MathOverflow Meta

17

votes

2

answers

478

views

Is it time to replace links to the UCDavis arXiv frontend?

modified 19 hours ago David Roberts 29.9k

2

votes

0

answers

139

views

Criteria for Top question?

discussion support

modified yesterday Martin Sleziak 4,262

4

votes

1

answer

268

views

Why was this math puzzle question migrated to Science Fiction & Fantasy?

bug migration

answered Sep 18 at 7:45 Stefan KohlMod 17.7k

5

votes

0

answers

133

views

How can I see the line length available for long mathematical expressions in posting on MO?

support mathjax editing

modified Sep 18 at 3:42 Tony Huynh 27k

49

votes

31

answers

23k

views

News of potential interest to the MO community

discussion

answered Sep 17 at 14:54 Lucia 41.5k

24

votes

2

answers

2k

views

Asking a question you know the answer to, but not answering

discussion

answered Sep 9 at 19:56 T. Amdeberhan 34.7k

7

votes

1

answer

119

views

Request: Add the option to close to review tasks from the "first questions" queue

feature-request review-system

answered Sep 8 at 14:50 Emil Jeřábek 36.9k

2

votes

0

answers

146

views

How to find out why a post was deleted

discussion close-reasons

asked Sep 4 at 0:19 Vincent Granville 1,833

0

votes

0

answers

103

views

Unable to delete this post

feature-request editing close-reasons vote-to-close down-votes

asked Sep 3 at 0:40 Arbuja 115

17

votes

4

answers

845

views

Should we blacklist or delete the "research" tag?

discussion status-completed tags blacklisted-tags

answered Aug 30 at 15:01 CatijaStaffMod 101

2

votes

1

answer

154

views

Answer converted to comment, then reverted to answer

discussion comments deleted-answers

modified Aug 29 at 12:26 Carlo Beenakker 133k

-6

votes

2

answers

400

views

Why was my probability question closed?

discussion

modified Aug 20 at 22:41 Will Sawin 102k

5

votes

0

answers

366

views

Questions on the mathoverflow newsletter

18

votes

0

answers

687

views

Why is the "last seen 96 years ago" feature gone?

discussion feature-request

modified Aug 11 at 18:46 Christian Remling 15k

2

votes

0

answers

186

views

A case when the closure reason might be unclear to the OP (and possibly others)

discussion close-reasons

asked Aug 6 at 6:46 მამუკა ჯიბლაძე 16k

61

votes

1

answer

7k

views

PhysicsOverflow just went live

discussion

answered Aug 5 at 16:45 user142929 105

-3

votes

1

answer

254

views

A fuller story of up/down-voting

discussion votes

modified Aug 4 at 11:44 CommunityBot 1

14

votes

1

answer

261

views

Annoying popup about cookies

feature-request

modified Aug 4 at 11:40 CommunityBot 1

7

votes

2

answers

411

views

What are the exact mechanics of the vote for MO moderators?

discussion support election

modified Aug 4 at 11:34 CommunityBot 1

5

votes

0

answers

247

views

Help center text references a thread but doesn't indicate which one

discussion support help-center

modified Aug 1 at 7:06 user44191 4,630

8

votes

1

answer

398

views

Why is Math Overflow a .net website unlike all the other sites which are .com websites?

discussion

modified Jul 27 at 9:08 Rodrigo de Azevedo 2,122

3

votes

1

answer

413

views

Rationale for moderator deletion of a non-spammy, off-topic question

discussion deleted-questions moderation

answered Jul 15 at 14:12 Todd TrimbleMod 49.8k

1

vote

0

answers

166

views

Asking whether this question will be suitable and hence answered by people on MO ? ( I will use career and advice tag)

discussion specific-question on-topic

modified Jul 15 at 9:32 user319735 1

6

votes

1

answer

136

views

Unfortunate title length limitation when performing dead link maintenance

support hyperlinks titles minor-edits

answered Jul 12 at 3:57 Gerry Myerson 35.1k

5

votes

1

answer

806

views

Rationale for migration to MSE of a well-received question on MO

discussion migration moderation

modified Jul 7 at 20:14 Timothy Chow 58.5k

17

votes

2

answers

781

views

Using MathOverflow to help with referee work

discussion user-accounts citations

modified Jul 6 at 1:55 Alexandre Eremenko 71.9k

1

vote

0

answers

141

views

Self advertising and posting a candidate constructive proof

discussion on-topic

modified Jul 4 at 8:18 Manfred Weis 10.5k

2

votes

1

answer

208

views

My question is removed

discussion support specific-question deleted-questions

modified Jul 3 at 11:11 Martin Sleziak 4,262

2

votes

0

answers

130

views

What happened to the stack exchange app for iOS?

support

modified Jun 29 at 18:31 Carlo Beenakker 133k

2

votes

2

answers

296

views

unaccepting an answer, and then accepting own similar answer

discussion accepted-answer

answered Jun 28 at 22:10 Will Sawin 102k

13

votes

1

answer

521

views

How to @ a user with non-Latin characters?

discussion support user-interface comment-notification user-names

modified Jun 23 at 11:48 Martin Sleziak 4,262

1

vote

0

answers

190

views

What is the correct action if the OP finds an answer incorrect (with a recent example)?

discussion etiquette answers deleted-answers

modified Jun 22 at 7:50 Stefan KohlMod 17.7k

2

votes

2

answers

415

views

Pink questions in the list

support tag-watching

modified Jun 18 at 6:04 Martin Sleziak 4,262

2

votes

0

answers

139

views

What is yellow about? [duplicate]

support tag-watching

modified Jun 18 at 5:29 Martin Sleziak 4,262

15

votes

5

answers

575

views

What should the modal window for first-time askers say?

discussion feature-request status-completed asking-questions new-users

modified Jun 17 at 15:43 Yaakov EllisStaffMod 101

11

votes

0

answers

190

views

Watched tags highlighting lost

bug status-completed tag-watching

modified Jun 15 at 9:19 Marc GravellStaffMod 101

28

votes

1

answer

949

views

Prosus' acquisition and its effect on MathOverflow

discussion stackexchange

modified Jun 11 at 11:47 Martin Sleziak 4,262

8

votes

0

answers

128

views

Citation helper: can we have it automatically convert $...$s into \$...\$s?

feature-request status-review citation-helper

modified Jun 8 at 13:42 Calvin Khor 149

20

votes

2

answers

708

views

How do off-topic question askers find MO?

discussion on-topic statistics new-users

answered Jun 8 at 7:16 Najib Idrissi 4,068

7

votes

3

answers

926

views

Acceptability of "Changes forced by the pandemic"

discussion specific-question close-reasons

modified Jun 4 at 20:13 Noah Snyder 25.9k

2

votes

2

answers

89

views

No MathJax line wrapping in Firefox

discussion mathjax

modified Jun 3 at 16:35 მამუკა ჯიბლაძე 16k

-3

votes

3

answers

304

views

Make it evident that bounties are non-refundable or refund them on other people's questions

discussion feature-request bounty

answered Jun 1 at 3:07 Andy Putman 39k

26

votes

2

answers

658

views

Concern about sending to academia.stackexchange

discussion close-reasons

answered May 29 at 8:42 Kostya_I 5,198

3

votes

0

answers

49

views

Math-mode formula in comment breaks incorrectly across lines

bug mathjax comments

modified May 28 at 20:57 LSpice 6,201

120

votes

53

answers

16k

views

Best of MathOverflow, or papers inspired by MathOverflow

discussion faq site-promotion

modified May 24 at 17:14 GH from MO 79.9k

17

votes

1

answer

429

views

Should the rules for deleting own questions be modified? - an example

discussion feature-request deleted-questions

modified May 24 at 9:42 მამუკა ჯიბლაძე 16k

19

votes

4

answers

1k

views

Deletion of on-topic comment threads

discussion comments moderation chat deletions

modified May 15 at 8:34 Asaf KaragilaMod 33.5k

Aug	SEP	Oct
	24
2020	2021	2022

Top Questions

Looking for more? Browse the complete list of questions, or popular tags. Help us answer unanswered questions.

Recent Tags

Recent Badges