Timeline for Questions, answers, comments or discussions on aspects of politics relevant to mathematicians on MathOverflow (main or meta)
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| Aug 23, 2020 at 17:38 | comment | added | Joël | Sure, but will it happen again? | |
| Aug 22, 2020 at 20:36 | comment | added | Tim Campion | @Joël Just to clarify, initially some comments were deleted by moderators after being flagged, but later it was decided to delete all the comments from the question, and restore all of them (besides certain other comments which had been voluntarily deleted by their own commenters) in chat. My (3) above refers to the final decision, not the initial one. | |
| Aug 21, 2020 at 13:58 | comment | added | Joël | This is not the history as it happened. The comments were not moved altogether to the chat room. Instead, some, representing one side of the political conflict around this discussion, were removed, while the other were left as comments. The question here to moderators is "will that happen again?". | |
| Aug 18, 2020 at 15:01 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | While I'm not disagreeing with your answer as a whole, the approach of "If you don't want to read it, don't read it" is not helpful when it turns into a slippery slope, and the site ends up being overrun by these talks. Of course MO doesn't run the risk of this happening, we're a mostly-academics community which is really focused on one topic, but it's not a good way to approach these things, at the end of the day, when the discussion ends up as off-topic, the onus should be on those who want to partake, not those who wish to ignore it. (Again, I agree with what you're saying.) | |
| Aug 18, 2020 at 12:41 | comment | added | LSpice | On (4), I particularly wanted to highlight a sentence fragment from the comments which I thought offered a useful perspective: "comments on MO are not really meant as a place for liberal democratic discourse, and the standard for deletion of non-mathematical comments is quite low". ("Liberal democratic discourse" here is not out of the blue, but a response to a previous comment.) | |
| Aug 18, 2020 at 12:07 | history | answered | Tim Campion | CC BY-SA 4.0 |