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| Feb 16, 2015 at 19:05 | comment | added | MphLee | continueI mean, I guess that MSE (as MO probably) is composed by alot of subcommunities(by topic) that seems to have a considerable degree of independence so is possible that the drop of "efficiency" or "functionality" happened to few subcommunities while other have remained the same, or improved. In other words, maybe only my favourites topics have less ativity, or something like that. Another reason is that I don't see how we could fix a lack of interest in some topic (set of tags), if this was the real cause. | |
| Feb 16, 2015 at 19:04 | comment | added | MphLee | @ToddTrimble I think that it could be a very complex problem to face imho. The first reason is that probably the perception of a drop in the efficiency could be seen as subjective... or better... local. continue | |
| Feb 16, 2015 at 18:52 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | @MphLee Thanks for your feedback. I am beginning to believe that M.SE is becoming in many ways highly dysfunctional. I rarely have a good feeling when I am over there (frankly, I feel a great deal more camaraderie and mutual support here than I do there). I'm not sure how to get a good and frank discussion going about this. | |
| Feb 16, 2015 at 18:30 | comment | added | MphLee | @ToddTrimble, I strongly agree with your feeling. I'm also a high-school level ""mathematician"" and in the last 6 months I often had the (bad)idea to come here on MO because my questions did remain(and still are) unanswered for days and days, even with 2-3 consecutive bounties!!!. For few seconds I thought that was for the extreme sophistication and complexity of my last questions... well I'm joking...I guess that MSE is really getting less active. | |
| Feb 4, 2015 at 7:39 | comment | added | Vectornaut | @PyRulez: For what it's worth, I'm a math Ph.D. student, and I've both asked and answered questions on Math.SE that were directly relevant to my research. To me, Math.SE is MathIntermediateflow, and I don't think there's any harm or shame in asking sophisticated questions there. | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 15:02 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | @NickGill That's my perception anyway. Another problem I see personally is that many responses have a hard time getting attention or traction: sometimes when I go there to answer, my posts get no feedback (no votes, no comments, no nuttin'). If that happens to others as well, the feeling might be: what's the point, then? (But, it probably doesn't help that I identify there as userxyzuv -- silly, perhaps, but I had wanted to see how it felt being a semi-anonymous user.) | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 14:09 | comment | added | Nick Gill | Todd, I didn't know that Math.SE is "overflowing". That's a useful remark that perhaps should be disseminated in MO somehow. (I haven't used Math.SE to this point, but maybe I will in light of your remark.) | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 11:30 | comment | added | Christopher King | Yeah, I was thinking that first question may have been a fluke. (I wonder if we should have intermediateflow, for intermediate people.) I'll make sure to do more research on my questions (and learn more maths.) | |
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| Jan 28, 2015 at 4:00 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | Oh, by the way: learn lots of mathematics! All category theory and nothing else makes Jack a dull boy. :-) | |
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| Jan 28, 2015 at 3:35 | history | answered | Todd TrimbleMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |