Timeline for What should the modal window for first-time askers say?
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| Apr 25, 2021 at 19:23 | comment | added | Tim Campion Mod | Related to this part, I've also tried to air out some concerns I have about sufficiently emphasizing it in chat. If anybody has any thoughts on that, I'd be grateful to hear about it either here or over there in the chat | |
| Apr 25, 2021 at 19:01 | comment | added | Tim Campion Mod | @theHigherGeometer I'm having a bit of trouble getting something like that to flow. If you'd like to add an answer suggesting a change along these lines, I'd encourage you to go for it. I would explain in the answer that the suggestion should be viewed as mutually exclusive from the answer I'm commenting on now, but not from any other answer. | |
| Apr 25, 2021 at 8:05 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | Yes, that last one is about the sort of thing I had in mind | |
| Apr 25, 2021 at 0:58 | comment | added | Tim Campion Mod | Or maybe "make sure that it is at the level of original research in mathematics"? | |
| Apr 25, 2021 at 0:58 | comment | added | Tim Campion Mod | @theHigherGeometer Somehow it doesn't seem quite accurate to me to say the question must be "about original research in mathematics" -- would you propose something like "make sure that it is related to original research in mathematics" or "make sure that it is relevant to original research in mathematics" or something like that? | |
| Apr 25, 2021 at 0:47 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | I have been using the phrase "original research in mathematics" when explaining to first-time askers that are confused about what MO is for. This way it makes it more clear that it's not just doing research in the sense of looking up stuff, or figuring out things on one's own. | |
| Apr 24, 2021 at 21:19 | comment | added | Tim Campion Mod | @WillSawin I agree it would be nice to change that part a bit. Unfortunately, we've been told that those last 3 bullets are non-customizable. We could maybe make a stink about it; I'm personally reluctant to do so if it will delay things. | |
| Apr 24, 2021 at 21:15 | comment | added | Will Sawin | Could "Provide details and any research" be changed - for one, I'm not really sure exactly what it's supposed to mean - "Provide details and any relevant background", maybe? | |
| Apr 24, 2021 at 17:41 | comment | added | Tim Campion Mod | See Dmitri Pavlov's comment on another answer for some discussion of this proposal. | |
| Apr 24, 2021 at 17:35 | history | answered | Tim CampionMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |