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Users using AI to write lots of answers
Recently, there are a lot of new pseudonymous users with a peculiar pattern of posts: only answers, no questions, in lots of widely differing areas of mathematics (where it is unlikely that one random ...
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There is no any answer box for this post
I would like to add an answer to this question but there is no any answer box for this question.
What is the reason?
Nonequivalent definitions in Mathematics
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Posting multiple "answers" to an already answered question
This question was asked and correctly answered three weeks ago. Since then another user has posted, as of today, five other "answers" describing his thoughts about related questions, ...
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Edit history lost on migration
According to a comment, @Marco's answer to Notation about n choose k permutations was edited before migration. However, nothing displays in the edit history. (This seems appropriate to ask here since ...
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Should we allow link-only answers that point to stable, well known and respectable sites?
I have just been presented with an answer in the VLQ queue that consisted essentially in a link to a preprint on arXiv. The user having posted it is a high reputation user, so he definitely knows the ...
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Why is the question about SO(4) embedding into SU(3) attracting so many troll answers
This question: Is SO(4) a subgroup of SU(3)? has already attracted 5 rude spam answers (most of which have been deleted by the time I posted this, but if you have enough reputation you can see them). ...
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What is the correct action if the OP finds an answer incorrect (with a recent example)?
While I certainly think that the OP of the question Non trivial zeros of Riemann zeta function definitely abuses MO in a couple of ways, still I believe it is a good example for the question in the ...
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Feature request: displaying all answers of a given user
It frequently happens that I want to find my old answer. The list of answers on my page consists of 35 pages, so searching in it using my browser search is too time consuming. On the other hand, if I ...
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Does the number of answers really drop over years?
This was caused by an answer of mine to the question Slight downward trend in Q & A. I was adding another update to that answer when I noticed that the query I was using there now can be run for ...
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Collaborate to answer
Question: If the question is about proving $P$, which, pointed out in comments, follows from $Q$ and $R$. Is it acceptable to write an answer only containing the proof of $Q$, as part of collaboration?...
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Not accepting answers
In my opinion, there is a moral obligation on those asking questions to do something with the answers: Either accept one, or to explain why none of the answers is satisfactory. I do not see this ...
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Is it a bad practise to add details (limited) to some one's answer?
A user X answered my (some one else's) question in a compact way (less than $10$ lines).
Upon discussion, user X has explained somethings in comment which made answer clearer.
Is it considered to ...
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What do you see to upvote an answer?
Question is as in the title?
What makes you to up vote an answer?
Most of my answers are with $0$ upvotes. I am trying to understand the reason. One of the reasons could be that mathematics that I ...
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reminder for comments/responses
Suppose a user commented on my post and due to some reason I overlooked and then forgot.
As it is my question, the one who responded for my question would not care to write another comment if I do ...
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Asking questions with out answering any one else’s question
Here I only ask questions and do not (can not answer for lack of knowledge) answer any of the questions.
Sometimes I feel it is bad. Some questions that I know answer to are either closed as not ...
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Tagging Answers?
Simple question: should the tagging of a question cover answers?
Suppose I asked a question about a mathematical problem and in the answers contained for example:
pointers to literature
algorithms
...
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Should I accept an answer to the "concrete" part of my question and ask another one about the "vague part"?
Suppose I am trying to prove a certain statement $S$ and find that a certain plausible statement $T$ implies $S$. However, I don't think that they are equivalent, and so there are possibly other ...
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There is no an answer button for certain Wiki question [duplicate]
Edit: My problem has been solved about 12 hours after that I wrote this meta post.
I wish to answer this question but it seems that it is impossible to answer it.
It is written that "To ...
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The "Oldest" answer
Assume that a given question has several answers.
So in the answer part there are 3 button "Active", "Oldest" and "Vote"
When we clique on "oldest", we lead to a unique answer.
Is ...
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What to do with a question answered in pieces?
I asked a question with multiple sub-questions, all in the same theme. There are four answers, which together answer the whole question without significant overlap.
I'd like to move this question ...
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Undo accepting the answer
When I accept someone's answer to my questio, then this user gets +15 reputation while I get +2 reputation. What will happen if I undo my decision? And what if I further acept somebody's else answer? ...
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How much detail do I have to provide in an answer?
In a mathoverflow answer, one usually doesn't want to provide all the details of a proof, especially if the question is not really research level (but not trivial enough to be closed). I feel that a ...
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Is there a problem with answers clarified in comments, but the clarification not reflected in the answer itself?
Occasionally I am re-reading my answers in case I've overlooked something or left some misguiding misprint or something. What I noticed is that there are a couple of them where I was not entirely ...
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Delete wrong answers or leave them for instructional purposes
It is tempting to just delete a wrong answer on mathoverflow.net. However, some errors are subtle, and it might be instructive to label some wrong answers as such, but leave them on MO to highlight ...
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Is universal public visibility of up-votes/reputation/badges really beneficial?
Parabolically, suppose that Quentin asks a question that may as well be well-thought-out and interesting; suppose Albert and Beatrice work out answers A and B, that Albert's answer looks good and ...
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The largest number of answers
I would like to know how to find the posts that contain the largest number of answers.
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Question with several subquestions
Suppose one question posting contains several question. If I can answer one question, but cannot answer all of the questions, is it ok to post my answer as an answer, and not just as a comment?
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How do I link to a MO answer?
Sometimes you see in answers or questions a link to an earlier answer to a different question. The url often is a mysterious sequence of digits and letters. How is it obtained? Linking to a question ...
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My question has already been asked, but not really answered? What should I do?
I have a question I am curious about: call it $Q$.
There exists a posted question $P$ on MO which asks my question $Q$. More precisely, $P$ states a series of (slightly vague) questions, one of ...
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I can't understand the answers
I found myself in a slightly awkward situation.
"Working" (hobby) on group conjugation I learnt about quandles and I finally managed to formulate some questions of some of the issues that interest me ...
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"This question has been answered in the comments."
Athanagor Wurlitzer has recently been adding answers saying "This question has been answered in the comments" (see, e.g. https://mathoverflow.net/a/156051/3).
I'm inclined to delete these answers (...
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Dealing with possible incorrectness
I have seen a few responses on MO that I think are either incorrect or possibly incorrect.
What is the best way to draw attention to possible incorrectness?
(I provide two examples below; if this is ...
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Trouble understanding criterion to answer protected question
This question is protected, and the box at the end says: "To answer it, you must have earned at least 10 reputation on this site."
What does this mean?
I am asking because I am currently shown as ...
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Appropriate Reaction to a Failed Reference Request on MO
This follows Amir Asghari's advice concerning my comment on the answer to
Answering my own question:
Background of my question is, that I can envisage different reasons for reference requests on ...
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Answering my own question
As a typical scenario, assume I ask for examples of some mathematical phenomenon and somebody answers my question and provides 2 families of examples. After several months, I figure a third family of ...
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