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| Mar 22, 2015 at 13:52 | comment | added | paul garrett | @StefanKohl, I did not attempt to claim that we are running out of good mathematical questions. Rather, that many good ones (and bad ones) have already been answered, and that competent people will find "old" answers to (such) good "new" questions... with no such self-censoring for "bad" or "bad new" questions, ... so that there's a dynamic that tends to cause "new" questions, statistically, to decline in quality over time, by being swamped by bad ones. | |
| Mar 22, 2015 at 9:57 | comment | added | Stefan Kohl Mod | Running out of good mathematical questions? -- Honestly this looks to me like a rather strange idea ... ! | |
| Mar 21, 2015 at 13:35 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | @GerhardPaseman: Although I don't disagree with your "fresh eyes" point, I do question the connection between newly posted arXiv papers and MO questions. But I like your "heat death" comment---And I hope you are right! | |
| Mar 21, 2015 at 1:47 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | @quid, if I can convince paul garrett that it is a potential source for at least ten daily questions fit for the continuation of MathOverflow, then I might successfully argue that group saturation will occur in time closer to the heat death of the universe than to now. Of course, the real point is to create more participants to continue the forum. Gerhard "Bam, Bam Bam Ba Bam" Paseman, 2015.03.20 | |
| Mar 21, 2015 at 1:35 | comment | added | user9072 | @GerhardPaseman "over 10" is quite a modest way to put it; I think it is an order of magnitude away. | |
| Mar 21, 2015 at 0:35 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | At the present, the ArXiv repository alone is accumulating mathematics articles at the rate of over 10 new articles a day. (We can argue about the meaning of "article", or "new", or even "ten". I can imagine ten reasonable fresh MathOverflow questions stemming daily just from looking at the ArXiv math postings.) I see personal saturation (a particular individual getting tired) happening way before group saturation (everybody getting tired). As pointed in an earlier comment, the point is to keep recruiting fresh eyes to the forum. Gerhard "Beats The Drum Some More" Paseman, 2015.03.20 | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 23:22 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | "will be 'saturated'...the most-common issues will have been raised before." It seems this should plague all StackExchange sites. So all might be heading for saturation and slow demise. | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 22:49 | history | answered | paul garrett | CC BY-SA 3.0 |