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15 votes

4 answers

799 views

"Mathematics done just for fun" and the advice to provide context/motivation for questions

mezzoctane

1,863

modified yesterday

47 votes

62 answers

16k views

Formatting Sandbox

miracle173

11.4k

modified yesterday

27 votes

2 answers

1k views

Declining number of questions - discussion and further actions

Srini

2,428

modified 2 days ago

14 votes

1 answer

559 views

Are edits removing tags frowned upon?

Bill Dubuque

285k

modified Dec 9 at 12:42

-3 votes

2 answers

228 views

How much context is required?

D.W.

6,030

answered Dec 8 at 2:48

0 votes

0 answers

81 views

Is there a markdown syntax, which enables us to generate mathematical images?

Dominique

3,439

asked Dec 5 at 12:57

25 votes

2 answers

641 views

What exactly constitutes a duplicate?

peterh

2,770

answered Dec 4 at 17:07

39 votes

166 answers

22k views

Requests for Reopen & Undeletion Votes (volume 01/2022 - today)

lily

4,558

modified Dec 4 at 3:51

14 votes

0 answers

295 views

MathJax V3 is temporarily disabled network-wide

SlateStaffMod

101

modified Dec 2 at 14:32

3 votes

1 answer

162 views

Should external links be used in answer posts, since the links might be broken later?

Martin Sleziak

56.5k

modified Dec 1 at 18:57

0 votes

6 answers

1k views

What can/should moderators do about (partial) answers in the comments?

Marc Le Bihan

269

modified Nov 30 at 7:05

124 votes

17 answers

24k views

Sandbox for drafts of long, complex posts

IV_

8,139

modified Nov 29 at 22:02

6 votes

0 answers

218 views

requesting my accepted duplicate flags be superseded by a merge

DroneBetter

806

modified Nov 29 at 14:14

42 votes

5 answers

4k views

People who do not accept answers; suggestion for dealing with this.

DroneBetter

806

answered Nov 29 at 2:51

16 votes

0 answers

302 views

Add original answerer marking

Martin Sleziak

56.5k

modified Nov 28 at 15:28

49 votes

4 answers

2k views

Is the large decline in questions over past few years due to people losing interest, or other factors?

Amateur_Algebraist

2,003

modified Nov 28 at 9:50

41 votes

1 answer

2k views

Weaknesses of Mathematics SE — Not knowing where some difficulties lie

Rodrigo de Azevedo

23.7k

modified Nov 26 at 21:05

66 votes

72 answers

6k views

Examples of poor review audits

Dominique

3,439

answered Nov 25 at 12:40

0 votes

0 answers

93 views

Searching for a deleted answer

PatrickR

7,873

asked Nov 25 at 5:43

3 votes

0 answers

88 views

How to improve this closed question so it is recovered?

Martin Sleziak

56.5k

modified Nov 24 at 13:23

-1 votes

0 answers

60 views

When auditing first answers, could the website add a hint if I click into the question?

Y.D.X.

572

asked Nov 24 at 1:45

11 votes

1 answer

172 views

Is there a way to navigate to random unanswered questions?

Martin Sleziak

56.5k

modified Nov 23 at 15:36

1 vote

0 answers

118 views

Add a random unsolved question button [duplicate]

Martin Sleziak

56.5k

modified Nov 22 at 2:18

1 vote

1 answer

95 views

How to include parallel and perpendicular symbols in MathJax subscripts so that they render clearly (clear whitespace between the parallel lines)?

Jyrki Lahtonen

143k

answered Nov 21 at 5:14

8 votes

2 answers

233 views

Migrating questions to any StackExchange site

Philippe Cloutier

101

answered Nov 17 at 16:19

13 votes

1 answer

705 views

Other than the chat room on this site, what are some other more "social" sites out there which welcome users asking for their proofs to be reviewed?

Arctic Char

17.2k

modified Nov 17 at 13:59

-2 votes

1 answer

151 views

removal of my quite involved question that I believe had value [duplicate]

ShaunMod

48.5k

answered Nov 16 at 14:51

1 vote

1 answer

197 views

User deleted the answer I awarded a bounty to, what am I supposed to do?

Martin Sleziak

56.5k

modified Nov 16 at 4:00

21 votes

1 answer

711 views

Comments with useful suggestions were deleted (by a moderator)

Bill Dubuque

285k

modified Nov 16 at 0:52

6 votes

1 answer

612 views

Helpful comments were deleted, so OP wonders if this means the question was deleted.

Bill Dubuque

285k

modified Nov 16 at 0:47

15 votes

0 answers

325 views

Create a synonym between (homotopy) and (homotopy-theory)

Martin Sleziak

56.5k

modified Nov 15 at 4:32

19 votes

6 answers

2k views

Deleting questions with answers

Penelope

43

answered Nov 15 at 0:35

0 votes

0 answers

106 views

Is the following an appropriate question?, correction to a supposed proof.

nickalh

1,494

modified Nov 14 at 10:56

41 votes

4 answers

3k views

An almost 8 years old question was closed just after I added a new answer to it

duckbjarne

27

answered Nov 11 at 21:04

2 votes

1 answer

91 views

appealing/reraising a flag when it's declined for reason I disagree with

ShaunMod

48.5k

modified Nov 11 at 16:46

3 votes

0 answers

80 views

Asking clarification between "presentation" of comments [duplicate]

Mauro ALLEGRANZA

101k

modified Nov 11 at 10:45

0 votes

0 answers

98 views

What is happening when a $4$-downvoted answer becomes pale? What might happen after that? [duplicate]

JC Q

2,104

asked Nov 7 at 19:13

-4 votes

1 answer

247 views

I want to understand the policy of the use of ChatGPT

Sarvesh Ravichandran Iyer

78.4k

answered Nov 5 at 7:14

16 votes

3 answers

1k views

About a possible change of instructions to ask a question, for beginners.

Brian Tung

35.7k

modified Nov 3 at 21:09

0 votes

1 answer

89 views

Updating the "This answer is not useful" tooltip on meta downvote buttons

Glorfindel

4,011

modified Nov 3 at 15:50

4 votes

1 answer

227 views

The math formulas on the Math Stack Exchange page aren’t rendering properly. What should I do?

John Omielan

53.4k

modified Oct 24 at 16:00

1 vote

1 answer

100 views

How to fix this title formatting problem?

Xander HendersonMod

33k

modified Oct 23 at 12:13

-4 votes

1 answer

181 views

Solution verification without specific concerns on a step

Xander HendersonMod

33k

modified Oct 21 at 22:33

1 vote

0 answers

166 views

Downvoting a post is not a reason for failing an audit

Dominique

3,439

asked Oct 21 at 9:58

44 votes

3 answers

1k views

Please don't be too eager to close questions

Dominique

3,439

modified Oct 19 at 8:52

370 votes

14 answers

137k views

How to ask a good question.

Hòa Văn Nguyễn

69

modified Oct 19 at 7:19

8 votes

1 answer

155 views

User-Info disappeared

SpevacusStaffMod

101

modified Oct 14 at 20:45

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