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News of potential interest to the MO community

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Rationale for moderator deletion of a non-spammy, off-topic question

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Asking whether this question will be suitable and hence answered by people on MO ? ( I will use career and advice tag)

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Should we blacklist or delete the “research” tag?

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Unfortunate title length limitation when performing dead link maintenance

support hyperlinks titles minor-edits

answered Jul 12 at 3:57 Gerry Myerson 34.9k

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Rationale for migration to MSE of a well-received question on MO

discussion migration moderation

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Using MathOverflow to help with referee work

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Self advertising and posting a candidate constructive proof

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modified Jul 4 at 8:18 Manfred Weis 10.3k

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My question is removed

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modified Jul 3 at 11:11 Martin Sleziak 4,252

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What happened to the stack exchange app for iOS?

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modified Jun 29 at 18:31 Carlo Beenakker 130k

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unaccepting an answer, and then accepting own similar answer

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answered Jun 28 at 22:10 Will Sawin 98.1k

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How to @ a user with non-Latin characters?

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modified Jun 23 at 11:48 Martin Sleziak 4,252

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What is the correct action if the OP finds an answer incorrect (with a recent example)?

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Pink questions in the list

support tag-watching

modified Jun 18 at 6:04 Martin Sleziak 4,252

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What is yellow about? [duplicate]

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modified Jun 18 at 5:29 Martin Sleziak 4,252

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What should the modal window for first-time askers say?

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Watched tags highlighting lost

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Prosus' acquisition and its effect on MathOverflow

discussion stackexchange

modified Jun 11 at 11:47 Martin Sleziak 4,252

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Citation helper: can we have it automatically convert $…$s into \$…\$s?

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modified Jun 8 at 13:42 Calvin Khor 147

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How do off-topic question askers find MO?

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Acceptability of “Changes forced by the pandemic”

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modified Jun 4 at 20:13 Noah Snyder 25.3k

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No MathJax line wrapping in Firefox

discussion mathjax

modified Jun 3 at 16:35 მამუკა ჯიბლაძე 15.9k

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Make it evident that bounties are non-refundable or refund them on other people's questions

discussion feature-request bounty

answered Jun 1 at 3:07 Andy Putman 38.8k

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Concern about sending to academia.stackexchange

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Math-mode formula in comment breaks incorrectly across lines

bug mathjax comments

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Best of MathOverflow, or papers inspired by MathOverflow

discussion faq site-promotion

modified May 24 at 17:14 GH from MO 78.2k

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Should the rules for deleting own questions be modified? - an example

discussion feature-request deleted-questions

modified May 24 at 9:42 მამუკა ჯიბლაძე 15.9k

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Deletion of on-topic comment threads

discussion comments moderation chat deletions

modified May 15 at 8:34 Asaf Karagila♦ 33.1k

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How to make sure your questions never disappear in a blackhole?

support deleted-questions

modified May 15 at 6:43 Martin Sleziak 4,252

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Efficacy of bounties by reward amount

discussion bounty statistics

modified May 13 at 10:06 Martin Sleziak 4,252

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What happened to the fonts?

discussion design

modified May 12 at 3:25 M.G. 4,871

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Moderator Elections: bug reporting for new voting UI

discussion election

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Is there any process to appeal suspensions?

support feature-request specific-user account-suspension

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Three-vote close?

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modified May 4 at 17:33 Joseph O'Rourke 140k

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Why are there two separate tags (open-problem) and (open-problems)?

discussion tags specific-tag

modified May 4 at 8:55 Martin Sleziak 4,252

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How to deal with answers that don't answer anything?

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modified May 4 at 3:28 Manfred Weis 10.3k

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Revising the help page on “What topics can I ask around here?”

discussion feature-request asking-questions new-users help-center

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Can we get rid of the “featured on meta” main meta links?

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History of MathOverflow

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modified Apr 29 at 9:41 Martin Sleziak 4,252

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Can I ask a question on MathOverflow and also on another site?

discussion faq on-topic math-stackexchange cross-posting

modified Apr 28 at 17:04 Tim Campion♦ 41.5k

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Annoying popup about cookies

feature-request

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Name of the site

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answered Apr 26 at 12:38 Federico Poloni 16.9k

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(When) are “career advice” questions on-topic here? If and when such a question is on-topic, what to keep in mind in answering such a question?

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modified Apr 25 at 11:30 Martin Sleziak 4,252

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Is it possible to list all mathoverflow users from a given country?

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modified Apr 23 at 12:32 Federico Poloni 16.9k

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Can I undelete questions deleted by the OP if I find them interesting?

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2021 Community Moderator Election

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Answers in comments are increasingly more common

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answered Apr 20 at 22:22 none 1,109

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