Questions tagged [policy]
For questions on Mathematics Stack Exchange policies.
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Editing closed questions to add answers
Recently we have seen quite a few instances of users editing questions that are closed to add their answers to the body of the questions themselves.
That is a clear subversion of the rules and an ...
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Administrative Note on Moderator Rolls
We are in the process of implementing a policy for "absentee moderators" — Any moderator who is not active on the site for a period of six months is subject to removal of their moderator ...
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Mark all locked questions as [locked] or [closed] in the title
Some discussions, such as the one on annoyingness-of-CAPTCHA, are being locked without this being indicated in the titles. Closed threads seem to acquire the word "[closed]" automatically or by ...
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How closely must a question match a contest question to fall under our policy?
With the start of this academic year's USAMTS, we are going to get a some questions that have their origin in these problems, some more closely worded to the original than others. Perhaps it is time ...
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Are teaching/applications off-topic? Vote off-topic only if community consensus?
Recently I was a bit disappointed by the closure as off-topic various questions on teaching and applications of mathematics, e.g. today: this question on why the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra is not ...
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Proper notice to posters unfamiliar with S.E. customs
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1356481/complete-the-square-on-x210x9-0
I put this comment under the question above:
Probably the reason for the down-vote and the votes to close the ...
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Are questions about ideas in preprints off-topic?
Another note: (Since the first one wasn’t heeded...) OK, so the question was closed again. My appeal below was to both sides of the issue, so even though five people sought fit to do otherwise, ...
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Where should I put this question?
I submitted this question: Difference between dynamic system and complex system
And it was noted to me that this didn't belong to the site, so the first thing I ask is: why? and the second is: Where ...
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On deleting vs. closing duplicate questions.
Recently a question was deleted by the OP after it was pointed out in comments that it was a duplicate. I was in the process of composing an answer, but I was not able to post it when I finished since ...
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Tons of induction proof questions in the review queue
I just went through the close vote queue and it seems someone just sent a whole bunch of questions of the form "Is the following proof of (very simple induction problem) correct"? to the queue.
For ...
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Immediate question deletion to prevent others from seeing an answer
I recently answered a question about a simple strategy game. (Mine was the only answer.) The OP deleted the question about a minute later. It occurs to me that he might not have wanted a potential ...
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Is it a bad thing to give more than one example in a [big-list] question?
In most [big-list] questions, I see that every person has entered at most one example. Why is this so?
I recently provided about 5 examples in this answer. Is that considered a bad thing?
