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Let's require registration to ask a question
It's... uh... been a while since this request was made. We require a few things before turning a switch like this - it's pretty harmful to small sites to have what is a large chunk of potential askers ...
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How to proceed when a bad question floods the site?
The question is not spam in the literal sense of the word. And since the system is automatically trained by spam flags, you shouldn't use spam flags.
You should downvote and vote to close. And you ...
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How to bump someone else's old, unanswered question that's exactly the question I want to ask?
This is exactly where bounties are for. You have just enough reputation (75 or more) to post one. The Help Center article begins to talk about your own question, but posting a bounty on somebody else'...
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Master thesis: asking people to check the math
The question you propose is probably not a good fit for MSE. Questions on MSE should be narrowly focused and of broad interest to the community of mathematics students and mathematicians who comprise ...
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How to quickly find recent questions with lots of upvotes?
The article "How do I search?" in the help center has a section "Dates" - which explains how to use dates with the operators created: and ...
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Some questions look greyed on Meta
Most likely you have ignored one of the tags on those questions. This can easily happen by accident (here is a recent case on our sister site Super User).
If you didn't intend to do this, there's a ...
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How do I get to know if my question has been commented or answered?
Check your inbox:
Like this:
The number of unread messages will show up in red:
(thanks to Daniel Fischer for providing the last image!)
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Why has my flagging option "very low quality" disappeared?
It has not been removed, but if a question is already in the Close Vote review queue, you can't flag it as Very Low Quality anymore. The 'negative' review result for questions in the Low Quality Posts ...
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Ability to have a search feature to find search through personal question history
You can use the advanced search functionality: searching for e.g. user:me is:q derivative will give all posts by you, which are questions, and contain the word '...
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Delete own question or answer via mobile app
This is an issue that concerns the entire network. The relevant feature request exists since a long time on the main meta Allow us to vote to delete from the Android app
It is alright to have it ...
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what makes inactive questions active
In this case, there was an answer posted earlier today, and shortly after deleted by the author. For users below 10k reputation, such activities are invisible, but users with at least 10k can see it.
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How do you search for duplicates?
In case someone stumble upon this question these days, there is a great tool for finding duplicates since 2016 : Approach0. It's quite remarkable, it can for example find same expression with ...
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Did the profile tags change size?
You are right, this is part of some recent network-wide changes to the profile: Now live: A fully responsive profile. Some of the reasons for the changes are in other posts on Meta Stack Exchange, e.g....
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Asking and editing good questions, but still receiving more downvotes than upvotes
What you should do is you should review the guidance on what to do when you are restricted from asking questions, and follow the advice there: https://math.stackexchange.com/help/question-bans
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Problem : You have reached your question limit
This happens when several of your questions are not well-received by the community.
Some things to consider for your next questions:
Don't ask a question and answer it later that day. Self-answering ...
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How do I get to know if my question has been commented or answered?
Another way for this problem is to install the software of stackexchange for your device (phone or tablet with android operating system or IOS) and active notifications for this software to send you ...
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