Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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Can I migrate this question to Mathoverflow?
I asked the question
"Which sets occur as boundaries of other sets in topological spaces?"
on MathStackExchange on June 23, thinking that the answer is probably known, but there are no answers yet. ...
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Loss of reputation because a “user was removed”
I just noticed that I lost 10 points of rep because "user was removed". I don't get it.
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What's the purpose of the favorite button?
I'm trying to understand how the favorite button is meant to be used. I frequently see poorly written questions marked as "favorite". It seems the OP can make this designation. I was unable to find ...
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How do I link to a MO answer?
Sometimes you see in answers or questions a link to an earlier answer to a different question. The url often is a mysterious sequence of digits and letters. How is it obtained? Linking to a question ...
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Numbering and cross referencing of equations in questions and answers
A basic LaTeX feature which I sometimes miss when asking and answering questions in MO (specially when the question and the particularly the answer are longer) is the possibility of numbering ...
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Where is the Community Wiki?
Apparently there is something called "community wiki" on MO but I don't know how to find the questions,etc that are part of (or belong to) this wiki.
(I have a question/post in mind which would be ...
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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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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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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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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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How do I use the comment notification system?
I would like to take better advantage of comment notifications. Where can I find a complete account of how they work?
For example, it appears that writing @FullUserName in a comment will lead to a ...
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deleting junk spam more quickly
In the last days, there have been several posts which are commercial spam (mostly from India, as it seems) and have no link at all with mathematics. Is it technically possible that one of the ...
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undoing an upvote versus reversing it
I recently upvoted an answer to one of my questions. The answer was wrong, but I thought it was helpful enough to earn an upvote.
A couple of hours later, the answer changed significantly and (in ...
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How much reputation is needed to cast a vote in an election?
I noticed that MO is currently holding moderator elections, and I'm curious whether or not I will be able to vote. I've looked through the privileges list, and I do not see mentioned there a "...
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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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Failed migration?
What happened to this question? When I saw it in the review queue, it had 3 votes to migrate to MSE, and 1 vote to close (Yemon's custom reason). But after I cast the last vote to close, it is now put ...
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Undelete request, Question 67384
An answer to Source and context of $\frac{22}{7} - \pi = \int_0^1 (x-x^2)^4 dx/(1+x^2)$? posted on 9 June 2011 gained 31 upvotes before being deleted by its author on 23 August 2012. Would those who ...
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Formatting Sandbox
The purpose of this thread is to enable people to check if their formatting works and to play around with their MathJax code.
Quoting from Bill Dubuque's Formatting Sandbox on meta.math.SE:
To use ...
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Disappearing Question
Yesterday there was a question about solving the functional equation $f(\alpha t)f(\beta t)=C$ for $C$ constant, $\alpha^2+\beta^2=1$. It was closed as "unclear what you're asking" when the OP ...
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On an answer containing pre-formatted text
I just came across an answer by a new user which looks very unusual to me: https://mathoverflow.net/a/139275/21095
Specifically, there is very little mathjax in this answer. Instead the vast majority ...
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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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Hard to notice links in comments
This is a conscious duplicate :D
There are at least two more questions about it (The color of links in comments, On the current color scheme, and why it sucks - by the way, when trying to share them ...
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Why aren't the Precognitive and Beta badges retired?
The Analytical badge is retired, presumably because it is no longer possible to obtain it. If this is not the case, please let me know. If it is the case, shouldn't the Precognitive and Beta badges be ...
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How could I have better clarified my question?
I seem to keep getting my posts put on hold in various stack exchanges because it's "unclear what I am asking." How can I do better to prevent this? Specifically right now I'm asking about this ...
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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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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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Can Mathjax preview be switched off?
I recently typed an answer with a few formulas in it. While I was typing, my browser constantly reloaded the preview part below the typing window. Because MathJax apparently does three passes over the ...
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Why does MathOverflow keep logging me out?
I'm getting tired of logging in to MathOverflow ten times a day. The other Stack Exchange sites I use keep me logged in, and so did MathOverflow until recently. What is different about MathOverflow? ...
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Can I associate my account to two gmail addresses?
I just changed jobs and so I got a new email account. Both are through Gmail. I prefer to keep them separate rather than trying to merge them. When I log in to MathOverflow I always verify using ...
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Does not upvote always increase reputation?
I've got this
Why did the upvote leave my reputation unchanged?
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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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Order of the tags at MO
I have seen a post suggesting that in SE network a tags for the question should be shown ordered by the popularity (i.e., by the number of questions): Are the tags shown in a particular order?
But ...
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“[error] I'm a teapot” when trying to add a picture
When I tried to add a picture to a new MO question, I got the error in the title. The data size is below 1 MB as a jpg image, but above 3 MB as a png.
I noticed however that the image doesn't lie ...
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What is the role of star on the left-hand side of a question?
I've been active on MO for a while now, but I have not yet figured out the role of the star that appears on the left-hand side of a question, underneath the number up/down votes. Sometimes there are ...
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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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If I've found an error in my answer
If I've found an error in my answer, should I delete the answer or just to post a comment saying about the error?
It seems that reading my answer may be helpful for finding a true answer.
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Registered vs. unregistered users?
What does it mean if a user is unregistered?
I'm interested in the questions and answers of a particular user, let's say "SAM". I clearly see questions that SAM has asked, but when I search for "SAM"...
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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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Edits by anonymous users - when are they the “Community” bot?
I ask because I just turned down a minor edit on something that seemed to be done and dusted back in 2010, and the edit came with a comment briefly justifying it. Now I see that the edit has been ...
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Can 10K+ users see deleted questions?
After a short discussion in comment with 10K+ user,
I noticed a fatal flaw in the question,
wrote "Thank you" and not before long
deleted the question.
Not sure the 10K+ user saw my final
comment.
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How to post a file
Is it possible to post a pdf file of a published article to MO as background for a question? I have searched the help for this. I know we can post specific citations to published articles, but this ...
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Literature Requests & Opinions: Conventions At MO
Background: Having failed to solve a general problem that I posted more than a year ago on mathoverflow.net, I have now resorted to numerical methods (involving finite probability distributions) . ...
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Stable url for linking
This question probably belongs to some more general meta but since most heavily I use links on MO let me still ask it here.
Occasionally I link to materials which may disappear at some point - like ...
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I flagged a question with the wrong option. What should I do?
Should I leave it as it is, or leave a comment to this, or flag for moderator attention and explain my mistake?
I do not want to draw attention to the specific question this is why I do not link it ...
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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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Cancel delete vote
For closing votes, before a question is closed (5 votes) I can cancel my closing vote (after which I can't vote anymore).
After a deletion vote (of a closed question with score $\le -3$), I tried to ...
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Where has the @ gone ?
I started my comment on Marty Isaacs' answer with "@Marty Isaacs". But after saving the comment, the @... disappeared. What's the reason for this behavoir of the system ?
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Trouble with tea?
This post has a link to this one on the old-meta-now-tea site, but when I clicked on it, I got this:
A fatal, non-recoverable error has occurred
Technical information (for support personel):
Error ...
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Examples of MathJax codes of directed labelled graphs to use in a MathOverflow Question
I need some examples of MathJax codes of directed labelled (with loops or multiple edges) graphs to use in MathOverflow Questions so that I could easily change them to my graphs.
Here is my try to ...
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How to edit comments?
I see that some comments have been edited, but on comments I have made there is only a delete button, not an edit button. How do I edit a comment?
