Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Placing bounties on questions which already have a good answer
It seems it's now possible to place bounties on other people's questions. I noticed a certain user placing a lot of bounties recently, including one on a question of mine which already had an accepted ...
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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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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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Reviewing questions outside one's expertise
The review system is rigged to nudge users into action rather than non-action. This means that when someone opens a review, if they want to review, there is a good chance that they will act on a low ...
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Stack Overflow Reference in Out of topic flag
This question is motivated by this post, but not exclusively.
When we flag OP's as off topic, under the "this question belongs in another site of the stack community", the StackOverflow website is ...
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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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Can we have a “cited by” in a right panel?
For math papers it is possible to check which other papers cite it.
Can we have the same thing for Mathoverflow questions/answers?
It would be nice to see next to the panels "related" and "linked", a ...
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Where can one find out details about the arXiv trackback feature? Can we have our own?
I stumbled completely by accident on the meta question Did ArXiv trackbacks for MathOverflow stop working again since September 29th 2016? and was really fascinated to learn that arXiv has this ...
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Is it possible to list all mathoverflow users from a given country?
Is it possible to produce the list all mathoverflow users from a given country?
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Is it possible to change the author of a problem on mathoverflow?
By a mistake I have written the problem Is "weakly good" series in a finite-dimensional Banach space "good"? from my account instead of writing it from the account of Lviv Scottish ...
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One more reason to reject an edit: too much alteration
I encountered this now, and have seen it quite frequently before: I would like to reject an edit, and the reason is something between "attempt to reply" and "clearly conflicts with author's intent". ...
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Using MO as a platform to discuss papers in math?
A use case scenario: I am reading a paper and I get stuck on some point. It is obvious to me that everyone else who tried to understand this point would get stuck. I ask around, people either haven't ...
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Should be simply “no answer” among bounty reasons
I am going to declare a bounty on a question simply because I hope it will additionally stimulate at least somebody to think harder on it.
Among the reasons I could choose is "Draw attention", which ...
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Is here something like blog service or just sand-box to store notes ?
Sometimes when I find something interesting on MO
it would be convinient for me to store it somewhere here,
something like small personal blog, or may be just sand box.
Is here something like that ?
(...
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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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Booth at Joint Mathematics Meeting?
This is identical to my misplaced "answer" here, written while attending JMM. I am reposting a fresh question at François G. Dorais's request.
I wonder if it make sense, at some future Joint ...
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Does Mathoverflow really want the 'Publicist' badge?
I enjoy the rewards system on the Stack exchange network. I learned some time ago that you can easily earn gold badges on all sites by picking the most interesting questions and using the "Share" ...
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Request for help with javascript for the citation search feature
I would like to switch over the citation helper from the current kludged together back-end based on MathSciNet data, to an officially supported back-end (very kindly!) provided by Zentralblatt.
We'll ...
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Can we have question/comment functionality on the Data Explorer?
The Data Explorer is great. But there seems to be no natural place to request modifications to a given query or to request a desired new query.
If we had at least comment functionality, we could ...
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Many answers, each one with many votes
Just by curiosity: This recent question has had five answers so far, and each answer has gotten more than 10 upvotes. I think this is quite exceptional (unless the questions are CW of course). How ...
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Feature Request: Information about last update before a Suggested Edit
When I'm reviewing suggested edits, part of the overall context is whether or not the question is on or near the front page. If someone wants to add mathjax, or fix a silly typo, or add commas, I'm ...
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Auto-bumping of unanswered questions
Like many users, I suppose, I have wondered how and when an old question gets bumped by the system. (Of course an edit or a new answer bumps a question: I'm not asking about this.)
From Francois ...
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Poll for time cutoff for changing vote
Looking at the number of votes this and this question has received, I would like to ask everyone interested to cast their vote whether they are happy with the current time cutoff for changing votes on ...
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Migration of questions to cs.SE?
This question just got closed as off-topic. As someone else had already commented there, it is really a computer-science question and thus clearly belongs at cs.stackexchange.com. But we currently don'...
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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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Numbering and cross referencing of equations in questions and answers
A basic LaTeX feature which I sometimes miss when asking and answering questions in MO (specially when the question and the particularly the answer are longer) is the possibility of numbering ...
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Can we have the window title for a question start with the question?
The title attribute in the page of a question like Comparison between $E_2$-terms of Leray and “second hypercohomology” spectral sequences is currently set to "ag.algebraic geometry - Comparison ...
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Cancel the association bonus
There has been some previous discussion of the association bonus, c.f.
The Association Bonus
Is there an association bonus for this site?
Can we please get rid of the association bonus for other ...
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Would disallowing displayed equations (“double dollars”) in titles be useful?
If a poster includes in the title some formula in enclosed between $$, like $$x^2+y^2=z^2$$
$$x^2+y^2=z^2$$
the title of the ...
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Autosave of drafted questions or answers
So there I am, typing a new question (or an answer). As it appears $\LaTeX$'ed in the preview frame, I keep improving it... and then I realize that there is some detail I need to think more about ...
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Deleting others' work
Recently a question was posted on MathOverflow, which received (I think) more than an average number of upvotes. There was an answer to the question, by someone other than the OP. Next day, the ...
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Allow questions to be closed as duplicates of questions on math.stackexchange.com
We frequently have questions that are crossposted, e.g. https://mathoverflow.net/questions/137414/systems-of-parameters-for-algebra-a#question.
The only options for now are to close as off-topic, ...
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Button for cross posts to/from Math SE
People explained me that it is possible to ask same questions in Math SE and MO, and I did this from time to time. I think it's very important to have this possibility, because often you haven't ...
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Remove the user-identifying part of the “share” URL
When you click the 'share' button beneath a post on MathOverflow, a box pops up containing a short URL for the post, e.g. of the form
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Are bounty reputation points assigned to unanswered question returned back?
Are bounty reputation points, being assigned to unanswered question, returned back to the issuer of the bounty?
If "yes" - when? If not - why?
Alternatively (instead of direct "refunding") in the case,...
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On Notification Mechanisms in MathOverflow
Inbox is where a typical user receives most notifications in Mathoverflow. One also receives moderators' private messages through mail. My question is:
What other notification mechanisms are ...
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Can Mathjax preview be switched off?
I recently typed an answer with a few formulas in it. While I was typing, my browser constantly reloaded the preview part below the typing window. Because MathJax apparently does three passes over the ...
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Voting to close a question as off-topic because it's a notorious open problem
I just voted to close a question which was equivalent to Goldbach's conjecture. When I had to give the reason, I didn't really know what to pick.
Off-topic? It is definitely a research question, so...
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New queue for questions without an accepted answer
In the questions section one can find a special queue for unanswered questions. It is for attracting more attention of the community and getting a possible answer in the future.
Is it possible to ...
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Right-clicking on a mathjax link does wrong thing
Surely I am not the only user of this site with this habit - if I want to have look at the linked content I right-click on the link to open it in a new tab, so when I finish reading I then turn to the ...
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How to keep track of questions or answers I upvoted/downvoted?
There doesn't seem to be a favorite button for answers, so the natural remedy seems to be allowing tracing of vote history. Is this something already possible that I am missing?
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A gap in the “notification” system
Suppose one votes to close a question in "main", and the poster asks in "meta" why it was closed. Apparently the existence of that discussion in meta is not included among the "notifications" ...
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Reviewing first posts that are answers or late answers
When reviewing first posts that are answers or late answers to questions that have existing answers I invariably go to the original question to see these answers since I want to check if these new ...
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Ignoring certain users' postings
This old post on meta stackexchange contains a script that hides posts from users of your choice. There were some negative comments there and the script doesn't seem to be working anymore (maybe ...
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Make edit history more accessible
Once a post has been edited once, there is a direct link to the revision history of the post that is visible to everyone as in this example:
However, when a post has not been edited, this link is not ...
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Sort by newest option
Is there any way to get back the option to sort answers in newest to oldest order?
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Should top mathoverflow threads get DOIs and be permanently archived?
Josh from The Winnower (thewinnower.com) here. I wanted to reach out and see if users of mathOverflow would be interested in permanently archiving and assigning DOIs to top threads with The Winnower. ...
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Can we make the cite link bigger?
The cite link in the share box is minuscule:
Since this is a very important feature for MO, it should have much more visibility.
[Related: https://meta.mathoverflow.net/questions/112, Citation ...
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Improve management tools of favorite and upvoted questions/answers
Here is my wish list:
When one marks a question as favorite or upvotes it, give a chance to:
Mark the question with a private tag.
Add a private comment to the question. Its length could be limited ...
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Review suggestions MathJax [duplicate]
Can we please turn on MathJax in "Rendered output" of "Suggested edits"? Or am I not qualified unless I can read raw LaTeX?
