Questions tagged [specific-answer]
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Accepted answer was wrong
I posted a question not long ago. A similar question was posted years ago, with an accepted answer (Edit: now deleted) and a second answer. But the accepted answer was wrong, although it received ...
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1answer
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Disputed flag for a question posted as an answer
A few days ago I flagged this answer as Not An Answer (NAA) where the user actually says that "I just observed this numerically and wondered why".
That is, the ...
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1answer
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What to do with blatantly false answers?
Recently, I came across this answer to an old question, which attempts to prove Fermat's Last Theorem (edit: the answer has now been deleted). It takes almost no effort to see why the argument there ...
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1answer
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Should a new answer bring the problem to the top?
A question I have answered some half an hour ago (Proving that all numbers are rational) stays deep below the fold and doesn't pop up to the top of the question list. Is there any explanation to this? ...
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1answer
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Why was my edit rejected?
Suggested edit: https://math.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/1113380
Answer: Volume of a solid with base of circular disk, parallel crosssections perpendicular to base are squares.
I found ...
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1answer
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Why was this useful answer deleted?
I'd like to know why this answer was deleted by a moderator. It doesn't answer the question completely, but it goes a long way towards answering it. Answers such as this that report on substantial ...
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1answer
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What's wrong with my answer?
I posted this answer to this question.
I got no upvote and a downvote with no explanatory comment.
I believe there is something wrong with my answer, but I'm unable to see what.
After the downvote, ...
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2answers
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Why was my post deleted [closed]
My post for the question - On taking on taking square roots, by Niki -was interesting to me ,I posted 2 answers pertaining to comments and relevant to the question.For some reason the posts were ...
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0answers
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Is there any obvious reason why my very old answer was downvoted?
I have an answer here from 4.5 years ago that just got downvoted. Not a work of genius I admit, but workmanlike I'd say. I didn't directly answer the questioner but rather, in the spirit of the site ...
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Deleting meaningless answers?
I saw recent thread on whether incorrect answers should be deleted. What about answers that are "not even wrong", because they use notation in ways that simply make no sense? I'm thinking about two of ...
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1answer
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How to improve answer
When I posted an answer from my another profile, it reached, in the first two seconds after posting, very bad score. Of course, it is always possible that someone simply dislike the answer, or the ...
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1answer
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Why was my self-answer deleted?
I recently answered my own question but my answer was deleted promptly for being 'additional information' rather than an answer. Here's the question:
Different uses of 'almost sure'
And my ...
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0answers
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Why was my answer deleted without me knowing about it?
I answered this question yesterday but I noticed that my answer was deleted without my knowledge.
My answer was written 13 hours ago and both the question and my answer were deleted 10 hours ago. ...
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2answers
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What is wrong with my answer to this question about topology? [closed]
Recently, a question was asked in MSE regarding homeomorphism in topology:
If two topological spaces have the same topological properties, are they homeomorphic?
I thought the question is not ...
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1answer
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Can I read replies to my comments on deleted answer?
I had notifications on my phone that I had received responses to my comments to an answer by Norbert on Regarding linear independence on a normed-linear space given a condition. When I went to the ...
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2answers
382 views
Useless crankpot answers
Recently I raised a flag on an answer:
Clearly this user is a crankpot; just see the deleted answers by him and the currently accepted answer also by him, and the comments he made saying that this ...
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1answer
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Question with almost vacant accepted answer
This Question has no real answer, only a hint; but it was accepted as an answer. I tried to comment, but I don't have enough reputation for this.
Question 1: What mechanisms this site has to ask the ...
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3answers
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Is it allowed and encouraged to post non-answer joke to low-quality questions?
I was asked to review this and this answer and found that they were totally not answers, there were a lot of upvotes each, however. They were deleted by a moderator, but is it allowed and encouraged ...
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1answer
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Is it possible to get access to this answer (the question was deleted)?
Some time ago I remember reading an answer by user Bryan to this question. I would really like to re-read that answer, as it has some interesting insights. Could some moderator with a kind soul please ...
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2answers
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Reference Request not a request for a reference?
I don't get this. The question asked for a reference to something explaining the point to the Hilbert transform. I provided a link to an excellent article explaining the point to the Hilbert ...
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0answers
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Recover an answer.
I want to recover the answer to this question Equivalent statement for bounded derivative implies Lipschitz in $\mathbb{R^n}$. but the thing is that I forget the user that post it and I want to ...
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0answers
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Why was an answer to my question deleted before I could read it?
I posted a Bounty Question last week that only got one response. Someone commented that the only posted answer would be taken down because it was a link to a solution. A hour later, the only answer ...
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1answer
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Why does this “answer” contain a conversation transcript?
I came across Integral notation for degree homomorphism on algebraic cycles, and then I read this answer, which contains a screenshot of a long conversation between two users, the user who posted the ...
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0answers
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Question I answered about 3 hours ago has disappeared
I answered this question here about 3 hours ago correctly. The user seems to have deleted the entire thread including my answer.
Is this really what happened and if so, is this behaviour accepted on ...
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0answers
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Deleted Answer From Question
I posted from a guest account this question:
Linear Diophantine Equations in Three Variables
It got one useful answer, but the answer got deleted?
I don't know why, the answer seemed to be useful.
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1answer
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What has been the reason for downvote? [duplicate]
I can't find any possible explanation for my answer to this question. The thing is not that I am concerned about the decrease of my reputation, but to me the answer looks perfect and so I can't find ...
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2answers
293 views
Upvotes on Misleading Comment
I posted this answer here: https://math.stackexchange.com/a/1121698/205062
My answer was commented upon by someone who misunderstood it but that comment (the second comment) has attracted two upvotes....
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Why is this answer “spam or offensive”?
This reply to Is zero odd or even? was deleted (several years ago) by the Community user, which replaced the content with the remark:
This answer was marked as spam or offensive and is therefore ...
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0answers
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Where did my answer go?
I just answered my own question, Calculate the probability of n of the same event happening first, then edited the question to clarify it and my answer disappeared!
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2answers
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Why is this not a comment, but an answer?
This answer here: https://math.stackexchange.com/a/1083253/1102
I flagged it as 'not an answer', as it ought to be a comment, but the flag was declined disputed. I believe there were a few delete ...
2
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1answer
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Is my joke offensive?
My answer to the question Why is "mathematical induction" called "mathematical"? was immediately removed. It is intentionally a joke and that seems to be obvious. The reason of ...
2
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1answer
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About the deletion of my answer [duplicate]
I am referring to my answer here (undeleted now, so everyone can see it). I had originally posted an erroneous answer, but later edited it to give the following hint:
$\left(u^3-2u^2+1\right)=\left(...
3
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1answer
213 views
Why was my answer deleted by a moderator?
My answer to Fitting a closed curve on the roots of ${x \choose k}-c$ was short but I do not see why it was deleted by a moderator. In fact, I think it correctly answers the question, though I would ...
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0answers
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wanted to edit answer, but was not allowed to do so [duplicate]
I was reviewing an late answer in the review queue:
Weird stuff happening with complex numbers on a ti-84
(a first answer by a new user "marius")
and wanted to edit the answer (removing ...
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2answers
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How could such a rhetorical answer get so many up votes? [closed]
Now I don't mean to be jealous or anything, but this question seems like it should be a comment. You can find the question here: Why is a rectangle a parallelogram, but a parallelogram is not a ...
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1answer
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Was this answer really no “review audit” question?
When I first saw this one
https://math.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/208658
I thought it was an audit review, lets flag it.
But then it didn't say a I passed or something like that.
Was ...
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2answers
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Censorship of swear words on mathSE
(This issue has been discussed before, specifically here. A different kind of censorship has been discussed here.)
There are two reasons I am bringing this up again. Firstly, the previous ...
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2answers
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Is this a really bad answer?
Edit: I can't delete this because it has an answer, so I'll just say that I'm pretty embarrassed by this whole epsidode. I was quite unfamiliar with the site at the time.
OP:
I don't know whether ...
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Please get rid of this answer ASAP
A user named "FeelingSick" posted an "answer" with some extremely unsuitable content at the question How do "proofs" work in mathematics, down to the basic level?. [Warning: the image might ...
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1answer
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Why was my answer deleted and then duplicated as a comment?
My answer to this question has been deleted by a moderator, apparently, and made into a comment. I would like to know why, as I cannot see a good reason for it.
The OP asked for a hint, and that's ...
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1answer
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Why my answer was deleted, converted to comment, and then deleted?
I wonder why my answer to Propositional logic: Finding a formula F with statement variables from truth table was deleted. Did I do anything wrong?
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Please undelete my answer
My answer to this question was deleted.
I don't agree with banning a non-homework question showing no effort.
What if someone asks a question like the Fermat's last theorem without showing no ...
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2answers
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My answer was turned into a comment
In the question “It looks straightforward, but actually it isn't” I gave an answer which was turned into this comment.
I understand that there are a couple of reasons to turn my answer into a ...
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2answers
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User who posts a good answer then deletes his/her account
I just saw an example of user who posts a good answer, then deletes his/her account:
Here is an other example. Do you know why? Is it a user who creates an account and delete it? Or a guest?
In the ...
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8answers
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Copying my solution, verbatim, is just so not cool
Someone just verbatim copied my solution into his answer: Complete induction: $\sum^n_{i=1}\frac{1}{(2i-1)(2i+1)}=\frac{n}{2n+1}$ (obviously, in retrospect, claiming I did the same from him). Edit ...
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1answer
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Defacement/Censorship of peoples answers
yesterday the following edit was made https://math.stackexchange.com/posts/33730/revisions which deletes content from an (very old) answer. Taking liberty to edit and perform such censorship/deletion ...
