Timeline for Why do non-research and soft questions get closed if and only if the poster lacks high reputation?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:58 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Apr 5, 2014 at 16:56 | comment | added | user9072 | Glad it is useful and thanks for the clarfication. This interpretation is what I thought after a second more careful reading. Yet initially (for my first comment) I just read the addition and had more the opposite context in mind, whence that example there and my incertitude. | |
| Apr 5, 2014 at 16:10 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | @quid The point was to test OP's idea that there are clear cases of bias. The examples I produced didn't give strong support for this idea in my opinion, and neither did his. So I wanted to see what examples did support his idea. Your last example might suffice; thanks. | |
| Apr 5, 2014 at 14:56 | comment | added | user9072 | One might speculate that mathoverflow.net/questions/143339/what-is-the-amplituhedron would typically have been closed as dupe. But I am now somewhat unsure what precisely you are looking for; examples "for" or "against" the idea there is a bias. | |
| Apr 5, 2014 at 12:58 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | @quid True enough; so far I haven't produced any examples free from controversy. Can you come up with any? | |
| Apr 5, 2014 at 8:27 | comment | added | user9072 | re your addition: that question was even closed initially. Another example slightly more recent, but not much, of a question asked by somebody with high on and off site reputation that got closed initially mathoverflow.net/questions/62401/… (Note OP of the two is not the same while one could think so on a quick look.) | |
| Apr 5, 2014 at 0:36 | history | edited | Todd TrimbleMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 31, 2014 at 12:16 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | @Peter: I don't think the software has the ability to restrict tags by reputation. Also, it seems that real-world reputation is more significant here than MO points. | |
| Mar 28, 2014 at 16:27 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | I made this comment Community Wiki to encourage anyone to add cases they know about where a high rep user has asked a soft question which likely would have been closed if asked by a low rep user. | |
| Mar 27, 2014 at 21:28 | vote | accept | Peter Dukes | ||
| Mar 27, 2014 at 20:34 | comment | added | Peter Dukes | (+1) This is a good answer, and I appreciate you taking the time to consider the issue. Hey, I would be quite happy if MO had a rule that the "soft-question" tag was not available to those with reputation $<N$. Instead, we let people use the tag and then trash them (though 90% of the time correctly) for using it. | |
| S Mar 27, 2014 at 20:28 | history | answered | Todd TrimbleMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
| S Mar 27, 2014 at 20:28 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd TrimbleMod |