Timeline for How to ask general questions about research directions in given area
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| Oct 1, 2018 at 9:30 | comment | added | user21230 | @NoahSchweber I am sorry if I am expressing my feelings too strong here. The thing is that down-voting of my question here has unpleasant psychological impact. I feel like I am attacked here, so I try to defend. I think it is not a matter who is right and who is wrong. Meta MO is forum is the place to discuss issues like "why some questions are closed" here. Note there are three upvotings on my question here. Besides you are answering what I have written in comments and not what I have asked in the question. Is your answer: "There is no way to ask general questions about research on MO" ? | |
| Sep 28, 2018 at 14:33 | comment | added | Noah Schweber | @MarekMitros "I can accept that democracy is sometimes wrong :)" Can you accept that you may be wrong? At some point you need to acknowledge that it is reasonable to have a site whose focus is rather more limited than you want it to be. (There is a separate question of consistency - and there is an undeniable and problematic point that (i) standards at MO change over time and more unfortunately (ii) these standards are not uniformly enforced - but that's separate from the general issue that you need to recognize that the MO community will sometimes diverge from you and that that's fine.) | |
| Sep 28, 2018 at 6:10 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | Those two questions were posted in 2012, which is several generations ago, in MO-years. They might not fare so well, @Marek, were they posted today. | |
| Sep 28, 2018 at 5:15 | comment | added | user21230 | I can accept that democracy is sometimes wrong :) On the other hand questions like this: mathoverflow.net/questions/115735/groups-that-do-not-exist or this: mathoverflow.net/questions/99736/… are accepted here !? Do you have explanation for this ? | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 16:15 | history | answered | Noah Schweber | CC BY-SA 4.0 |