Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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The meaning of the badge "Sportsmanship"
I would appreciate if you explain on the meaning of the badge "Sportmanship".
It is described as below but I can not understand what does it mean. May you describe this badge in an equivalent words?...
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Is it possible to close my account without deleting it ?
I feel like, for some reason, I am not able to ask interesting questions here anymore. So it would probably be better to have my account closed. Still I asked some well-received questions in the past ...
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How do I login to my old MathOverflow account?
I realise that this question has been asked in various forms already, but I still have a problem.
I have an old MathOverflow account
https://mathoverflow.net/users/6827/konstantin-ardakov
and a ...
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Don't know the details to my old account, how can I find them?
My question is pretty much as in the title. I have an old account but no longer know which e-mail I used to set it up (never mind the password xD).
Is there any way I can get the e-mail? I'm ...
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Please help me improve my Q&A and possibly reopen certain questions
Prepare to downvote me. But don't think of not downvoting me just because I pre-emptively self-deprecated myself to put a show of humility. Just pretend I'm as arrogant as I may be perceived to be in ...
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Why did my profile picture disappear?
I discovered few days ago that my profile picture is gone, had to reupload it.
Did anybody else encounter this? Do you know the reason?
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Is my question for Math Overflow?
In the first paragraph of Prove or Disprove this Darboux-like sum of a function defined on infinite limit points converges to zero, I state that I do not know whether this is a research question. Is ...
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Would this soft question be appropriate?
A few weeks back on the Math Stack Exchange, I asked this question about "interesting" PDEs. It got (no answers and) some deserved criticism, so I opened a discussion on the Meta there and made some ...
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MO links chopped in gmail pdf viewer
Currently I am preparing the text for a paper (together with two coauthors) where we cite help from MO on two occasions. I am doing this using the cite button. It ...
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"Singular Perturbation" is not among tags
Can I ask MO to define a new tag "Singular perturbation". I did not find this tag among the tag list.
Thank you
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Difficulties merging accounts
hopefully this is an MO.meta appropriate topic.
I have tried merging two accounts (I created the alternate account one day when I forgot my password and wanted to ask a quick question on mobile) and ...
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Is this question suitable for MO?
I recently posted this question on MO. However, it quickly got downvoted and there was a comment which read that "MO is not for homework."
However, that question was not homework and I had not got ...
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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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find an uncontinuous function [closed]
Is this statement true or false? why?
Every real function bounded continuous on R is continuously uniform.
I have an example but I'm not sure; f=x/(x+1) that is bounded and continuous
Thanks from your ...
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Legitimate questions put on hold with no comments, no notification, and no chance to improve
My question was put on hold as unclear. I see a number of issues in this:
No intent was made to clarify the question via comments: it was just shut up. I consider it rude and unhelpful.
No reason was ...
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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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Why MO community forbide me and discourage me to do my research and to post my questions?
I'm confused why MO community forbids me many times to ask question however the last question that I have posted wasn't negative , Really this method of dealing is discouraging me and discourage all ...
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Request for Undelete
I hope that I am following the instructions listed at How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean? What are the criteria for deletion?.
I would like ...
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Mixed reviews - can I have a decision reversed?
The image says it all really - I flagged when the question was still open so how come the question was then put on hold but my flag rejected?
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/229147/bourbakis-book-...
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Reputation recalculated: only even reputation now?
So +1 get 10 points for answers and questions, and -1 give -2 points. It is easy to see that users only have even reputation numbers now. Or did I miss a reputation-changing mechanism? (If not, why ...
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Account not deleted [closed]
25 hours after my account was scheduled for deletion, the account is still active. I tried deleting my answers manually but it is not possible in most cases, same for questions. What should I do?
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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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Is it allowed to use images for pasting math formula?
Is it allowed to use images to paste math formula in mathoverflow.net ?
I think this is high efficiency, and few people search math questions by LaTeX.
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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'...
