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Serial voting was reversed
It pretty much coincides with my reputation reversal of one vote on another site in the network. Normal serial voting reversals happen around 3am UTC, and I asked about it here - the response I got fr …
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Is this the right community for "under-the-hood" math questions?
No, it isn't.
What kind of questions can I ask here?
MathOverflow's primary goal is for users to ask and answer mathematical questions related to current research in mathematics. These can be questio …
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Why is my question is closed and do I get views?
Have you read the tour?
MathOverflow is a question and answer site for professional mathematicians.
Your question does not qualify for this; hence it's downvoted and closed. For more details, see Wh …
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Why isn't the link processed in this comment?
There's a space between the [link text] and the (link itself). This is visible in e.g. SEDE:
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Why is my feature-request not showing on meta?
It doesn't show on the homepage, but you can find it via the list of questions. This is status-bydesign; questions with a score of -4 or lower on the main site and -8 or lower on the meta site are hid …
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"Scope" of being blocked from asking
This refers to the so-called question ban and it's per site; your questions on MathOverflow do not influence your ability to ask questions on other Stack Exchange sites. Not even Meta MathOverflow; it …
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Is it possible to temporarily comment out part of a post?
You can hide the part in HTML comments:
BEFORE <!-- this is something I want to hide --> AFTER
produces:
BEFORE AFTER
Spoilers would be another option, but perhaps less clear in conveying the int …
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Question visibility and reputation
It depends on where you're looking, but in general, the visibility is only determined by the timestamp (either of the last activity, or of the moment the question was created). However, on the homepag …
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How to tell who created a tag?
This is not possible, at least not with 100% certainty, see e.g. Can I find out which tags I have created?. The only exception is when a user gained a Taxonomist badge for that tag; that only happens …
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How can this question have more downvotes than views?
Given the time you posted this, it's most likely this spam question (only visible with 10k reputation); there's a copy over here in the records of a community project fighting spam across the network. …
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Can I retag questions to get a topic badge?
Yes, that would work; your tag scores are recalculated once every 24 hours and they will be based on the current tags of the question. Those tag scores affect badges; you can even lose a tag badge whe …
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How can this user have a negative year reputation?
They offered almost 4000 reputation in bounties so far this year:
https://mathoverflow.net/users/8133/noah-schweber?tab=bounties
Note that the -4827 is the decrease in rank, not in reputation, that's …
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When are question titles auto-expanded?
When is the question title auto-expanded?
Whenever you link in a post (not a comment) to a question, i.e. a link starting with https://mathoverflow.net/q/ or https://mathoverflow.net/questions/, fol …
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Asking questions later
It doesn't matter when you ask the question. Yes, at 4am US time less people will visit the site, but there are less questions to compete with visibility as well. So deleting and undeleting 'at a conv …
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My answer got upvoted, but no reputation increase?
That's a community wiki answer, and you don't get any reputation for upvotes on them (nor do you lose any from downvotes). The idea behind this is that they're easy to edit (for everybody with at leas …