Timeline for How to ask general questions about research directions in given area
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| Oct 2, 2018 at 18:57 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Oct 2, 2018 at 10:01 | answer | added | user21230 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 28, 2018 at 5:08 | history | edited | user21230 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 27, 2018 at 16:15 | answer | added | Noah Schweber | timeline score: 9 | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 14:06 | comment | added | Andy Putman | @MarekMitros: You may not like it, but the long-standing consensus here is that allowing free-flowing discussion and vague, open-ended questions would damage MO. Our goal is not to meet all mathematical needs; if one of yours is not being met, then there are many other websites/blogs on the internet. | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 7:29 | comment | added | user21230 | ... Therefore my voice matters here as well. Regards, Here is response from Francois, where he is saying that I can feel co-owner MO: meta.mathoverflow.net/questions/3454/… | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 7:28 | comment | added | user21230 | @StefanKohl That feature of MO I do not like, that only specific questions can be asked. So I can ask technical question, that I encounter problem X in my reasoning, or I do not know how to get from point A to point B. But I cannot ask general question about which way should I go. Or "why most of the people go this way and not that" ? Exactly, I would like to go some other way than most people are going. Why I cannot do that ? And why I cannot discuss possible ways on MO ? Who decided that questions should be specific ? I am also co-owner of MO, as I found out on another topic. Therefore | |
| Sep 26, 2018 at 22:24 | comment | added | Stefan Kohl Mod | Good MO questions are specific questions, and not general ones about entire areas of research -- basically regardless of "how" the latter are asked. | |
| Sep 26, 2018 at 16:09 | answer | added | Gerhard Paseman | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 26, 2018 at 15:40 | comment | added | Andy Putman | They're both extremely vague, and basically asking someone to write a survey of an entire huge area. In addition, the question about 3-manifolds is completely unreasonable -- geometrization is the main tool that people have used to study the 3-manifold classification problem for the past 30-40 years. Rather than complain that he doesn't like it, the OP should learn it if he wants to have any understanding of modern 3-manifold topology. | |
| Sep 26, 2018 at 15:06 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | @Andy, can you expand on this? What aspect of these questions is not right for MathOverflow? Gerhard "Can Misunderstand On Many Levels" Paseman, 2018.09.26. | |
| Sep 26, 2018 at 13:22 | comment | added | Andy Putman | I don’t think either question is at an appropriate level for MO. | |
| Sep 26, 2018 at 12:53 | history | asked | user21230 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |