Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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How can I customize site in my browser to get “old feel” look of MathOverflow?
It seems that some of the users are not too happy with the new design and prefer the old look.
I will admit that I have not much experience with this stuff, but from I've read on various meta sites ...
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Why is Math Overflow a .net website unlike all the other sites which are .com websites?
As stated in the title, MathOverflow is a .net website, unlike every other site I've seen in the SE network, which are all .com sites. Why is MathOverflow the sole .net site of Stack Exchange?
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Apparent bug in reputation calculator
Mine appears to be stuck at 2321 -- even though my answer here keeps getting upvoted:
What definitions were crucial to further understanding?
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Why am I not getting notification for comments?
Why am I not getting notification for comments to some answer to my question in inbox?
Marc Hoyois’s last comment to my question
$2$-fiber product is a scheme then map of stacks is representable did ...
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Why it says in my profile I have not asked any questions?
Why it says in my profile I have not asked any questions when I have. I go under questions and sometimes I find it and sometimes I don't. Seems to be no sense in navigating this site. Incorrect ...
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Are all terms clearly defined in Help fragments? If not, who can contribute?
I could be hypocritical and not specify the specific case that induced this question. But actually I am after a golden badge :D
Its description says this:
Ask a well-received question on 100 ...
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Why MO community forbide me and discourage me to do my research and to post my questions?
I'm confused why MO community forbids me many times to ask question however the last question that I have posted wasn't negative , Really this method of dealing is discouraging me and discourage all ...
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Misspelling of Cauchy-Schwarz
As a comment of Dennis Serre, the correct spelling of Cauchy-Schwarz is Cauchy-Schwarz (not Cauchy-Schwartz):
The spelling is Cauchy-Schwarz, from Hermann Schwarz. If you are interested in Fourier ...
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The meaning of the badge “Sportsmanship”
I would appreciate if you explain on the meaning of the badge "Sportmanship".
It is described as below but I can not understand what does it mean. May you describe this badge in an equivalent words?...
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Were there some recent changes to the moderators' team?
I have noticed that Mariano Suárez-Alvarez is no longer listed among the moderators and his profile page no longer shows diamond by his name. (I am pretty sure I remember that he was one of the ...
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5 points for an upvote to an answer?
just a curiosity, how is it possible to receive 5 points for an upvote to an answer to this question
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Tag subscriptions and “Watch tag”
Something changed about tags.
For the tags I have no subscription the new feature is like:
whereas for the tags I have a subscription it is like:
Questions: How to subscribe to a new tag? What ...
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What should I do if I have a question on inactive post?
I recently asked this question about gamma function, and Vincent law commented a link to another post which stated similar question.
There I found a link to MathOverflow post.
I visited there, and I ...
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10 year 'temporary suspension'?
I recently noticed that Morteza Azad's account is temporarily suspended for what appears to be a period of 10 years unless I'm reading that date wrong.
The linked stackoverflow guidelines indicate ...
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One number on top of another with mathjax?
Probably a simple question, but how can I write my script in mathjax to show one number on top of another and with a minus sign in the left side?
Like this:
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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 ...
