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Jan 5, 2021 at 19:27 comment added Francesco Polizzi I understand Harry's concern. However, I find quite worrying that has been a "coordinate effort offsite" to downvoting a completely polite answer, especially because the starting point was given by some user inside MO. Online shaming aimed to shut-up dissent is typical of Twitter, and I am afraid that this kind of disruptive and intimidating strategies could become usual here, too.
Jan 5, 2021 at 11:27 comment added Harry Gindi Please don't vote to undelete my answer. There was a somewhat coordinated offsite effort to crater it from +2 to -9, and I'm not interested in having any more attention from twitter. Thank you in advance.
Jan 3, 2021 at 13:41 comment added YCor One answer was upvoted 9 times and downvoted 20 times, and deleted, moved to chat as well as the ongoing comments. The link is: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/117841/…
Dec 31, 2020 at 17:41 answer added user44191 timeline score: 13
Dec 29, 2020 at 21:40 vote accept David E Speyer
Dec 29, 2020 at 21:38 answer added Ben WebsterMod timeline score: 21
Dec 26, 2020 at 21:14 history edited Glorfindel CC BY-SA 4.0
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Dec 26, 2020 at 6:45 comment added Andrew T. There's Code of Conduct that is general for all SE sites.
Dec 25, 2020 at 17:12 comment added Federico Poloni It might be worth noting that last year there was a huge debate on SE that essentially stemmed from a disagreement on what is considered discrimination/harassment. In particular, @MarkWildon, "training" moderators on what discrimination is may be a thorny issue.
Dec 24, 2020 at 20:12 comment added Mark Wildon Since moderators have to implement these procedures, it seems relevant also to ask what training, if any, moderators are asked to do on gender discrimination.
Dec 24, 2020 at 5:05 comment added David Roberts Mod @DavidESpeyer (and smci) I meant policies, not behaviour. As far as I know the harassment/abuse policy is meant to be uniform network-wide.
Dec 23, 2020 at 21:51 answer added Federico Poloni timeline score: 14
Dec 23, 2020 at 13:43 comment added Joseph O'Rourke "(1) it was in 2010": MathOverflow has changed quite a bit in the last decade. Like a different site now than it was then. So it makes sense to not mention that old experiment.
Dec 23, 2020 at 13:13 comment added David E Speyer The old post is msleziak.com/mathoverflow/tea/discussion/385/…
Dec 23, 2020 at 13:10 comment added David E Speyer @JosephO'Rourke I can't get to my old post about this to read the results, because tea is down, but my recollection is that the difference was very small and not significant. (IIRC, for 20 answers I wrote them and then flipped a coin to decided whether or not to sign my name.) I remembered this but was planning not to include it because (1) it was in 2010 and (2) I think the conclusion is not that reputation doesn't matter but that writing like someone who has been on the site for a while matters much more than the number next to your name.
Dec 23, 2020 at 13:06 comment added David E Speyer Mathoverflow please.
Dec 23, 2020 at 12:39 comment added smci MathOverflow or SE? It makes a big difference. A user could be active on 50+ SE sites.
Dec 23, 2020 at 2:40 comment added David Roberts Mod MathOverflow specifically, or StackExchange in general? I presume the latter. And that is something that, to my knowledge, has been slightly in flux over the past 18 months due to various events.
Dec 23, 2020 at 2:00 comment added Joseph O'Rourke I just found this, by Sune Kristian Jakobsen, posted here: "David Speyer once made a similar experiment to test if he got more upvotes on answers when he posted [on MO] with his own name, than when he posted as an anonymous." Might you include this in your article?
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Dec 22, 2020 at 21:29 history asked David E Speyer CC BY-SA 4.0