Questions tagged [comment]
Comments are small addendums to each question or answer, intentionally limited in size and formatting.
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"Close as duplicate" boilerplate text changed
When the first vote to close-as-duplicate is cast, the Math SE software also posts a comment that says
This question is similar to: …. If you believe it’s different, please edit the question, make it ...
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Is downvoting without comment a common and/or recommended practise?
I am a new user on Math.StackExchange. So far, I've asked 3 questions, and submitted one answer. Of the questions I asked, two were down-voted, and one was subsequently deleted. All these actions were ...
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Erased comment? [duplicate]
Roughly an hour ago, I wrote a comment on this question. It wasn't offensive, I was merely pointing out the similarity with the arcsinh function and the obvious change of variable that it allows. An ...
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Is it correct a member or moderator who wants to close a question uses Down Votes to force MSE members to not answer that question? [closed]
This post pertains to this question: Does convergence of measures, with respect to the KL-divergence, imply almost sure convergence of the RN-derivatives?
using down-votes by a member or moderator to ...
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May I ask why my answer was deleted without explanation?
In Why do we believe the equation ax+by+c=0
represents a line?, I wrote this answer:
Let $A=\left(x_{A},y_{A}\right)$ and $B=\left(x_{B},y_{B}\right)$ be distinct points.
We define the line $l$ ...
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How should I (nicely) tell people they should answer my question rather than giving the answer in comments?
I know this isn't an issue specific with math.se, but this is one of the community where I feel like it is widespread.
Take as an example my last question. I am basically asking "Is the result X ...
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Being able to easily distinguish when one is commenting on their own question
I've been having this problem on Math Stack Exchange — and it has to do with the fact that I can't really tell when somebody is commenting on their own question, usually in response to another comment,...
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Let's discuss this in chat ...
Occasionally, I get involved in exchanges of comments on MSE and the other party eventually says "let's discuss this in chat". Am I being antisocial in never taking up this offer? I feel ...
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MathJax in comment looks like nonsense, what's going on?
In this question, I have added a comment:
$(a-p)^2+(4-a-q)^2 = a^2-2ap+p^2+(4-a)^2-2(4-a)q+q^2= a^2-2ap+(4-a)^2-2(4-a)q+1= ...$, does this help?
But is looks like this:
For your information: I'm ...
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Suggestion for dealing with a comment if it contain the Answer to the question (w/o other answers)
Suggestion for dealing with a comment if it contain the Answer to the question (w/o other answers)
If I try to flag a comment there are the following alternatives: harassment / unfriendly / obsolete / ...
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Should my comment have been deleted?
This MathSE posted question is excerpted below:
$$\int \frac{x+3}{x^2+5x+2}$$
besides going with imaginary numbers how should I proceed to solve this integral?
I was trying to factorize the ...
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Writing answer on behalf of someone else
Assume a post on MSE is answered by someone in comment section and alternative approaches to solve the problem are not provided . There are two senarios:
First:
Nobody will convert that comment to an ...
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How to write preformatted texts in comments?
When I want to submit a comment to say the right $\LaTeX$ code for something, for example,
You should use \mathbb{C} for $\mathbb{C}$.
how can I write the "<...
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Is it possible to recover/archive some of the comments?
This is about the comment area of The continuity of $g\circ h$ and $h$, and $h$ surjective, imply the continuity of $g$?
As a not-very-obvious question, many lovely commenters leaves a lot of ideas ...
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Prompt OP to answer their own question?
Sometimes I find questions (e.g. this one) where after some back-and-forth in the comments OP answers their own question and appends their final answer to their question. In the interest of minimizing ...
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