Questions tagged [support]
A request for assistance with one of the site's features.
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Is it OK to ask approximately one question a day from old application exams?
If I ask approximately one question a day (from old application exams) will it be considered flooding/spamming or is this perfectly legal?
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Was this soft question appropriate?
I asked this question a week ago, and it quickly drew critical comments which were upvoted. I felt that the concern expressed in those comments had been addressed in the body of the question, and ...
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points for answers
I recently answered a question and the answer was awarded $35$ points. A few days later $15$ points were deducted. What sort of mechanism determines the number of points in the first place and where ...
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How to subscribe to a tag?
Since some time, I have been unable to subscribe to a tag I'm interested in, so that I get emailed new questions in such a tag.
I have found some posts about subscribing, the ones with the most ...
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Threads containing different ways to calculate $e$
I'm reading about constant $e$ in textbook Analysis I by Amann/Escher.
I have searched through MSE to found a question containing different ways to calculate $e$. I use such keywords as "constant $e$"...
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What does % mean in MathJax?
I have noticed that, if I type \$100%\times x\$, I get $100%\times x$ and not $100\%\times x$.
Does % mean to ignore the following text or something like that?
I didn't find an explanation for the ...
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Toxicity in Maths SE
I have observed and experienced unfriendly as well as demoralising behaviour in many SEs
For instance thisquestion was marked as off topic without informing the person what amendments he/she should ...
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Is there a way to make a section of a post “collapsible”?
You know how some webpages will have a section that looks like > 'heading'; and when you click on it, it expands into a wall of text?
Is there a way to include one of those in post?
There are times ...
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How to type the $\dashint$ symbol on this site? [duplicate]
How to type the symbol $\dashint$ on this site?
It looks like the following:
Thank you!
Edit:
As @Jack hinted in the comment, we may use
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How to request easy solutions
I'm a 10th grader so my maths is nowhere near as complex as some of you reading right now. So how do I ask for easy solutions when that is subjective (dependent on the person). Should i explain my ...
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MathJax bombs on consecutive macro definitions (but not if first macro used before defining second macro) [closed]
I'm running mathjax locally in a browser, from the following minimalist file:
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Why was this answer marked as “spam or offensive”?
I was clearing the "low quality posts" queue, and I marked an answer as "Looks OK". The system then told me that this was just an audit and I failed the test. I believe I was right to accept it, and ...
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Relating to create a new tag
I have created a tag named "significance" and gave the full details (all of them are approved by others after some time) and also I fit there 8 questions (different authors posted in different ...
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Why have I been banned from asking questions?
I've been banned from asking questions. But, when I checked all my past questions and answers, I've got a total of 6 downvotes. Is this enough to get a question ban? Or have I been banned due to ...
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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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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 ...
