Timeline for Frequently Asked Questions: MathOverflow FAQ
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| Aug 1, 2021 at 10:05 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | The above link to tea doesn't work at the moment. Here is a link to the Wayback Machine. | |
| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:25 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Commonmark migration
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| Nov 2, 2018 at 16:52 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://tea.mathoverflow.net/ with http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 10:13 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.mathoverflow.net/ with https://meta.mathoverflow.net/
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| Jan 10, 2014 at 15:20 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | @FrançoisG.Dorais Some links in the help center are dead. Are mods able to edit the help center? Dead links are: Tips and tricks page; this meta.MO thread, [how to ask a good question ](mathoverflow.net/howtoask). I have mentioned this in chat. I thought the best thing to do is to ping a moderator somewhere. | |
| Jul 4, 2013 at 19:50 | history | edited | Kaveh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 118 characters in body
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| Jul 3, 2013 at 21:05 | comment | added | user9072 | I agree with @DavidSpeyer and also expressed a similar sentiment on "tea" some time ago. In one form or another I think this should be rewritten. (I have no very strong feelings or extreme opinions here but I think this text in part does not match reality, and also is apparently open to interpretation) I just got reminded of this as this was added (I think almost verbatim, but with an IMO good clarfication) as the description the open-problem tag. | |
| Jun 27, 2013 at 2:13 | comment | added | François G. Dorais Mod | I never read this as trying to dissuade questions with no known answers, I thought it was to discourage intentionally difficult problems: MO is not a collection of hard math puzzles. | |
| Jun 27, 2013 at 1:00 | comment | added | Joel David Hamkins | Also, the first two sentences seem to be a non-sequitor, implying that nobody is working on an open problem. But of course, the expectation is that we all hope that whatever problem we are working on is open. | |
| Jun 27, 2013 at 0:59 | comment | added | Joel David Hamkins | I've never really agreed with this policy. I don't see what the problem would be with people asking open problems. I guess we don't need questions about famous open problems that are unlikely to be solved here, but if someone asks a question and it turns out to be open, then that seems fine. I expect that open problems come in a continuum of difficulty, and I don't see why we shouldn't welcome them---perhaps some of them will get solved here. | |
| Jun 27, 2013 at 0:20 | comment | added | David E Speyer | No criticism implied; I just thought that if we were going to record the old FAQ we should also bring it up to date. | |
| Jun 26, 2013 at 23:31 | comment | added | Kaveh | @David, I just copied it from the original. I don't know if the discussion about it should go to the previous discussion over tea or a new meta thread. | |
| Jun 26, 2013 at 23:27 | comment | added | David E Speyer | This strikes me as out of date in several regards. (1) Scanning through the open-problem tag suggests to me that the primary use is people knowingly asking open problems, or asking for lists of open problems in an area (2) we do not seem to be using CW in the described manner. | |
| Jun 26, 2013 at 22:49 | history | answered | Kaveh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |