Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Etiquette: how long do we wait before voting to close?
Case study: How to obtain perfect greyness with TeX?
This question makes absolutely no sense to me. I left a comment asking for clarification. On MathOverflow, I would vote to close with little ...
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Etiquette: when is it acceptable to edit anothers' answer?
Case study: How can I typeset the date/time at compile time?
A perfectly good answer was left, but without a MWE (minimum working example). It looked easy enough to do, so I figured I'd try to ...
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Go back to your constiuencies and prepare for public beta!
(Apparently, the question I'm asking appears subjective and is likely to be closed!)
Just a heads-up on the fact that, according to our page on Area51, this site will go into Public Beta in 6 hours' ...
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Are "How to convert <format> into <latex>" ok questions?
I wasn't sure about this question over here.
It was about TEI xml markup of books and the question was how to automatically process it to latex.
Are questions about processing docbook, texinfo, ...
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Should the editing history be visible?
Both questions and answers often need to be edited. In this case there seem to be three different behaviors:
Editing the question/answer to make it look like the new version was here from the ...
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Dupes of SO questions?
What should we do about dupes of SO questions tagged with latex? Link to original question? C/P the answer from over there?
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Quality Standards for Answers
This should probably be added to the FAQ at some point, but I think it merits a bit of discussion first. What should we expect for answers to be regarded as great answers on this site?
This is a list ...
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Which questions should be marked 'Community Wiki'? Which ones should just be closed?
This is one of the few things that always annoyed me on StackOverflow: people use CW as a kind of catch-all options under which everything is allowed.
If there's any kind of controversy about a ...
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(Further) guidelines on accepting answers
I asked a question a few moments ago and someone answered straight away. Then, a while later someone else proposed an alternative way of doing the same thing. The answers are not all that different ...
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Would domain specific "must have" resources and package community wiki questions be appropriate?
I'm asking this on meta rather than starting a question such as I have in mind to see what people think, first.
There are resources and packages that are of high relevance to subsets of the LaTeX ...
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Should we wait a bit before accepting answers?
There are a few questions where an answer has been accepted really quickly. In at least one case, the question got an answer after 20 minutes and had an accepted answer less than 30 minutes from being ...
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Etiquette on more than one correct answer
Here's an etiquette question where I feel that my default MO behaviour might lead me astray.
There are two answers to this question. Mine, and caramdir's. I think it's fairly indisputable that mine ...
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SO versus MO model (possible FAQ entry)
I suspect that we'll get a large contingent of people here who are already familiar with the SO software, but as the SO/SE empire expands then these people may have different codes of behaviour. In ...
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Under construction: Seeding is going on!
I've been seeding some questions to the site, sometimes pretending to be a beginner, sometimes pretending to have some (nonexistent) problem with my thesis. I've written the questions in this way (and ...
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Feature Request/Discussion - Markdown to write stylised LaTeX
It could be interesting to get some markdown to write LaTeX as it is meant to be in any self-respecting LaTeX document (\latex)
What do you think?
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Should the reputation threshold to edit other people's posts be lower during the private beta?
If I understand correctly, even in the private beta phase, the reputation threshold to edit other people's posts is 2000. While I've been doing my level best to try to get there :-) looking at the ...
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How newbie-friendly should the site be?
I guess this is the counterpart of the elitist question but asking about the other side of the spectrum.
How friendly should the site be to complete LaTeX and even operating system (say command line) ...
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Moderator Pro Tempore Nomination Thread
This thread is for nominations to be a temporary moderator to help the community get started. See this Blog Post for more details.
Selection Criteria:
Have a reasonably high reputation score to ...
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Are questions about related applications ok?
For example this question is very specific to OS, editor & viewer inverse search integration. Is this appropriate question for this site? Should this be on superuser instead?
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Down-vote etiquette
This follows on a bit from etiquette (particularly on voting to close). I got a down-vote to my answer to this question.
I should probably make clear at the outset that I really don't care about ...
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Thinking out of the box?
I've seen a few cases where someone asks a question about doing some rather specific task A with some rather specific tool T and then an answer is provided which maybe doesn't quite do A (but probably ...
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Where should images go?
I recently posted an answer and wanted to include a figure I made for it. I ended up putting it on my institutional account, but I realize that this is not ideal (since the account will probably be ...
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Should we use package names as tags?
That is, if a question is about a particular LaTeX package, or the accepted answer is, should that question be tagged with the package name as tag? I think this could be a good habit.
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Etiquette (particularly on voting to close)
It's good to get etiquette established early. I'd say that one big lesson from MathOverflow is that for people unused to the SO framework, getting a "vote to close" is like getting a kick in the face....
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How long should the site remain in Bootstrap mode once it leaves Beta?
I believe that the default for a new site is to enter bootstrap mode, which is a state where reputation limits are relaxed while the site revs up. From the SE description:
Bootstrap Mode helps to ...
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How can we attract experienced TeX hackers to participating on this website?
As pointed in the comment below there are two =) I wish for Knuth to pop in here one day ;-)
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How "elitist" should the site be?
Scott Morrison made a few comments in the domain name thread calling himself a "shameless elitist".
I guess it's a good question to ask then:
how "elite" is this site? Do we aim for every kind of TeX ...
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Why a daily vote cap on a new beta site?
As I've been voting on stuff posted in the beta (early and often), I'm getting a message about nearing my daily vote limit. When we're intentionally trying to seed the site with content, we shouldn't ...
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What day is it today?
I've just hit the reputation cap (been a long time since I did that on MathOverflow) so all my incentives for answering or asking questions today have just defenestrated.
Flippancy aside, when is the ...
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What goes in the FAQ?
One of the seven essential questions is: what goes in the FAQ.
We should bear in mind that no-one ever reads these things first off. Their purpose is so that when someone takes some action (like ...
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Is SE the right platform for the meta site?
In the spirit of "horses for courses", is the SE software the best platform for the meta site? At MathOverflow, they use a traditional forum for the meta site and I feel that it works very well. ...
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Avoid using the "tex" tag
There is an increasing number of questions on the parent site which are being tagged with tex and latex. Although the second one could be justified in some cases, the first one doesn't have any sense ...
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Reputation linkage between main site and meta ?
Is there some linkage in reputation between the meta site and the parent site ? my meta.tex rep is tracking my site rep, without any apparent new activity in meta. I actually like this, but haven't ...
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Should we allow "summary of information" posts?
The question List of useful external tools has triggered a discussion about the kinds of questions that should be allowed on the site. Specifically, how do we handle questions that are intended to ...
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List of useful external tools [closed from site]
Hello!
I was thinking that it would be great to make a compilation of external TeX/LaTeX tools available.
I'll update this post as people answer and vote...
Happy texing!
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LaTeX editing discussions that are editor specific
Will it be appropriate on this forum to discuss LaTeX editing issues that are editor specific? For example, the two responses to this question are Emacs specific. While AUCTeX and RefTeX make Emacs-...
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How to tag a question about a specific command
if appropriate, should we tag questions with the name of the relevant command (eqnarray, align) as well as the general topic (equations) ?
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What should the site design look/feel/smell like?
It's the obvious question: TeX/LaTeX isn't all about design and typography, but -- shall we say -- the conversation does tend that way quite often.
Good design is first off about being functional (...
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What should our domain name be? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Write an Elevator Pitch / Tagline
Note:
We are closing this domain naming thread. It is asking the entirely wrong question. See this blog post for details: Domain Names: Wrong ...
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Vote early and often!
I'm a moderator from MathOverflow, and this "question" is actually unsolicited advice, based on our experience from the initial launch of MathOverflow.
We should encourage everyone to vote ...
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Asking a question and answering it yourself straight away
From what I understand, if you want to ask a question you know the answer to, you should at least give other people a chance to try and answer. This might bring solutions you hadn't thought about, but ...
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Importing questions from SO
SO has quite a few questions tagged [latex]. Is it considered acceptable to go through those and reask the best ones here, or is that sort of question importing frowned upon?
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