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Answer has no user's name
The answer of François G. Dorais at https://mathoverflow.net/a/23200/12357 has no user name displayed. Is this a bug?
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Does review feature encourage closing and flagging errors?
The new review feature is interesting, and I have experimented with it. I have a number of concerns- I wonder whether my concerns are shared, and whether there is anything that can be done to address ...
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The 6 semi-essential meta questions of every SE 2.0 upgrade
In the spirit of The 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta
I realized that there were a few things that needed to be decided by a large site that has suddenly gone SE 2.0. Initially I planned to ...
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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 This has been replaced by the Privileges page, which ...
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Question about closing
The following question has 5 votes to close, but it is not closed : Preparing for Set Theory Research
What is going on here? I'm not trying to start a discussion of the merits of this question (...
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Flagging as Low Quality should add the post to the review queue
In How to handle crankery on MathOverflow 2.0? Andy Putman pointed out that he flagged a post as low quality, but it never reached the low quality review queue.
I feel that in order to effectively ...
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A trivia question: reputation dip [duplicate]
Why did my reputation decrease by 300+ points right after the system up-grading?
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What outgoing migration paths should we have?
Now that we can migrate off topic questions, what sort of migration paths should be useful to have?
I think that adding at least Cross Validated, if not one or two of the other science sites, would ...
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Sort by newest option
Is there any way to get back the option to sort answers in newest to oldest order?
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Hiding reputation
In MathOverflow 1.0 we had the ability to hide other users' reputations. Can we get that again?
(Also, I had to rewrite this question several times to get past an annoying box that said my question ...
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Proposal to more aggressively delete off-topic questions
We are going to get many more off-topic questions now.
Can we agree to vote to delete on them so as not to pollute the site?
It takes a few votes from users who can vote on such things and/or one ...
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Public dumps for mathoverflow?
As far as I remember, there was supposed to be a public dump of the MO database just before the migration: http://dumps.mathoverflow.net/ . Not an urgency by any measure, but something that would be ...
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Can we make the cite link bigger?
The cite link in the share box is minuscule:
Since this is a very important feature for MO, it should have much more visibility.
[Related: https://meta.mathoverflow.net/questions/112, Citation ...
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In case Chat turns out to be useful
Below, a question and answer on the only current MO chat, from two people who have been regulars on MSE chat, the second a moderator somewhere. My concern, for now, is that I see several MSE regulars ...
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On StackExchange.com MO is still Uncategorized
Obviously MO is listed at All Sites/All, but instead of also being at All Sites/Science, like M.SE, it's in All Sites/Uncategorized.
(I noticed it back when the age was wrong, but it hasn't been ...
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On the current color scheme, and why it sucks
Being color blinded is not very easy. You end up wearing black shirts and blue jeans, because it's easier. When you look at a computer monitor sometimes the red and green mix together, all sort of ...
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Moderation tools
The link to moderation tools seems to be missing for me. As Scott Morrison kindly explained in https://meta.mathoverflow.net/a/20/12705, it is supposed to be here in the toolbar:
The tools as such ...
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A chat -theme for the MathOverflow chat
The MathOverflow chat needs a chat-theme (in my opinion), because the current one doesn't look very beautiful.
It should fit with the design of the main. Does someone have a design in mind, or wants ...
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Weird display of results from search
The results from this search don't seem to display properly. I'm assuming that it is not restricted to this search alone.
Added later: I have included a screenshot below. What I'm referring to is the ...
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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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Age of Mathoverlow
As was pointed out here, Mathoverflow is listed as being 2012 years old here.
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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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What happens when a question is migrated to MSE?
When a question is closed as off topic and migrated, will it no longer appear in MO, or will it appear in MO with a note saying it has been migrated?
Similarly, in MSE, will it say "migrated from MO" ...
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MathJax in suggested edits
Pages like
https://mathoverflow.net/review/suggested-edits/1435
display suggested edits for review. The original and edited versions are displayed in parallel columns with the differences highlighted....
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Math Overflow not available as a chat parent user
I was configuring the Teacher's Lounge ping for MO when I realized that currently, the option to change chat parent user to MO is not available. Could this be added?
Also, superpings don't seem to ...
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Citation feature
Is it possible to re-enable the "cite" feature from MO (and later MSE)?
(I'd like to remind the users, in the case this is going to be enabled, that the feature now hides within the "share" button, ...
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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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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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How to handle crankery on MathOverflow 2.0?
On the previous MO we had a thread on Tea called "crank post to flag as spam" in which crank posts were pointed out so people could flag them as spam and have them deleted.
Seeing how we are now ...
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Is there an association bonus for this site?
I used to have a 1 rep MO account. After the SE2.0 merger, I logged in, and while the accounts are showing up associated, I have not received the association bonus.
My MO profile is still the same, ...
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Why are MO accounts not listed among other SE accounts?
When I go look at my accounts in SE network, mathoverflow is not listed there. (You can get to the list of accounts, for example, from your profile page. Other SE accounts are listed on profile page.) ...
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Formatting Sandbox
The purpose of this thread is to enable people to check if their formatting works and to play around with their MathJax code.
Quoting from Bill Dubuque's Formatting Sandbox on meta.math.SE:
To use ...
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Typography on login page
It needs some love: line spacing is off, alignment is off and a title overlaps with the input boxes.
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Privileges on MathOverflow
The privileges should probably be set properly and "trusted user" should be put back on the $\geq10000$ accessible privileges.
I find it amusing that I can vote to delete answers, but can't vote to ...
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Minor GUI issues: the tag deletion button
I just posted a posted something, and I noticed that the little "x" on the tag names which suppose to delete the tag from the current tag list is not fully included in the tag box itself.
(This is ...
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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" ...
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Why is the update so awesome?
I mean, we really don't deserve it. It's awesome. Good work everyone, high-fives all around. Cheers (for those of you from across the pond, so-to-speak).
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Questions and Answers missing
List of my questions and my answers have disappeared in the new updated version today, though the data about how long I have been member, my location etc are intact. The reputation points have come ...
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Questions containing my "favorite tags" are barely distinguishable
I liked the fact that in MO v1, any question which contained one of my list of favorite tags was noticably highlighted (a brown-orange color, if I remember correctly).
In the new version, such ...
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Allow posting on meta without any reputation for the first week
Would it be possible to remove the reputation requirements for posting on meta for the first week, while we iron out all the login problems people are having?
We've already had a few instances of ...
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The mystery of the Strunk & White badge
Where did my Strunk & White badge go? In the previous version of MO, it was awarded to whomever edited 100 posts... Now, it's awarded to whomever edits 80 posts. I'd recently acquired it, but it ...
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Missing header at top of page?
In other SE 2.0 sites, I get a short header in between the StackExchange link on the left and the search box on the right. It includes account information and a link to meta (also review, chat, help)....
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First closed question has default fields in explanation
See < https://mathoverflow.net/questions/134652/foundations-of-mathematics-and-set-theory>, where the reasons for closing are slightly too relevant/not relevant at all. How many of these fields are ...
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Broken math on some answers [duplicate]
Here is an example. Is there an automatic way for moderators to fix what I imagine are many answers that somehow now display funny, or should we do it manually, one by one?
If the latter, people ...
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No MathJax on meta
Meta doesn't seem to have MathJax enabled ($x=y$). I think it's best enable it to be consistent with the main site.
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Why is LaTeX not displaying correctly? [duplicate]
In this answer
On a proof of the existence of tubular neighborhoods.
and Neil Strickland's answer here
Is the counit of geometric realization a Serre fibration?
the laTex is not displaying correctly (...
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Participation in Tags?
Currently it seems that people (on the main site) are listed as not having participated in any tags. (This seems to be the case for me, and for JDH; I didn't check any others.) Is this a temporary ...
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How can I log in into my old mathoverflow account?
I had a separate log in account for mathoverflow. Now, I'm unable to log in into that. I see only options of logging in using google, facebook, stack exchange etc but no option of logging using ...
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Page footers across all Stack Exchange sites list MathOverflow under multiple categories
It's listed under "Technology", "Life/Arts", "Culture/Recreation", "Science" as well as "Others"!
I think we should be under Science, after mathematics.SE.
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