Questions tagged [asking-questions]
Questions specifically about the process of asking questions on this site.
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How to write a good MathOverflow question?
How do I write a good MathOverflow question? Got any advice for me?
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Should users be shown some basic information before posting the first question?
In an answer to another question discussing possibilities how to decrease the number of off-topic questions1 it was mentioned that: Perhaps we should force a person to read the rules before posting ...
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Should MathOverflow require registration to ask a question?
Probably anybody visiting this site regularly noticed that quite often there are posts which are not at MO-level and quite frequently also of very low quality. (Many of them are simply copy-paste of ...
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Why is my question apparently not research-level?
I just posted this question a few hours ago, and it's already had two votes to close for being off-topic (i.e., not of "research-level mathematics"). Considering it's ultimately a question about ...
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How to ask multiple very specific questions about a paper?
I'm slowly going through some topos theory papers by Lawvere. In almost every paper, there are many small sayings and sometimes entire sentences which I do not understand and have never explicitly ...
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Should I edit this question or make a new question?
Should the Grothendieck ring of varieties be K_0 of numerical motives?
I want to change it to:
1) Asking about after tensoring with $\Qb$
2) Asking if there is a map in some direction and if ...
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When we close questions and suggest MSE, should we link to their How to Ask?
When we close questions by saying
MathOverflow is for mathematicians to ask each other questions about their research. See Math.StackExchange to ask general questions in mathematics.
...should the ...
