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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What has been the problem with the question?
I have some questions relating to this post. Actually I can't seem to figure out what has gone wrong with the question.
In my view, it was not off-topic. Perhaps my representation may be vague. In ...
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Vote to reopen question regarding connected and total domination on the queen's graph
[Note: Now reopened!]
The question concerns the limit as $n\to\infty$ of $\gamma_t(Q_n)/n$. It is known to be between $\frac{4}{7}$ and $\frac{2}{3}$.
As connected and total domination the queen'...
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Closing one's own question
Sometimes I ask a question and a helpful commenter points out that the question is ill-founded. This seems like a straight-up case for closing the question, but unfortunately the best I can do is vote ...
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Non-research level question
I just gave an answer to the following question:
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/153157/a-lemma-on-the-growth-of-the-number-of-certain-edge-paths-for-a-given-train-trac/153170
but I think the ...
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1000 Questions by Dominic van der Zypen!
Amazing milestone! Our first $1000$-question user.
Question # $1000$:
"Edge sets on 𝜔 maximal with respect to chromatic number".
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Would this question be appropriate on the main site?
I would like to ask a "big list" style question on the main site.
The question would be "How do we pronounce the names of famous mathematicians?".
Each answer would be an audio ...
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A case when the closure reason might be unclear to the OP (and possibly others)
There is this question I have read about the 3x+1 conjecture so I am thinking of 3x-1 instead closed as not research level.
It is about replacing $3n+1$ with $3n-1$ in the Collatz conjecture.
OP shows ...
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Efficacy of bounties by reward amount
Is there any data available on how often bountied questions receive answers? Can we stratify by bounty amount, to see if we're actually 'getting more bang for our buck' when we bounty higher amounts?
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Clicking question author username sends to revision history
This happens with Every mathematician has only a few tricks: the link with the author username leads to the revision history. I checked several other questions, including some cw (this one is cw), ...
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About votes by 101 users
Related: this
So I have just run a query at SEDE, and get the following data:
Upvotes cast by rep 101 users: 66626
Upvotes cast by all users: 1777003
Hence by simple calculation, we get $$\frac {...
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What if I posted a (perhaps...) nice answer, but to the wrong question?
First of all, I apologize for asking this question if the topic has already been debated on the MO.meta, but I did not succeed in finding anything similar: and now the question.
Nearly a year ago I ...
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What's the difference between two off-topic flags?
I'm sure that this is somewhere on MMO, but my searching hasn't turned it up.
When I flag a question as off-topic, two of the options that I am given are "This question does not appear to be about ...
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Can I ask for criticism of a paper or theory?
Can I ask for criticism or improvement advice for a paper or theory available online?
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Not a duplicate, but
Just encountered two questions,
ADE type Dynkin diagrams
and
Is there a common genesis for ADE classifications?
IMO, they are very-very similar, but this is not really a duplicate case, rather, ...
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A tribute to the owners of the set-theory golden tag
In this slightly unusual and relaxed post,
I would like to express my admiration for
our all-time top rep user Joel David Hamkins,
in the spirit of the jon-skeet-facts post
from the sibling ...
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How to tag questions about databases of mathematical objects?
On MO there were several questions regarding databases of (some type of) mathematical objects. You can see the list of questions I was able to find here.
What would be correct tag for such questions? ...
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Migrated question and email notification
It seems that a migrated question does not appear in the email notifications of its tags.
Question: Should it appear?
By migrated question I mean a question migrated on mathoverflow, and by e-mail ...
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Is this ("Is this a good research question?") a good MathOverflow question?
I apologize if this has been covered before. A cursory search of meta.mathoverflow does not reveal it.
There are reasons not to make research topics public. (I have some topics that I am not ready ...
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Advice to young mathematicians question on Mathematics Stack Exchange
(I don't know if this is on-topic on MathOverflow-meta. In case it is not, please, let me know.)
I see that many active users of MathOverflow are not as active on Math Stack Exchange; for this reason,...
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How to change the direction of an answer thread
I asked this question, with the hopes someone might help me with the algebraic proof I was working on towards the stated conjecture. Based on this meta thread, my original question got changed — for ...
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Tag excerpt/wiki for computational topology
On MSE I am working on a tag excerpt/wiki for a currently non-existing computational topology tag. Please see this post on MSE Meta:
https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13511/tag-creation-...
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Bumping of obviously offtopic questions
Today, https://mathoverflow.net/questions/28487/is-there-a-concept-equivalent-to-factorial-that-uses-addition-rather-than-multip was on the front page. I was about to flag the question, only to ...
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What subject specific tags could replace the tag 'divisors'?
A few names are used in different subjects in mathematics with completely distinct meanings. A couple of common examples are "spectrum" and "regular". Sometimes, this creates ...
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A super easy way to speed up MathJax loading with LocalCDN add-on
I found a very neat way to speed up MathJax execution times and I thought about sharing it with everyone here. Typically whenever I start my browser I have to load up all of these MathJax resources ...
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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)
I am thinking of asking this question on the MO website which is due to the fact that how should I write/ explain the gap in my CV while applying for PHD programs in 2022.
Very brief of the situations ...
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Is asking about name of a curve a research level question?
In my opinion this post is not a research level topic but surprisingly it has been received 22 votes.
Is the linked post a research level question and appropriate for MO?
I think it is more ...
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Question regarding the StackPrinter site
Does anybody here know whatever happened to the StackPrinter site? It seems to me that it is not working anymore. Do you know of a currently working version/link of the site?
Please let me thank you ...
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Is there a post where one can thank mathoverflow community?
Is there a post where one can thank MathOverflow community for its indirect help for a paper that has recently published, along with the link of the paper? (Especially given that MathOverflow being ...
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Closing votes: what difference between "not research related" and "not research related"
I am reviewing many posts with close votes recently, and I often end up with the same uneasiness about the reason to chose. In the "Community specific reason" option, there are
This question does ...
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Why are people trying to close this question?
Why are people trying to close this question? This was posted yesterday.
There are 3 close votes so far and not a single comment from anyone.
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An answer to an unposed question
I was very tempted to answer Suggestions for reducing the transmission rate? with the following. In fact I did, but I deleted it again, because I do realize that there is nothing mathematical in my ...
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Merge the closing reasons "needs details" and "needs more focus"
I usually find unclear how to choose between the closing reasons "Needs details or clarity" and Needs more focus. Moreover the reasons "Off-topic because..." seem much more ...
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Should algebraic-dynamics tag be made a synonym for arithmetic-dynamics tag?
Disclosure: On Meta at Mathematics Stack Exchange, I have asked whether an algebraic-dynamics tag should be created and made a synonym of the existing arithmetic-dynamics tag there, given the apparent ...
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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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Bounties for Answers?
What are your feelings about offering a bounty for deciding or evaluating an answer to a MO question?
Background of this post is that I have provided two answers to a highly upvoted question with ...
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Migrated to MSE, did not get enough attention. What to do?
This question is migrated to MSE from MO.
It did not get enough attention in MSE even after offering bounty.
Another question with a bounty with not even a single comment.
I think topics like ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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"Have you considered to accept or start a bounty"
There are some questions of mine with answers which I did not accept them,yet.
Some of them (but not all of them) has an statement on the above of its title in the question list,...
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Browser crashes
For some odd reason, this seemingly innocuous MO question crashes every browser with which I try to open it on my iPhone. (This remains true after a phone reboot.) It opens perfectly well on other ...
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Is this question out of place?
Is this question out of place here, as I could not garner any attention/comment? How would you classify this and what would you suggest, in a situation similar to this question.
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Hadamard product (and other ambiguous tags)
There is this tag, hadamard-product; as can be seen e. g. on the Wikipedia disambiguation page, it can have four different meanings. I for one, attracted by it in a recent question (I badly need to ...
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I loose a question
I remember that I had asked a question about obstructions for a $n^2$ dimensional vector bundle for which the fibers admit a structure of matrix algebra. I do not remember ...
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