Timeline for Crazy idea about soft questions
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| Oct 19, 2013 at 1:41 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | An alternative solution is to create a separate "Best-Of" front page, some variant of the ideas proposed in this thread: "How to emphasize MathOverflow's best content?". In other words, create a third stream that (largely) does not contain the soft questions. | |
| Oct 18, 2013 at 21:53 | comment | added | Noah Snyder | I was thinking about the "unbounded thread" issue, and had two possible solutions. First proposals are deleted after a certain amount of time, or second we have a separate thread each month and close them when the month is over. | |
| Oct 18, 2013 at 19:08 | comment | added | Andrés E. Caicedo | (I would have guessed not, but there you go. Anyway, perhaps the link I mentioned may be useful to some users to help them see in practice how the suggestion could be implemented.) | |
| Oct 18, 2013 at 19:05 | comment | added | fedja | @Andres Caicedo Yeah, but didn't you just rewrite the last sentence of the first paragraph of my post in an expanded way? :-) | |
| Oct 18, 2013 at 19:02 | comment | added | Andrés E. Caicedo | One possible solution to the unbounded length is to do as here: Once the fate of a question is clear, moderators clear up comments (maybe replicating them on tea), and the answer is recycled. It is a tad more to do for moderators, but maybe not, as they would not have to deal with so many arguments on main. | |
| Oct 18, 2013 at 18:44 | history | answered | fedja | CC BY-SA 3.0 |