Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Are my SE questions too difficult?
I hope it is OK to ask this like this here. I thought about asking on MO, but then I was warned because once I had a question that was not appropriate.
I also was told once how my questions are not ...
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In the new site design, what should the background look like on MO?
SE is giving us pretty limited options for how the site is going to look going forward. Our most popular customization request, judging either from Carlo Beenakker's original suggestion or the ...
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How can I customize site in my browser to get “old feel” look of MathOverflow?
It seems that some of the users are not too happy with the new design and prefer the old look.
I will admit that I have not much experience with this stuff, but from I've read on various meta sites ...
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Is there a best day of the week for offering a bounty in MathOverflow?
I'm thinking that the weekend is not a good time to offer a bounty because people are less likely to be at work. So fewer people get to see the offer before it expires.
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Can anybody provide a clear list of design changes that are obligatory, with explanations?
With several heavily loaded questions here on meta and the StackExchange meta, -
MathOverflow updated site theme is ready for testing!
Responsive Design Themes - What can sites customize and how can ...
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Before MathOverflow
MathOverflow is almost ten years old now. Soon (if not already) the webpage will be old enough that some of the users may not have memories of the internet before MO. What were favorite (internet ...
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I don't like the new design and I am not the only one
MathOverflow isn't some experiment in website design.
I knew where everything was and what colour it was meant to be.
The tabs are now small and harder to click on. The colours are different shades ...
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How can we visually differentiate MathOverflow from MathStackExchange within the constraints of the new design themes?
The new design theme introduced for MO here is now live. Several issues with the new theme were raised in that discussion. I'd like to discuss one of them, which is sort of buried in my answer and ...
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What is the plan for the new site theme?
If you're like me, you might have been surprised to learn from this meta post that StackExchange is in the process of completely revamping the infrastructure underlying all of its websites to make ...
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Can we please reopen the colorful language in mathematics question?
A long time ago, the question
What are some examples of colorful language in serious mathematics papers?
was closed because someone posted a copy of Spencer Bloch's review of Milne's Étale ...
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Why am I not getting notification for comments?
Why am I not getting notification for comments to some answer to my question in inbox?
Marc Hoyois’s last comment to my question
$2$-fiber product is a scheme then map of stacks is representable did ...
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Should @ in referring to some one in comments be changed
Suppose I want to refer some person X in comments, I write @X.
Suppose the name of that person is not in English script, it is not clear how to refer that person. Some times it comes automatically ...
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Who wrote the year of death in the profile page of the late William Thurston?
Prof. William Thurston passed away on Aug. 21, 2012. His MO profile page gives Feb. 22, 2012 as the date of his last log-in. Who is the person who wrote the year of his death in his profile page? Was ...
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Deprecating an old link
This question comes from this list of edits: https://mathoverflow.net/posts/86827/revisions
An old answer included a link to a now-deprecated website (which has been taken over by a porn website); a ...
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Should there be Anonymous Comments?
I currently got a downvote for my question Making a Graph Eulerian for Applying TSP Heuristics, but unfortunately the downvoter didn't leave a comment explaining what the motivation was, thus ...
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Why was there pushback on a user's profile image?
The comments on the OP for the following question are disconcerting: Why is Voevodsky's motivic homotopy theory 'the right' approach?
From what I can gather, the OP must have had ...
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MathOverflow updated site theme is ready for testing!
As part of implementing the new unified themes across the network, we're gradually rolling out updated site themes for each site. As of today, we have enabled your updated site theme for testing.
If ...
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Why is this answer about naming bad?
To my understanding, this answer:
directly answer the question, with examples in math
has foundation in cognitive psychology and cognitive linguistics
3 downvotes affirm that it misses an important ...
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Might MO users have any interest in this question?
It's not permitted to edit a self-deleted question. To do so, one must first undelete it. Following a number of Collatz-related questions I lost my question asking rights the moment I undeleted my ...
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Are all terms clearly defined in Help fragments? If not, who can contribute?
I could be hypocritical and not specify the specific case that induced this question. But actually I am after a golden badge :D
Its description says this:
Ask a well-received question on 100 ...
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Suspected foul play with a triple of questions
A little while ago someone asked (now deleted, but link still here: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/314572/advice-on-how-i-can-i-publish-my-solution-of-the-riemann-hypothesis?noredirect=1#...
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tea.mathoverflow.net deprecated
The Stack Exchange staff have asked us to remove tea (what came before meta) from the *.mathoverflow.net domain, for security reasons.
The content of tea will ...
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What to do when a post contains a “suspicious” link (possibly with copyrighted material)?
Occasionally there some posts on the main site contain links where it is very natural to suspect that the link provides access to some material without having the necessary legal rights. Should the ...
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Tag referring to a book/ specific collection of problems
The scottish-book has been created today by one user, posting various questions from the given book, or adding references and retagging existing a few questions when they appear in the given book.
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What caused the spike in views and visits on September 23, 2018?
Just curious: What might have caused the spike in visits & views on that Sunday?
A spike in the pulse of mathematics.
Screenshot from site analytics.
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Area 51 Proposal: Math Challenges
On September 1st, I started a proposal on Area 51, for users to share, discuss and answer mathematical challenges that they have. I did this because I felt that these types of problems have no place ...
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Proper protocol for edit wars
In this question, I made an edit to change the formatting because I thought it was inappropriate (related meta discussion).
The author swiftly reverted my edit to restore the original version, ...
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Is it OK to abuse Mathjax for emphasis?
The author of this question uses Mathjax (in a way different from its intended usage) to make parts of his question stand out more; for instance, to display some headers in red or to alter the spacing ...
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The meaning of the badge “Sportsmanship”
I would appreciate if you explain on the meaning of the badge "Sportmanship".
It is described as below but I can not understand what does it mean. May you describe this badge in an equivalent words?...
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Is Mathoverflow aware of its role of popularizing mathematics? [closed]
I read book of prof. Michał Heller. He received award of Hugo Steinhaus for popularizing science. In his speech he mentioned Steinhaus in anecdote. In 1952 Secretary of PAN (Polish Academy of Science) ...
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Using results from refereed papers
If a question pops up which is answered by a theorem inside some paper I’ve refereed that isn’t in print yet, is it appropriate to answer the question and cite the (presumably) forthcoming paper or ...
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Were there some recent changes to the moderators' team?
I have noticed that Mariano Suárez-Alvarez is no longer listed among the moderators and his profile page no longer shows diamond by his name. (I am pretty sure I remember that he was one of the ...
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Withdrawn question
I have just noticed that this question, which I have found quite exciting (and so have at least 14 other users who have voted for it) has been withdrawn by the OP. Is there any way to figure out the ...
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What should I do if I have a question on inactive post?
I recently asked this question about gamma function, and Vincent law commented a link to another post which stated similar question.
There I found a link to MathOverflow post.
I visited there, and I ...
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How to ask general questions about research directions in given area
Here are examples of two questions which I would like to ask. I am afraid to ask them, because they might be closed. The question about 3-manifolds might survive. The question about sporadic groups ...
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Is there a way to discuss the correctness of the proof of the RH by Atiyah in MO?
I just made a question in MO to discuss the correctness of the proof provided by Prof. Atiyah for the Riemann hypothesis (link here: Is there an error in the pre print published by Atiyah with his ...
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Should Kevin Buzzard's Lean question be left in its original state?
Kevin Buzzard asked this question, which incorporated a long section of background discussion. Federico Poloni removed that section. Yemon Choi commented that he thought the question was OK before ...
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Are help requests to entitle specific papers appropriate for MathOverflow?
The title of a paper has crucial importance, since when it is well thought, other researchers will have more possibilities of finding it when in need, and of wondering its content when encountered. I ...
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One number on top of another with mathjax?
Probably a simple question, but how can I write my script in mathjax to show one number on top of another and with a minus sign in the left side?
Like this:
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Are Links to Articles Behind a Paywall Acceptable Answers?
This question boils down to whether an answer to a question should contain sufficiently free and easily accessible detail about the solution to a question.
So IMHO it would be perfectly acceptable, ...
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Bumping the question if it receives upvotes but no answer
Suppose a question is posted 3 days ago and it got decent number of up votes, say $5$ but did not receive any answer yet and not even comments which says some thing in direction of an answer..
In ...
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Should we have new moderator elections?
Mathoverflow has seven moderators, but many of them seem to be inactive (at least from the point of view of an unprivileged user): for instance, they are not active on meta, and they moderated few ...
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Restriction on Number of edits
Book about fluid dynamics asked Apr 13 '10 edited 1 hour ago
Are there examples of conjectures supported by heuristic arguments that have been finally disproved? asked 21 hours ago edited 2 hours ...
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To contact moderator who responded for flag
Suppose I have raised a flag and moderator has responded for that flag, accepted/declined it.
I am happy/not happy with their decision and would like to thank/explain the point to the moderator who ...
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Why was my non-big-list question made community wiki?
This question of mine was made community wiki by someone other than me. I'm aware of discussion (e.g. here and here) arguing that big-list questions should be CW so that the voting system can be used ...
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Imgur image inaccessible
I noticed when this question, How do these primes jump?,
was bumped to the front page, the image I posted:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/RGsqP.jpg
will no longer load. Possibly my local problem?
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Is this site not intended to help mathematicians and aspiring mathematicians become more informed about the subject?
My account says "we are no longer accepting questions from this account". Although some of my questions have been negatively received (and taking into account the fastidious nature of MathOverflow), I ...
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What is the intended use of the (proofs) tag?
There is a tag called proofs. This tag has empty tag-info/usage guidance.
Without any usage guidance it is quite likely to be used incorrectly.
The fact that there are many deleted questions having ...
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Should there be a separate tag for videos?
Sometimes there are questions about videos, movies, documentaries, etc. (I'll add a small sample below.)
Would it be useful to have a separate tag for this topic? This could possibly help when ...
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Removal of the “symplectic” tag
There is a symplectic tag on MO that currently contains just two questions. The first question so tagged dates from March 26 2017, so this makes this tag at least 1 year and 4 months old. I believe ...
