Questions tagged [support]
A request for assistance with one of the site's features.
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How do I preview my post before posting?
How do I preview my post before posting? I do not find any preview button.
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Typing absolute values [closed]
When I type this
I get this
How can I get the fraction properly centred?
Edit: testing another version here (typed, not pasted)
$$\left|\frac xy\right|$$
displays correctly in Chrome and in the ...
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Can closed and on-hold questions still be commented on after being put on hold?
If a question is on hold, can comments (not answers) still be posted? For example to help the questioner know what changes their question needs?
I'm a bit hazy about this and it's not answered in the ...
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Does cancelling an account also delete irs posts? [duplicate]
I'm considering leaving the site, having tried it out for a while. But I feel I shouldn't delete my slide rule question as it has proved so popular. Also a couple of my answers seem to have helped ...
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I had a question, but instead of answers I kept getting downvotes without any comments [closed]
so I asked this Question in the main SE:
[I would appreciate If someone could translate the following for me. I want to know if it is coherent, thanks in advance. Or, instead of translating you can ...
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Tableau as an answer
I was not sure whether to ask this question here or the main Math SE. Regardless, please do move it as you see fit. I wanted to answer a question; however, I could not because I don't know how to ...
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\mathit only works with preview mode?
Earlier I added an example to MathJax basic tutorial and quick reference, but it seems that \mathit only works in preview. Is there any suitable alternative?
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How to skip directly to page x of n in a long list of search results?
It would be very helpful if one could go directly to a specific page number when the number of pages returned for a search is very large, but I am unable to figure out if it possible and nothing pops ...
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email notifications of activity on questions I am interested in
I cannot tell if there is a way to get email alerts when there is activity on questions I want to monitor. Is this possible, and if so how?
Thanks, Nick
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MathJax rendering in preview but not in actual post?
So I just passed the 2,000 rep threshold this morning and, eager to try out my newfound powers of automatic editing, I went ahead and looked for the first post I could find that could use some ...
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How can I search questions asked a specific period of time?
As stated in the title, I do not know how to do that... I see only things arrange questions like "newest, votes, active"...Thanks in advance.
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Grayed-out answers.
Could someone please explain why this answer on the main site appears grayed-out, but when I put my mouse over it, it springs into life like a regular answer. There are two other answers to that ...
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Answer Listing by Most Upvotes
IIRC, in the past, every page would sort solutions based on acceptance and then based on the number of upvotes.
Has that changed in the new schema?
Items seemed to be ranked using some unknown ...
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Can't login with google on ios app
I've been using the IOS StackExchange app for a couple of years now, without a problem. Today I got a new iPhone Xs, downloaded the app, and tried to log in using Google, the way I always do. Each ...
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I have been banned from asking question from mathematics stack exchange from two month what should I do now?
When I was banned, my reputation was less than 50, and now it is greater than 100.
It means I have improved. Also I am a beginner in abstract mathematics, so I should be given at least one more ...
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Please help me find a home for this question about GAP.
I'm looking to install GAP on my Android phone. I thought MSE would be a good place to ask for help with this since I suspect that others there would want to install it too.
Here is my question on ...
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Can I put formula numbers in a question or an answer?
Suppose I'm writing a question like
blah blah blah $$a=0$$ blah blah blah
I want to put (1) at the very right of the line that has $a=0$. Can I do that?
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Deleted *answers* which are improved
If a question is low quality then high rep. users have the option to close it, and then later the option to delete it. This has a built-in safeguard, in the sense that if the question is closed but ...
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Delete my old (and wrong) accepted answer [duplicate]
How do I delete this old answer of mine? Not only it's wrong but there's also a way better (and correct) answer below.
Note: That answer is now moderator deleted. The OP of the Question involved ...
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How does MSE do live previews of MathJax?
How does MSE do live previews of MathJax? I need this for my own site.
I am not a JavaScript developer but I can copy / paste some code into the right place. I'm using Bubble to create a learning ...
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How to search on this site?
When using this site, it is quite important to be able to find posts on this site which might be related to the question I am interested it - both to avoid duplication (i.e., not asking again ...
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Using \$ \$ when typing matrices
I have this matrix:
$ \begin{pmatrix} a & b \\ c & d \end{pmatrix} $
and I want to show a new user how to type this, by adding \$ \$:
\$ \begin{pmatrix} a & b \\ c & d \end{pmatrix} ...
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Why don't we create the tag question-exam-recommendation?
It's an idea that came to my mind today.
I saw book-recommendation tag and then I thought why not question-exam-recommendation tag.
This new tag would be very useful to summarize ALL the theory that ...
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Can one no longer quote comment with the new design?
I've read a lot of negative reactions to the now all-out so-called responsive design.
This question of mine I'm not sure if it belongs to that thread or not as a feature request or bug report, since ...
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How do the reputation scores work?
I'm stuck: If I look at reputation scores for "week", "month", "quarter", "year" I find for a top scorer like José Carlos Santos the reputation scores
530, 305, 305, 75.3
For myself I find
30, 30, ...
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Expectation tag error
Background
In Expectation means average?, I proposed to synonymize expectation and expected-values. A moderator has done this.
Problem
When I view my tag scores in my profile and clicked on ...
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How does one add missing latex commands or see all available commands in math exchange site?
I wanted to write the \underbar in the [mathexchange site][1], but it wasn't possible when using \underbar{}. Is it possible to ...
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Why was the question I link below, deleted?
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2926649/what-is-the-value-of-k/2926665
Why was this question deleted?
You can just provide a very simple reason. Thanks.
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background color [duplicate]
Numbers referring to number of answers and other things appear within rectangular boxes. Most of the time the numbers are green inside white background. Occasionally they are white with green ...
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Can I use Mathematics Stack Exchange's MathJax for uses different than those intended?
I am participating in the IYMC and need to type some answers. As a member of this site for $9$ months, I find myself much more comfortable typing in MathJax than in Microsoft Word. So I hope that I ...
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Why can't I start a bounty? (More than three bounties.)
Why can't I start a bounty in this question
From the unit disk to the right half plane and $T(0)=3$
?
It's been more than 2 days since I asked. I wanted to put 100 points as bounty but there's no ...
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Strange comments in review audit
I recently encountered a review audit in the "Suggested Edits" queue, with the following comment, presumably fake, from the purported editor of this question:
This is a homework question from a ...
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Searching for questions that have one of two tags.
How can I search for two tags at once?
For example, search for all questions that are tagged with either set-theory or elementary-set-theory.
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Can someone with rep fix this?
I was able to make a useful change to this question, but then when I saw a need to correct a sign, I could not do it because it wasn't enough characters.
Now I have a wholesale change back in the ...
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Why is my activity “suspicious”?
I was trying to answer this question. I tried multiple times to submit an answer (which eventually turned into a comment). The site informs me that "An error occurred submitting the answer.", so I ...
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How can I find a ranking for the answers?
It is easy to find the questions with the best scores and the worst scores.
But how can I find the answers with the best scores and the worst scores ? Is a ranking of the answers concerning the ...
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I just accepted an edit I actually wanted to improve.
I just accepted an edit I actually wanted to improve, because I misclicked.
Now I can not cancel my review, and I can not edit the question myself because of the pending edit.
Is there anything you ...
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Meta User link missing on the main site
The Meta Link appears to be missing on the main site:
Also, when using Firefox 60.0.1, I am presented with the scary SSL warning about the connection not being secure.
Is this normal? I've used ...
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Filtering messages with/without answers
Tags can now be filtered. For example,
hasaccepted:no is syntax for do not
show questions with accepted answers.
Why doesn't hasanswer:no remove
all questions with answers?
Why doesn't onhold:no ...
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Is there a way to retract a mistaken vote? [duplicate]
I upvoted an answer too hastily. When I realized that the answer was wrong, I tried to cancel my upvote with a downvote. However, that simply replaced my upvote with a downvote (at a cost to the ...
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How to perform a line break? [duplicate]
I entered text with line breaks in the body but it doesn't show in the question.
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How to decide in which math chat room to post a link to my math-related question?
While some sites have only a few chat rooms, this one has quite a few even excluding those that are for single individuals or discussions moved from comments.
How can I decide which chat room (if any)...
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Are my questions too niche or simply bad? How to improve attention to my questions?
I am a researcher working on computational physics, chemistry and materials science. I have the kind of math background that you would expect from a general physics graduate. Some times a problem ...
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Why can't I ping myself in chat?
I'm trying to ping myself in chat but I can't. Is there any way we can add this feature? It would help me organize my thoughts in the chat.
Thanks.
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What to do about one or two downvotes received daily?
I've read that one doesn't need to do anything about suspected serial downvoting, because it's taken care of automatically by an algorithm.
What if one suspects that someone is aware of that ...
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What to do about my locked answer to a post?
A post of mine has been locked. There was an error in the answer I gave, which was pointed out, and I wanted to correct it, but it got locked.
How do I unlock it so I can fix it?
What is the ...
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Is it enough to only comment for a First Question review?
I recently reviewed this question in the First Questions queue. I decided that the post needed more information and/or context, and commented nudging the new user in that direction. I then marked that ...
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How do I do dot inside a letter?
A First Course in Complex Analysis by Matthias Beck, Gerald Marchesi, Dennis Pixton, and Lucas Sabalka Ch9.1
Circle: $C[z_0,R] = |z-z_0| = R$
Disc: ...
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Font size in new theme?
Is there something funny about font size in the new "theme", or is it a problem at my end or what?
These days when I write/edit a post the preview looks the same as always. Then when I "save edit" ...
