Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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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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Forbid (or rewrite) proxy links in answers
One can see from the recent discussion Correcting links with university proxy (especially MathSciNet links) that some users add in their posts links that only work for people behind a specific proxy, ...
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How to find the meta-thread of an MO-thread at hand? Is there one? Should there be?
Questions.
(0) How to find out for an MO question at hand whether it already has anything like its canonical meta-thread?
(1) Should, in your opinion, every MO question automatically generate a meta-...
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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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Why can't we close questions that have a bounty?
I just cast the 5th vote to close the question
Was Cauchy so obstinate?, but the system said that it's impossible to close a question with an open bounty.
It seems to me that this question is ...
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Why do we link to Twitter, Facebook or Google+ below every question?
I edit this old feature request of mine, in the hope that mentality have evolved and some consensus can be reached and some action be taken:
After each question on MO (with no answers yet), we can ...
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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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Community Peer-Review in Mathoverflow
I was recently surfing around the Physicsoverflow and I have to admit I was impressed by their Review section. I could not help myself from thinking how -and if- such a feature could also be ...
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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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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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Proposal for a new rule for down-vote
As I see it, the most common causes for down-voting a question should be:
The question is completely incomprehensible, or makes no sense ("Are all prime numbers green?");
The question has a trivial ...
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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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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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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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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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Tag warnings on MO
In the last few months, Stack exchange has introduced tag warnings, that is, a text that is displayed when a user creates a new question that contains a specific warning, such as this example.
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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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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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Reword "What topics can I ask about here?"
Another time recently, an user has asked a question which is very far from research level, and has been reprimanded for not reading the FAQ. However, I realize that there might be a problem in the ...
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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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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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Can we replace client-side MathJax with server-side MathJax?
One of the (many) problems with MathJax is that
formulas are rendered using a client-side JavaScript.
Apart from the process itself being ridiculously slow,
this also means that the entire page must ...
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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?
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Time cutoff for changing vote
The stackexchange software currently imposes a cutoff on changing votes, i.e. a vote cannot be changed after a certain time has elapsed. I can understand the rationale behind having such a policy as ...
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Is it possible to provide information about further developments outside MO that followed a question/answer?
It happened several times - I've found a very interesting (for me) relatively old answer or question which would most likely lead to some new research. I ask about any possible recent references in a ...
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Numerical Analysis - SO Vs MO
though I'm a relative newbie to the "Stack" community, my research interest has brought me to a dilemma. The area of Numerical Analysis is theoretically covered by both MO and SO, but is practically ...
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Two new user pages?
Will MO be participating in this?
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2015/04/two-new-user-pages-one-new-stat-this-ones-big/?cb=1
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Adding "Academia.StackExchange" to the migration list
First, I hope that the request is appropriate and asked at the right place. If you have any issue with it, remarks are warmly welcomed.
When flagging a question for "Off-topic > This question belongs ...
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Can we migrate users with their questions?
If a question is migrated from MO to MSE, would (or should) it be possible to automatically create the user an account at MSE and link it to the one at MO if they don't have an MSE account yet?
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Legitimate questions put on hold with no comments, no notification, and no chance to improve
My question was put on hold as unclear. I see a number of issues in this:
No intent was made to clarify the question via comments: it was just shut up. I consider it rude and unhelpful.
No reason was ...
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Being notified of the comments under the answer of someone else to your post
Sometimes a lot of good things happen as the comments under an answer to your post. Though we are notified of the answers given or the comments under the body of the post, it seems that we are not ...
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Illustrating posts of others
This issue arose in connection to the question Is this a $C^0$ foliation of $\mathbb{R}^2$? where a foliation is described formally. I thought it would help to have a picture of it. Initially I wanted ...
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Should there be a "statute of limitations" for closable questions?
Ever more frequently I find in the "close votes" review queue questions which are a few years old. Many of them already have accepted answers, and one can see that they were well received at the time ...
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Hard to notice links in comments
This is a conscious duplicate :D
There are at least two more questions about it (The color of links in comments, On the current color scheme, and why it sucks - by the way, when trying to share them ...
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Flagging questions answered in comments
Several times e.g. here and its links, people have discussed the issue of questions of effectively answered in the comments, both here and on MSE, which remain in the unanswered queue.
Despite the ...
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Lots of non research-level questions
There seem to be lots of questions appearing posted by users that either mistake this site for math.SE or do not know what the purpose of the site is. Would it be possible and a good idea to limit ...
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