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Possible updates to our AI generated content policy

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answered May 17 at 19:55

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Is it allowed to ask questions here about verifying a solution of a lemma from my preprint?

David RobertsMod

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answered May 7 at 8:03

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If a question isn’t about “MO-hard” math, but an MO-level answer is required, should the question be asked on MO?

Kieren MacMillan

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Why did my reputation go down 100 points?

mick

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Reputation loss (-100) due to Community Bot action on a valid research-based answer

Timothy Chow

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Orgokn

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modified Mar 29 at 12:28

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What is being done to make MathOverflow more welcoming to women?

Daniel Asimov

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answered Mar 28 at 23:27

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Curious visual bug in badge Curious

José Damián Espinosa

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Close/open oscillations

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Martin Sleziak

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modified Mar 23 at 9:11

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Consistency in closures?

YCor

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modified Mar 18 at 18:23

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"See this response by ChatGPT"

CommunityBot

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modified Mar 12 at 22:34

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Anyone else notice a math purgatory?

Gerry Myerson

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modified Mar 6 at 9:25

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Requests for reopen and undelete votes for closed and deleted questions

David RobertsMod

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modified Feb 24 at 2:18

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Formatting Sandbox

Peter Mueller

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modified Feb 22 at 13:58

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Can I cancel my membership on this forum?

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LaTeX doesn't render for some posts on iOS due to incorrect phone-number detection

Fred Hucht

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modified Feb 13 at 8:49

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Why some questions are in "livejournal.com"?

Geoffrey Sangston

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modified Jan 31 at 18:05

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Moderation transparency regarding comments

Stefan KohlMod

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answered Jan 24 at 20:31

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What can MO enthusiasts do offline to promote MO?

Andy Putman

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modified Jan 24 at 19:44

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Proposal: free-floating discussions of things like "Women and MO" should be banned

Andy Putman

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modified Jan 23 at 18:50

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What to do with the erdos tag?

Asaf KaragilaMod

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modified Jan 19 at 12:02

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1 answer

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Should the "not an answer" flag ever be used?

gmvh

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answered Jan 15 at 9:28

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If one answer answers two questions, then how should it be handled?

Will Sawin

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answered Jan 14 at 16:32

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2025: a year in moderation

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The draft of an unsubmited post

Ali Taghavi

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Clanky-but-helpful answers

dvitek

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29 answers

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Big list of feature requests and suggestions for a fantasy MO 3.0

Sam HopkinsMod

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modified Jan 7 at 14:28

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7 answers

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How to discourage excessive self-edits?

Sam HopkinsMod

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answered Jan 7 at 14:03

26 votes

30 answers

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Help cleanup tags!

Sam HopkinsMod

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answered Dec 29, 2025 at 21:47

14 votes

1 answer

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Citation Helper v2 - User Script edition!

Ravi Vakil

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answered Dec 28, 2025 at 16:27

13 votes

1 answer

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Use of LLMs in notable mathematical developments

Denis T

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answered Dec 27, 2025 at 0:48

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2 answers

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Tags for magic squares and semimagic squares

YCor

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answered Dec 24, 2025 at 8:41

14 votes

3 answers

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Do mathematicians have an ethical role to play, regarding the AI bubble? [closed]

Ryan Budney

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modified Dec 19, 2025 at 20:19

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2 answers

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Question repeatedly pushed to the front page

Andy Putman

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answered Dec 7, 2025 at 18:24

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Draft lost. Any way to recover

Martin Sleziak

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modified Dec 2, 2025 at 5:49

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1 answer

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How to formulate a question for a Mathoverflow forum?

CommunityBot

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modified Dec 1, 2025 at 22:18

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1 answer

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Procedure for implementation of MathOverflow policy changes

Noah Snyder

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answered Nov 28, 2025 at 17:48

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1 answer

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Is the citation helper currently broken?

Isabel Beckenbach

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modified Nov 28, 2025 at 14:26

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Citation Helper 2.0 - Beta testers needed

SuiQing

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modified Nov 28, 2025 at 10:51

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2 answers

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