Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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Can we recover old MathOverflow Meta "Tea" discussions?
Today I flagged a question as needing to be made community wiki. I thought about why, and found this old question of mine here. Carlo Beenakker helpfully linked to a thread on the old tea. Link ...
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How can I see the line length available for long mathematical expressions in posting on MO?
In typing up a question (or answer) on MO, I try to format a long mathematical expression so that it fits in one line. When I meet with apparent success, as shown in the wysiwyg box underneath the box ...
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Help center text references a thread but doesn't indicate which one
In the "What about open problems?" section of https://mathoverflow.net/help, the last line says "To join the discussion about how MathOverflow should deal with open problems, go to this ...
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Are there some situations when duplicates are not shown among linked questions?
I was under the impression that if Question A is closed as a duplicate of Question B then they are linked, meaning that if you view Question A then you will see Question B in the sidebar among linked ...
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Is it expected my avatar to change today, without me changing any settings?
I am pretty sure yesterday my avatar was in light colors, while today
is black and white, definitely different image.
Haven't done any changes in my settings and the email is the same.
Is this ...
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Recent question considered off-topic?
I recently posted this question, which was flagged as off-topic:
How to approach the stigma of not having a math degree?
I'm not sure why it was flagged. MO asks for questions about research-level ...
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Screwed up LaTeX when presenting edited posts for approval [duplicate]
In about one of every 4 cases when I am asked to approve an edit, the comparison page that shows the suggested edits suffers from incorrect rendering of LaTeX, which often makes both the original and ...
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Should I flag this question as spam?
At the moment there is the following question on the first page of the questions list:
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/149697/can-anyone-tell-some-about-mobile-affiliate-programs-like-yeahmobi
It ...
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Are line breaks and lists supposed to work in comments?
Are line breaks and lists supposed to work in comments? If not, how was I supposed to write the following answer to my own question?
"I have found two references. Indulal, G. (2007). Studies on the ...
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I deleted my post, but now want to view its source
I asked a question, but it was noted in the comments that it was a bit too elementary for this site, and it was suggested that I delete and then post it to Math.SE. I deleted it, and still have the ...
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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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How to wear my Winter bash hat
I have noticed a link on my Mathoverflow page linking a webpage that explains an event called Winter bash. I have earned already earned some hat which I am using on different stack exchange ...
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Latex software used by MO
What is the software used by MO to "render" Latex? Is it an outside solution or a software that has been written specifically? Interesting is that I understand that it doesn't produce images but texts ...
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How can I add a diagram or picture to my questions?
As it is obvious by title, I need to add a diagram to clarify my intuitions in some questions. How can I do it? Is there any limitation in format and size of the pictures?
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Are downvotes zero cost?
I've just gotten a downvote on an answer in main and it did not result in a decrease in my total rep. Is this normal?
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Searching for questions without a certain tag
Is it possible to search the main site for questions which do not have a certain tag?
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Looking for an answer (written by Thurston = user9062)
I recall that Thurston answered a question, showing that a particular graph braid group is the fundamental group of a three-manifold. I even recall that the answer proved that the three-manifold was ...
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How are hot meta posts decided?
I'm curious about the exact mechanisms behind the 'hot meta posts' blurb on the right hand side of the main/meta page.
I have been monitoring it for the past few days to see if my recent question ...
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Why is my feature-request not showing on meta?
I posted my feature request (Feature request: a possibility to leave mathoverflow) yesterday, yet it is not showing on the list of most recent questions.
I thought it might be the negative votes but ...
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"Scope" of being blocked from asking
As you know well, when one attempts to delete a question that has already received an answer, the following message is displayed.
"Repeated deletion of answered questions can result in your ...
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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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Captions in figures in MO posts
When posting a figure in a question or answer, is there some way of puting a caption in the figure?
When typing smt inside the brackets:
[![enter image description here][1]....
no caption ...
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Unbolding sans serif font in math mode
Is there a way to "unbold" the default text font (namely, sans serif) when written in math mode? Consider this example:
Hello World$\qquad\textsf{Hello World}$
The first instance of "Hello World" is ...
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Can’t vote to close question as duplicate of question without an answer
I tried to vote to close Einstein problem; on mirror symmemtry as a duplicate of Aperiodic monotile without reflections?. But the software gave me an error I wasn’t expecting: it said because the ...
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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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Is there a way to `@` exactly one of two users whose names differ, if at all, only by whitespace?
I recently approved an edit to Zeroes of characters of general linear group induced from certain characters of parabolic subgroups by user @math seeker. I approved the edit, which was otherwise ...
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Mystery popup window
Last week or so, when I get into an SE site (MO in particular), a popup window appears in the lower left corner for few milliseconds. Some kind of clickable button there, with not enough time for me ...
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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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Problem replying to comments
Usually, I'm able to address a comment to someone by writing "@[whoever]" before the text; but in a comment to a recent question (Compact, densely ordered spaces) I wasn't able to do this: when I ...
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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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How to follow a question?
Basically, is it possible to follow a question by another user? Meaning whenever there are new answers or comments on it, I get a notification in my inbox, the same way the original poster of the ...
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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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html tags in title, e.g. s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶r̶o̶u̶g̶h̶
I thought it was a good idea to edit the title of the following question:
What is the source of this E̶r̶d̶ő̶s̶ quote?
I wanted to strike through (like this) the name Erdős, but apparently the html ...
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What does percentage mean on a community wiki answer?
What does the percentage mean when a community wiki answer is marked "2 revs, 2 users 67%"?
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Fake activity mark on favorites tab
I already asked about activity on favorites (How to find out what activity activated a favorite?). This time it is about what seems to be a bug. Every now and then the favorites tab shows new activity ...
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Time zone in MathOverflow public dumps?
Please forgive me if this is the wrong place to ask this question; I wasn't sure where it would be appropriate.
I grabbed a public dump of MathOverflow from here. I'm interested in analyzing the ...
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Why does revision 5 of MO120096 look empty?
I recently came across Andrea Mori's question Explicit Casselman theory: reference needed. The comments 1 2 make reference to matrices rendering poorly, and then being fixed, and I was curious what ...
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Removing "tag-removed" tag
Currently, contra its intention the "tag-removed" tag has more than $300$ associated questions, many of which are upvoted and have actually contentful tags. This seems like a situation ripe ...
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Looking for a missing question on Gelfand-Tsetlin deneration of permuted Schubert varieties
I could have sworn that, sometime in the last month, I saw a question along the following lines:
Let $v$ and $w$ be elements of the symmetric group. Let $X(v) \subset
\mathrm{Flags}(n)$ be the ...
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Is it possible to Un-migrate a question?
I was not sure at first, but I think this question migrated from MO to MSE has been underestimated, and would receive better answers from MO users. It is related to another question (which was well ...
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Are my comments searchable?
My activity page in particular contains "All actions" tab; all my comments are there. Can I search for, say, a specific word there?
A wonderful answer by Martin Sleziak to my question Is it ...
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Criteria for Top question?
I posed a question on Mathoverflow which got no votes, but it made it to Top question.
I supplied an answer, while nobody else proposed an answer.
How come it made it to Top question?
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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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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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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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Recently Posted Question Limited Visibility
Earlier today, I posted following question. Shortly later, I noticed that it was no longer visible when one looks at the "Newest" list for the tags fourier-analysis and harmonic-analysis, both of ...
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Is "Reputation Top 0.90%" accurate?
This is a bit of a nit-pick, but I don't let my students get away with this, so it seems worth mentioning. In the reputation section of a user's page it might say something like:
Reputation
top 0.90% ...
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I don't succeed in hiding paragraphs using >!
I found here in the spoilers paragraph that putting >! would hide the following
things, which was a way for me to alleviate a question's heavy presentation by hiding
paragraphs that could be seen if ...
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Testing my flair
The MO user's page has a button flair. I didn't know where and how to test it. Thus I have to decided to do it here, at least temporarily. I have copied the snipped mentioned in the explanation (if it ...
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list of tags in chronological order
Is there a way to see a list all tags in chronological order (date created). I know one can see 'new' created tags, but my question is about all tags.