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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The (tag-removed) tag and migration
Occasionally I have seen that for low-level questions (such as introductory calculus exercises or similar level) some user replaced the tags by the tag-removed tag1 - to indicate that the question is ...
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Cancel command in MO post
Why the \cancel command does not work in the last part of the following post:
A cohomology associated to a Riemannian manifold
I would like to strike through the last part of the ...
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Accepting an answer to a closed question
To my surprise I discovered that I can accept an answer to my question that has been closed.
I am not sure whether it is "good" or "bad", my question is whether it is an intended feature and if yes, ...
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What if I want to increase bounty by somebody else?
I found an exciting question that somebody gave bounty of 50, and I would like to increase it. Seems there is no way to do it. Why?
Also, I never tried this so I don't know: can I increase my own ...
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Regarding a deleted post
I posted a question on mathoverflow. It was regarding a counter example that I had found. Later I realized that I should not have done that and deleted it. I am writing a research paper on how I ...
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MathOverflow feature: facilitating collaborations (algebra & other sciences)
One of my goals as an academic is to facilitate collaborations between my field ("pure algebra") and other sciences. We can't expect administrative staff (for instance, the Dean of Science) to help ...
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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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Moving back my question to MO
References on Gerbes question is migrated from MO to meta.
It was never about MO. I was only giving information about search I have done. None of the comments except one has objection with this. None ...
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Should MathOverflow request suggested tags feature?
There is a feature of showing suggested tags after the body of a question is included. These suggestions are based on the body of the question. More details can be found in these posts:
Automatically ...
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Pronunciation questions
Every so often, I have a question about the correct pronunciation of a math term/name that I’ve only read, and the answer isn’t on Wikipedia. Some examples from my past:
“Hartshorne” (I ended up ...
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What should I do if I want to ask an almost duplicate question?
There already exists a question very like the one I want to ask, with a very partial answer by the OP. I want to ask the same question but restricted to a special case, for which I hope more can be ...
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Copyright of MathOverflow logo?
What is the copyright of the MathOverflow logo? Is it in the public domain? In this site they say that "most simple logos simply do not have the required level of creativity to be considered ...
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How about a way to flag a question for migration to another site without down voting it
If the question is valid, it seems churlish to down-vote it, especially since doing so affects the user's reputation adversely. Sure, it's a mistake to ask a question on the wrong SE site, but I don't ...
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Editing a question admitting a trivial example
In this question I forgot to add that I want the space to be sufficiently large.
One user wrote a (correct) answer pointing out a trivial example on $2$ points, answering the question.
It was my ...
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MathOverflow logo and icon for icon font
I would like to add the MathOverflow icon to Academicons together with some other mathematical research related icons. Does anyone know where I could get/request a vector version of the MathOverflow ...
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Repeated TeXifying of question titles
A specific user has recently edited a lot of years-old posts in which, as far as I can tell, he is just TeXifying titles. While I assume that this is being done with good intentions, it seems likely ...
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On the top-level tag ra.rings-and-algebras
I'm confused about the scope of the ra.rings-and-algebras
The problem is related to the ambiguity of the word "algebra", which essentially has two (rough) meanings
the meaning "ring&...
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Is 10% with accepted answers typical?
At the current moment posting this, 5 out of the 50 front-page postings
(that I see)
are are accepted answers. My question is:
Q. Is this typical, about $10$% accepted answers at any one time?
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What do you want to do in Rio?
Four weeks from tomorrow (at this writing) is March 5, the deadline for submitting abstracts for Short Communications for the ICM 2018 (International Congress of Mathematicians) happening In the first ...
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"Singular Perturbation" is not among tags
Can I ask MO to define a new tag "Singular perturbation". I did not find this tag among the tag list.
Thank you
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The meaning of "The number of Followers of a tag"
My apology if my question is elementary:
One can find the number of followers of a given tag.
What is the meaning of this number? Is it the number of participant who are (reading ?)or ...
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Chatroom links disappeared
I like to hang out in the homotopy theory chatroom. I used to navigate to this and other chatrooms using a link on the main site. This seems to have disappeared. Is there a reason for this change? I ...
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Should I give a link to my recent published paper to an old question of mine on MO?
4 years and 6 months ago I asked on MO: "Who introduced the terms “equivalence relation” and “equivalence class”?" It was somehow a resting stone of a long journey that started 13 years ago from today ...
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Undelete request, Question 290941
Could I request that Question 290941 be undeleted? It is a sensible question, and I spent some time finding a reference for the answer. It was then deleted by the poster - I have no idea why.
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What happened to Stackedit?
I'm not sure if this question is appropriate for MOmeta, but as the tool had been suggested for offline editing, I'll give it a try (please vote to close if not appropriate).
Stackedit got updated in ...
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Should MO perhaps give numerological abductive questions a little more benefit of the doubt
Background:
This question is a much more specific version of a metaMO question which was deleted for some odd reason after one poster said in a comment that he agreed with everything said in the post....
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Why was this question made community wiki?
Yesterday I asked a question seeking published references studying popular games, to start building up an undergraduate research program. Today I woke up to find it had been made community wiki. Now, ...
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Why was my question closed while it looks like similar questions are still open?
Recently, my question regarding a good introductory book on mathematical risk theory was closed because it was deemed off-topic and not research-level mathematics.
However, I think that multiple ...
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Why is a question asking for powerful arguments for intuitionism not a research level question?
I'd like to read some well-vetted and modern pieces arguing for intuitionism (the "intuitionist stance"?), which I take to be:
As the intuitionist sees it, the rules of logic used by mathematicians ...
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Policy for Naming of Tags
I just saw that the Reedy cofibrancy of the bar construction for algebras question is tagged with "simplicial-stuff" and I wonder if such "sloppy" tag-naming is considered acceptable/appropriate.
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Another close reason: "subsumed"?
This happened few hours ago: the question Series involving gamma function about the sum of a specific series, probably not research level, was followed by another one, Series involving factorials ...
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Why did flagging a comment for deletion made it disappear immediately?
I wrote a comment under an answer, claiming that the answer was wrong. The poster replied to me in another comment, showing that my argument was wrong. Acknowledging this, I deleted my comment and ...
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What to do when it seems that downvotes are not justified (for example, when they are directed "against" the person and not "against" the question)?
This question now has a score of $-2$ and it could be that it will be lowered still.
It is an elementary attempt to resolve an open problem.
I shared it with you because I am an amateur and almost ...
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Should tag-wiki include a source where it is taken from?
The main purpose of the tag-info (and especially the tag-excerpt) is to help with tagging. This is especially important for the tags with ambiguous name. But usually tag-info also contains some brief ...
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How should questions about (various meanings of) coverings be tagged?
The word covering has various meanings in mathematics. Quite often choosing a tag-name which has several unrelated meanings can lead to problems - typically bunch of rather unrelated questions end up ...
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What would be good place to list unresolved bounties?
Probably at least some MathOverflow users have been in a situation like this.
I have placed a bounty on some question in hope to get an answer (or a better answer or a specific type of answer, for ...
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Can external links to MO questions/answers be made more informative?
On several occasions I have sent by email links to MO questions or answers. They appear just like this - say, https://mathoverflow.net/a/287214/41291
Is it difficult to achieve that such links in ...
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Why is it not possible to offer a bounty for longer than 7 days?
I had offered a bounty for the following question that expires in 7 hours:
What did Gelfand mean by suggesting to study "Heredity Principle" structures instead of categories?
The results ...
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Removing questions after answers
I recently gave a simple counter example to a question posed (I'm sure the mods can see the question). Probably the user was embarrassed by this. The question was promptly deleted and with that my ...
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Should metaMO allow actual requests for mathematical consulting services to be remunerated either by honoraria or by "usual and customary" fees?
Should metaMO allow actual requests for mathematical consulting services to be remunerated either by honoraria or by "usual and customary" fees?
If so, should MO receive reasonable "broker" fees for ...
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Should we exercise a bit more tolerance towards newcomers?
What bothers me quite a bit is that many people come to MO to get some help with their mathematical problems and are met with nothing but our standard "closed as not research level" verdict and a few ...
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Can anyone learn anything from a downvote without an accompanying rationale in a comment?
I have been on enough web boards in both the arts and sciences that I have learned not to be bothered by downvotes in and of themselves.
What does bother me is a downvote without an accompanying ...
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Is there a clear rule against "check this proof" type questions?
I discovered that the meta question "Questions" of the type "I have written something, please give me feedback" from more than three years ago still does not have any answer, while ...
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Would this question be appropriate for (main) MO?
Note #1: title of this post was modified as per a great suggestion from Todd Trimble
Note #2 ( to site moderators): I truly consider this question to be a legit "meta" question about the MathOverflow ...
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What's the point of having an *MO* chat without LaTeX enabled?
The title says it all. :-)
In response to the automatic disapproval of the question body:
I tried to edit the chat messages after submitting but couldn't figure out how to do that either. (And I ...
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Flagging spam user
I just noticed an "Autobiographer" badge awarded to this unusually named user: https://mathoverflow.net/users/117744 . I immediately moved to flag this obviously spam account, only to realise that ...
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Migration site list lacks entries
The question What is the integral of temperature over space called? obviously belongs elsewhere. Most probably the proper place is physics.SE, but in any case not here on meta, not on math.SE, and not ...
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How does one cite a MO post with an anonymous author?
I asked the question "Averaging $2^{\omega(n)}$ over a region" because this is a necessary step in a research paper I am writing. The answer is detailed and does exactly what I need, and it would be ...
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More than 1 question in a thread
Is it bad practice to ask more than $1$ question in a MO post, like here?
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If I can't get an answer on math.stackexchange.com or dsp.stackexchange.com, when should I post here?
I have a question about finite fields that I posted on math.stackexchange.com a few weeks ago, for what seems to me like a tough problem, and I haven't gotten an answer (or figured it out myself).
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