Questions tagged [support]
A request for assistance with one of the site's features.
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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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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 ...
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How (if at all) can I vote to undelete a question (and its answers) without also voting to reopen it?
A question with several answers, including one by me, was closed, and shortly afterwards it was deleted.
I can see what appears to be an active "reopen" button on the question itself. There is an ...
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What is the proper procedure to handle a minor question edit mistake?
I recently saw where another person mistakenly edited a question so that instead of asking about modulo values of $-1$, it was now for $1$. This mismatched the title & the rest of the text, so it ...
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Finding who has linked to an answer of mine
I just received three upvotes for a seven-year-old answer. Obviously somebody has recently linked to it in a question or answer. Is there any way for me to find this link? I'm curious!
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Master thesis: asking people to check the math
My academic advisor quit and the project is now discontinued. Yet, I'm still registered and I intend to hand in the thesis soon. The last time my advisor checked my work was a while ago since then I ...
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What has happended to MathJax?
I recently noticed that the quality of equations rendered in MathJax has deteriorated quite a bit. In particular, I would point the square root and integral operations. Am I missing something here? Am ...
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What to do about comments with broken MathJax?
Sometimes one comes across content that has MathJax that does not render correctly. When it is a post one can edit it.
But what to do about comments that have MathJax that does not render correctly ...
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MathJax for integer summation proof
I have this
\begin{array}{r}
sum &= 1 + 2 + \ldots + (n - 1) + n \\[1ex]
+ \; sum &= n + (n-1) + \ldots + 2 + 1 \\
\hline
2\,sum &= (n +1) + (n+1) + \ldots + (n+1) + (n+1)
\end{...
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Is Mathjax accessible for people using screen readers?
I tried writing a formula on Why are some equations and formulas written in a way that suggests the smaller number divides the bigger number, instead of the other way around?, but I cannot find the ...
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What are the guidelines for reviewing?
What are the guidelines for reviewing?
What should one avoid doing when reviewing?
How can it happen to be banned and what are the implications of this?
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Problems with Latex rendering
The Latex-text will not be represented as formulas.
The Latex-text will not be rendered.
Why?
My text begins with 2 Dollar signs and ends with 2 Dollarsigns.
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Will I get my reputation back if I cancel my down vote?
Will I get my reputation back if I cancel a down vote? Same for the person I vote down.
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How can I print out an answer?
Is it possible to print out an answer somehow? What is the best way to do it if I don't have a Latex-Editor. And also assume I would have one, I could always just click at one Formula click on Right ...
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Is there a way find edits that you've reviewed?
I've now just reached the point where I'm able to review suggested edits, and have reviewed a handful. I've also just rejected an edit for the first time. (The edit inserted extra information which ...
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Is there a limit on number of questions a user can ask in a given time frame?
Is there a limit on number of questions a user can ask in a given time frame?
Here is a similar question which was posted 5 years ago? It says the limit is 50 questions per 30 days. Has the limit ...
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Why I am failing to complete “about me” section?
I am trying to update my profile section to get the 'Autobiographer' badge. I uploaded photo (less than 2 mb) and completed the about me section too. But when I click 'save profile' option, the ...
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How to see the questions posted in a particular month in a particular year in a specific tag
I want to see the questions posted in a particular month in a particular year in a specific tag. For example, I want to see all questions posted in sequences-and-series in September month of 2016. ...
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“We noted issues with the quality of your reviews. Please be more careful and critical in reviewing”
I got this message today.
Who is assessing the quality of my reviews, and how?
What am I supposed to be "more careful and critical" about? I haven't failed any audit recently, at least not one ...
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Where can I see my deleted questions [duplicate]
Sometimes I ask Questions which are regarded useless or off-topic and then they got deleted, however I have usually added many Details in the Body of the Question which help me to understand something ...
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Inserting braces in a brace [closed]
I don’t know how can I ensert the right braces using latex...
Any help is appreciated...
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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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Is there a way to edit without bumping the question?
I'm a kind of person who like to see no flaw in the answers I posted here (I'm sure many of us mathematicians here share the same value as me to a certain extent). For that reason, I usually double ...
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Odd inline mode MathJax rendering problem in the MathJax basic tutorial
I'm seeing something odd with the inline MathJax rendering on the MathJax basic tutorial.
There are 15 items in a numbered list in the tutorial. For items 1 to 5 (and also the first part of item 6) ...
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What can I do to get a quick answer?
Usually if I write a Question it will be answered within one hour or not at all, that' why I want to start a Bounty - it would help me to draw Attention to my Question and would also be an incentive ...
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How can I send a message to all users who have marked a question as their favorite?
How can I send a message to all users who have marked a specific question as their favorite?
Apparently they are not automatically informed when finally, after years of waiting, the question has been ...
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How to type Sigma and other symbols in MathJax [duplicate]
Can someone please illustrate how to use the sigma symbol using mathjax and other such symbols please help?
By the way the moderators of this site are extremely helpful so thank you.
