Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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What should I do if I have a question on inactive post?
I recently asked this question about gamma function, and Vincent law commented a link to another post which stated similar question.
There I found a link to MathOverflow post.
I visited there, and I ...
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Did few of my questions disappear without notification or trace?
I strongly suspect one or two of my questions disappeared without
notification or trace on my user page in the last month.
Is this true?
Is there efficient algorithm to find links to the missing ...
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Failed to upload image; imgur is rejecting the request | Close
Why would imgur reject an image upload request? Temporary problem, or a problem with the particular image? I've tried several images, all small (<100KB). The error message is not very informative......
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"Have you considered to accept or start a bounty"
There are some questions of mine with answers which I did not accept them,yet.
Some of them (but not all of them) has an statement on the above of its title in the question list,...
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I loose a question
I remember that I had asked a question about obstructions for a $n^2$ dimensional vector bundle for which the fibers admit a structure of matrix algebra. I do not remember ...
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How to undo flagging? [duplicate]
I've erroneously flagged an answer as spam (some anonymous user tried to edit it by seemingly injecting some spam and this confused me), how do I cancel my action?
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To what extent is MO usable with console browser, not supporting javascript and images?
To what extent is MO usable with console browser, not supporting javascript and images? Say lynx/links/links2/elinks or something else?
I can live with javascript killed, but on some occasions when ...
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Recovering just for me my deleted question (or answer)
I am sorry to ask. There was an MO Q. by me (which addressed in an elementary way the infinity axiom, actually by just providing another formulation of algebraic flavor). I have carelessly deleted my ...
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Can I customize TeX/MathJax in Chrome?
Probably this question belongs to some general SE meta but I don't even know where it is or whether I am eligible to post there, and mostly I am using MO anyway, so if there is another more ...
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MathJax configuration in MO ==> not displaying bottom left messages [closed]
I noticed that on MO website, MathJax is usually not displaying messages on the bottom left angle of the screen. While there are always those messages on my own website like for the page Math ...
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Merging accounts
I have long been away from these forums. If I recall correctly, I used to login from my Google account. Still, my Google account seems to be no more tied to my original MathOverflow account https://...
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What is wrong with my account?
When I refreshed a page on the main site I suddenly logged out and when I logged in again I found out that my reputation is disappeared and I lost my access to my questions and I cannot edit them. ...
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Is this the right community for "under-the-hood" math questions?
I've posted a few questions in the Mathematics Stack Exchange community asking about theoretical concerns, such as "Why is $\frac{\frac{1}{x}}{\frac{1}{x^2}+1}=\frac{x}{x^2+1}$ true for all $x$?&...
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Can you help me open my alter user?
My name is Erin Carmody 916. Can you unite me with myself? Please forgive me for my former transgressions. I promise to show my love for mathoverflow in the way it is intended in the future. I don't ...
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Why is reputation change more than total reputation?
Could not find info on this anywhere:
following a notification I went to a link where one sees:
$$
\begin{array}{ccc}
+1206& 1,008& 861\\
\textrm{change}&\textrm{total reputation}&\...
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Asking questions later
I have a question about my MathOverflow post: Sequence without average density (It's deleted!)
I've asked it on 15.07.20 (currently yesterday), and in several few minutes realized that USA's time is ...
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I keep getting reputation points for an answer to a CW question
I keep getting reputation points for an answer to the question Most intriguing mathematical epigraphs which has been made community wiki some days ago.
Not that I don't like it but...
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Unification of two accounts
I have two accounts "loup blanc" on Math Overflow. One is unregistered, dated Aug 3, 2012 (reputation 26), and the other is registered. Is it possible to unify the two accounts into the second one?
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Is there a way to check all questions/answers posted from a deleted account
Suppose I know an account number, say user313948.
Is there any way to check all questions/answers posted by that user?
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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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Derivative of reputation score over time is identically zero [duplicate]
I've got a smattering of upvotes on my small number of answers but my reputation has never budged. Can someone explain why this is so?
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MO account continuity
My email account was virtually destroyed by a computer virus, on my Mac. Thus, I stay away from this whole thing by not even using my regular Mac unix account. Instead, I use a Mac guest account (a ...
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Updated questions
The following question of mine frequently appears as recently updated question so I frequently find it at front page. But neither me nor other participants did any revise or edit on this post and its ...
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Negative reputation?
I found this in the "Users" listing
What is negative reputation?
The profile for this user (who was last here 3 years ago) shows reputation 101.
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Can one see the latest activities in "big list" questions without reading all answers again?
There is a good question here. It is a "big list" question. sometimes it appears in active list. So I want to know what activity done there? but how?
Can one see the latest activities in "big ...
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how to correct an erroneous edit
"Black adder" edited my answer to a question asking for a proof of noether normalization. the edit was nicely done, except in the next to last sentence a change was made from "≤ d" to "less than d", ...
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Question visibility and reputation
I wonder whether the visibility of a post changes according to the user's reputation asking the question. Is it also known if a user's posts' visibility is affected by other actions, like having ...
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Why does this figure do not appear?
I add a Picture "GaussBonnet with Jpeg format to the following question but it does not work.
(Some possible obstructions to ) Limit cycles as closed geodesics(3)
Can one help me to resolve ...
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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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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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Eventual archive of the UFO?
For quite a while now MO has been treated to missives posted from, it seems, a representative of the galactic government who would like to share knowledge of time travel. For those with enough ...
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merge user35633 with DamienC
would it be possible to merge this account (user35633) with my former account from before the migration (DamienC... which I can't access anymore) ?
Thanks in advance
Best
Damien
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Is it possible to keep deleted questions in my account?
I asked a question some time ago that was down voted and subsequently deleted. Regardless of the rights and wrongs of that, I'd like to have a link to the question in my account because it contained ...
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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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Non-CW answers to CW questions
I have understood that if a question has community wiki (CW) status, then all answers must have it, too.
I came across an exception in a question about refereeing.
The answers by Chris Woodward and ...
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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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Leveraging MO to organize mathematical research
I am currently studying an existence lemma that appears to be simple yet powerful. From what I know about it, it is applicable in combinatorics, topology, graph theory, probability, percolation theory,...
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How can I contact a specific user
I'm new here and it was suggested to me to ask this here. There was a particular user who's answers and questions came up more than once when researching a couple math related topics and I was hoping ...
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Why is an MO front-page question greyed out? [duplicate]
Why is symmetric monoidal double categories? on the MO front page greyed out?
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About the follow button
One can push the "follow" button below a question in order to get advised of new developments.
Can it happen that one gets news from the "recent inbox message" about some questions that one has ...
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How do I improve the clarity of my post?
I have a question about my MathOverflow post: How do we create a better definition (for my definition of average) which is easier to compute and gives exact values?
How do I improve the clarity of my ...
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Synonym by a moderator which needs approval?
When I look at list of tag synonyms I see there a pending synonym rsk-correspondence $\to$ robinson-schensted-knuth and François G. Dorais♦ is listed as the creator. You can also see that this synonym ...
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Can someone please help me login to my account
I'm so sorry, but I got logged out of my account:
https://mathoverflow.net/users/10290/erin-carmody
I tried to log back in but have changed my email several times... It might be an impossible task. ...
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Can one un-(vote to close) a question without voting to reopen?
Scenario (and it actually happened): I was first to vote to close a question as too broad; OP modified the question in such way that my objection did not apply anymore; this modification resulted in ...
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How to ask a question on an accepted answer?
I had asked a question about 6 months ago and I had got an answer to the problem. Now, I have some questions on that problem. Can I leave comments for my questions there?
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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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Same email ID, multiple mathoverflow,net IDs
I had an ID on mathoverflow, stackexchange, which changed without my knowing. I used the anonymous way to answer/question, ie with just my email ID. So now I have two user IDs with the same email ...
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Log in problem on MO
I am unable to log in, unfortunately. After I click log in on top there appears a bubble on top of the page saying "Welcome back Frode Bjørdal, You are logged in, You are being redirected", and then I ...
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How to merge old mathoverflow account?
I know that this question has been asked and answered here: How can I log in into my old mathoverflow account? I have e-mailed the stackoverflow admins twice, but nothing has happened for 48h now. ...
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Old account login issue [duplicate]
Here is a link to my old account, to which I used to log on using google:
https://mathoverflow.net/users/18263/vidit-nanda
When I try to log in with the same google account, I get "user35394" ...
