Timeline for Is there a clear rule against "check this proof" type questions?
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| Jan 8, 2018 at 3:55 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 8, 2018 at 3:31 | comment | added | მამუკა ჯიბლაძე | @j.c. Thanks for finding it, definitely this is a duplicate | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 3:30 | comment | added | მამუკა ჯიბლაძე | Possible duplicate of Using Math Overflow to check whether or not a proof is correct | |
| Jan 7, 2018 at 19:31 | comment | added | j.c. | Bit late to the party, but this question I think is as close to "policy" as I've seen meta.mathoverflow.net/questions/1265 | |
| Dec 15, 2017 at 0:19 | answer | added | fedja | timeline score: 8 | |
| Dec 14, 2017 at 3:51 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added (on-topic) tag. (The question seems to be asking whether specific type of questions is allowed on MO,)
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| Dec 13, 2017 at 18:26 | answer | added | Gerhard Paseman | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 13, 2017 at 11:36 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | @GerryMyerson Re: but who reads that documentation before they post? Judging by the number of users having Informed badge, probably some users read at least basic information about MO before posting here. Re: what we could do to let people know, before they post. Maybe not with this specific problem, but this proposal might help to reduce the number of off-topic questions at least a bit (sorry for the self-promotion): Should users be shown some basic information before posting the first question? | |
| Dec 13, 2017 at 11:06 | comment | added | მამუკა ჯიბლაძე |
@MartinSleziak Yes thanks this is closely related of course. I did not notice it. I believe it is by former user quid, right?
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| Dec 13, 2017 at 11:03 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | This seems a bit related to your question about RH: What should be the policy on “open problems” on MO? | |
| Dec 13, 2017 at 11:00 | comment | added | მამუკა ჯიბლაძე | @GerryMyerson maybe; my problem is not so much that I do not want to react post factum, rather that I do not know how to react. | |
| Dec 13, 2017 at 10:57 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | I don't see what we could do to let people know, before they post, that such questions are off-topic. We could put it in some documentation somewhere, but who reads that documentation before they post? I think we're condemned to react after the fact. | |
| Dec 13, 2017 at 10:53 | comment | added | მამუკა ჯიბლაძე |
@GerryMyerson Yes I agree with that policy, I am just concerned that we do not have anything definite to tell the OP in this case. The closure reason that appears there, This question does not appear to be about research level mathematics within the scope defined in the help center. does not quite apply I believe. And, although I agree with the comment "Is this preprint correct" questions are off topic., I don't know how to answer the question "How would I know they are off topic?".
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| Dec 13, 2017 at 10:36 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | I don't know what counts as a "decisive conclusion" on MO – we don't have a legislature or a police force – but from what I've seen, we always close questions asking whether unpublished work is correct. | |
| Dec 13, 2017 at 8:00 | history | asked | მამუკა ჯიბლაძე | CC BY-SA 3.0 |