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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Resigning from moderator duties
Sorry. At the moment I cannot handle the duties of a diamond bearer with the patience it requires.
This job forces one to encounter all the worst the site has to offer. My approach to the job (and ...
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Announcement: I'm retiring
I've been thinking about this for some months now, and recently I've made up my mind to retire from moderator duty. It has been an awesome four years, and I see a lot of positive in how the community ...
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Trying to ask a question provides better results than normal search.
I have noticed this interesting behavior several times now.
Many a time I scour Math SE looking for a particular query but fail to find anything even after several rounds of rephrasing and ...
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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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Thanks! (Gratitude Post)
I just want to say how grateful I am for everyone on this forum. I don't get around to answering others questions nearly as often as I would like to. As I continue to pursue my study of Mathematics ...
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An attempt to add real-time previewing for comments
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When writing a comment with a lot of formatting, especially one containing formulas, I often found myself pasting it into the "new answer" editor at the bottom of the page to see if ...
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2014 Election Results: Congratulations to the new moderators!
The 2014 elections are over. Analyzing the OpenSTV file (you may view an online summary report here as well) the results are as follows (with no particular order):
At the same time, I'd like to thank ...
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Proposal for promoting more interesting, deeper questions
There was recently a (now-locked) thread about the prevalence of "do my homework" questions on math.se. I want to set aside for now the question about what to do about people posting homework ...
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Please don't flag posts containing re-purposed ImageShack image URLs as spam
It has recently been noticed that ImageShack does a horrible thing: they re-purpose old image URLs for advertising purposes. This can lead the impression that some older posts are actually spam, for ...
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Concerns about MathJax in proposed new SE editor
Over on Physics.SE, Emilio Pisanty has pointed out that the proposed new StackExchange editor (currently in alpha testing) would present major difficulties for MathJax-heavy Stacks such as this one. ...
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Polish Mathematical Olympiad 2020
Recently, a user has posted questions from the Polish Mathematical Olympiad $2020$, which is an ongoing contest. If one of these questions appears, please flag it for moderator attention, and request ...
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Cheating on USAMTS 2018-2019
As some may know, USAMTS round 1 problems have just been released.
To read more about the USAMTS go here: http://www.usamts.org
(From the above link) "Students may use any materials - books, ...
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"Maybe answered questions" box on "Ask Question" page is much more useful than "Search Q&A"
I often find that "Search Q&A" is quite useless when I want to find a question or something related to it. But I've also noticed that when I'm about to ask a question, the "Questions that may ...
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American Invitational Math Exam (AIME) questions
The second date of the American Invitational Math Exam is Thursday, March 18 between 1:30 pm ET and 5:30 pm ET.
During the first date (which was last Wednesday), there were a number of questions from ...
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Request to keep an eye out for PROMYS admissions problems
Many of you may be familiar with PROMYS, a camp based out of Boston University which teaches number theory to high school students each summer. Students applying to the program are asked to submit ...
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USAMTS 2017-18 Round 2 Problems
The USA Mathematical Talent Search (USAMTS) is a free mathematics competition open to all United States middle and high school students.
As opposed to most mathematics competitions, the USAMTS allows ...
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An interactive graph of Math.SE tags
Some time I created
A Graph Map of Math.SE, which met with a warm response from this community. Encouraged by this, I created a new visualization, this time interactive and up-to-date (as long as the ...
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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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What is going on with these questions?
Today I stumbled upon two different (now deleted) questions. The format of the two questions was very similar: a question on measure theory (more specifically, on the exchangeability of a sum and a ...
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It's that time of year again: USAMTS 2016-17 Round 1 problem set is out!
The 2016-17 USAMTS Round 1 problem set is out, and some problems from it have been found on the site already.
This is yet another request for all users to be on the lookout for these problems, and ...
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When closing question for lack of effort, leave a comment to OP explaining what to do
Recently there was an extensive discussion about closing the questions containing only the problem statement: http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/9201/proposal-discourage-questions-that-are-...
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Announcement: the MathStackExchange Blog is active, and Call for Content!
Announcement: We have a blog!
And in case you didn't notice, the standard links in the dropdown menu have updated. So now clicking here
takes you to the blog! This is an exciting time, as the blog ...
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User asking exercises from textbook without so identifying
A user is copying verbatim exercises from my textbook, e.g.,
Local Feature Size, Describe Conv(A U B),
Flip graph of point set,
Expected number on the convex hull, etc. Is the MSE convention that he ...
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Why does the community seem to encourage technical cleverness over the actual answer to a question?
First post on meta, so here goes nothing.
Earlier today, I answered the question linked below:
Evaluating $\int_0^1 \frac{3x}{\sqrt{4-3x}} dx$
I believe it is a good question. The user had a ...
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Forum deleting questions and answers
It does feel to me that the moderators here go too far when it comes to deleting questions here. These are often questions that were quite interesting in their own right and received some good answers ...
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Edit session for wrong spelling of mathematicians and mathematical concepts
Wrong spelling of mathematician's names and mathematical concepts is perpetuated by their presence in highly indexed resources like stackexchange.
I think that the internet would become a better ...
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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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The same question within hours, by three different users. Someone’s exam?
Today, at least three times essentially the same question about ideals in a polynomial ring $R[x]$ has been asked by three different users (first instance is the initial steps); same notation, even.
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Strange new users with Chinese/Korean usernames
From here, we can see many 1-rep users with Chinese or Korean usernames. Their profile photos are their usernames themselves. I am a Chinese native speaker, I can see their usernames do not seem to be ...
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Cheating in the Time of Corona
I ask you to consider not answering olympiad-style problems by relatively new users within the first six hours.
I know that you consider it the responsibility of the organizers of a competition to ...
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Wolfram Releases the Wolfram Engine for Developers!!
This isn't technically a question, but I thought there would be enough interest in Mathematica here on M.SE.Meta to post it.
Wolfram made what I would call a gigantic move: they released the Wolfram ...
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New changes to close reasons
Not long ago, we had to adapt to the circumstances at hand regarding the changes to how close reasons were displayed. You can read more about this here.
We now have other changes. A good place to ...
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Nearly all frontpage questions downvoted
Of the 50 questions on the front page a few minutes ago, all but 4 have downvotes. (Many also have upvotes, of course, and many have more upvotes than downvotes.)
This doesn't seem normal to me. Is ...
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Could those named "User XXXX" please consider changing their names to something more distinctive?
It might be completely unremarkable if there were only a couple of such names on this server, but lately there are many people now going by monikers such as user3432 and user5633, who've accumulated a ...
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Encouraging duplicate hunters
There are more and more duplicates on this site, but sometimes it is time consuming to find an earlier source. Now, there is a variety of moderation badges for editing, voting, reviewing, raising ...
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Announcement: private contacts by moderators
I am writing this post to discuss a possible small upcoming change in moderator policy. I post this here on Meta (instead in the Mods only discussion room) because
The topic is not sensitive.
There ...
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A super easy way to speedup MathJax loading with LocalCDN add-on
I found a very neat way to speed up MathJax execution times. Typically whenever I start my browser I have to load up all of these MathJax resources from the Cloudflare CDN when I first visit math....
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German contest “Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik $2021$"
Recently I've seen two questions related to the German contest “Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik $2021$" - both voluntary removed by the author (both new users). Therefore I ask you to be aware of ...
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Polish Mathematical Olympiad 2016/17
After seeing this post about problems from USAMTS I thought it might be a good idea to post here about problems from Polish Mathematical Olympiad. The first stage of this olympiad is involves high-...
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Why would a question with an upvoted and accepted answer be deleted?
This is a question on MSE which I had answered a month or so ago. It was an interesting question and it took me some effort to write the answer. The answer got upvoted twice and accepted.
Two weeks ...
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Improving the search system
When recognizing some questions as duplicates, sometimes it is difficult to find the original question one remembers. For instance, I recently saw a question asking to prove that
$$\forall x\in(-1,1),\...
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Bookmarklet plugin to speed up LaTeX macro typing
I've developed a little tool that assists in writing LaTeX macros. It works the same as the OSX press and hold accent picker. You press a key, and then there will appear a pop menu, with symbols ...
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modularizing answers
Sometimes in answering a question I need to derive an intermediate result that might be of interest in its own right. It seems to me that in such a case it's best to post a separate question asking ...
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Does the community acknowledge potential harm to mental health by excessive usage of math stackexchange
I am not sure whether this is an appropriate question. Perhaps it will be closed, or perhaps not.
It is generally the case that people derive satisfaction from getting their responses validated on Q ...
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Switch to MathJax version 3?
It seems it has been a long time since the MathJax has been updated on this site (probably MathJax 2.7 beta by @m0sa). So I was wondering if there is a plan to switch to newer version 3? (http://docs....
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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MathJax v2.7.2 beta
Update: v2.7.2 has been released, so we're switching over to the non-beta version today.
MathJax v2.7.2 has entered the public beta phase. We're setting it up here to kick the tires and help out with ...
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Should a mathematical error in the context of a question be edited?
This is a scenario I have encountered a few times when going through the edit suggestion review queue.
An asker posts a question and as context they provide some information that they used when ...
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New Math Teaching Stackexchange is looking for 38 more people to register for a private beta
Edit: Thanks to the 162 people who have signed up so far! You've made this proposal one of the fastest-growing proposals of all time.
The math teaching SE proposal has reached the commitment phase, ...
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Quality blocks enabled for questions
Questions are the lifeblood of any Stack Exchange site. But asking good questions can be difficult, for some people entirely too difficult to bother with. When the Trilogy sites reached traffic levels ...
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