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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Tag management 2022 [duplicate]
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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Number of bounties offered by a user
Is it possible to see how many bounties offered a specific user and how many of these bounties were awarded?
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Quick beginner guide for asking a well-received question
Mean structure proposed
I am writing this post for new users who don't have the time to read the full article of how to ask a good question. In this post, I will give my opinion of what structure ...
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What to do with low quality questions that you're interested in but do not own?
I recently encountered a low-quality question that I am interested in. I'm not going to link to the question because I don't want to single out the author or attract attention to it and cause it to be ...
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How exactly are we incentivized to post links to duplicates?
So yesterday I came across a question (we'll call it Question $1$) which I found interesting, and after having spent a little time thinking about it without result, I started searching MSE for some ...
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question edited to change meaning
The question Example of function which is not computable was recently edited by the original poster to completely change the meaning. In particular, the accepted answer is no longer reflective of the ...
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How to increase your 'mathStack' reputation quickly? [closed]
I ask this to gather ideas and advice on how to increase your reputation in a constant and sustainable way.
And would you necessarily need to be a professor or a post-doc to have more than 10k ?
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Don't understand why there are downvotes for my question [closed]
I asked this question here: Expected number of rounds in dice game for player who wins
And it already has $2$ downvotes. Why? My probability professor didn't know, and I even showed my work in ...
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Answer downvotes: should the downvoters be warned when the answer is corrected?
I wrote an answer to a question on MSE. At first, I messed up and went to the wrong direction. Noticing this, I urgely edited my post, changed my development, added a new picture and my answer is now ...
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Congratulations, Brian M. Scott! [duplicate]
Congratulations on reaching 100k reputation! We all appreciate the quality (and quantity) of your posts on Math.SE.
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Does MSE discourage users to edit new users' or "low quality" posts? [duplicate]
Does MSE discourage users to edit new users' or "low quality" posts?
This seems to be a bit counter-intuitive but I'm unable to think otherwise.
So, we know that when a user below 2000 rep ...
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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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Understand downvotes on my initially well-received questions
Good afternoon,
Since I started using this website I've always tried to make my question better to satisfy the generous members sharing their knowledge.
Usually, I don't ask big questions, but short ...
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Someone is cheating on current USAMTS problems
I am the user @TheBestMagician, and I can’t log in to my normal account right now. I don’t have enough reputation to comment or flag a question, but the asker is cheating on literally all USAMTS ...
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Multiple identical answer whose purpose is to give links to illegal copies of copyrighted material
I'm not sure what to do about this issue. Here are three answers:
Good Books On Abstract Algebra
Good abstract algebra books for self study
Requesting abstract algebra book recommendations
Identical ...
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I have a question on how to study maths, is MSE the right place for it?
I have a question regarding how to study maths efficiently, and how the best study maths. Is this the best place for i?
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USAMTS 2022-23, third round
Previous rounds of this years' USAMTS were brought up recently on meta.1
This post is to serve as a reminder that there is an ongoing contest.
The relevant links: the USAMTS site, the page with the ...
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How to view LaTeX source (mobile)?
On mobile, how do you view the source of a question/answer so that you can see the LaTeX markup?
I'm using Google Chrome on a OnePlus (Android) phone.
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Editing a question for mathematical inaccuracy not entirely related to the original query
An edit was suggested for a somewhat old post where the question contained a mathematical inaccuracy which could mislead others. (This edit does not directly relate to the question being asked.)
The ...
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USAMTS Discussion Policy
I see that discussion has “opened” (solutions posted to some of the problems) for this years USAMTS round 2 as the due date was November 28th. Close the discussion as soon as possible. Although the ...
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Why isn't there any option for favourite ANSWER? [duplicate]
I notice that there is no option of favourite answers. What I have to do now is to favourite the question containing the answer. I think that it is a little unfair that the question SEEMS to be "...
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Can we have a favorite star for answers?
It is just a thought. As we have a star to mark favorite a good question, can we similarly have a star to each answer so that a good answer can be marked as favorites by users. That way one can know ...
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Extremely rigorous review process in math.stackexchange.com
I am an average stackexchange user I contributed to multiple stackexchange sites yet this is my first question to meta.
It feels to me that a review process in math.stackexchange.com is broken. My ...
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The tags (bookmarks) and (saves) on meta - synonyms or not?
Recently the functionality for bookmarks was completely overhauled and they are now called saves: Bookmarks have evolved into Saves. It is expected that eventually there will be some questions about ...
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What to do about a user repeatedly posting incorrect answers to the same question?
(This question is probably hard to engage with without rep privileges to see deleted answers or mod privileges to see deleted comments - sorry about that!)
A while ago, I posted this question, which ...
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Part 2- Let us introduce non mandatory tests for new users
Some approximately 100 days before I posted a similar question explaining a mandatory test for new user to get more familiar with site working however it was highly disagreed in form of downvotes. Let ...
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What context is needed?
I have a question about my Mathematics Stack Exchange post: How to prove that the surface of sphere is measure zero.
I posted the question with context, but it is said that additional context is ...
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How to write Pascal's triangle using MathJax?
I tried to use a matrix method to write Pascal's triangle using MathJax, using the code;
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Why are there required tags in meta?
Every question requires one of the tags [feature-request], [bug], [support], or [discussion]. Why is this so?
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How common is it to do a lot of roundabout work? [closed]
When I'm thinking about a question, I often find that I've done a lot of roundabout work only to find a neat direct shortcut solution, especially when I'm into a new concept. It's kind of frustrating, ...
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The downvoting system is toxic. [duplicate]
I was told to ask here. Here I am!
Does anyone else have the same feeling? Sometimes some questions are downvoted because it seems trivial. But to be honest, as a person first seeing some maths ...
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The problem with proof verification
What I am going to bring up is not a new problem. It was hashed again and again and again. It was brought up as far as 2013, and repeatedly almost every year. See 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8.
Some of ...
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Mobile “Chrome isn't responding” for heavy MathJax use
I've observed formula-heavy pages such as this to cause Chrome on Android to stop responding. A dialog pops up stating that “Chrome isn't responding”. If I choose to “Wait”, it will pop up again a ...
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One line "I want" questions
Recently I came upon a question that said "I want a abstract on...", with no other details. This strikes me as demanding and unreasonable. Should such questions be flagged as "rude or ...
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Is it okay to ask an already solved problem?
I was working on some problem and managed to solve using one approach but when I tried a different approach to the same problem I didn't get the expected result, when I was going to ask on the math ...
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What [![enter image description here][1]][1] means
So when I add an image, this shows up:
[![enter image description here][1]][1]
This also shows up:
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How to draw extensible vertical arrows?
In How to type this arrow is MathStack Exchange and its duplicate target, a few ways are provided to typeset a horizontal extensible arrow.
$$\Large\rlap{\color{blue}{\underset{(0,0)}{\times}}}{\;\;\:\...
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Drop in reputation from question that has no downvotes
I got this notification
on this question. However, this question did not receive 4 downvotes, as can be seen here
so I'm curious what the notification indicates.
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Question closed as duplicate, but the linked question was deleted
This is related to Question closed as a duplicate, link points to question closed as a duplicate, but it is more problematic.
The question (Q) Prove that quotient topology $\mathbb{R}/\sim$ is the ...
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Closing a duplicate of a very old question
Normally I would vote to close a question which had been pointed out as a duplicate in a comment and which indeed was a duplicate. However, I noticed that the question concerned was originally posted ...
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Link-only answers in LQQ
Apparently there are a lot of old link-only answers on math.stackexchange and recently they seem to be clogging the low quality queue. I have two questions related to that.
Has there been a change to ...
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What are some alternatives to math.stackexchange where discussions are allowed?
Many question are exploratory in nature and doesn't fit in well within math.stackexchange rules. So for those questions, are there any sites similar in nature to math.stackexchange but more offer more ...
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How to add a long update to one's question?
I just wrote an answer to one of my own questions in which I essentially gave a partial, incomplete attempt at solving the question I asked (which had received zero replies so far).
I chose to post ...
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Why CAPTCHA verification?
I was surprised by seeing the site asking for CAPTCHA verification. I am curious that what prompts MSE to ask a user to confirm that they are not Bots. What is the intention of site to verify that ...
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Short and helpful advice on using MathJax on the site ...
The point of this question is to give people a chance to draft their best MathJax tips for new users. Perhaps this question will stand alone as one of the places to go. Perhaps the material in the ...
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Are answers given by comments for low-quality questions against the principles stated with the EoQS?
Very often I’ve seen low-quality questions (i.e. questions which don’t fit the requirements for what Good Question is supposed to be) hinted or answered by comments (here one very recent among many ...
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Domains with dead links
It is natural that some of the links in the posts stop working eventually. In some cases, the dead links are fixable. (And there are many editors on this site who try to edit such links.)
Perhaps we ...
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What is the utility of the contest-math tag?
I thought it was put to prevent cheating in ongoing contests, but I am unable to figure out what utility it is of when put on questions from a contest, for which knowing answers in the present is ...
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Best advice for editing an attempted but incorrect proof?
A questioner asked me about re-asking/re-trying after an attempted proof.
What is the correct advice here? The questioner's proof was somewhat bungled. Should they ask another question, or edit the ...
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Can we stop marking any and all questions about math-jax as a duplicate of the "MathJax basic tutorial and quick reference"?
$\require{enclose}$ Almost every question about $\mathcal{MathJax}$ gets marked as a duplicate of the, now canonical, $\text{ } \mathcal{MathJax} \text{ Tutorial}$
I often ask simple questions about $\...
