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Update on "Who owns my MathOverflow posts?"
Your post is not a tangible thing, and bears no concept of a single “owner” who could decide anything and everything concerning the post. Rather, there are multiple rights associated with the post ...
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About if questions in Research papers can be asked on MathOverflow
I'd say that this is a bit of a grey area. If you want to ask a question of this type then you should prepare it carefully: do your best to isolate the specific point that you are confused about, ...
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What is MathOverflow's "agreement" with Stack Exchange?
Suggested in comments but I don't know if this is allowed. In any case: I've used an OCR program to copy the contents of the 2.5 pages below. I've used some minimal editing to keep the format vaguely ...
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Disappearing "Hi!"
I began this answer with a salutation, and hopefully it was never posted, because that's what the system is supposed to do, as per Jeff Atwood's answer on Meta Stack Exchange:
We now automatically ...
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How can I customize site in my browser to get "old feel" look of MathOverflow?
Here is the CSS I was talking about:
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Requests for reopen and undelete votes for closed and deleted questions
[RE-OPENED and later CLOSED again]
The question How the idea of adjoint matrix has been designed? isn't great, but isn't awful, and these two answers have been posted (and upvoted) on G+ rather than ...
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Would newly elected moderators join the board of MathOverflow Inc.?
The members of the MO board are the six current moderators, Anton Geraschenko, and Ravi Vakil.
Whoever becomes a moderator becomes a member of that board.
Todd TrimbleMod
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Would newly elected moderators join the board of MathOverflow Inc.?
This is an important question, thanks!
My response is a clarification of @Todd's answer, but it seems better to give it as a separate answer. The board exists because of the need of a legal entity ...
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10 year 'temporary suspension'?
Naturally, we do not discuss details of individual users. This is indeed an unusual suspension. Also note that this is a network-wide suspension, so this is not necessarily related to this user's ...
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What should I do when I see a spam post on MO?
Any user with at least 15 reputation points should flag the post as spam. After 6 spam flags, the post is deleted. In addition to being deleted, even for users who can see the deleted posts, the ...
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What is the deal with changes to the front page?
I find the new site basically unusable, and don’t expect to continue much participation here if it stays in its current form.
Tim requested more details. The main point is that I can't skim the main ...
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What's the purpose of the favorite button?
You can find links to some basic info on favorites here, specifically this post is rather detailed: How do favorite questions work?
This feature request has been posted on main meta a few years ago: ...
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the number of on line users at a given moment
Here is a snapshot of the site analytics to which Martin refers:
So, roughly $40,000$ page views per day (in the summer).
Might be interesting to know what happened on May 14th and on August 8th...
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Were there some recent changes to the moderators' team?
Mariano hadn't used the moderation interface for an extended period, and was proving hard to contact. The StackExchange staff said they wanted to remove his diamond, mostly as a security measure.
We ...
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Mathematics and MathOverflow relationship
There is no formal connection. You may often see the same question on both sites because a lot of people cross-post (manually), a practice which is generally frowned upon, especially when the same ...
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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, ...
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Is asking to verify my P=NP proof appropriate?
No. It is not. This is not the purpose of this website.
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Is it possible to know the list of removed users?
Let me first say that I'll try to answer your question generally, not to concentrate on the specific user you're looking for. So I understand the question as: "Is it possible to find user account ...
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Recognizing identifiable users changing user names
Let me summarize what was said in commments and in chat.
There are a few related feature requests on Meta Stack Exchange, but my impression is that they are unlikely to get implemented: Make the “past ...
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How to @ a user with non-Latin characters?
I am not sure about people using mobile devices, but on desktop using comment replies doesn't seem that different for users with non-Latin usernames.
If I am in a comment where such user can be pinged,...
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Disappearing "Hi!"
Boundary regularity of suitable weak solution for the Navier-Stokes equations, J. Funct. Anal. 268 (2015), no. 8, 2171–2187, MR3318646.
The above is supposed to be a reference to a paper by the ...
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Numbering and cross referencing of equations in questions and answers
MathJax supports manual numbering using $$\tag{…}$$, as below:
$$\tag{1}\label{grz}\Box(\Box(p\to\Box p)\to p)\to p$$
$$\tag{1}\...
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Can I somewhere see my own deleted questions?
In fact, you can see any of your posts provided you have a link. So basically the question is - is it possible to find link to my deleted question if I did not save the link somewhere?
There are two ...
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Why can't I post my question on MO anymore
The reason is explained in this help center article. As the article states, the best step you can take next is to edit your existing questions. Unfortunately, you have several deleted questions with ...
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Is it possible to temporarily comment out part of a post?
Since other answers mention HTML comments, let me clarify that using them is only a commonly employed custom on SE sites, which just abuses the fact that it works by accident.
In reality, the ...
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"[error] I'm a teapot" when trying to add a picture
The "teapot" error is one of the various responses we return if something looks very suspicious at the http/form level - most likely because of an XSRF check failure. On mathoverflow, this is usually ...
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Is it possible to search for posts/questions of an user $X$ commented on/answered by the user $Y$?
You can find several suitable queries in data explorer or create your own query. (Even for users who do not know much about SQL, it's not that difficult to look up basic info on the database schema ...
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Has word "mathoverflow" trademark?
A trademark infringement occurs when unauthorized use of a trademark (or a substantially similar mark, like a distinctive logo or motto) happens in the same domain of operation as the original. In the ...
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