Questions tagged [status-completed]
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Should MO require users to register to combat AI content?
This is in response to a request from David Roberts from this Meta question: Has MO been reduced to an AI training service, and if so what should we do about it?.
Should MathOverflow require users to ...
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Edit summary rejected with "Comment reserved for system use. Please use an appropriate comment."
I recently tried to submit an edit to Why does an invariant measure define a Schwartzman cycle? No matter what I put in my edit summary, it was rejected with the message "Comment reserved for ...
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Account merging
I have an issue with account merging form in the help center. The 'Your other profile link' does not accept any link to the second my account.
Picture 1: Completed help form
Picture 2: Outcome of ...
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Kitty can’t fix it — Old questions inaccessible for logged-in users, giving “unexpected error”
For the past few days, any attempt to access the question Collecting proofs that finite multiplicative subgroups of fields are cyclic results in an internal server error:
It seems the poor kitten ...
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Reputation number not visible on main page
This is a very minor bug, but the reputation number seems not to be visible on the main site:
Interestingly, it is visible in meta:
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Reputation displays after an edit even if opted out
I mentioned this in a comment on the main announcement regarding not automatically displaying reputation, but perhaps it is worth making into a formal bug report.
After I edit a post, reputation is ...
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Updated: Is it time to replace links to the UCDavis arXiv frontend?
This question from March 2020 points out that many questions/answers link to papers at the http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/ frontend instead of at the arXiv itself, but that the frontend had been down a ...
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Watched tags highlighting lost
On both Chrome Version 91.0.4472.77 and Safari Version 14.1.1 running on MacOS 10.15.7, I've lost the color-highlighting of front-page Top Questions in my Watched Tags list. Is this just my problem, ...
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What should the modal window for first-time askers say?
When a user asks their very first question on a Stack Exchange site, they are shown a modal window with some introductory advice. As explained in the March 2020 announcement of this feature, there is ...
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Filtering out the Autobiographer badge from "Recent Badges"
As discussed in this recent post, there is currently an influx of a ridiculous number of profile spammers showing up with the Autobiographer badge in the "recent badges" box on the MO ...
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Customize the modal window for the first-time askers [duplicate]
When a user asks their very first question on a Stack Exchange site, they are shown a modal window with a short advice. The content can be either a generic message or it can be customized for a ...
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Should we blacklist or delete the "research" tag?
Should we blacklist or delete the research tag?
This site is about mathematical research, so I don't see how the "research" tag is helpful, any more than a "mathematics" tag would be helpful.
Of the ...
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Icon for citation helper
On the main MathOverflow site (and also on math.stackexchange) the icon for the citation helper, which used to look as below, has recently confusingly changed to a "B", identical to the icon at the ...
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"Offline for maintenance" error message shows incorrect site name
A short while ago, this site was down for maintenance.
However, the error page shown during said maintenance period incorrectly stated the name of this site:
As you probably know, this site is ...
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Links to the reputation leagues are broken on MathOverflow
At the bottom of the users page you can find links to weekly / monthly / quarterly reputation leagues. Currently there is the following link: https://stackexchange.com/leagues/week/mathoverflow - it ...
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Could there be a warning when a new tag is created?
It is rather easy to make a typo and create a new tag by mistake without even noticing it.1 Could we have a warning saying that the user is creating a new tag so that users can notice such mistakes ...
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Failed to upload image; imgur is rejecting the request | Close
Why would imgur reject an image upload request? Temporary problem, or a problem with the particular image? I've tried several images, all small (<100KB). The error message is not very informative......
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Disabled button not visible in flag dialog
Since a while, it's possible to retract a flag by opening the flag dialog again and clicking the 'Retract flag' button. Of course, if the flag is already handled, retracting isn't possible. In this ...
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MathJax accents in Safari 10.1
Tilde accents, such as $\tilde g$ (typed as \tilde g), seem to be displaying bizarrely, with the tilde to the right of, rather than on top of, the accented symbol, ...
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Is the citation helper broken?
For the last several days I've had no luck using the citation helper. Whenever I attempt to search for anything, although a search seems to be ongoing even letting it sit for minutes doesn't produce ...
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"[error] I'm a teapot" when trying to add a picture
When I tried to add a picture to a new MO question, I got the error in the title. The data size is below 1 MB as a jpg image, but above 3 MB as a png.
I noticed however that the image doesn't lie ...
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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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Spaces in command sequences in old comments?
I've noticed recently, while reading a lot of older comments, that the TeX seems to be broken; for example, a command will appear like '\rbra ce', and so MathJaX complains that it doesn't know the ...
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Bug with Marshal badge
I don't know exactly what happened, but in the last 7 days I have received twice the Marshal badge (which I had already earned in Apr 13) without raising more than 1500 helpful flags.
Now in my ...
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Tabs misaligned
The horizontal line on tabs on the profile page is misaligned:
This happens both on the main site, and on meta. The screenshots above are from Firefox 14 on Linux, however, I verified the problem ...
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Text on some buttons has become unrecognizable
Very recently (I think today) the buttons with "Post your answer", "Answer your question" and some others became black, with the text hardly readable.
With me it happens on Windows 10 with latest ...
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I fixed my question. Can it please be taken off hold now?
Yesterday I asked a question on parameterizations of knotted surfaces in $\mathbb R^4$. After I stated in the comments that I wanted the question to be kept to the case of a general surface, the ...
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Formatting problem
In my answer to
When is the closed unit ball in a smaller Banach space closed in a larger Banach space?
I wrote the following:
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Edit: $Y=Z^*$ does not display correctly when it is in the body ...
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Braces don't render in preview
When I type braces in math mode in a post, like $\{1,2,3\}$, they don't show up in the preview. See the following screen shot.
I tried all the different Math ...
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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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New interface - empty rectangles in the reputation column
I've got new interface and I like it, but there is something strange:
Some numbers are supposed to be there, right? They are present on other StackExchange sites with this interface
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Trouble with tea?
This post has a link to this one on the old-meta-now-tea site, but when I clicked on it, I got this:
A fatal, non-recoverable error has occurred
Technical information (for support personel):
Error ...
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Can we bring back the question about Gauss-Legendre nodes and weights?
The question
Computing Gauss Legendre Quadrature for Large N
was voluntarily removed by its author, after I implied (with a link to Wikipedia) that the answer was trivial and well-known. I have ...
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Merging accounts
I have long been away from these forums. If I recall correctly, I used to login from my Google account. Still, my Google account seems to be no more tied to my original MathOverflow account https://...
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I need merger and help with account access
I have the following accounts, I seem to have found out:
At math-overflow
https://mathoverflow.net/users/37385/frode-bj%C3%B8rdal
https://mathoverflow.net/users/30107/frode-bj%C3%B8rdal
(At tex-...
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Notification doesn't go away
I have a notification of a reply to a comment of mine which doesn't disappear from the notification icon on the top of the page. I click on it and it clears but, when I refresh the page or go to ...
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Any chance of a "save for later / TODO" feature?
Sometimes when browsing MO questions I have the need to "save for later" for various reasons. There is a star for favoriting questions, it would be very useful to have "TODO" labels beyond just the ...
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Enabling MathJax over https
MathOverflow (and indeed all the StackExchange sites) support https connections. However MathJax is currently broken, because the default server for the MathJax distribution doesn't support https.
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Can I be merged please?
In a previous meta thread here, I wrote a comment to Todd Trimble and requested to be merged with my previous account (I have lost all access to that account). I have also sent in a form requesting ...
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Alignment of tabs on profile page in MathOverflow
This morning, on several machines, with Windows 8.1, XP, and CentOS, and with Chrome and Firefox, on MathOverflow, the profile page shows:
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Why are we now getting 'hot network questions'?
I notice that we are now getting a bar listing hot questions from across the SE network. I thought we'd settled for no cross-site advertising in MO2.0.
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Wrong choice of words in info message -- "close" instead of "reopen"
When moving the mouse above the [reopen] button below a closed question which I have voted to reopen, I see the text "You voted to reopen. 3 more votes from other users are needed to close this ...
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Revamping the closure reasons
Motivation 1
Currently the custom off-topic reasons for MathOverflow read:
This question does not appear to be about research level mathematics within the scope defined in the help center.
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Wrong message for closing questions as off-topic
I was just reviewing the queue for closing votes, and I noticed that the message displayed in the options for closing as off-topic was:
off-topic because...
This question does not appear to be ...
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Homework section in the Help Center slightly outdated
I just noticed that the Help Center section that describes what is and is not on topic, and what the policy for homework questions and its rationale are, is outdated. It currently reads
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What to do with homework questions?
I think something should be done with the homework questions: there are too many of them now. I suggest that one reason for closing should be "homework". If at least 3 people vote for that reason to ...
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Search not working?
When I load https://mathoverflow.net/search?q=topology (or any other search query) I get a Your search returned no matches. response.
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Projective geometry tags
Would it make sense to merge the tag projective-plane and projective-space into projective-geometry? It doesn't seem useful to have to search for each of these separately.
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Tag scores, tag badges, and CW answers
I have a couple of questions concerning the score for specific tags, and the corresponding tag badges.
It appears that community wiki (CW) answers do not count towards tag badges, even when they ...
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