Timeline for Why does mathoverflow encourage only research level questions while stackoverflow encourages ANY questions?
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| May 12, 2017 at 19:07 | comment | added | D A | Well - I hope I contributed to the successful execution of that job by asking this question :) The context of my confusion was that there exists a large list of StackExchange sites and its not super clear which question belongs where in general. I had falsely assumed there was a single computer science question site and a single math site. Now of course I am aware there are many for both. stackexchange.com/sites | |
| May 11, 2017 at 23:07 | comment | added | Steven Landsburg | Not that it much matters, but I'm going to dissent from the suggestion that it's okay for MO to be research level because MSE exists. It's always okay to try to keep a discussion on topic, and if you want to have some other discussion, it's nobody else's job to provide that whether or not an alternative venue happens to exist. | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:19 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://math.stackexchange.com/ with https://math.stackexchange.com/
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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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| Nov 23, 2015 at 11:55 | comment | added | user9072 | On your remark what would have helped you. In principle there is the close reason "MathOverflow is for mathematicians to ask each other questions about their research. See Math.StackExchange to ask general questions in mathematics." And often it is pointed out in addition via a comment. Of course, this does not help you if it did not happen in your case, but just to say that it is fairly wide-spread practice. | |
| Nov 22, 2015 at 23:48 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | If you make the research angle (i.e. what it has to do with your research as a mathematician) manifest in your question, then the question often does get better reception at MO than if you hadn't. It's true that on average the threshold has risen over the years, but it's still largely true that questions that could plausibly be asked by a graduate student past the qualifying exam stage are on-topic, but most especially so if it seems to be coming from a mathematician who although not expert in the area has a genuine need to know. | |
| Nov 22, 2015 at 23:40 | history | edited | D A | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 22, 2015 at 23:13 | history | answered | D A | CC BY-SA 3.0 |