When I look at my profile, I found there's an inconsistency of numbers in the summary shown at the page bottom, and the numbers shown in the details vote page: Summary:  Detail page:  Why is that? A mod explained it may come that deleted posts aren't counted at the detail page, can someone confirm please? Also I find that at least confusing, is that intentional, and if yes why?
Currently, the number of "votes cast" excludes votes on deleted content. Once something gets deleted that you voted on, that vote vanishes from your stats. This of course happens frequently especially with down-votes - if you're a good voter, stuff you downvote often ends up getting deleted.  Seeing as the idea behind the public display of total votes you've cast is to encourage voting, is this really fair?   Also, doesn't it distort greatly all voting stats, especially when looking at candidates for moderator elections and such?
The answer to tactical downvoting problem? As we know, the tactical downvoting (I'm talking especially about SO, as I don't know about other sites) is more and more becoming a serious problem, as I see, the community can't stop this behavior without some sacrificing.  As a suggestion, I think it makes sense to prevent an answerer from downvoting any answer on the same question, this -sure- has a harm, but IMO, it's less harmful than the tactical downvoting issue, and to make the things a bit more easier, we can prevent an answerer from downvoting a question without posting a comment to that answer before.  And vice versa, if a user downvoted an answer, he shouldn't be able to post another one unless he posted a comment first, to prevent working-around that system, so a user can't downvote other answers before posting his own to avoid posting comments.  EDIT, more clarification: I don't say wrong answers shouldn't be downvoted, BUT if you want to downvote an answer and post your own, you'll have to post a comment, so we make sure you're not just downvoting right answers tactically. Does the series $\sum\limits_{n=1}^\infty \frac{1}{n^3 \sin^2n}$ converge or diverge? I have this series given by $$\sum\limits_{n=1}^\infty \frac{1}{n^3 \sin^2n}.$$ I know that the terms are all nonnegative. Can I get a subsequence of $\frac{1}{n^3 \sin^2n}$ such that its sum diverges to $+\infty$? Deleting external/auxiliary files? What is a disputed flag? In my flagging summary under the statistics, there is 1 flag listed as "disputed".  This is the first time I've ever seen a disputed flag in my summary, so I'm just curious, what is a disputed flag? How would you even dispute a flag? Is this the same as voting a flag as invalid? How to use fakeslant as slanted but not italic font with fontspec? Using fontspec with Luatex it is possible to create a fake slant and use that as italic should no italics be around:  \setmainfont[ AutoFakeSlant=0.15 ]             {FontName}   However, also if an italic version exist this faked slant will be used both for \itshape and \slshape. How can I keep using the shipped italic font defined by the ItalicFont= parameter to \setmainfont but use fake slant for \slshape? When conducting multiple regression, when should you center your predictor variables & when should you standardize them? In some literature, I have read that a regression with multiple explanatory variables, if in different units, needed to be standardized.  (Standardizing consists in subtracting the mean and dividing by the standard deviation.)  In which other cases do I need to standardize my data?  Are there cases in which I should only center my data (i.e., without dividing by standard deviation)? Book wherein humans were most dangerous/aggressive of numerous species I recall there were two warring alien empires, one of which was led by a race that could telepathically inflict pain on others, but when they tried to do it to humans, it would backfire. something about human's animal instincts being much closer to the surface than the other species.  Humans made the most aggressive and dangerous fighters, so both empires tried to reruit humanity, since the other races involved in the war were fairly monolithic and sided all with one empire or the other. Humanity was all splintered though.  The empire led by the telepathic race claimed that everyone in it was equal but in reality the telepathic race was in charge. Expected time to roll all 1 through 6 on a die Finding my house in minecraft I wandered too far to go look for sheep and now I'm on a completely different island.  How do I find my way back to my house? How do you pass a function as a parameter in C? Stopping all automatic updates Windows 10 Do I need to tame my twitchy F5 finger? I just got this error message for the first time (I was getting this as the response to any request on the SE network for about the last five minutes, until now):     We're sorry...      There are an unusual number of requests coming from this IP address.   To protect our users, we can't process any more requests from this IP   address right now. We'll restore access as quickly as possible, so try   again soon. If you believe you have reached this page in error,   contact us.   As far as I know, I was not spamming SE or participating in DOS attack, and I find it unlikely that any of my office coworkers who share my IP address were doing so either.  Granted, I was pressing F5 a lot. But I've always pressed F5 a lot on SE, and have never gotten this message before. So my question is: Is it possible to get this error message simply by refreshing too much or too often? Or is that message reserved for a truly massive number of requests that are unlikely to be caused by one person refreshing a lot? (In the former case, I can't explain why I've never gotten it before; in the latter case, I can't explain why I just got it now). An SSH tunnel via multiple hops On an Android phone the wallpaper spans across all of the home screens.  So what size should pictures be to fit properly as custom wallpapers? "is" operator behaves unexpectedly with integers Why does the following behave unexpectedly in Python?  &gt;&gt;&gt; a = 256 &gt;&gt;&gt; b = 256 &gt;&gt;&gt; a is b True           # This is an expected result &gt;&gt;&gt; a = 257 &gt;&gt;&gt; b = 257 &gt;&gt;&gt; a is b False          # What happened here? Why is this False? &gt;&gt;&gt; 257 is 257 True           # Yet the literal numbers compare properly   I am using Python 2.5.2. Trying some different versions of Python, it appears that Python 2.3.3 shows the above behaviour between 99 and 100.  Based on the above, I can hypothesize that Python is internally implemented such that "small" integers are stored in a different way than larger integers and the is operator can tell the difference. Why the leaky abstraction? What is a better way of comparing two arbitrary objects to see whether they are the same when I don't know in advance whether they are numbers or not? How close would you have to be to the merger of two black holes, for the effects of gravitational waves to be detected without instruments? Close vote review audit is broken - displays "on hold" while reviewing I just reviewed this:    But while reviewing, it already displays the "put on hold as not a real question" section, and it asked:     Should this question be closed as: ?   So as it stands, the audits are broken, since we already know that the question is "on hold" while reviewing, and it is incredibly hard to miss the huge grey box at the bottom.  Another with screenshot: How to get the ASCII value of a character What library do I have to use such that the document can render \lt and \gt as less than and greater than signs, respectively? \documentclass{article} %\usepackage{amsmath} It does Not work ! \begin{document} \[ x\lt y \gt z \] \end{document}  What library do I have to use such that the document can render \lt and \gt as less than and greater than signs, respectively? Edit I am using MathJax library in my site under Asp.net Mvc 3. Web application is vulnerable to XSS and XSRF attacks so &lt; and &gt; should be avoided as the input from the users. My database will save LaTeX commands that can be rendered by both LaTeX compiler and MathJax. Therefore, I need \gt and \lt that already work in MathJax. Source:  Rendered: Difference between Login Shell and Non-Login Shell? I understand the basic difference between an interactive shell and a non-interactive shell.  But what exactly differentiates a login shell from a non-login shell?  Can you give examples for uses of a non-login interactive shell?