (the top post has a 28 score):
But in the post page it has a score of 27.
Of course, before I up-voted it, the score was still 28 in the user's page.
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Is it possible to have conjunction of certain "favorite tags"?
In a related post, it was suggested that I answer homework questions. However, there are still certain subjects I don't have a strong understanding of. And so I would like to know if it was possible ...
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Should I delete a partial answer when someone else posts a complete answer?
Recently I edited and bumped this question; I thought it was interesting and it had garnered no attention in over two years. I wasn't able to solve it, but I mentioned I solved a problem with a ...
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Question about 'Missing context or other details' as a reason for closure
I just got this as an audit in the close vote queue and voted it for closure because of 'Missing context or other details'. To me this looks like one of these common homework questions that lack ...
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