Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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About if questions in Research papers can be asked on MathOverflow
I am new to MathOverflow.
I am a master of mathematics student. I wanted to ask if questions in research papers ( regarding what I am not able to understand in the paper ) can be asked on ...
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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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Best way to post graphics to MO
What is the best way to include graphics in a question or an answer on MO?
I searched the help but could not find instructions about how to post graphics. I also looked at a couple of Joseph O'...
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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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How to recommend that a question is better suited for another SE site that isn't listed in the close reasons?
Today I found MO questions where commenters recommended that Proof Assistants or History of Science and Mathematics would be preferable to MO. Other better placements I remember include Mathematica, ...
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Printer-friendly versions?
When I print an MO thread (using Chrome, at least), the font size is extremely small (8pt? nested indices are very hard to read, at least). Since I don't think this is easily fixable on the user side (...
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What is the status of the imgur images on MathOverflow?
Many posts on MO contain a link to imgur.com. Such links can be created outside the Stack Exchange network - if somebody simply creates a picture on imgur. But some of them might have been uploaded ...
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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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Is it possible to see the source for a comment?
Although this question seems to be new to M.MO, @MartinSleziak points out several related posts on Meta.MSE.
I was curious about the diagrammatic magic of @YaakovBaruch's recent comment, and so ...
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How to logout from the site?
There is no visible (to me) button for logging out. How to do so? This is an attempt to comply with François Dorais' request.
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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 ...
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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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The data explorer on MO
I don't seem to be able to use http://data.stackexchange.com/ on MathOverflow.
Will this change?
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How to include diagrams in MO?
I have seen many questions and answers with nice diagrams but I do not know how to make them.
Any answer involving MathJax and/or uploaded pictures is welcomed.
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Reading the titles of MathOverflow recent questions by NNTP
The site http://read.gwene.org/ converts rss feeds to nntp. So one can read rss feeds as a public Usenet news group. The conversion is already available for MathOverflow, see http://read.gwene.org/...
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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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Rationale for reputation change on "my" reputation page that says 'User was removed'
At MathOverflow > Help center > Reputation & Moderation I see the following:
[...] a user who voted for one of your posts had their account deleted (either by request or due to violating ...
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Wrong message for closing questions as off-topic
I was just reviewing the queue for closing votes, and I noticed that the message displayed in the options for closing as off-topic was:
off-topic because...
This question does not appear to be ...
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Is it possible to temporarily comment out part of a post?
Scenario (true story): after posting something I became doubtful about certain claim there,
so I want to hide it until I clarify my doubts.
Of course I could just move that part to a temporary file, ...
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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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How do I delete an accidentally created tag?
While posting this question, I meant to put the constructive-mathematics tag, but I accidentally just typed "con", thereby creating a "con" tag in MathOverflow. How can I delete it?
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Downloading one's questions/answers
Silly question... how can I download the questions/answers I've participated in on mathoverflow, as listed on my homepage, onto my computer? I'm leaving in the near future to where there is no ...
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What are Tips and Tricks to use MO more effectively?
The purpose of this question is to collect a list of Tips and Tricks for using MO in a more efficient or otherwise better way.
If you know some trick or have a tip you want to share with your MO-...
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What does "serial upvoting reversed" mean?
In my reputation history I see that I lost 75 points of reputation because of "serial upvoting reversed." What does that mean?
It seems that this question was asked in passing in this discussion and ...
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Uncomfortable variability of MO reputation
Some of my reputation data on MathOverflow got changed in a past couple of days back and forth twice. In particular, my reputation went up 200 points, then back to the previous state, then up by 160 ...
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Why the sudden backlog of late answers needing review?
Title says it all but I need to add at least 30 characters.
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Should the election already start now?
It seems to me the actual election already started. I find this quite surprsing as (at least) some official Q&A was planned and I assumed this (obviously?) will happen before not during the ...
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Is there an option to know when somebody (especially author of the post) does something after my comment?
Yes I do realize that the comments are primarily meant to introduce improvements in the post being commented on. And also that if any subsequent commenters want my feedback, they will @ me explicitly. ...
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Editing old question, can't submit as title is too long
I'm editing Is there a canonical map from the cohomology of orbifold Chiral de Rham on an orbifold to the cohomology of Chiral de Rham on a crepant resolution? as there was a broken arXiv Front link (...
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Mathjax CDN is shutting down effective April 30th 2017
If you haven't seen the official announcement yet, Mathjax is shutting down their CDN effective April 30th 2017. We are currently looking for alternatives for hosting this service including self ...
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latex.mathoverflow.net/png images broken
Prior to MathJax and jsmath, MathOverflow used http://latex.mathoverflow.net/png to generate images of mathematical equations to insert in posts (e.g. this one). That didn't last very long but all of ...
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why the extra step in registering?
On other stackexchange sites, when an unregistered user logs in we can enter a name and password into an Open ID page, and once that is accepted we are taken to the front page for that stackexchange ...
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How did I lose all my reputation points?
At the beginning of the summer I had around 1,172 reputation points. I didn't log on for a few months. Then, I saw that the site looked a little different and I looked at my profile and saw that I ...
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Sort unanswered questions by tag
Please excuse my mo.meta ignorance.
Is it possible to view the list of percentage of unanswered questions, sorted by tag? (This is somewhat ill-posed because many questions have multiple tags, but ...
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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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Changing mind about upvoting a comment
If I change my mind about upvoting a comment, is there any way to cancel my upvote there?
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Some guidance needed concerning a suggested edit
I just reviewed an edit and rejected it because it looked wrong to me.
The edit suggested a modification with respect to indices in some formula.
https://mathoverflow.net/review/suggested-edits/43644.
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When do votes to close/reopen expire?
I believe votes to close/reopen expire after some time.
When?
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"Apparently, this user prefers to keep an air of mystery about them"
I happened to click on a user's MO profile. Under his clearly set-out name was the legend "Apparently, this user prefers to keep an air of mystery about them". On the same page is his photograph and a ...
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How to (re)tag such that migration works?
As discussed elsewhere it is crucial that a question that should be migrated has a matching tag on the target site (otherwise the migration is rejected and the question closed on the source site).
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I am not being notified when my question is answered
I have opted to be notified when my question is responded to even if not a full answer
but I have received not such notification??
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`\intertext` in MathJax
MathJax, at least as used on MO, recognises many multi-line environments, like {multline}, {align}, and ...
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Sticky vote controls at MO?
This SE meta post mentions a test of sticky vote controls.
I couple of days back I remember that I had sticky vote controls for a short while but then it returned back to normal.
The linked post ...
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Interesting question deleted by author — how to reach out to author to ask to undelete?
"Coloring Gaussian integers based on a numeral system based on powers of $-1+i$" was an interesting question that was recently asked. I left a comment with some relevant keywords and links (...
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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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where is the Tips and Tricks list from MO 1.0?
I asked a question at why the extra step in registering? whose solution by Shog9 I think would be worth placing in the Tips and Tricks list. But I don't see the Tips and Tricks anymore in the right ...
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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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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?
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Users with multiple accounts
In the old meta we had a very useful thread where one could point to moderators multiple accounts to be merged. Since things have changed, would there be a point on having such a thread here, or what ...
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Automatically fix outstanding mathjax issue involving backticks
After the transition to the stack exchange network, I have occasionally noticed posts being edited to replace occurrences of the following code (note the backticks):
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