Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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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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Citation helper and mobile devices
A few days ago I tried to use the citation helper from my mobile phone (Nexus 6p with Firefox and the full site interface), and everything worked just fine.
But now I tried to load it, and it kept ...
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What happened to the stack exchange app for iOS?
The stackexchange app would no longer launch, I tried to reload it from the Mac App Store, and it’s not there (or at least, I could not find it).
I probably missed some event, is there an alternative?
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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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FirefoxCP Isolated Web Content CPU overdrive
Just recently, MathOverflow has started to cause Firefox to use massive CPU resources, at least on my machine. In particular, I'm on a Macbook Pro 2.3 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9 running Ventura 13.4.1 ...
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Tracing and Seeing deleted questions
Is there a way to search through deleted questions? Can a user reach his or her own old deleted questions?
In the early days of MO I asked about similar sites in related disciplines and there were a ...
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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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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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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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"[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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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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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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My gravatar has changed
My automatically generated Gravatar has changed. Is that normal? I thought they were supposed to be permanent. I used to have a purple pattern IIRC, now it is light blue, a color I have never seen. It ...
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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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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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What is a supported use of \hfill?
According to Supported TeX/LaTeX commands, \hfill is supported. However, as expected, it doesn't work in ordinary text \hfill ; and using it in math mode seems to ...
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Serial voting was reversed
I was recently noticed "serial voting was reversed" on MO. I am curious about how this works, and what this exactly means (I don't have the feeling that I did something wrong).
Note that I ...
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Once a thread is deleted, is it really too late to bring it back?
I was under the impression that "deleted" threads were still visible by moderators or other high-level members of the community. Is this correct? If a post was deleted that shouldn't have ...
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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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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 do I combine my two accounts?
I made a mistake and now I have two mathoverflow accounts. I have an account on stackExchange and another account on Yahoo. How do I combine these two accounts? Is there any way?
Thanks
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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?
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Reverse an accidental downvote
I just noticed (by looking at my reputation) that I accidentally downvoted the following answer:
Oscillation of the summatory Möbius function
This was (probably) because I was reading the ...
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What happens when a question with a bounty is migrated?
I asked a question a few days ago which has received no responses (comments or answers) in spite of the fact that I put a 150 point bounty on it yesterday. It is quite possible that it just hasn't ...
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Main site changed look, but only in one device
Using Firefox on an iPad, suddenly the view for the main site changed; it now looks as follows:
The meta site looks the same as it always has, and when I go to the site using firefox on a different ...
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Account merging
I have an issue with account merging form in the help center. The 'Your other profile link' does not accept any link to the second my account.
Picture 1: Completed help form
Picture 2: Outcome of ...
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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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A blue message, which vanishes
When I vote (or comment?) I get recently a blue message which vanishes before I catch it. Do you have any idea about this colorful (well, just blue) info item?
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Flagging Options
When I flag a question, I'm given a menu of possible reasons. Sometimes there are only three reasons (roughly "Spam", "Offensive" and "Needs Moderator Attention"). Other times there are more (e.g. "...
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How do I withdraw a (wrong) accepted answer in favor of a right comment of that answer
My answer to a question (Asymptotic expansion of $\sum\limits_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{x^{2n+1}}{n!{\sqrt{n}} }$) was accepted. But it turned out that it was wrong. A comment to my answer later gave the ...
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Is there a way to recover old account without email?
I would like to recover my account
https://mathoverflow.net/users/2029/andrey-gogolev
I don't seem to remember the email associated to it. Even if I did I probably don't have that email address ...
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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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