Questions tagged [specific-user]
For questions which focus on a particular user, rather than those discussing general user issues. NOTE: For questions regarding suspected fraudulent behavior by specific users, please prefer flagging one of their contributions for moderator attention rather than calling them out in public.
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How to handle a question author who is completely messing up their own question.
Today, I gave an answer to this question. At that moment, the question seemed to be about quadratic equations, having rational or irrational solutions. In my answer, I did my best giving a reasonable ...
19 votes
1 answer
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User profile appears to be an ad for Australian disability insurance
User Care Assure's profile description appears to be an ad for an Australian company involved in their National Disability Insurance Scheme. The profile was created within the last day; the only ...
11 votes
1 answer
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Questions posted during an online exam
We had an instance today of a user posting two questions to MSE during an online exam - the questions were from the exam. The students taking the exam are expressly forbidden from using any internet ...
2 votes
1 answer
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Searching in comments for a specific OP of a question and a word used in comments
I would like to search for my username user122424 and a specific word used in comments that I remember from reading that comment to get back to it. How can I do that?
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1 answer
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Is it appropriate to ask a question about a specific user?
I hope I am kosher in asking this, but this user https://math.stackexchange.com/users/6179/did seems to have been inactive for a long time. I am disappointed because they were very helpful in their ...
5 votes
1 answer
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User with a pattern of completely incoherent answers
What to do about a user with a pattern of completely incoherent answers (as if produced by a random sentence generator): this, or this, for example? I flagged three of more egregious examples: ...
30 votes
2 answers
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How to deal with users that just won't use MathJax?
I recently stumbled upon DmRo912's most recent question and found that there was no MathJax where there probably should've been, and so I edited appropriately. But I then noticed that this was not a ...
2 votes
1 answer
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Are "How to solve in a few minutes" questions on-topic?
I have been noticing that user JayJuly has posted multiple questions of the form: I am looking for the fastest way to calculate ... given only a few minutes ... Such as Calculate $\int_0^1\ln{(\sqrt{...