Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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Research questions
I have a question about my MathOverflow post: Is any periodic function trivial
I was told this wasn't a research question. Isn't it a very major research issue if you can just take a function (like ...
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Can I retag questions to get a topic badge?
This is just something I was wondering: I currently have 19 non-CW answers in real-analysis. Could I just go through my old answers looking for a question which involves real analysis but hasn't been ...
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Updated questions
The following question of mine frequently appears as recently updated question so I frequently find it at front page. But neither me nor other participants did any revise or edit on this post and its ...
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What is up with the “Question feed” vs. “Related Questions”?
When looking at a question, for at least the past few months I've noticed an inconsistency in what displays in the righthand sidebar. What I expect to see is a list of "related questions" -- ...
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How to report intrisically spammy user accounts?
Sometimes, I notice that some very odd username is listed on Home as having earned the "Autobiographer" badge, where by "odd" I mean something very much non-mathematical and ...
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How can this user have a negative year reputation?
How on earth did Noah Schweber (whose contributions to MathOverflow I always greatly enjoy) end up with a negative year reputation for 2020?
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Why is an MO front-page question greyed out? [duplicate]
Why is symmetric monoidal double categories? on the MO front page greyed out?
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When are question titles auto-expanded?
Sometimes, pasting a link into the text auto-expands to the question title, and sometimes it doesn't. For example, to take a question transitively suggested by the related links: Is there an ...
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Downvoting systematically a user
I have got 8 downvotes in the last 2 days, on various questions and answers. Clearly someone is mad at me... Is there any way to stop that? Thanks!
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Asking questions later
I have a question about my MathOverflow post: Sequence without average density (It's deleted!)
I've asked it on 15.07.20 (currently yesterday), and in several few minutes realized that USA's time is ...
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How can the question ban be removed:
The question is deleted and then I'm banned on MO after I asked the following question on MO earlier ( it's first asked on MSE then after sometime with no answer; I asked on MO) : https://math....
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My answer got upvoted, but no reputation increase?
My reputation score seems to be stuck at 510 even if some of my answers were up-voted recently.
How do I fix this bug? How do I contact the moderators in order to solve (or at least understand) the ...
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How do I follow a tag on MathOverflow?
I am probably missing something, but I would like to follow a tag on MathOverflow, so that I get emails about new questions with this tag. How do I do this (I read MathOverflow help and Googled this ...
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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 such thing as “typical user reputation curve”?
This question is driven by sheer curiosity - maybe even vanity?
My reputation curve acquired curious shape lately:
I can even guess reasons (mostly personal) why the pace is so slow ever after June ...
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Leveraging MO to organize mathematical research
I am currently studying an existence lemma that appears to be simple yet powerful. From what I know about it, it is applicable in combinatorics, topology, graph theory, probability, percolation theory,...
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About the follow button
One can push the "follow" button below a question in order to get advised of new developments.
Can it happen that one gets news from the "recent inbox message" about some questions that one has ...
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Why is a user with many upvoted posts shown with reputation 1?
Sometimes I stumble upon a user who is shown with reputation 1 - despite the fact that the user has many upvoted posts and many badges, which means they should have higher reputation. Why does this ...
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Is my question for Math Overflow?
In the first paragraph of Prove or Disprove this Darboux-like sum of a function defined on infinite limit points converges to zero, I state that I do not know whether this is a research question. Is ...
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Account not deleted [closed]
25 hours after my account was scheduled for deletion, the account is still active. I tried deleting my answers manually but it is not possible in most cases, same for questions. What should I do?
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How do I improve the clarity of my post?
I have a question about my MathOverflow post: How do we create a better definition (for my definition of average) which is easier to compute and gives exact values?
How do I improve the clarity of my ...
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Missing all activity and questions I asked on this site
Apologies if this has been asked before, but I had a few questions on this site (some of them from when the site run its own copy of the software and before it became part of StackExchange) and I can'...
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How did I earn the Announcer badge?
Description of the Announcer badge reads
Share a link to a post later visited by 25 unique IP addresses. This badge can be awarded multiple times.
I have just earned the fourth one. And for none ...
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Tracing and Seeing deleted questions
Is there a way to search through deleted questions? Can a user reach his or her own old deleted questions?
In the early days of MO I asked about similar sites in related disciplines and there were a ...
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Apparent session of mass-close-voting: how to confirm or refute?
I have a feeling this question may be a duplicate of an existing one, in which case I am happy for this one to be closed.
It seems we've had a bit of a drive-by of close-voting, but in the review ...
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About if doubts in Research papers can be asked on MathOverflow
I am new to MathOverflow.
I am a master of mathematics student. I am studying research papers as a part of my masters project. I wanted to ask if questions in research papers ( regarding what I ...
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What is MathOverflow's “agreement” with Stack Exchange?
On June 24, 2013, MathOverflow signed an agreement with Stack Exchange, Inc., to migrate the original site to the newer Stack Exchange 2.0 platform and join the Stack Exchange network.
François G. ...
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Recognizing identifiable users changing user names
I noticed recently regular users changing usernames (for instance, changing to a username supporting some particular political issue).
The purpose of this post is not to discuss whether this should ...
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Are questions on standard graduate textbooks on-topic? [duplicate]
I am a masters student in mathematics and I am self studying and trying problems of graduate texts in mathematics like Tom M Apostol modular functions and Dirichlet series in number theory, Serge Lang ...
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Reputation recalculated: only even reputation now?
So +1 get 10 points for answers and questions, and -1 give -2 points. It is easy to see that users only have even reputation numbers now. Or did I miss a reputation-changing mechanism? (If not, why ...
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Rep being recalculated: Qs get +10 now?
So now StackExchange thinks questions are worth +10 rep again. Here is a comment where a StackOverflow user noticed their rep jump by ~6k.
Just now I was presented with a banner announcing this ...
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The Secret Cookie Recipe
Let {Site1,Site2}={MathOverflow,xxx.Stackexchange} (in either order, with xxx representing "superuser" or "chess" or any of dozens of others).
I want to be logged into Site1 as Name1 and ...
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Why can't I post my question on MO anymore
It seems that my account in MO has been blocked. My post is no more accepted, saying that
we are no more accepting post from this account.
How can I get my account unblocked?
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Mathematics and MathOverflow relationship
Is there a connection between Mathematics and MathOverflow sites? Obviously topics are similar, but I mean something like: do questions posted on one site, perhaps with certain tags, automatically end ...
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Would this soft question be appropriate?
A few weeks back on the Math Stack Exchange, I asked this question about "interesting" PDEs. It got (no answers and) some deserved criticism, so I opened a discussion on the Meta there and made some ...
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How to post a computer code by copy-paste?
I just want to add a computer program to my answer. However all my attempts to copy it result in total garbage displayed because all "less" and "greater" signs are perceived as HTML markers. I tried ...
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What should I do when I see a spam post on MO?
What is the correct way to handle spam on MathOverflow? Can regular users do something when they see a spam post?
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Bounty from Community
This question has an outstanding bounty from the Community user.
How does that happen?
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Why I cannot start bounty on my own question, just because I have answered it?
Can it circumvent and avoid awarding bounty for own answers and reward answers by posters other than the author of the question. Why avoid the author from starting bounty itself all together. In such ...
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Main site changed look, but only in one device
Using Firefox on an iPad, suddenly the view for the main site changed; it now looks as follows:
The meta site looks the same as it always has, and when I go to the site using firefox on a different ...
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Keyword Search of the User's own (my own) questions or answers
Is there a (good) way to "search" the keyword of the User's own (my own) previously asked questions or given answers in one's own profile?
If so, how? Please illuminate.
p.s. I asked that ...
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Migrating a question removes some comments?
This question has just been migrated to MSE, but I notice that not all comments were migrated in the process. This is unfortunate because one comment (by YuiTo Cheng) pointed to a highly relevant ...
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sort unanswered questions by date
I am sure this used to be possible. However now, when I select "unanswered" the query is obviously answered by sorting via votes received and I don't know how to sort unanswered questions by date, ...
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How do I add captions to inserted figures
Some of my MO answers have figures in them. How do I add captions and tags to them?
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Negative reputation?
I found this in the "Users" listing
What is negative reputation?
The profile for this user (who was last here 3 years ago) shows reputation 101.
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MO links chopped in gmail pdf viewer
Currently I am preparing the text for a paper (together with two coauthors) where we cite help from MO on two occasions. I am doing this using the cite button. It ...
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Has word “mathoverflow” trademark?
I have domain name mathoverflow.in, and I want to develop a free website or Q2A discussion forum using https://www.question2answer.org/ free open source platform. I'...
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No reputation change signals if subtracted from bounty?
Right now I am observing the following.
Usually every time I get an upvote somewhere, I get a signal about it in the upper right corner. Recently I declared a bounty (and awarded it for an answer) at ...
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Problem with posts and comments relying on macros defined elsewhere
MathJax supports possibility do define macros. (Using \newcommand, \DeclareMathOperator, \def...
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Remove down-voting or show down-votes in the separate counter
I have been reading this question and answers and I have submitted the answer there which is really a question. I have added it there, because it come to my mind after reading the questions and ...
