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Nifty PDF snippets
In addition to the internal functionality of your PDF viewer, you may also try a screenshot tool. There are a lot of free/commercial tools you can use.
I use a commercial one named Snagit. It is very …
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"Claiming" the Answer [closed]
A problem in answering questions arises when several people try to independently answer a question, and in the middle (or the end) one understands the situation.
The case happened to me, and several …
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Where to Ask Too Basic Questions?
This discussion has recently gained momentum on Area51; here are some links:
Two level model (MO/Math.SE) vs one level model (SO)
What problems does the two-level split solve
And even proposals like …
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Policy on editing questions ?
I have seen a number of my (and many others') questions edited by you. You've been pretty serious at keeping this forum up and tidy, and we should all appreciate your work.
However, I have a problem: …
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Why is our LaTeX math support so different from that of MathOverflow?
The answer is provided by KennyTM here: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/67258#67261.
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Dealing with user issue
Just a suggestion: If a question/answer is down-voted enough, mods can delete it.
I specially suggest it for answers. The enough part should be decided upon; I suggest:
Questions: -10.
Answers: -5.
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Policy on deleting incorrect answers?
I would like to cite a quote from Edison here. Part of it is taken from another website:
Thomas Edison tried a thousand ways to get a light bulb to work and all of them failed. Some didn't work. Some …
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Reference requests and the like
First of all, I believe your comment is not harsh, yet it can be improved to become a friendly advice. In addition, I believe you must be a moral person to ask this question.
Unfortunately, it is ver …
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What is cstheory.stackexchange.com lacking?
I like questions regarding "foundations of cryptography" (see Goldreich's book regarding the topics it covers).
Apart from the questions I personally asked, I practically saw no one else asking such …
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How Much Time before Closing a Question?
Sometimes, the community can help the questioner clarify/elaborate the question, or make it on-topic by changing it appropriately.
In such cases, closing too soon---specially, by mods, and before any …
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Why is our LaTeX math support so different from that of MathOverflow?
As far as I learned from this topic, both CSTheory & MathOverflow use MathJax. In addition, when I checked the version, I noticed that both use v1.0.1.
However, the math rendering experience is quite …
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Adding Tag Wikis
This is more a suggestion than a question, though answers and comments are welcome.
In question What should the tag wikis contain?, Robin suggests the preferred content for tag wikis. Unfortunately, …
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[Informational] The Way Voting Works
This is not really a question, but an informational message. Stack Exchange (SE) uses a method of election called Single Transferable Votes (STV). AFAIK, this mechanism is recently incorporated into S …
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Flagging and Community Wiki
A few weeks ago, the community wiki check box was removed, and only moderators can now convert a question to CW. Users should flag a post to notify the mods.
However, I noted that it requires 16 flag …
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Guideline on Trimming Long Titles
I think questions whose titles are like:
How I can find a recent papers on the subject of Turing machine which exhibit computational power beyond blah blah blah...
Can we have a policy (or at least …