Timeline for Scope and mission of MathOverflow
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Jan 9, 2021 at 23:36 | comment | added | user44143 | Despite the prominence of that quote, I don't think it describes MathOverflow well. That paragraph begins by saying "MathOverflow is a question and answer site for professional mathematicians", which I find more descriptive and closer to #1. | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 15:28 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | For what it's worth my own personal use of MathOverflow, both as questioner and as answerer, has always been driven by #1 on the list, which is probably why I am not active on other SE sites | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 13:50 | comment | added | Harry Gindi | No, of course not. I was just saying that people who use the site for goal 1 (probably the majority of people who are asking questions) still help the accomplishment of goal 2. That's all =]. | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 13:48 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | true, but I guess that goal 2 serves many purposes, and also caters to an audience of users who are not "professional mathematicians"; for some users goal 3 would be the motivation to participate --- we don't want to constrain users in how they make use of the platform, do we? | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 13:41 | comment | added | Harry Gindi | Goal 1 is kinda there in service of goal 2 though. | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 13:33 | history | answered | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |