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Are edits performed by external, non-SE robots allowed?
During my reviewing of Suggested Edits, I have encountered several of them attempted by user @Glorfindel. Upon closer examination, all were performed by a robot written by him and all consisted of ...
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Apologies re image links update => bumping
In the days before StackExchange used i.stack.imgur.com for images, I had linked quite a few images to my college's web server. Now all those links are broken, and I will eventually move them to i....
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Where to share MathOverflow success stories?
We had an old thread about this at tea.mathoverflow.net but this is not the most obvious place for that. Where should we keep track of cool success stories like this recent gold nugget?
Update: The ...
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2018: a year in moderation
Good morning, all! I'm a Community Manager here at Stack Exchange; some of you might remember me from classic answers such as a temporary change now approaching 6 years live and a list of possibly ...
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Trouble understanding criterion to answer protected question
This question is protected, and the box at the end says: "To answer it, you must have earned at least 10 reputation on this site."
What does this mean?
I am asking because I am currently shown as ...
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Custom 'off-topic' reasons to close
Splitting off the first item from the main 6. Currently, the 'off-topic' reasons are:
This question does not appear to be about research level mathematics, within the scope defined in the help center....
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Are research questions in MSC 97 (Mathematics education) allowed on MO?
Check AMS Mathematics Subject Classification, you will find the 2 digit classification "97" for mathematics education. Thus it seems that It is allowed to ask mathematics education research questions ...
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Two new user pages?
Will MO be participating in this?
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2015/04/two-new-user-pages-one-new-stat-this-ones-big/?cb=1
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Is it possible to search for posts/questions of an user $X$ commented on/answered by the user $Y$?
Basically the question is in the title. Maybe it sounds not entirely healthy but, say, I want to find all instances when the user $Y$ has replied to the user $X$, is there a way to do it?
Maybe more ...
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Should tag-wiki include a source where it is taken from?
The main purpose of the tag-info (and especially the tag-excerpt) is to help with tagging. This is especially important for the tags with ambiguous name. But usually tag-info also contains some brief ...
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'Tag-removed' tags where they possibly shouldn't be
See
Why is differentiating mechanics and integration art?
Which functions of one variable are derivatives ?
both of which are tagged [tag-removed]. Also, both of these seem to have had these tags ...
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Custom closing link looks too much like it should be a migrate to MSE link [duplicate]
Currently, one of the custom off-topic closing reasons is:
MathOverflow is for mathematicians to ask each other questions about their research. See Math.StackExchange to ask general questions ...
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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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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User retention rates on MathOverflow
A two-input table :
First input : number of users with more than $500, 1000, 2500, 5000$ or $10000$ reputation points.
Second input : number of users not seen for more than $1/12, 1/4, 1/2, 1, 2$ or $...
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Editing of the help center and about
Try to add some meat to the on topic page. Also, in the about page, you can edit the site target audience, the example question, and the bullet points that define what to ask about/what not to ask ...
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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 with links to material under restricted access
I have seen several times people editing a post to add a link to an article under restricted access/behind a paywall. By this I mean that the article is on some site requiring a login/payment before ...
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Auto-bumping of unanswered questions
Like many users, I suppose, I have wondered how and when an old question gets bumped by the system. (Of course an edit or a new answer bumps a question: I'm not asking about this.)
From Francois ...
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Vanishing questions
For the last few days I've seen questions in the front page that appear much fainter than the rest. I had seen such things in other sites with questions or answers that were heavily downvoted, but ...
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Reputation not moving up while having 27 upvotes
Do you have a clue why my reputation os not moving up while the last question I asked has 27 upvotes?
Thanks, Jean-Pierre.
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What's the difference between two off-topic flags? [duplicate]
I'm sure that this is somewhere on MMO, but my searching hasn't turned it up.
When I flag a question as off-topic, two of the options that I am given are "This question does not appear to be about ...
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Why was this question made community wiki?
Yesterday I asked a question seeking published references studying popular games, to start building up an undergraduate research program. Today I woke up to find it had been made community wiki. Now, ...
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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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Can anyone learn anything from a downvote without an accompanying rationale in a comment?
I have been on enough web boards in both the arts and sciences that I have learned not to be bothered by downvotes in and of themselves.
What does bother me is a downvote without an accompanying ...
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MO-Hard Questions
The term "MO-Hard" has entered the mathematical vocabulary, describing interesting questions that were asked on MathOverflow but haven't been answered in spite of efforts by many community members. ...
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Anton's departure as moderator
Does outgoing moderator Anton Geraschenko deserve our heartfelt thanks, or what?
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Should this site be "a shortcut to substitute for literature searches"?
On Reference for invariance of essential spectrum under relatively compact perturbations, Michael Renardy voted to close with the comment "This site should not become a shortcut to substitute for ...
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At what point should MO recognise it needs to leave Stack Exchange Inc?
Edit Please note this is not me posting with my moderator hat on (I've signed the letter), and I didn't discuss this with the mod team before posting this. It's not within shouting distance of being ...
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Mugs, Stickers And Shirts - Now With 100% More MathOverflow!
The MathOverflow Foundation has given Stack Exchange permission to print and ship (at our expense) free gifts for outstanding users of the site that want them, or that will be attending conferences ...
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Deleted answered question / arXiv posts based on unacknowledged MO posts
I'd like to mention here two possibly related facts:
(a) Soon after this question was answered, there was an arXiv paper posted providing the same answer
(b) Soon after this closely related ...
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Flood of Similar New User(s)
The following thirteen(!) users:
goingfullscheme
valua_aint_no_galois
going-full-isomorphic
logicians_rule,
martintzar
royalroadtogeometry
bundlist
compactbut
faptoint
you_dont_mess_with_ron
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What happened to the dear user "quid" (9072), they appear deleted?
What happened to the dear user "quid" (9072), they appear deleted?
Noticed this by edits I remember were from them.
Google still remembers them and the user page of user number 9072 returns 404 (...
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Formatting citations to the literature on MathOverflow
We'd like to make it easier to cite articles from the literature, on MathOverflow.
I propose adding a single button to the edit toolbar while writing posts, which will pop up a search dialog, allow ...
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arXiv vs MathOverflow - popularity of disciplines
Inspired by the comparison of programming languages by GitHub and Stack Overflow activity (e.g. this one for 2015) I decided to look at the popularity of mathematical disciplines by using data from ...
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Moderation strike update 2
There has been movement at the station. Reposting an update on how the negotiations are going from this answer on meta.StackExchange, which also gives details on other updates over the past fortnight.
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A StackExchange website aimed at graduate students?
There has been a lot of discussion about questions that do not get answered on MSE, but are not considered 'research level' on MO and thus get closed. The problem seems to be that certain questions ...
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Cancel the association bonus
There has been some previous discussion of the association bonus, c.f.
The Association Bonus
Is there an association bonus for this site?
Can we please get rid of the association bonus for other ...
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Improving citations of MathOverflow posts
There are already a lot of citations of MathOverflow in the literature. Nevertheless, there is some resistance in the greater mathematical community since MathOverflow is not a traditional medium. ...
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Creating a "math.SE needs your help" thread
From time to time questions get asked on math.SE which may be quite suitable for MO. Given the current climate of math.SE, such questions may not receive the attention they are due: e.g., they ...
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Disappearing "Hi!"
Just curious ...
A brand new member posted a question this afternoon, and I posted an answer.
I know him quite well, and he was here in Bristol to give a seminar two days ago, and without giving it ...
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Is MO connected?
Is it the case that MO is actually split into several communities which only communicate with each other through meta-activity but have no actual mathematical interests in common?
This is not sheer ...
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Potential "technical" obstacle to migrations, and suggestion for a solution
Practical advice: If you want to/vote to migrate something to another site (especially math.SE) please make sure that at least one of the tags on the question exists on the target site (math.SE). ...
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What MO is for and what is *your* aim in participation?
Q1: What is your view on the purpose, aims and benefits of MO?
Q2: What are your specific aim, targets and benefits in participation at MO?
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Celebrity usernames
The question "naive de Rham cohomology fails for singular varieties" (naive de Rham cohomology fails for singular varieties) recently received an apparently useful answer from a user with the name "...
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MathOverflow at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, Baltimore, January 2014
The 2014 Joint Mathematics Meetings will be held January 15-18, 2014 in Baltimore, with hundreds thousands of mathematicians attending. It happens that I plan to attend, and since I'd enjoy going to ...
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MO in the Notices of the AMS
On page 333 of the March 2010 issue, John Baez wrote that "MathOverflow has become a universal clearinghouse for math questions."
The March 2017 issue features an interview with Prof. Ken Ribet--the ...
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Should we have new moderator elections?
Mathoverflow has seven moderators, but many of them seem to be inactive (at least from the point of view of an unprivileged user): for instance, they are not active on meta, and they moderated few ...
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Community Peer-Review in Mathoverflow
I was recently surfing around the Physicsoverflow and I have to admit I was impressed by their Review section. I could not help myself from thinking how -and if- such a feature could also be ...
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Updated: Is it time to replace links to the UCDavis arXiv frontend?
This question from March 2020 points out that many questions/answers link to papers at the http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/ frontend instead of at the arXiv itself, but that the frontend had been down a ...
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