Tagged Questions
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Avoiding duplicates
I was wondering if I could ask a question on meta whether some question is on the site or not. I'm asking this since sometimes one might ask a duplicate question which he/she searched for and didn't ...
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Should the description of the bounty page be changed?
I recently made a 500 reputation bounty on this question. As I was really interested in getting an answer I crossposted it on MathOverflow. On MathOverflow I got an answer and for completeness reasons ...
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Is cross-posted forbidden/discouraged on Stack Exchange sites? If so, why?
Math people:
I have never posted a question to Mathematics meta before and I hope this is the right thing to do. Yesterday I posted a question to Math Stack Exchange (is there a name for this ...
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Auto login problem
I have a math stack exchange account and so does my roommate. However, we cannot switch users on our shared computer without erasing the cookies, history etc. in our browser. Everytime we log out ...
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How to ensure candidates pre-commit for next election
This is a follow up to How can we best judge who has the skills to be a moderator? . Two moderators have recently resigned, and they say there will be another election soon. Some recent elections had ...
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Cereal downvotes
It would appear I have a serial downvoter, probably based on my comments at Vector field on an odd sphere
Anything to be done?
How very odd. I put Cereal on purpose. I do not think it confuses the ...
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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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Closing a “not a real question” that *could* make sense
Edit: This is not a proposal. I am just asking what I should be doing.
In this question: Number theory - Primitive root of $338$ the question as stated doesn't make any sense. However, in the ...
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Editing long questions in stages
I have tried several times now to start on editing a long question that needs serious reformatting. But halfway through someone else edits the question and I can't (or don't feel I shouldn't) finish ...
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Is my question still too bad?
I made this question some days ago, I realized it was poorly written and then I edited it - at the time, I thought it was because I failed to define "result", now I think I added a better definiton ...
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Need \prod to look like \Pi? [closed]
Occasionally I found $\prod$ (\prod) looked like $\sqcap$ (\sqcap). However if memory serves me right, is it more closer to $\Pi$ (\Pi) in many other places? What's more, since \sum is close to ...
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Is it possible to have conjunction of certain “favorite tags”?
In a related post, it was suggested that I answer homework questions. However, there are still certain subjects I don't have a strong understanding of. And so I would like to know if it was possible ...
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Scaling votes for closing (and reopen) a question
As the question about the beauty of mathematics was closed, reopened and there is already a close vote again.
For sure it is possible that we close and reopen the question several times, I think for ...
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Why are there requirements for duplicated questions?
Today I found a questions to be a duplicate, and I even remembered that I gave an answer to the non-duplicate. As I tried to close the duplicate as a duplicate, it told me I can't choose the question ...
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Does a user lose privilege if his reputation decreases below requirement by giving a bounty?
Here is a hypothetical question - Suppose I cross 1000 reputation and become an established user. Then I give 200 reputation as bounty on some problem, so my reputation goes down below 1000. Will I ...
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Announcement: New User Merge Policy/Tool
This post is to call to attention a new tool available for all users that facilitates merging of duplicated/fragmented accounts. Quite often on the site we see users who, for one reason or another, ...
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Filtering tags/questions by subject *and* level of difficulty
Is there any way to filter questions by a certain number of subjects (e.g., real analysis and differential equations)? Additionally, is there a way to filter the questions by difficulty?
The latter ...
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how do you delete a question that you have posted on this website?
Hi how do I delete a question that I've posted on here? Can't seem to find any delete options
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Moderators ignoring flags
For some reason the moderators have ignored my recent flags. My flags have not been declined, deemed helpful, etc. Is there a reason for that?
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Reposting a (mathematical) question that disappeared
Yesterday I posted a comment on a recent math.SE question that interested me, suggesting a "perhaps.. fruitful" approach. Later with a bit more insight I looked back and found the question had ...
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about the questions tagged [difference-equations] or [recurrence-relations]
I discover that the questions tagged difference-equations or recurrence-relations are often similar. I also find difficulties to distinguish clearly between difference equations and recurrence ...
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Is this an adequate place to ask for simplifications on mathematical concepts?
I'm not a professional mathematician nor a skilled amateur mathematician, but I have interest in knowing what is the purpose of some mathematical subjects in a simple and clear way, accessible to a ...
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How do we mark a question with standard Greek variables so that Google will direct someone who searched with English variables to that page?
In mathematics, oftentimes tradition dictates a standard to use non-English variables such as using Greek letters to represent ordinals and cardinals in set theory. How can we mark such questions so ...
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Account is not allowed to suggest edits
From the morning, I was unable to edit any posts . I got the 'edit' tab freezed on my side. I can't click it anymore. When I bring my cursor to it, it says : " Account is not allowed to suggest edits ...
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Need a new Tag for linear groups?
Do we need a new tag for indexing questions about the Linear Groups or other related tags like finite groups or permutation groups can cover them well? Honestly, I asked frequently some questions ...
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Receiving Swearing words as “Answer” (Not “cool”)
Please, I do not want to see or read any swearing words from the users or anyone on the Stack Exchange. I do not need to read them also. I have responsibilities to follow or catch up if needed. Could ...
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Issue with bounty [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What happens if my bounty time expires?
I have kept a bounty of 50 to this question, and it has gone unanswered, but the web-site is asking me to offer the bounty as ...
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Why was my answer converted into a comment?
My answer was converted to a comment, but looking at the according FAQ, I cannot figure out "why?".
The FAQ states:
Answers that do not fundamentally answer the question may be removed. This ...
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How do I know «why» I gained or lost so many points in recalc?
I triggered rep recalc today and promptly lost around 40 points. I am not too concerned about these points, but I am still curious why I lost them. What I am interested in is a summary of the events ...
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How to *contact* a specific user? / Is there any sort of PM (private message) facility available?
As far as I know I can see a user profile and the activity in this site. But is it possible to leave some message for a particular user? Say I want to (please read I have to) tell J.M. something ...
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Does deleting an answer affect the attached reputation?
I have recently seen some answers deleted by the users who had posted them. Do these users keep the reputation points (positive or negative) acquired by these answers just before deletion?
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What's up with all the spambots?
It seems that we are being raided by vandals.
Is there anything to do beside mark as spam? Is the SE network doing anything (possibly legal proceedings, if they are applicable) to help and prevent ...
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What's the best way to combine several answers and comments into a single answer?
What's the best way to combine several answers and comments, all of which contribute, but none of which on its own quite answers the question, into a single answer, focused on the question?
Should I ...
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Can I edit someone else's answer to one of my questions and then accept it?
I have a question that has nearly a final answer, but it could use some rephrasing and updating. What is the idiom for handling this situation? Should attempt to edit the answer and then accept that, ...
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How is acceptance rate calculated?
I am just curious to know. For acceptance rate calculation, does it consider deleted questions as unaccepted? And what about close questions?
This question is so simple yet the site shows that it ...
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migration of a question to Physics.SE
I'd like to migrate this question to Physics.SE and I'd appreciate some help in doing so. thank you
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Broken imgur-links
Is there any plan to take care of broken imgur image-links?
They look like this:
(This picture is taken from Bill Dubuque's answer here which was posted not even two months ago—look at the ...
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Newbie wondering: Personal messages, leftover incomplete answers, …
I have been here for 3 weeks now, and I like to think that I'm gradually understanding, how the place works. However, there are a few things that I haven't figured out yet, and the FAQ didn't give any ...
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what is the meaning of a question being closed.
I'd like to know the meaning of a question being closed. I am under the impression that the OP is not allowed to revise the question anymore. Is there anything more than that ?
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Editors for composing posts befor posting on to math.SE
I like to use an editor to compose my Q&A's in an editor which can enable me to see a preview. I like to do this due to some non-technical reasons such as to avoid the hurry to click the submit ...
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what happens to the questions/solutions written on math.se
I am having this doubdt in mind (although not of any immediate concern to me), what happens to the proofs/solutions/questions written on math.se or math.overflow. Is their any means that that the OP ...
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How not knowing anything about a subject, does one ask better questions?
Just asked a question that got closed, and in fact the question/answer cited as a duplicate was not an answer to me; which is not to say it wasn't an answer to some.
More to the point, I'd like to ...
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Can you copy paste tex code from the question without going the “view source” route?
I have searched for this but did not find anything relevant.
I was wondering if I can just copy latex code from the OPs question while typing my answer without looking at the html source code in my ...
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Renaming tags to plurals
(Edit by KennyTM: Just a reminder, please avoid retagging for pluralization before there is consensus, thanks.)
I propose the following changes in tags:
lie-algebra ===> lie-algebras
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When does an Answer become a Community Wiki post?
Does an answer become automatically a Community Wiki when it is revised too much?
Are those who have enough reputation allowed to transform an answer into a Community Wiki's answer?
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Removing spam links
Why is not advisable to remove spam links? such as the following:
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2896/should-the-constant-pi-be-considered-harmful-closed
I removed the URL but for some ...
