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| May 6, 2021 at 17:40 | comment | added | Lucia | Hi Federico: Unlike other parts of StackExchange, I view MO as a community of colleagues. From that point of view, I'd very much prefer this to be informal and respectful. For example, it wouldn't occur to me to tell my colleagues what they should do (and they probably wouldn't listen anyway!). | |
| May 6, 2021 at 16:19 | comment | added | Andy Putman | It is the largest community, but not because it slavishly insists on following the "stackexchange model". We use their software, but our culture and practices have always been an outlier on their network. | |
| May 6, 2021 at 16:02 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | @Andy From my point of view, because it works well. Why not using a traditional forum, or a usenet group, or a mailing list instead? All of them have been tried, as far as I understand, but (by chance or by merit) MO is the one that has the largest online community of mathematicians today. (Anyhow, from a more practical point of view, in the linked meta thread I listed various drawbacks of writing answers in comments). | |
| May 6, 2021 at 13:54 | comment | added | Andy Putman | Why should we care about the stackexchange model? MO has always used comments in a more free-wheeling way. | |
| May 6, 2021 at 11:49 | history | edited | Federico Poloni | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 5, 2021 at 22:15 | comment | added | Lucia | Maybe this should be a comment, not an answer? :-) | |
| May 5, 2021 at 17:18 | history | answered | Federico Poloni | CC BY-SA 4.0 |