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| Dec 7, 2013 at 12:41 | comment | added | Dilaton | @StefanKohl yes for the moment, but I think it is a good idea for MathOverflow to warily watch these developments. For example on Physics SE, which had a decent but not exclusively research level once, the number of popular, very basic, and bad homework questions ramped up after the last election a year ago. This brought too many people, who are not knowledgeable about advanced topics but SE politically very active, into positions to determine the scope of the site (> 3000 rep). It is them who are dominating for example the close/reopen queues at present, which is not good to say the least ... | |
| Dec 7, 2013 at 11:45 | comment | added | Stefan Kohl Mod | Sure -- the worst questions as such are usually homework problems. -- But such questions are usually quickly closed / removed, and I cannot remember a case where a student has posted really a lot of them. Also, homework questions don't bring anyone in the position to take much influence on the scope of the site. As long as this is so, I think they are hardly more than a little nuisance ... . | |
| Dec 7, 2013 at 3:59 | history | answered | darij grinberg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |