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5:30 AM

Sponsored questions have been introduced after the Prosus acquisition. /s — Federico Poloni 9 hours ago

I guess /s is used to denote sarcasm - I did not know that.

I suppose that after adding the screenshot, the question "What is yellow about?" can be safely closed as a duplicate.

Does this answer your question? Pink questions in the list — Martin Sleziak 11 mins ago

BTW there are a few other posts on meta that I would consider duplicates - but it seems that not enough users are looking at the review queues to get them actually closed: data.stackexchange.com/meta.mathoverflow/query/1252613/…

Q: Migration site list lacks entries

The question What is the integral of temperature over space called? obviously belongs elsewhere. Most probably the proper place is physics.SE, but in any case not here on meta, not on math.SE, and not stats.SE (it could be accepted there but still there are better choices). So when proposing to ...

Possible duplicate of Migration to Physics.SE — Martin Sleziak May 21 '18 at 13:38

Q: Can Mathjax preview be switched off?

I recently typed an answer with a few formulas in it. While I was typing, my browser constantly reloaded the preview part below the typing window. Because MathJax apparently does three passes over the text, typing became so slow that I could not even read the source code I was typing without some...

support feature-request

Does this answer your question? How to turn off the MathJax preview? — Martin Sleziak Feb 19 '20 at 1:13

Q: Derivative of reputation score over time is identically zero

I've got a smattering of upvotes on my small number of answers but my reputation has never budged. Can someone explain why this is so?

support reputation community-wiki

Does this answer your question? My answer got upvoted, but no reputation increase? — Martin Sleziak Jul 3 '20 at 10:53

I should perhaps also mention that S. Carnahan mentioned that he disagrees with the question about migration paths being a duplicate:

Dec 31 '19 at 14:18, by S. Carnahan

@MartinSleziak Thank you for bringing the duplicates to my attention. For the first one, I see that Prof. Jibladze has requested multiple times to keep it open.

Dec 31 '19 at 15:44, by S. Carnahan

@MartinSleziak I think the comment on the question is a bit less ambiguous. However, even though his wishes seem to be relatively clear to me, I think it is still reasonable to close this as a duplicate. This is mostly because I don't think a lot of duplicate questions necessarily carries that much weight in terms of influencing the allocation of resources of the development team.

2 hours later…

Martin Sleziak

7:17 AM

@FedericoPoloni no, they will be pinned at the top above other questions, when they are rolled out ;-) (also a big /s) — David Roberts 46 mins ago

Meta MO is more like a Comedy Cellar today.

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Federico Poloni

9:00 AM

> I guess /s is used to denote sarcasm - I did not know that.

It is! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation#Other_typography

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user940009

12:37 PM

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4176304/minimum-area-binding-box-for-set-of-points?noredirect=1#comment8653451_4176304
I have posted this morning a question in math.stackexchange and now I see maybe I should put it here

3 hours later…

Martin Sleziak

3:08 PM

@user940009 I wonder whether you have intentionally linked to a comment - my guess is that you have actually wanted to link to the question.

In any case - to make this more readable - the question is: Minimum area binding box for set of points.

Q: Minimum area binding box for set of points

I am writing some paper and stuck at proving that in min area binding box there needs to be 2 points on the edge of min square. Every single time I make a new case I got that. By getting extreme points of that set and making lines trough them there must be one on corner, but is there any formal p...