Timeline for Decluttering MathOverflow
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| Mar 23, 2019 at 2:56 | comment | added | Joseph Van Name | Now questions get deleted just because the MO community does not upvote? This shows how much the MO and SE community disregards the research that goes into such questions. This is especially outrageous since the MO voting patterns have very little to do with the merits of the questions and answers themselves. Take, for example, this answer mathoverflow.net/a/320749/22277. | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:31 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.stackexchange.com/ with https://meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Mar 15, 2016 at 8:41 | comment | added | Ilmari Karonen | The one notable "loophole" in these auto-deletion rules is that a single upvoted or accepted answer is enough to block all of them. In particular, on many sites (and I suspect MO is not an exception here), it's not uncommon for some bad questions to receive an answer that basically says "Your question is unclear / unanswerable / asking the wrong thing, because...", and for such answers to gain an upvote or two for correctly diagnosing the problem. While it's tempting to reward such answers, it unfortunately also has the side effect of making the question stick around forever, even if closed. | |
| Mar 5, 2016 at 9:52 | vote | accept | Dominic van der Zypen | ||
| Mar 4, 2016 at 10:46 | history | answered | user35354 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |