You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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To contact moderator who responded for flag
Suppose I have raised a flag and moderator has responded for that flag, accepted/declined it.
I am happy/not happy with their decision and would like to thank/explain the point to the moderator who ...
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Is it possible to close my account without deleting it ?
I feel like, for some reason, I am not able to ask interesting questions here anymore. So it would probably be better to have my account closed. Still I asked some well-received questions in the past ...
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The mystery of disappearing points
On the one hand, I earned around 100-some points in the last day, on the other hand, my total increased by something like 10. Is there some bug?
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Derivative of reputation score over time is identically zero
I've got a smattering of upvotes on my small number of answers but my reputation has never budged. Can someone explain why this is so?
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Is it possible to use tikzcd code in MO posts?
Question : Is it possible to use tikzcd code in MO posts?
There are information for drawing diagrams using AMScd
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A message from stack exchange concerning support for OpenID
I received the following message but I am not sure that it is a real message or is spam. Is it it really a message from SE sent to all participants?
"Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange are ...
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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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How does one type mathematical formulas on this site?
I can see that the posts on this site contain nicely displayed mathematical formulas. How can I get such formulas in my posts? What syntax is used to typeset them?
Note: This is an attempt to make at ...
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Why does this figure do not appear?
I add a Picture "GaussBonnet with Jpeg format to the following question but it does not work.
(Some possible obstructions to ) Limit cycles as closed geodesics(3)
Can one help me to resolve ...
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A markdown question: are custom list number formats possible?
For list numbering, 1., 2., ... are used. Could I change this somehow, to use, say, (1), (2), ... or i), ii), ...?
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Is there a way to check all questions/answers posted from a deleted account
Suppose I know an account number, say user313948.
Is there any way to check all questions/answers posted by that user?
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Synonym by a moderator which needs approval?
When I look at list of tag synonyms I see there a pending synonym rsk-correspondence $\to$ robinson-schensted-knuth and François G. Dorais♦ is listed as the creator. You can also see that this synonym ...
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Effects of the Stack Exchange 'update to Terms of Service' on MathOverflow
Do the recent changes to Stack Exchange Terms of Service affect MathOverflow in any way -- and if yes, what are the concrete effects?
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How to “accept” answer
How to "accept" answers - when you vote for an answer, there is a push-out very quick that I cannot read properly mentioning a way to "accept" the answer.
Thank you in advance
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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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How to cut and paste
It has happened a few times that I have wanted to move someone else's answer from the comments to an answer, when the poster implicitly does not wish to do so (by not responding after a days-old ...
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Can someone please help me login to my account
I'm so sorry, but I got logged out of my account:
https://mathoverflow.net/users/10290/erin-carmody
I tried to log back in but have changed my email several times... It might be an impossible task. ...
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How to contact a MathOverflow user?
Occasionally it might happen that I want to contact some user, although the thing I want to say is not directly relevant to one of their posts - which makes me think that this would be not really ...
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Is it possible to know the list of removed users?
Today morning I learned that I have +4 reputation with notification "User was removed". I calculated that probably this removed user posted me two downvotes. Simultaneously my (not very pleasant) ...
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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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What is a 'question record', in particular a positive one?
The description of the `curious' badge reads: "Ask a well-received question on 5 separate days, and maintain a positive question record". What does the last part mean?
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What I can do if my questions limit had been reached in MO from long time?
Really, I'm interested in posting new questions in MathOverflow such that I have some unanswered questions in S.E which I want to post them in MO, but my questions limit had been reached for some ...
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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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Did few of my questions disappear without notification or trace?
I strongly suspect one or two of my questions disappeared without
notification or trace on my user page in the last month.
Is this true?
Is there efficient algorithm to find links to the missing ...
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My question looks like spam
I'm trying not to be offended, I know how spam filters work and sometimes someone gets wrongly accused and it just happens to be me. I'm just a little frustrated because I carefully craft this ...
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How to know if an old post is deleted, when I cannot find it
I'm looking for a post that I'm 100% sure was still here on this site about a year ago. It probably has tags "big-list" and "soft-question", and at least several of the responses received more than ...
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Should my question be migrated?
I asked a question about the time-complexity of a problem on MathOverflow. Is it a good idea to migrate this to Theoretical Computer Science, since I almost had no response at all here?
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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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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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There is no an answer button for certain Wiki question
Edit: My problem has been solved about 12 hours after that I wrote this meta post.
I wish to answer this question but it seems that it is impossible to answer it.
It is written that "To ...
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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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Is it possible to keep deleted questions in my account?
I asked a question some time ago that was down voted and subsequently deleted. Regardless of the rights and wrongs of that, I'd like to have a link to the question in my account because it contained ...
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Vanishing questions
For the last few days I've seen questions in the front page that appear much fainter than the rest. I had seen such things in other sites with questions or answers that were heavily downvoted, but ...
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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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the number of on line users at a given moment
Is there a way to realize that, at a given moment, how many users are (MO) on line? Thank you
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comment to two participants, Simultaneously
How can one send comment to two participants X and Y simultaneously?
Does the following works
@X (and @Y).
I learned this from some messages by moderatores in meta. but I am not sure ...
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Pink questions in the list
In the question list we see that there are some questions which are pink. What is the reason of this situation?
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Can one un-(vote to close) a question without voting to reopen?
Scenario (and it actually happened): I was first to vote to close a question as too broad; OP modified the question in such way that my objection did not apply anymore; this modification resulted in ...
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Reverse an accidental downvote
I just noticed (by looking at my reputation) that I accidentally downvoted the following answer:
Oscillation of the summatory Möbius function
This was (probably) because I was reading the ...
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Is it possible to search for posts/questions of an user $X$ commented on/answered by the user $Y$?
Basically the question is in the title. Maybe it sounds not entirely healthy but, say, I want to find all instances when the user $Y$ has replied to the user $X$, is there a way to do it?
Maybe more ...
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MO account continuity
My email account was virtually destroyed by a computer virus, on my Mac. Thus, I stay away from this whole thing by not even using my regular Mac unix account. Instead, I use a Mac guest account (a ...
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Can I somewhere see my own deleted questions?
Don't worry, I won't try to sneakily repost them or otherwise bother anyone else besides me with them. I just felt like it would be nice to see what sort of questions I was thinking about a couple of ...
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What's the purpose of the favorite button?
I'm trying to understand how the favorite button is meant to be used. I frequently see poorly written questions marked as "favorite". It seems the OP can make this designation. I was unable to find ...
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Searching for comments
Is there a method to search past comments only. I'm interested in a comment I read years ago that was not specific to the question or answers, so it wouldn't be in the normal search. Keywords: ...
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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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Meaning of the “votes to close” history?
Just now I looked at Derivatives of norm of vector-valued holomorphic functions which was showing a vote to close. However, looking at the history of "close votes" https://mathoverflow.net/review/...
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Citation helper and mobile devices
A few days ago I tried to use the citation helper from my mobile phone (Nexus 6p with Firefox and the full site interface), and everything worked just fine.
But now I tried to load it, and it kept ...
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Using MO in China
I am on a business trip in Beijing and get the following error message when using MO:
Question: can that somehow be fixed?
