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 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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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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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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Question disappeared?
I posted this on meta.math.SE but they couldn't locate my question so I guess I had asked here. I copied my meta question below.
I asked a question like a year ago. It was pretty detailed. Recently I ...
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What is the procedure to initiate merging of questions?
My previous question What to do with useful answers to questions closed as duplicates (or by some other reasons)? got an answer which satisfied me entirely: if a duplicate question has got a nice ...
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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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Is it possible to find out why a comment was deleted?
I had a comment at How do you generate math figures for academic papers? asking whether the question was a duplicate. (Carlo Beenakker is responding to it in this comment.) Since the comment is no ...
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Are users pingable from questions/answers?
There is this extremely handy feature - you can ping any user participating in a comment discussion with @. In my recent question A "prequestion" about meromorphic representations of ...
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Is there any process to appeal suspensions?
Does mathoverflow have any procedure for appealing suspensions?
I'm asking because I was banned for a week (I believe unjustly) due to rude behavior.
Question: What recourse is there if I feel I was ...
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How to make sure your questions never disappear in a blackhole?
Let's say some or all of your questions are deleted (by admins, not by yourself), or your account gets deleted (not by yourself). Is there a way to retrieve your questions? From what I've read, this ...
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What is yellow about? [duplicate]
Some questions asked at MO are emphasized with the color yellow. What does this mean, and how can one emphasize a question that way?
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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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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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Disappearing post to meta
About 30 hours ago, I posted an item on meta that was not here 12 hours later. What's going on?
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Why I see "question eligible for bounty since 1 hour ago" and not "start bounty" button
I had asked this question 2 days back, and now I see at the bottom, the link "
question eligible for bounty since 1 hour ago", and if I click on it, it takes me to the bounty information page. I don'...
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Invisible posts
The post, Freedom of speech in scientific discussions - An invitation to more tolerance in Scientific debates, is currently invisible on the meta front page. I take it this is due to the large ...
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Triangle commutative diagram does not work here at MO
I frequently tried to draw a triangle commutative diagram similar to the definition of projective modules for this question.
A module associated to an endomorphism of a vector bundle
so I ...
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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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Delete the tag paperjs [duplicate]
How can we delete a tag, for example the tag paperjs? I tried to go the page for paperjs, but I didn't see a suitable option.
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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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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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Respond to comments of deleted posts
Recently my answer to a question got deleted .
Before it got deleted, it had comments from 2 specific users. Since I came to know about the comments after it was deleted I was unable to reply.
So,
How ...
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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 ...
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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'...
