Questions tagged [support]
A request for assistance with one of the site's features.
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No longer accepting questions? Then back and forth?
Upon some amount of time I've been allowed to ask a question again after being barred from asking. Upon asking a question I have received no negative reviews. But yet I have been barred again. May I ...
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What to do when I don't understand an answer and author don't reply?
What to do when I don't understand an answer and author don't reply?
Solve for x $ \sin 30° \sin x \sin 10° = \sin 20° \sin ({80°-x}) \sin 40° $
So someone answered my ...
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Marked as duplicate while it is not [duplicate]
I have asked a question here. And my question is marked as a duplicate of this one. Where both the questions are completely different than each other but the title is same. My question is related to ...
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Print to PDF too narrow
I am using Chrome (74.0.3729.169 (Official Build) (64-bit)) and trying to print a question (specifically this one Assistance with proof of $(AB)^T=B^T A^T$) to "Save as PDF".
The content is printed ...
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reputation points - how are they determined and by whom?
How and by whom are reputation points given? On May 30 I answered a post and it was rated +30. On May 31 it was rated +25 (I don't know if that was a replacement or an addition). On June 2 I ...
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Why i am not able to add any more questions? [duplicate]
Whenever i write a question, it says that we are no longer accepting questions from this account.
What should i do now?
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Weird stuff with reputation [duplicate]
Something strange has just happened to my reputation. It suddenly fell from 3067 to 3032, but no reputation changes were indicated in my reputation tab. Does anybody know, what has happened? Is this ...
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Mathjax symbols do not read in titles when using Android
On a mobile I do not get math symbolic notation in title or comments. ( Main text ok ) Is there a fix applicable to Androids ?
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This does not provide an answer to the question
Prove $0.9999^{\!101}<0.99<0.9999^{\!100}$
......but it does, just a bad one, is it a system bug that posts a comment like that?
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How can I get the *.svg version of the logo of math.SE?
I want to put the logo of math.SE to my website linking to my profile, and the template I'm using uses svg versions of the logos; at least if I have the svg version of a logo, I know how to use it in ...
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The Unsung Hero badge
The criterion for this badge isn't making sense to me. Please correct me if you think I am going about this wrong.
The criterion given is this:
"More than 10 accepted answers with score 0 and 25% ...
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dash over a letter [duplicate]
How do I write a letter like : A ,with a bar over it ( stands for the closure of A in topology) . I looked it up but \={A} didn't work , see : $\={A}$ .Help
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What happened on April 2017?
I used the query in this answer to see the number of edits per month and I was fairly surprised as April 2017 had $86,444$ edits.
The graph of edits per day is even more surprising as one day had $55,...
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Edit of headline caused URL to break?
After posting this question I sent the corresponding URL via email to somebody.
In the meantime a user has edited the headline of my question which rendered my old link invalid. I used the URL in my ...
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Is it possible to know the questions and answers by a no longer user?
When a user decides to delete their own account or when for some reason the account is deleted, then you can't see any information about the user, you can't click on the name of the user.
Is it ...
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How much have I written?
Is there a way to get "global" statistics on one's own MSE posts?
I'm particularly interested (if for no good reason) in total length - e.g. what's the average length of an answer I post? - but more ...
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Fixing an AMScd diagram
I want to fix this diagram and also extend it to the diagram below.
Can you help me out?
$\require{AMScd}$
$\begin{CD}
S^{n-1}@>\subseteq >> D^n \\
@VhVV @VVV\\
S^{n-1}\\
@V\subseteq VV @...
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Can you use a smaller font?
I am about to ask a question on math.stackexchange, which requires me to talk a little bit about my representation.
For example I include an AMScd picture, which does not look exactly how it is ...
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Failed an audit, but I have my doubts about it.
I failed this audit. However, I am not exactly sure why the answer to a book-suggestion question with a book suggestion is wrong. Can anyone explain what is the standard procedure for such answers?
I ...
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Why I can only post every 3 minutes?
I wanted to answer to 2 questions and it looks that my answer to the second question is not accepted because I answered the first one less than 3 minutes ago... why is there such a restriction? What ...
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Problem exporting an answer to pdf
MSE offers a huge variety of possibilities when it comes to writing an answer/question which might not be found elsewhere (at least all together).
I've recently read on this post, that answers can ...
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Will this question about understanding what this geometry question mean be on topic here?
https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13147/will-this-question-be-on-topic-here
So I asked this question on English stack exchange and they said "probably not". So will this question be ...
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How can an answer that is not downvoted receive a delete-vote?
My answer of this question :
Partition with identical parts
was upvoted , but received also a delete vote.
How can an answer that is not downvoted, receive a delete-vote ?
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What to do when the site doesn't accept my question?
I am trying to ask a question on the main site, the solution of which I cannot find after innumerable tries. I've provided my working and used proper grammar, but the system keeps saying, "This ...
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I flagged a comment- it was removed yet my flag appears to be declined
I flagged a comment an hour ago as it was rude. I just checked it now and my flag appears to be removed, yet the comment deleted.
Is there any reason why this happened? Is this due to a bug?
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How can I update community ad for Operations Research site?
We have a community ad promoting a proposed SE site for Operations Research. The name of the proposed site recently changed, so I would like to change the image in the ad, and the URL it points to. ...
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Comment disappeared
In the following question: Are there any irrational/transcendental numbers for which the distribution of decimal digits is not uniform?, I distinctly remember adding a comment about "God being lazy ...
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What to do if half the answer given to question is wrong?
A really high reputation user wrote an answer to one of my questions.
I had spent a lot of time thinking on his answer and I arrived to the conclusion that it's wrong unless the theorem is false.
...
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Users with only 1 reputation but many posts. How can it happen?
Why can the reputation of a user still be 1 in spite of their many posts with high scores? Their reputation even did not changed after I voting up for their answer.
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Can we have review queues seperated by topic so that reviewers can choose their focus according to their own interests and specialization?
As the title says, I am proposing this idea motivated by a negative experience that just happened to me (unhappy reviewers who don't care/don't understand my question).
I believe reviewers should be ...
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No Review Queues available. Why?
I checked the review queues tab but it keeps on showing me "There are no review queues available to you". However it is not so on this Meta site. Why is that? When would they be available?
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My delete votes aren't registering nor does the delete vote option appear without a prior vote.
My delete votes aren't registering nor does the delete vote option appear without a prior vote.
The problem is on both the mobile and the desktop sites.
I can see deleted questions & answers, ...
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Finding the identity of a deleted user
My reputation has been increased several times when a (down-voting) user was suspended or deleted from a StackExchange site. How can I find the (former) identity of the suspended user? This will ...
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Why I had lost my reputation while I do nothing and no one was removed?
My reputation now is $1.083$ but i remember that in a several day ago my reputation is about $1.1\text{k}$
I didn't downvote any answers and i didn't receive any notification about someone downvote ...
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User with a pattern of completely incoherent answers
What to do about a user with a pattern of completely incoherent answers (as if produced by a random sentence generator): this, or this, for example?
I flagged three of more egregious examples: ...
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Can we manually adjust image width in a post?
When one attaches an image to the body of a post, like so—
—it automatically takes up the entire width of the body of the text.
Is there any way that this can be manually altered? For example, ...
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Why was my question made Community Wiki?
A question of mine was made Community Wiki without my permission and without so much as informing me. As I understand it, how Community Wiki posts work is that any reputation from them does not go to ...
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How to undo my own wrong down vote [duplicate]
I saw an answer to a question and thought there was an error in it. I wrote a comment and downvoted it. Then the original poster responded to my comment and it turns out I was mistaken and the answer ...
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Does math.stackexchange provide any tool for users to download questions in bulk.
Few years ago, when I did not have an account on this website, I used to note question id in my notebook for future reference to the question( I did not have a personal computer so there was no option ...
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How to write a line through text? [duplicate]
How to write a line through text or words ?
Like the \underline{} in latex but in the middle the line, to indicate something is wrong.
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Will a LQ post review end if a person retracts his flag?
When I came across Why is this low quality review ended?, I immediately came up with a simple explanation: The person who initially flagged the post retracted it! However, this is neither listed here ...
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How to make bold greek letters in Mathjax on Stackexchange?
I already know how to make $\mathbf {bold}$ letters, and I know how to make various greek letters such as $\gamma$ and $\Psi$. But how to make any bold greek characters?
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Is there a limit to the number of low-quality posts that I can flag?
I've recently got the privilege of recommending deletion and recommending closing low-quality posts and I've been quite active trying to do my bit giving feedback but the dialog box that shows up on ...
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Is it possible to set a bounty for an old question somehow?
I want to try my luck and see if someone can answer this question I made about a month ago:
Simplifying the summation $ (3^i\sqrt{n/3^i})/\log_2(n/3^i)$ from $i=0 \text{ to }k-1$
I thought maybe a ...
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What happens if you flag a question with bounty?
Suppose someone post a problem statement question so no attempts on the problem and it also happens that no one flag the question neither so it won't be on hold nor closed and somebody else (could be ...
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Firefox plugin to show edit and preview panels side by side
I have installed a Firefox plugin many years ago that used Greasemonkey to allow to show editor and previewer panels side by side on MathExchange (maybe other Exchanges as well).
After I reset ...
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How can we resize a graph?
Is it possible to resize a graph in a post?
For example, I wanted to resize this one, because the original size looks much better.
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Do I lose reputation if I answer a downvoted question?
Do I lose reputation if I am answering a downvoted question?
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Why I can't make question on stack exchange app? [duplicate]
Whenever I try to upload a question. It is showing that your limit is exhausted. Try after 7 days.
Can anyone suggest me how to come up with this problem? And ask my doubts frequently.
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Change in math site display on Mobile
For a week or so, the display of the math site has changed on my mobile. Much less userfriendly.
This is not the case for other sites, such as this meta. Do we know why? Could it be reverseo on a ...
