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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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Problem with New Users
(I apologize in advance if this question should be asked in a more private setting). There are two new users who have names uncannily similar to my user name who appear to be "trolling" me. It is not ...
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Proposal for an easy reopening policy
There seems to be a significant asymmetry between the efforts required in closing questions versus reopening them. As a partial remedy, I propose a policy to balance this: moderators reopen the ...
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Votes ending up at the wrong answer
For question with more than one answer with the same number of votes, it can happen that the vote for an answer ends up at the wrong answer. I think this happens if a partial update or reload changes ...
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How to bring to attention spiteful down-voting?
I am almost convinced that there is an experienced user on the site, who keeps down-voting my posts. The experienced user seems to know the tricks of the trade, i.e., this user is aware that serial ...
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On the closing of: "Does mathematics require axioms?"
On the closing of: Does mathematics require axioms?
This question was first closed, and after changing the question, it was voted to be reopened again. I don't understand why it is now closed again. ...
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Can you write a comment if a question is closed?`
If a question is closed, can you still write comments? Or will that not be allowed?
I'm just asking because one of my questions was closed, but there was somebody who answered it while it was still ...
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LaTeX jumbled up when printing
when printing pages on math.stackexchange,
often the LaTeX equations become jumbled up.
Sometimes the error is minor misalignment, sometimes it is more serious.
For me, this occurs both on IE and ...
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Why can't we use $MathJax$ in username?
Why can't we use $MathJax$ or other characters in username?
I'd recommend
this on SE network.
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Feature request: Math Jax autoNumber:AMS option
I'd like to be able to auto-number equations and label them so i can refer to them in the text. Math Jax provides a built-in way to do this by setting the autoNumber option to AMS. I realize that by ...
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"Almost" answered question with a bounty
Four days ago I asked a question on MSE that had zero replies till I opened a 50 rep. bounty on it (now it has only one) ...well now a user gave me rich answer with examples and stuff..but it fill ...
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What's the recommended way to raise a possible proof as a question?
I am a self-taught math amateur who came to this site primarily to learn. It is a great place for asking any mathematical question! The site has provided me with an unprecedented ability to gain ...
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How do we tag questions on maximizing/minimizing functions?
I've noticed (when checking newly created tags), that a tag called max-min has been created.
It has the following tag-excerpt:
Questions related to maximizing or minimizing a expression or a function....
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Feature request: review edits without diffs
I request that the review edits page allow the option to simply preview the original and edited versions side by side.
I've found the review suggested edits tool unhelpful because it only shows diffs;...
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How to Say "Thank You!"
I had some really nice comments, that were, to my opinion, more than great. They inspired new insight (or questions I posted).
I thought about, doing more than just upvoting their comments (and ...
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Can I "block" a question?
I just asked a question on the main site, but I think I've figured out the answer and no-one has yet (while I am writing this) commented or answered on it.
Is there a way for me to "block" the ...
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What should be in the tag (graph)?
NOTE The (graph) tag is dead. Long live the graph...ing-functions tag. See here.
At the moment, there is a discussion about the tag graph; the suggestion is to replace it with a better name, so that ...
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Problem in posting my questiom
Yesterday I have posted a question then I deleted today. Right after I tried to repost my question with a different title because somehow I wasn't specific.
The problem is that I can't post it anymore ...
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Big-list of classical facts
When we type an answer, we need sometimes classical facts, which will be long to expand and are well-known.
For example, a bounded measurable function can be approached uniformly by simple functions,...
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forum layout suddenly changed
Why has suddenly my maths stack exchange changed to this layout? It didn't use to look like this and I don't think I changed a setting. help?
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Can anyone explain to me why was my question closed
I posted this question which at first seemed related to the linked question though I was trying to complete a method. I then edited the question so that it serves that purpose yet it was still closed, ...
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The \smallsmile and \smallfrown commands render identically to \smile and \frown
In MathJax it seems that \smallsmile and \smallfrown render identically to \smile and ...
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What is the preferred way to link references to published material?
I'm asking this since I've already found myself in two minds a couple times about how to refer to a book when answering a question.
I've seen many people link to Google Books previews, when available,...
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Strange dispute of an Invalid flag.
I always wondered why all of my invalid flags were disputed, and this one is really strange:
Today I saw the first time a reason, well it is about this answer
and it was flaged as "not an answer". ...
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Posting exam questions
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/353202/how-to-find-a-recurrence-relation-from-a-word-problem/353385#353385
Is there some policy concerning how to deal with this sort of thing?
The user ...
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Do we actually "welcome questions about: • Software that mathematicians use"?
On the FAQ it says: "We welcome questions about: • Software that mathematicians use". However, when I went to post a question about maple, I found this:
About maple
For questions involving the ...
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Should you rep someone's other posts to thank them?
sometimes I ask a question which don't receive much attention (this may include because the question is quite obscure, and in 1 recent case, probably because I posted it in the morning in the UK when ...
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Adding a special close reason for exam questions
Over on this meta question, anorton wrote
I propose a policy that if someone reports that a question is part of a take-home test, we have a 4 step process:
We close the question as soon as ...
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What to do if a suggested edit is "bad", but gets accepted?
I have occasionally come across suggested edits which I believe should have been rejected but were accepted (and I have voted to reject them, but was outnumbered - how dare they disagree with me!). ...
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Solve/compute/evaluate: when should we use these verbs?
Today, I've edited the question in this thread, and apparently I did wrong. The question was asking to "solve an (indefinite) integral", which I replaced by "compute an (indefinite) integral". ...
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Error message when pasting Math into answer
If I am starting to type an answer and copy/paste some MathJax from the question, I often get the error message saying I have to have 30 characters in my answer and I only have xx. I haven't asked to ...
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How did I lose 10 points [duplicate]
I suddenly noticed that I've lost 10 points. The reputation graph briefly says the reason as "User was removed." I've yet to get what actually happened.
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Losing reputation because of something deleted [duplicate]
I recently noticed that I've lost a small amount of reputation, with the reasoning listed as "user deleted". A few simple questions about this:
Can I get some elaboration on what this means, if ...
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How I gained Reputation?
What do this mean? User was removed? And I gained $+12$ Repo due to this.
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Let's blacklist the [graph] tag
The graph tag is supposed to be for questions about the graphs of functions. But it is very commonly misapplied to questions that are about the graphs of graph theory. These questions are supposed ...
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Problem viewing rendered output when viewing edits
When viewing edits on questions, is there a way to view previous edits exactly how they would have appeared on the main site, with the LaTeX formatted rather than just the original code? I'm not sure ...
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Linking doesn't work properly...
I linked this question (q1) in the body of this question (q2) but it doesn't show up in the "Linked questions" area:
The only one that shows up there is a link from this question (q3) to (q2) and ...
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Asking questions on other people's questions?
Sometimes I click on a thread which looks interesting/familiar to what I am doing but there are a fair few bits that I don't understand.
What is the policy/people's view on me asking my own questions ...
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I just noticed that there is a "philosophy" tag on Math.SE, what sorts of questions are on-topic within this tag?
I have always tended to assume that any of my more philosophical questions about mathematics would off-topic for Math.SE. As such, I have tended to restrict (or try to restrict) my questions to those ...
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How "civil" should we be?
Our FAQ states:
Civility is required at all times; rudeness will not be tolerated.
Recently I've come across a user flag complaining about a potentially "rude" post. The post in question included ...
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Targeting a younger audience
Had I known about this site in high school, I would have slept a lot more. I think that we should think about how to get more high school students involved. After all, this site is about math in ...
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Is it possible a question actually "too localized" in MSE?
According to the "close" box, "too localized" means:
This question is unlikely to ever help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an ...
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Can we post the Interesting problems with solutions we find over the internet to share with M.SE community?
Many times, while surfing the web, we come across various questions and their solutions in different math forums and discussion pages.
Can we post them here, with the problem and its solution?
Does ...
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Is the editing wikipedia "sand box" the same as MathJax located here?
Or is there a practice somewhere within math stack?
I will soon try for an account here, but want some practice.
My Maple 14 LaTeX translator does not seem to be one hundred percent compatable.
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Is this considered spam? and what can we do about it?
Recently, as you may have noticed a user has been posting lots and lots of questions about Laplace transformations and has provided little to no work of his own. Is this, in some way, considered spam ...
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Typo in question statment
I just posted a question last night and someone provided a valid answer, but there was a typo in the question statement. So, although the solution is perfect for the question I asked, it is not for ...
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Pausing questions - feature request
Sometimes, I ask a question, and a few minutes later realize my question is ambiguous and/or unclear and/or would benefit from a major rewrite. At this point, I kind of "panic" and frantically try ...
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How to search in favorite questions?
As the number of my favorite questions increase, it becomes harder to find them in the list. Is there a way to search in my favorite questions?
Also, would it be possible to search in another user's ...
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Title and $\LaTeX$
This is not a question. Just a request.
This Issue has been discussed previously and I think this can be implemented technically as well.
Writing title all in latex disables the options like "Open ...
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Can I re-ask a question here that I asked on physics.SE?
I asked a question on the physics site that is basically me being stuck on showing something by integrating by parts and there is no physical reasoning involved, just the odd Quantum Mechanics word.
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