Timeline for How do off-topic question askers find MO?
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| Jun 8, 2021 at 8:40 | comment | added | Neil Strickland | I regard this as an argument in favour of my suggestion here: meta.mathoverflow.net/questions/5011/… -- the guideline should be that before asking on MO you should find n questions where you understand the question and the accepted answer. (I suggested n=10, but Tim Campion said n=2 or n=3 would be better.) | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 12:00 | comment | added | Lucian | @RobertFurber: It seemed logical to me not to ask questions about something whilst it is still in its research phase, since there would be no point in inquiring about an answer whilst the data has not yet been properly gathered, weighed, and sorted, and before a clear conclusion could therefore naturally emerge. | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 11:31 | comment | added | Robert Furber | (Also, in case the tone of my comment gets misread, I am not the downvoter of your answer, I upvoted it.) | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 11:29 | comment | added | Robert Furber | @Lucian The term "original research" on Wikipedia has a special Wikipedian meaning that doesn't apply elsewhere, and is their innovation. It didn't arise from the everyday meaning of the term as everyone else uses it, but, as you say, was coined when some terminology was needed to try to smooth over relations with certain people with particular obsessions, hobby-horses, bees in their bonnet, etc. So really the fault lies with Wikipedia for using the term "research" in this way, not MathOverflow for using it with its usual meaning (to be clear, I like Wikipedia and edit it from time to time). | |
| Jun 2, 2021 at 13:34 | comment | added | Lucian | @PeterLeFanuLumsdaine: I basically mistook research level for original research. | |
| Jun 2, 2021 at 13:13 | comment | added | Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine | Thanks for your description of your experience! I don’t quite follow your explanation of how you misunderstood the MO policies — could you quote the bit that you misunderstood? (Or at least a short excerpt, if there were too many such to quote all.) | |
| S Jun 2, 2021 at 1:41 | history | answered | Lucian | CC BY-SA 4.0 | |
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