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Mostly no difference between before and after editing
After I upload a question, then some user (mostly high-level user) edit my question.
But many times I don't see any difference.
I wonder what they edited and why they edit it.
I don't have the ...
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Why was my question about WolframAlpha marked off topic
The original post can be found here: Get WolframAlpha to treat all symbols as variables
There is a tag specifically for WolframAlpha called wolfram-alpha-queries. If this doesn't belong here, to what ...
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Can the deleted post content still be viewed?
There was a question about how to draw this form of straight line x==ty+n, and a friend answered three different drawing methods. I'd like to see again that I haven't seen the post now.
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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To discuss and potentially explicitly prohibit ChatGPT and other AI answers
Context: Informal ban already effective
Meta Stackoverflow and Meta Stackexchange has already been discussing a (temporary?) ban of answers crafted with ChatGPT (SO 421831, SE 384396).
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Mathematica Stackexchange editing toolbar [duplicate]
I have been away for a while, so I preface this question with an apology if it is trivial. In answering there used to be an add on/tool to that would allow Wolfram reference hyperlinks, automate ...
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Announcing upcoming (Wednesday November 30) R&D Q&A on symbolic calculus development
Devendra Kapadia and I are looking forward to hosting the “Q&A with Calculus & Algebra Developers" tomorrow (Wednesday) at 11:00 CT. This follows the "What's new in Calculus & ...
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Strategies for lengthy answers and questions (like this one)
Concerning answers
TL;DR what : It would be interesting to have a template/format/guidelines for presenting lengthy answers.
TL;DR why : To increase the general quality of answers, to guide newcomers ...
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What is the purpose/intention/goal for closing a question
I imagine that this has been asked already but searching here on meta and on google I could not find the deep reasons to why someone votes to close a question. The stack exchange information on vote ...
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Is it possible to append a file to a question on mathematica stackexchange?
Is it possible to append a file to a question on https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/ask
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New meta posts no longer appear in right side of main site
I remember the new mathematica.meta posts used to appear in right side of the main site, but now it's not the case:
↑ Who cares about this?
This makes the mathematica.meta site deserted.
Can the old ...
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Are questions about calling Mathematica in other languages/softwares on-topic?
Recently I voted to close this question because it's about programming in python and I think it's clearly off-topic in this site. But OP of the question just showed me something funny: this question, ...
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Where are my previously bookmarked questions
This seems like such a stupid question. Ugh! but I suddenly cant -- not even to save my own life -- find the list of questions I bookmarked in the past. I bookmarked them by clicking the star below ...
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Should we make No-Front-End Wolfram Language questions explicitly on-topic? Are they?
On the Help center > Asking > What topics can I ask about here? one can read
Mathematica Stack Exchange is for users of the software Mathematica
developed by Wolfram Research, as well as ...
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How do I search in Mathematica SE with context ticks in the search bar?
Frequently I want to search for information on MMA.SE about symbols that are referred to by their full context. An example is System`Private`ArgumentsWithRules.
But, searching for System`Private`...
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Rare Q&A "Visualization and Graphics" session from Wolfram R&D, some are members of this community
In a rare virtual event, Wolfram R&D developers (some are old-timers, who also are members of this community) will go live for Q&A session about one of the most popular topics Visualization ...
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What's the appropriate method to share notebooks and packages in this community?
I want to ask a question that concerns a moderately simple but long code. I think that it, placed all inside the question itself, would clutter the message and make the post quite unreadable. How can ...
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What's the difference between [error-messages] and [error-tracking]?
Today I changed a tag from error-tracking to warning-messages (née error-messages, error). Then I did some looking into them. Neither error-tracking or warning-messages have tag wikis and both are ...
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Is there a way to filter out closed questions?
It seems that closed questions can still be edited, which is kind of annoying since edits make questions pop up in my view as active. The most egregious example I've come across is An extension to the ...
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Is it acceptable to post code in unreadable form? (i.e Notebook boxes not Raw Input Form)
The offence
There seem to be a significant amount of new people posting code that looks like this
a = (E^(-2 Abs[\[Gamma] - z Cos[\[Theta]]]^2) \!\(
\*UnderoverscriptBox[\(\[Sum]\), \(j = 0\), \(m\)]\(...
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I don't agree that it's easy to categorize user's problems as math problems
I note this question is going to close by the Mathematic question(not a Mathematica). I think it is a function of Mathematica to try or practice with MMA when learning Mathematic. We can't simply ...
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How to convert Greek symbols to readable ones when posting here? web site is gone
I've used to use http://steampiano.net/msc/ to convert tGreek Mathematica symbols when pasting here so they are readable. Now it is gone. See posting-equations-with-subscripts-and-greek-symbols for ...
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I can't submit my question
I wrote a question, but the site won't let me submit it, giving me the following error message:
Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as code. Please indent all code by 4 ...
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Where in the world is J.M?
He is (was) one of the most active and highly respected users on this site, and a beloved moderator. A while ago, he faced some health issues and there was a fundraising to help him deal with it. ...
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The rule of 5 for accepting answers
There are some users who never accept any answers no matter how good the replies are. I am sure you all know that and it's not difficult to compile a list based on previous behaviors. What's even ...
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Jointly Write Large Answer
The question Background removal with hair, in my opinion, is unanswerable. Most image processing questions seem to result in finicky, specialized code. Moreover, image processing questions seem to ...
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Questions that provide code that runs with errors
Can someone, please, try to check who's right in this post?
Selecting Plot for Locator
I maintain that the OP is problematic, as I am running the commands given and I always get errors. I have ...
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Poorly written questions that get answers
There are various questions -and I think that the number is increasing as of late- in which the authors do not provide the code that they tried and failed and they do not give any description of what ...
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On answering 'Code Please' questions
If this is more appropriate for discussion in a chat room, that's fine, I just don't know how to use the SE interface to get there.
People ask questions effectively asking for someone to write code ...
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2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Being blocked from flagging without any warning
I have been blocked from flagging due to getting multiple declines.
I did not expect that having different point of views with the moderators will lead to be blocked from flagging questions.
Moreover, ...
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Objection to systematic down vote to all questions of a user
I have gotten down vote on almost all of my questions at once!
How should I inform the moderators to check this sabotage and give me the lost reputation points back?
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How can I get back an upvote for a comment under a question?
I have given an up vote to an incorrect comment under one of my questions. I click on in to take it back but that does not work. How can I take back my upvote to a comment where there is no downvote ...
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Encouraging newcomers who make "simple mistakes": good policies?
Motivation: I think it's good to encourage newcomers to MMA and MMA SE to continue participating here as they continue to learn Mathematica—especially when their first questions are closed for being a ...
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What is the benefit of a large number of points other than privileges on this site?
Two comments on a question today (Horrible Times x) mentioned "if you need the points" got me wondering about the real world benefit of points (other than having more privileges on this site)...
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What should I do, if anything, to make this question more focused?
I am rather confused as to why this question was closed. It seems to me at least to be very easy to understand, and in fact I received the type of answer I was expecting.
My first thought was that ...
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Does my question require additional context? [closed]
For my question What is the limit involving Sum, Subsets, and RankedMax as t approaches infinity?, I decided not to add additional context as the mathematics behind my code is extremely complex.
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How do I get my question answered if I don’t have enough points for a bounty?
For my question, In following example does d converge?, I’m unsure whether my question will be answered. It’s only been a few hours and someone has upvoted but no one has left a comment.
How do I make ...
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Will you entertain questions related to wolfram alpha here?
Will you entertain questions related to wolfram alpha here?
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Why was this question closed as off-topic?
I was surprised to see that this question, on doing a calculation of Pi with high precision, was closed as off-topic.
The justification for closing questions as off-topic is, according to the help:
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Is a question seeking to golf a code on topic?
This thread, as far as I understand, makes it clear that code-golf questions are generally off topic. But regarding the top answer, I got the impression that if a question asks to do a specific task ...
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Increase in down-voting - is there anything we can/should do?
I've noticed an increase in down-votes recently. Most of these are not accompanied by any explanation of why the questions or answers have been down-voted.
A lot of users provide helpful comments (...
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Community Ads for 2021
September update: Community Ads are now live network-wide. All ads with a score of 6 or higher, or with a score of 4 or higher and no downvotes will be displayed (except for any that have a note from ...
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Can question be deleted after answering and accepting?
something strange just happened.
Someone asks question. I gave answer. They accepted.
little later, the question is gone.
How is this possible? And who deleted it? Can OP delete the question after it ...
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Why does not finding duplicates = reputation?
I think that it must have been discussed in the past in one form or another, and if not here definitely in similar stack.exchange sites.
The question is the following:
Considering that finding ...
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Differential equations, version 12.3 and improving the level of the questions
Disclaimer: I am not really certain if this belongs here, or on the meta site or nowhere. I want to explain though, that I was motivated by the discussion regarding whether or nor we can improve the ...
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Why not require justifications for downvotes?
I just added an "answer" to my own question clearly indicating in line 1 that it was in fact an extended comment and that it required formatting.
It was immediately downvoted but there was ...
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How does Mathematica StackExchange support itself?
I don't remember ever seeing a "help support ..." like I do on Wikipedia.
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Votes can have different value
Sometimes I find an answer which is so incredibly helpful or beautiful that I would not mind voting double, triple or more at the cost of reputation, sort of like a bounty for existing answers. - Does ...
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Is this site losing users?
I have noticed reduction of activity on all StackExchange sites recently. For instance, for this question in 2012 I quickly received a lot of upvotes and answers, which also received a lot of upvotes, ...
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