Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature on the site, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Click-to-Navigate while editing questions
When editing long questions, it would be helpful to be able to click on the render answer and have the cursor appear in the corresponding place in the editing text box to ease searching. Are there any ...
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A table, containing MathJax symbols, that would be great.
I just edited this question.
While doing that, I introduced a table, like this one:
a
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This is created as follows:
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| 11| 22|
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Knowledge base proposal for MSE
TL;DR Is there a canonical blogging or knowledge base service attached to MSE? Also, can we use this service (if it exists) as a source for marking duplicates? If not, can we build one?
In principle, ...
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Dealing with Duplicates
Could we find a way to merge duplicate questions on the same link? I.E. Using Code to make it one really long post with different ways the question was asked with answers all posted together? Or would ...
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Why is there still a Bad Trend of Migrating Mathematics Questions in Statistics to Cross Validated
There exists already substantial amount of posts discussing this serious issue in Meta, see for example Hasty migration of mathematical statistics questions to stats.SE .
I would like to address the ...
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Multirows in MathJax (or native Stackoverflow tables)?
Yes, I know that tabular is not a math environment and is therefore not part of MathJax.
But ... what about multirows ? Multirows are a perfectly legitimate feature when writing mathematics, and in ...
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How to use the features hyperlink, blockquote, preformatted text, insert citation to make my question more clear
I have had the issue of needing help with a question in math text articles or book and I always used image of a screenshots I took using ifran. But problem is they never came out clear enough so that ...
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Closure votes for "lack of context": maybe voter has to understand the question first? [duplicate]
I've noticed several times in the past that good questions — well, good from the viewpoint of a mathematician, as in "having an interesting answer, quite difficult to derive from a surface-level ...
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Please add a feature to give constructive feedback, guidance to improve posts, and plenty of time for improvement before deleting posts
There is no feedback or guidance given by reviewers in deleting posts, so users cannot improve posts. An important feature of Stack Exchange sites is that questions and answers can be edited, and so ...
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Pinning announcements about site changes
This question is specifically motivated by this post, which currently has a net vote count low enough to not appear easily (and which I only found out about by accident) but which is broadly relevant ...
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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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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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Merging instead of closing similar questions
How do you solve this equation $ \log_{2}(x) = \sqrt x$?
How would you prove $\log_{2}x < \sqrt x$ for $x > 16$?
I understand these are duplicate questions in essence. However, I got really ...
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Suspension of users advertising with spams
Reviewing low-quality posts, I see some annoying users posting their ads as a form of answer or question. However, I haven’t seen some cases where the user was suspended.
Right now, seeing my review ...
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Auto-detecting the duplicate posts
After and during writing the question on MSE, some similar posts are suggested by the site. However, there are still many duplicate questions posted every day. I think it would be a good idea to ...
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Closing questions with tag "solution-verification"
The description is
This tag should be used when you have a proposed solution to a problem and have specific concerns or doubts about the validity of that solution. A question with this tag should ...
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Feature: options for downvoting an answer similar to the options for closing a question
For the most part, users give very useful comments that help improve the question/answer.
But I am sure many of you too must have come across sometimes the mysterious offshoot downvote and then spend ...
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Feature: Option for larger view of each post in the "Search page"
Currently when we search for some keyword in MSE we get a snippet view of each search result
I was wondering if we can include the option for "larger view", where we see a snippet of at ...
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Marathon on math stackexchange
everyone. Good evening. I've noticed several discussions about integral marathons and infinite series marathons on various forums, such as the Art of Problem Solving and Integrals and Series Prohbb (...
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Should the circle tag's description be modified to include disks?
I've asked a lot of questions about disks (example 1, example 2, example 3). There is no tag for disk, so I just choose the circle tag. But the circle tag's description is fairly clear about the scope ...
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Why MSE does not support display mode using "\[...\ ]" and the "\diag"
In $\LaTeX$, it is not recommended using
$$... $$
for display mode formulas, and
\[...\]
is more recommended. But it seems ...
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Defining common sets for LaTeX mode
When one provides an answer that requires LaTeX, which is almost any answer, every time a set is used, it is necessary to fully type \mathbb{Z}. For example, $\...
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Being able to easily distinguish when one is commenting on their own question
I've been having this problem on Math Stack Exchange — and it has to do with the fact that I can't really tell when somebody is commenting on their own question, usually in response to another comment,...
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Reputation graph: Could you add an option to see it in the old cumulative style?
Reputation graph: Could you add an option to see it in the old cumulative style?
I would like to present this suggestion: current plot in the Reputation tab shows a plot like this one:
But sometimes ...
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Suggestion for dealing with a comment if it contain the Answer to the question (w/o other answers)
Suggestion for dealing with a comment if it contain the Answer to the question (w/o other answers)
If I try to flag a comment there are the following alternatives: harassment / unfriendly / obsolete / ...
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Remove the empty tag (geometric-cyclicity)
Typically, the tags with no questions are automatically removed by a script which runs once a day, this process is called tag pruning.
However, there is a known bug which causes that if both tags in a ...
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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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Writing answer on behalf of someone else
Assume a post on MSE is answered by someone in comment section and alternative approaches to solve the problem are not provided . There are two senarios:
First:
Nobody will convert that comment to an ...
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Mathoverflow links
Sometimes, I would like to reference a link from MO and it would be helpful if it got immediately turned into the title without having to type it and then include the hyperlink i.e.
https://...
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Double column when editing a post
I'm still not clear on the use of this part of Stack Exchange but since there is the "feature-request" tag I think this is the right place to ask this question (which is actually not a ...
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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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No community promotion ads any longer?
It seems there is no community promotion ads from 2021, so our community won't have that any longer? Different from some irrelevant commercial ads from the SE network, I in fact would like to see some ...
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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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\{, \}, \| and \\ need an extra backslash to be rendered correctly in math when composing a new question in MSE.
When composing a new question iver in math.stackexchange, some symbols need an extra \ (backslash) to be rendered correctly:
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Editing a post does not show the edited title [duplicate]
When I edit a question, a preview of the edited content is shown, which makes it easy to know if I'm doing this right.
But: when editing the title of a question (e.g. replacing "Z" by "$...
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Can I retract a flag on a deleted post?
I flagged a GPT answer for moderator attention on June 21st; I don't think I knew about the moderation strike at the time. This answer has since been deleted, but the flag still registers as pending. ...
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User spamming chatbot answers
The user Serg Z. is currently spamming answers copy-pasted from chatbot output (perhaps with slight modifications).
They have recently deleted two examples (users with 10K rep can see these) after I ...
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It is possible to add a banner indicating there is currently a moderation strike?
For "small" or "new" users we are now finding ourselfs as we are not receiving interactions in the website don't knowing why, I would like to proposed adding a Banner indicating ...
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How to avoid draft formatting issues that are only solvable with a save of the question (before the question is finished for publication) [duplicate]
The solution for Firefox now is to install the SiteMacro Extension for (Ubuntu) Firefox, and to have the macro map to the edit button. Each time now that the site reloads, it automatically goes into ...
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Make bounty messages editable [duplicate]
Would it please be possible to add the ability to edit a bounty message?
I recently posted a bounty, but forgot to include some details by mistake and made some formatting errors, as I was unable to ...
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Editing reputation anomaly can generate unbounded reputation?
Background:
I was editing an answer given to my question. Edits included some Latex notations. Edit was approved and I got a reputation of $(+2)$. Later, there were some incompleteness in the answer ...
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Is it possible to make the help center easier to find for new users?
As a regular user, I have had trouble finding our help center and guidelines when I am trying to assist new users. I am sure that most of them don't even look or know that these exist on the site, ...
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Do we really need time limit on editing comments [duplicate]
I find time limit on editing comments annoying and doubt that it is needed at all. My problem is typos that I can't fix if I noticed them too late. If my comment is not answered I post the corrected ...
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A hide/show feature
There is a question here on math.meta.stackexchange requesting hide/show features for posts. The person was then asked to ask the same question on the meta.stackexchange, where their request was ...
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Self-closing oddity
I recently asked a question, and in a comment Eric Wofsey observed that it was substantially similar to an earlier question I had not seen.
I agreed, and voted to close my own question. I expected ...
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Embedded Desmos Graphs
As of late I have been using Desmos for a variety of demonstrations. Some of these demonstrations are humbly interactive. It seems to me it could be a nice feature to be able to embed the graph at the ...
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Suggestion: Add https://hsm.stackexchange.com/ as a migration option [duplicate]
Occasionally we get questions that are focused on the history of mathematics, for which there is the lovely https://hsm.stackexchange.com/ . Can we get that added to the "belongs on another ...
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Close Votes: "Needs details or clarity" vs "Missing context or other details" [duplicate]
Since having the privilege to review Close votes, I'm facing a confusion.
In close votes' review, if we wish to close a question because it lacks details or clarity then we have one of the 2 choices ...
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Should we be able to downvote comments?
Let's imagine a situation:
Mr. X posted a question in Math SE. He's a beginner, and the question may seem naive for many of us. Let's suppose his question still meets the rules of MSE.
Now, Mr. Y ...
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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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