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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Bounty on a closed question
Why can't a bounty be started on a closed question that received answers before it was closed? We can choose from the official list of bounty reasons why the bounty was started - among them "...
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Why was I not notified about new comments on my question?
I received two comments to my question but was not notified about them. Why? comment1 comment2 Here is my inbox that proves I was not notified:
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Unable to upload new edit to my post
I decided to add more effort to a post of mine; however, I'm unable to upload the recent edit. The error gives the following: Your post appears to contain code that is not properly formatted as code. ...
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What about my post(s) should I modify to be well received?
I recently posted a question that I spent a fair amount of time drafting: How can I run cleanup code automatically at the end of an evaluation (without wrapping the code)? I attempted to explain my ...
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Community help needed to clean up goo.gl links (by August 25)
As users on multiple sites have pointed out, many links created by Google’s url shortening service (goo.gl) are going to stop functioning as of August 25, 2025. There are thousands of these links in ...
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Where to get feedback on a function I am working on for the Function Repository?
I'm working on a function and would try to publish it on the repository if I had some mild testing and feedback. The function is intended to be an enhanced way to search for words in the front end. It ...
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Should we formalize rules to prevent scope-expanding edits after answers are given?
It’s common for users to edit posts to fix typos or add clarifications, but some edits end up expanding the scope of the question after answers are provided. This can unintentionally invalidate or ...
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Is a request for extended or improved documentation an appropriate question for mathematica.stackexchange?
I've seen several Mathematica posts get closed if they aren't a specific question or about code. I don't know if this would be an appropriate question for the regular Mathematica channel: I feel that ...
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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of ...
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What are the ways to publicly store wolfram demonstrations without Wolfram Demonstration project?
The Wolfram Demonstrations project is a nice place to store dynamic, self-contained presentations (based on the Manipulate construct). The advantages are numerous, including free cloud, description, ...
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Disabling comments from a certain user
Once I was really enjoying the Mathematica community. The answers were always quick and helpful, and I enjoyed answering myself. But now, I am more and more discouraged from using the forum because ...
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Advertising Test beginning Nov 13 2024
We’ve been exploring the concept of using open auction to manage advertising on some Stack Exchange sites. Under this model, advertisers (who have been organized into categories based on their ...
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Site Dynamics: Any need for changes
The moderator election gave me pause to reflect on how the site has changed across time. Here are some purely descriptive graphics Posts: all and questions Using Anton Antonov's QuantileRegression: ...
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2024 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #4 on Mathematica has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators are: They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering ...
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2024 Community Moderator Election
The 2024 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...