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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Should we really delete low quality answers?
Whenever looking at answers in the Low Quality Posts review queue that are real answers (i.e. should not actually be a comment, edit or new question), just bad ones, I'm a bit conflicted about ...
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How similar should two questions be to qualify as a duplicates?
How similar should two questions be to qualify as duplicates?
I'm thinking particularly of Add an Arab Word within an English Document and Arabic and greek inline text in russian document pdflatex. ...
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Academic honesty: where to draw the line?
Originally, when I joined the site, I was under the impression that users users are supposed to indicate the sources of their answer. That is, if a given answer makes use of something developed in ...
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When is awarding bounties considered a misuse of the system?
This question is in response to marmot's leaving of the site as discussed in the comments of this post. Comments are disabled there, so I ask this as a separate question.
In the comments Stefan ...
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Moderation in non-trivial cases
There have been a few cases recently where the moderator team have taken action involving high-profile users, and that has lead to some of these high-profile users deciding to leave the site. There ...
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To which extent can I use my own codes after I quit?
According to how I understand the fineprint under this link and the rules of the web site, when I delete my account the rights of my answers will belong to the site. So if anyone, including me, ever ...
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New update or a bug in the main & meta page display of a question's activity information
Today I saw this
But in the past, I used to see them in the right-hand top corner of the (already not-so-nice) layout.
Is this a permanent or a bug?
Is this added in order to make way for ads (atop ...
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Roles and actions: Moderators
I recently saw that several of the high-rep users were getting suspended. Then it got to think me why are they getting suspended. By thinking in that direction, I see that when an issue occurs: the ...
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Is it fair to "unaccept" an already accepted answer?
Say I've asked a question to which someone added an answer they put quite some effort into. At first glance the answer seemed to perfectly answer my question, so I accepted it. Now, after using the ...
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Substantial overlap with post by other user(s)
This is not necessarily a TeX meta question but I do not know where to ask it. From the arXiv I am used that submissions get flagged if they have substantial or some overlap with papers by the same or ...
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How do I include a MWE?
I have a LaTeX file called testglister2.tex in my directory ~/GlisterBook. How do I import it into TeX.SE as an MWE? I use emacs as my text editor and from there I can copy the file, but how do I ...
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How should we handle old questions about South Asian languages?
Recently, a number of old questions about typesetting South Asian languages have resurfaced in the review queue and on the front page. Many of them boil down to, “How do I write in this language with ...
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Help me to find a topic for the next DuckBoat!
You know that the DuckBoats usually have two parts.
The first one "Quacking in chat" is about TeX.SE news and similar topics, till now:
the double backslash problem
origin and evolution of duck ...
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how to render latex symbol in tex.stackexchange.com? [duplicate]
this piece of latex can be rendered correctly on math.stackexchange.com
$\operatorname{var}[\boldsymbol{\mathrm{AD}}+\mathbf{b}] = \boldsymbol{\mathrm{A}} \operatorname{var}[\boldsymbol{\mathrm{D}}]\...
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(Meta)^2: How to ask a meta question?
Looking at a couple of meta questions, including my own, I have the following (Meta)^2 question:
To which extent does asking suggestive questions defeat the purpose of meta?
The point is the ...
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Fun questions (contests/social events) which require coding: Main or Meta?
As Ulysses suggested in the comments of their question: TeX Art Fun - Mandalas, I think the Community should decide if fun questions of that kind (i.e. contests, social events, etc.), which require ...
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Request to rename [mac] → [macos], with synonym of [osx]
The current name of Apple's desktop operating system is macOS. On this site, the tag mac is used to refer to that.
But other Stack Exchange sites use the tag macos, including:
Ask Different (Apple)
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Problem of failure to report a positive score
I wanted to understand if it's my problem only that when I get a positive score on the achievement icon (cup) you do not see the small green symbol that indicates the reputation. It's been happening ...
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How to typeset/emphasize names of programs or packages or document classes or files within questions/answers at TeX LaTeX StackExchange?
When mentioning names of programs or LaTeX 2e-packages or document classes or files within questions/answers—what is the best way of typesetting/emphasizing them?
I often see such ...
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Should we edit questions in answers when reviewing?
This answer is a question.
Not surprisingly, it was taken to the Low Quality Posts review queue. Of course, it is a question not an answer, so it deserves deletion.
However, the review ended with an ...
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Is the ``` syntax for code blocks to be preferred?
On the main site I see a lot of edits that replace the indention by 4 spaces for code blocks with ``` ⟨code block⟩ ``` (for example https://tex.stackexchange.com/posts/447721/revisions).
Does this ...
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Corrected procedure to contact a user who does not write in chat [duplicate]
Is there a way to contact or ping a TeX.SE user who does not use the chat to send a private message, or comment?
What is the correct procedure?
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When should we flag an answer?
I am sorry for a series of questions on this topic recently. This will be the last question I promise :)
Recently I flagged some answers. The following flags are disputed:
How to vertically center a ...
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Changing the site name
Today I was browsing https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/ and saw in the “Hot Meta Posts” sidebar that they are changing their site name from “Mathematica” to “Mathematica & Wolfram Language”. ...
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How to deal with overleaf incompatibilities?
Disclaimer: I never used overleaf, nor have I the faintest motivation to ever use it. And this post is related to this post.
However, I am getting increasingly concerned by the fact that overleaf has ...
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How to deal with answers which are wrong?
Recently I see that some clearly-wrong answers are taken to the "Low Quality posts" review queue. Most of them are ended "Looks OK".
But, in my opinion, such answers are wrong so clearly that they ...
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Toggle Show/Hide on StackExchange [duplicate]
There are some posts which give solutions for Latex, but no one seems to work here on StackExchange. Is it possible to use this toggle show/hide here on StackExchange? Like when I want to toggle show/...
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The {elsarticle} tag and Elsevier's new classes
Since the dawn of time Elsevier recommended the elsarticle class for authors. Recently they started promoting the els-cas-templates bundle \rant{I have no idea why; elsarticle worked just fine} and ...
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How to post questions with LaTeX code? latex2html?
There are many posts in the forum with both LaTeX source code and the resulting images from compilation. Can anyone point me to the resources on posting questions in this format?
I would like to ...
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We will have a moderator election... or will we?
Not sure if this should be an answer in the linked question or not. Anyway, I think a question is better than an answer in this case.
In Do we need more moderators?,
[...] Let's say that the ...
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Your opinion about locally saving all posts on tex.stackexchange.com
I am considering using wget -p -k -n Tex.stackexchange and thus save all posts to some future emergency if I or the site goes offline. Do you think this is a good idea?
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Should we keep [listings], [lstlisting] or both?
On the main site, there are two tags about code-formatting inside a LaTeX documents which all refer to listings package: listings and lstlisting.
listings currently has 40 watchers and 2.6k questions,...
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How long should one wait before reposting a question that wasn't answered?
I posted a question yesterday, but no one answered it and it only got a dozen views. How long should I have to wait before it is acceptable to post the same question again?
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Is TeX.SX a competition arena?
I am not a very regular user of TeX.SX, from time to time, when I have time, I come here to write some answers (mainly TikZ) or ask a question, and from time to time I don't come here for months.
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Flag a profile that contains specific offenses
Is it possible to use a red flag to indicate a profile that contains offenses?
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package tag marginnote vs. command tag marginpar vs. feature of setting margin-notes
The marginnote tag is mentioned for questions about the package marginnote:
{marginnote} is about typesetting non-floating notes in margins using the marginnote package.
However, AFAIK there is no ...
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Meta.meta: how should the community decide on the thresholds to meta questions?
How should we handle meta questions that ask for a yes/no answer that potentially affect the whole tex.se community and set a threshold on the number of positive (or negative) votes for a clear "yes" (...
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Should we mark historic questions somehow?
The TeX packages have developed a lot since the first questions were asked on sx. Many high voted questions from 2011 do not reflect the situation today.
The users who asked and answered the question ...
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A clock for time travel
This morning I have seen a clock for time travel in the toolbar at the top right
and many colored stars with the font Comics Sans (under construction Big changes for Y2K). What do you mean?
Someone ...
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Do we need more moderators?
Joseph required me to set a threshold. Let's say that the answer to the title question is "yes" if this post reaches at least 30 upvotes in one month's time.
Recently:
three top users deleted their ...
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How to get a question reopened?
A specific question has been closed because of previous answers to the question. I disagreed and voted to re-open because the question was specific and there was a specific answer whereas the quoted ...
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Mood of question closing
This is a semi-serious question but I would like to ask for your opinions and/or have a discussion on this. Sometimes when I go through the review queue (closing, reopening, low quality) I am ...
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Tag "Why?": Could a tag for questions asking for the reason be useful?
I was thinking that in many cases the fix of a code to give a desired output is not the answer to the question if it asks about the reason of the failure of a provided code. Many times the OP can ...
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When are the questions on Stack Exchange archived
When are questions and answers archived and what is the criteria for deciding whether to archive them or not.
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How can one politely ask unknown users to consider stopping serial votings?
For one week, every day I received a large amount of upvotes which have been identified as serial upvotes and thus undone. Of course, I do not know who casted the votes. Given the definition of "...
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Should we reformat references to deleted accounts?
Today I've discovered that one user who I was, let's say, following is not any more in TeX.SX. His account is now a gray user.... without any link.
Of course I don't know the reason for this change, ...
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Merge {hyperlink} and {links}
I suggest to merge the tags hyperlink andlinks. They mean the same here.
The Oxford dictionary reports:
1.5 short for hyperlink
Update:
There is also a similar tag cross-referencing. Should we ...
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How to file a bug report?
There are some meta-questions about bug reports evolving from questions (1, 2, 3). One way to deal with this is to file a bug report to the package's maintainer or to encourage others to do so. If ...
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Why LyX specific posts on tex.stackexchange.com are often been ignored?
LyX specific posts on tex.stackexchange.com are not really been answered so often as a post that is specific to a real LaTeX editor (non WYSIWYG) or even most if the post is not specific to an editor ...
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How to encourage people to send bug reports instead of using SX as kind of bugtracker, or at least send a bug report additionally?
This one is only one of many examples were a user has spotted a bug or incompatibility in one of my LaTeX packages. A (more or less) dirty work-around or patch is provided as answer, and the user is ...
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