Unanswered Questions
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Reference answers to frequently asked questions
Why am I here?
If you were sent here, somebody thought that your question lacked depth or displayed ignorance of basic knowledge and/or techniques one would learn in undergraduate courses. This is ...
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What is stopping cs.stackexchange from graduating
I was wondering what are the criteria where we are lacking before we go full public/graduate. The term "critical mass" is used often but is not properly defined. From the FAQs and other questions, it ...
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“Answer the Un-answered” Event! (27 January 2013)
Following the discussion in Percentage of answered questions, we organize an event which is dedicated to answering the (~200) un-answered questions we have on CS.SE.
We'll be coordinating the event ...
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Request for the citation feature
cstheory.SE and math.SE have a link cite in the link popin that offers BibTeX and amsrefs for proper citing of questions and answers.
Can we please get that, too?
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Bug with mathjax
Recently, after I perform an edit, it seems the mathjax rendering takes more space than it is given, resulting with overlapping with the text after it. Example (from q10437, right after editing it):
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Merging the tags complexity and complexity-theory
There are lots of questions tagged complexity-theory and only two tagged complexity. Presumably we should merge the latter into the former.
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Do not automatically expire single-use tags
There is an automatic job that deletes single-use tags after 6 months. No attempt is made at determining whether the tags are good and should remain, or whether the tags are a variant name of another ...
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Viewing single answers in math-heavy threads takes too long
MathJax is applied from top to bottom. That is often okay, but in cases like this one it disrups the experience; you have to wait quite a while (depending on your CPU) until a lower-ranked answer (you ...
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Please add a comment explaining the reason when voting to close a question
If you are voting to close a question, please explain the reason.
There are some questions which are closed with no explanations in the comments (two about careers). Not everyone reads the ...
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Missing MathJaX in the duplicate subtab of the close review queue
When I review a question with a vote to close as duplicate, I see MathJaX formatting for the question body, but not in the tab that shows the proposed duplicate. Chrome 23.0.1271.17 beta in case it ...
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Moderator Pro-Tem Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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LaTeX in post preview is slow
I have been writing (and editing) a number of longer posts¹ with a lot of maths in them lately. Sadly, whenever you change a single character, the whole preview is reset which in particular means that ...
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A hard stance against the soft-question tag
I hereby propose to ban soft-question, as well as should it arise big-picture and any other similar meta-tag.
First, let me reiterate the main generic arguments in the blog post. These tags do not ...
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The simulation tag
Currently, the tag simulation includes (at least) two broad categories of questions:
Simulations in computability theory, i.e. simulate machines of type A with machines of type B.
"Applied" ...
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Please enable MathJax previews when editing tag wikis
MathJax works in tag wikis, but it is not enabled when editing them. Please enable MathJax in the editor preview in tag wikis.
