Timeline for Comment template for questions more appropriate for MSE
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| Jan 23 at 8:44 | comment | added | nickalh | MSE "welcomes questions at any level" I think offers the newcomer false hope. High school level questions and even many college algebra questions are frequently closed, sometimes even if they are reasonably well written and clear mathematically. Middle school and prior questions rarely survive long at all. | |
| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:25 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 9, 2019 at 7:40 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | Probably it should be mentioned that some users oppose sending people to Mathematics Stack Exchange (although it does not seem to be majority opinion). Here is a link to an older discussion on meta that I've seen about this: Homework and migrating to math.se. | |
| Jun 26, 2018 at 14:06 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak |
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| Jun 26, 2018 at 14:05 | answer | added | Martin Sleziak | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:19 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://math.stackexchange.com/ with https://math.stackexchange.com/
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| May 25, 2016 at 6:23 | answer | added | Martin Sleziak | timeline score: 6 | |
| Apr 12, 2014 at 14:12 | answer | added | Martin Sleziak | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 26, 2013 at 16:04 | history | edited | Michael Albanese | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 8, 2013 at 6:29 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | @Steven: Your clarification comment is missing the two spurious letters, since "reasonably"$\triangle$"reasonably"=$\bot$. :-) | |
| Oct 8, 2013 at 0:32 | comment | added | Steven Landsburg | @GerryMyerson: Many users of MO are not qualified to judge what does or doesn't meet the standards of MSE and therefore (quite reasonably) unwilling to make such judgments. | |
| Oct 8, 2013 at 0:31 | comment | added | Steven Landsburg | Gah! My comment (to which Asaf replied) contained two spurious letters, turning the intended word "reasonably" into the unintended word "reasonably". I'll soon delete the original and post a corrected version. | |
| Oct 7, 2013 at 23:42 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | @Steven: I disagree with that. It seems quite accepted that grad level exercises can be posted on this site, granted they are well motivated and contain the OP's attempt to find a solution, and where they are stuck. That is the level expected from an MSE question; although MSE is less strict in closing questions which do not have this level of detail (and of course mathematical level). But if it has some motivation and explanation from the OP on what they did and where they need help, then it's fine; otherwise... it's not. I'm sure everyone can recognize that sort of level. | |
| Oct 7, 2013 at 23:21 | history | edited | Michael Albanese | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 7, 2013 at 18:23 | comment | added | Benjamin Steinberg | @GerryMyerson, the problem with your solution is a number of users are very strongly against migrating to MSE and so the question may just end up closed. So it is probably better to suggest posting in MSE if the question is not migrated for you (or some better wording). | |
| Oct 6, 2013 at 22:40 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | ...In the first case, the question should be closed and migrated to m.se; in the second case, it should be closed and not migrated to m.se. | |
| Oct 6, 2013 at 22:39 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | I think a lot of problems would be solved if the first person voting to close would not just vote to close but would also leave an appropriate comment. On questions that meet the standards of m.se, the comment might read, "This question will soon be migrated to m.se; please be patient." On questions that don't meet the standards of m.se, the comment might read, "This question may get a better reception at m.se, provided...." where you fill in the ellipsis with an indication of what the author has to do to get up to standard. Continued... | |
| Oct 6, 2013 at 19:51 | comment | added | user9072 | One could add ", which welcomes general mathematical questions" to somehow point out why it is better suited there. There is the (suspected) HW issue too for this one could have in addition "If this should be a homework problem and you decide to reask there, please, use the 'homework' tag there and indicate there what you have tried already and where you got stuck." | |
| Oct 6, 2013 at 19:44 | comment | added | user9072 | @StevenLandsburg please keep in mind that if a user is not registered they cannot delete their question (which should be a non-negligible fraction of users asking the type of questions we are talking about here). Thus as a general procedure this cannot work. | |
| Oct 6, 2013 at 15:49 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | @Steven: Migrated questions keep the comments, which may have a positive influence on the question on MSE as well. | |
| Oct 6, 2013 at 14:58 | comment | added | Steven Landsburg | They should be encouraged to delete and start over, not to migrate. Migrated questions continue to appear on MO's front page for a while. | |
| Oct 6, 2013 at 14:51 | history | asked | Michael Albanese | CC BY-SA 3.0 |