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Purely hypothetical question: if a moderator is seen to be engaging in actions injurious to the site, is there any provision for holding a recall election? I tried searching meta for recall and ...
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I've encountered an issue with the site this week. A few days ago, I made a post on math stackexchange titled The canonical bundle of $\mathbb{P}^n$ is $[-(n+1)H]$ via Griffiths and Harris. Ted ...
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Regularly I see questions appearing, where the author seems of good faith, but lacking experience here on the site (typically, Mathjax is not used or used wrongly). I have the tendency to edit the ...
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This question is about basic linear algebra; specifically, whether a given subset of $\Bbb{R}^3$ is a subspace. The asker notes that their attempt suggests that the subset is a subspace, and that this ...
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As announced in several places, Google will be sunsetting the goo.gl URL shortener soon (August 25): Goo.gl links will stop working on August 25, 2025, which will ...
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The tag (topology) - blacklist or leave as a synonym? The tag topology is currently a synonym of the tag general-topology. Main question: Should we remove and blacklist the tag topology? Or should we ...
Martin Sleziak's user avatar
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Today, while reviewing this post, I noticed that three users voted to close it as "Seeking personal advice". However, it's quite clear to me that the appropriate reason should have been &...
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I posted this question yesterday, asking how I can find a rotation matrix between two vectors in $\mathbb{C}^3$. I thought it seemed to be a reasonable question; however, it has been closed with a net ...
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There are three tags containing the word "covering": covering-spaces covering-maps (which is a synonym for covering-spaces) covering The purpose of the third is unclear. It does not have a ...
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I wanted to re-bounty my question for 200-250 points. But I am unable to as it shows "Award this bounty to the best eligible answer as soon as possible". There is no answer to the question, ...
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Math SE guidelines say that "opinion-based" questions are out of scope. However, the guidelines don't (apparently) adequately clarify what "opinion-based" actually means, since ...
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With the recent rework of the "Flag" menu, it now offers two ways to flag a duplicate: by directly selecting the option "closed as a duplicate question", and by selecting the the ...
Sassatelli Giulio's user avatar
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I am trying to understand the logic behind questions being marked as "already answered". I have had several questions marked (and subsequently closed) this way. I suppose my main concern ...
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I would like to know why this question was closed (not my question, but I did answer it). Based on this help center article about closed questions, the only possible reason I can see is that the ...
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3 out of my 5 answers (yes, I'm new) on MSE were deleted. In each deletion, there were the same 2 people that deleted my answers (I won't mention them here for privacy). One of my answers were silly, ...
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