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How can I add a diagram or picture to my questions?
As it is obvious by title, I need to add a diagram to clarify my intuitions in some questions. How can I do it? Is there any limitation in format and size of the pictures?
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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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Converting a too-long answer in a comment should generate an error message
I just tried to convert an answer into a comment; it was too long for a comment, and the software just truncated the text.
I think it would be better to either generate an error message, ask for ...
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2013 Moderator Nominations [closed]
The purpose of this thread was to allow users to nominate others. The nomination period is now over and the thread is closed. The list of candidates can be found on the election page.
Since the Stack ...
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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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2013 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Q&...
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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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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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Usefulness of longer tags
This thread is meant as a place to discuss the utility (or lack of it) for longer tags.
Currently, tags can have a maximum of 25 ASCII characters. That leads to interesting results such as ...
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Frequent revisions leading to a community wiki
Due to frequent revisions my answer has become a community wiki, can I undo this.
Also now if a bounty gets awarded to my answer will I get the points.
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Is there any way to invite more experts (active researchers) from various subject areas?
Regarding the number of people who participate in Q&A's, I have a feeling that some subject areas are underrepresented in MO, while there are many knowledgeable experts in these areas which ...
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2013 Community Moderator Election
As the Math Overflow community grows, so does the load on our moderator team. The existing staff is doing an excellent job, and in order to keep up the good work, they've requested a few more sets of ...
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What do moderators do?
What do moderators do? Is it just a matter of dealing with posts flagged for moderator attention, or are there other things too?
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Two tags for partially ordered sets
There are currently two tags for partially ordered sets: posets and order-theory. In my opinion, they mean the same thing. I see three posibilities.
Merge the tags.
Make them synonymous.
Keep them as ...
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What subject specific tags could replace the tag 'divisors'?
A few names are used in different subjects in mathematics with completely distinct meanings. A couple of common examples are "spectrum" and "regular". Sometimes, this creates ...
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Happy 4th anniversary, MathOverflow!
As some will cerainly know today (September 28th) is MO's anniversary, its fourth to be precise. Since this year it appears there is no system-message to celebrate the event, I thought I create this ...
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Why does (moderators) tag on meta behave differently from other tags?
When I click on the moderators tag here on meta:
I see that it contains one question.
No tag-wiki is displayed. (And neither is the possibility to edit the tag-wiki.)
When I try to find this tag in ...
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Why was this question (sorting a countable infinite set) deleted?
A recent question on the complexity of sorting a countable infinite set (Sorting of countabe set) was apparently deleted. I'm curious why.
(Certainly, the question was poorly written, with no ...
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building a platform for reusing mathoverflow content
I'm working together with PlanetMath contributor Raymond Puzio on a proposal that would improve the PlanetMath platform, making it useful for remixing contents from MathOverflow, math.stackexchange....
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How to contact moderators [duplicate]
Is there some way to contact all the MathOverflow moderators?
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Homework section in the Help Center slightly outdated
I just noticed that the Help Center section that describes what is and is not on topic, and what the policy for homework questions and its rationale are, is outdated. It currently reads
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Is "reciprocal voting" permitted?
I've noticed that when I ask a question on MathOverflow, or any StackExchange Site, and I either upvote or downvote an answer written by a high-reputation user, regardless of how old the question and ...
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What to do with homework questions?
I think something should be done with the homework questions: there are too many of them now. I suggest that one reason for closing should be "homework". If at least 3 people vote for that reason to ...
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How To Ask page
One of the best things on the old MO page was the "How to Ask" link on the top. It is true that SE took the hint and added something like that to the previous FAQ (which is now retired), but the MO ...
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Tag for Fragments of Peano Arithmetic
There are quite a few questions on the main site related to (first-order) Peano Arithmetic and its fragments. Here are two examples: 1, 2 (but there are many others).
It would be nice, and feels ...
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Search not working?
When I load https://mathoverflow.net/search?q=topology (or any other search query) I get a Your search returned no matches. response.
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Who gets the reputation?
I asked a question on MO and it now has three correct answers, all more or less using the same strategy and similar to each other. If I accept all of them, do they all get the reputation they deserve?
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Link back to mathoverflow
The old meta had a convenient link back to the main mathoverflow site, but that seems to have vanished. It would be nice to have it back.
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Is there a single page listing privileges & their reputation requirements?
On the old MathOverflow, there was a single page (the FAQ) which listed all the privileges and their reputation requirements, in increasing order. This has been replaced by the Privileges page, which ...
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A serif font for MathOverflow?
Wouldn't it be nicer to have a serif font on MathOverflow? As is done, say, on MSE.
It seems to be much more readable, like a printed text. And I'd say making answers looking more like notes or even ...
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Option to migrate to CS Theory
We should add the option to migrate to Theoretical Computer Science when voting to close. This question is an obvious candidate.
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Seeing up/down votes of your own posts
When a user reaches 1000 reputation they become an established user. With that comes the ability to see the number of up and down votes on any post. While I have no problem with this privelege being ...
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Projective geometry tags
Would it make sense to merge the tag projective-plane and projective-space into projective-geometry? It doesn't seem useful to have to search for each of these separately.
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moving questions between MO and math.SE
How does one decide if a question is good for MathOverflow or Math.StackExchange?
I've been using the criterion of being "research-level" but that can be subjective. An expert may consider a ...
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Does anyone else experience this "browser-freeze" problem?
Both MathJax & ChatJax freeze my chrome and IE7 browsers running on Windows Vista for at least 2 minutes while it loads. The entire bowser is unresponsive, I can't even click on the start;
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Why are the number of profile views displayed?
Is there a reason why the number of profile views is displayed when I go to my profile? I don't think it is a bad thing, I just don't see the purpose.
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"Silent" Edits for MO?
This question is inspired by
Do we have an unofficial quota on how many old questions one should bump for minor edits in a single day?
Wouldn't it make sense, to have the choice of a "silent" ...
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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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Asking exactly what you need
If you compare my remarks in
Do partitions of unity exist if we impose additional conditions on the derivatives?
and
Exponential sums
you'll see that the problem and my request were exactly the ...
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Optionally only show "favourite tags" questions
I wonder if it would be possible to optionally only show questions having my "favourite tags" on them. (See also Questions containing my "favorite tags" are barely distinguishable)
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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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Why isn't "no longer relevant" an option for closing?
I would like to be able to close questions as "no longer relevant" if they have been answered in the comments (such questions generally are near the border, but on the MO side, of appropriate for MO). ...
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Somebody copied my question from mathstackexchange word-for-word
While using google to search for "11th power diophantine" it gave the mathoverflow link,
The diophantine eq. $x^4 +y^4 +1=z^2$
which is copied word-for-word from my mathstackexchange post,
https://...
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Thank you letter!
I am quite aware that meta has not designed for what I am about to write, but I cannot help myself. This concerns a recent "question" on MO: US editors and reviewers vs Iranian Authors? Indeed, it ...
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Will there be an update fixing the rendering?
As has been reported in two previous questions on meta (here and here), the mathoverflow update generated a few problems with the rendering related to mathjax.
Initially there was a problem with ...
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Are line breaks and lists supposed to work in comments?
Are line breaks and lists supposed to work in comments? If not, how was I supposed to write the following answer to my own question?
"I have found two references. Indulal, G. (2007). Studies on the ...
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Is it possible to add an option to migrate to a programming site?
There have been a number of questions in the Close part of Review lately which were basically asking for help creating an algorithm to do some mundane task (see here, here, here for example). I wonder ...
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Strange! I know someone who can answer but I could not let him know!
There is a recent and interesting post on MO: erdos-harary-tuttes-dimension-of-graph-progress-in-last-48-yrs that I know a friend of mine can answer. I had in mind to let him know via this feature:
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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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MathOverflow Weekly Newsletter / Greatest hits from previous weeks
I don't know how many look at the MathOverflow Weekly Newsletter, but these were
the "Greatest hits from previous weeks":
"Video lectures of mathematics courses available online for free" from Feb ...