All Questions
1,819
questions
-10
votes
2
answers
359
views
Why was my answer deleted?
The axiom of choice as a consequence of a stronger semantics?
On what grounds?
"It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated." (...
user111966
-10
votes
1
answer
395
views
Why so heavy downvoting?
For this question I received 7 upvotes and 9 downvotes. Why is so heavy downvoting?
- 9,294
-11
votes
1
answer
178
views
Limiting the length of questions?
Many questions on MO are not formulated as concisely as they could be. I would propose a limit of characters (to be discussed, say 500 characters), and you can "buy" more space by sacrificing some of ...
- 44.4k
-11
votes
1
answer
489
views
Should MO perhaps give numerological abductive questions a little more benefit of the doubt
Background:
This question is a much more specific version of a metaMO question which was deleted for some odd reason after one poster said in a comment that he agreed with everything said in the post....
- 205
-11
votes
1
answer
263
views
Why was my answer deleted? Cause?
The axiom of choice as a consequence of a stronger semantics?
First we show that $\in$ is not a semantic symbol. Suppose that $\in$ is a semantic symbol.
Contradiction: We know that $x\in \...
user111966
-13
votes
2
answers
412
views
Should the MathOverflow chat room have its own moderators?
The Math Stack Exchange chat room has had some heated arguments/suspensions in the past and I was wondering if there were any plans for the newly opened Math Overflow chat room to have its own ...
- 101
-13
votes
1
answer
298
views
offtopic question
my question was off toped https://mathoverflow.net/questions/298576/eiπ-1-1iπ?noredirect=1#comment742859_298576
Now I clearly see no reason for this. Just like for having two distinct websites for ...
- 101
-13
votes
2
answers
369
views
Can anyone learn anything from a downvote without an accompanying rationale in a comment?
I have been on enough web boards in both the arts and sciences that I have learned not to be bothered by downvotes in and of themselves.
What does bother me is a downvote without an accompanying ...
- 205
-14
votes
1
answer
392
views
on- and off-topic questions [closed]
When might it be reasonable that a question is closed as off-topic because it "does not appear to be research-level mathematics" while one of many narrow special cases of that question, posted ...
- 11.2k
-14
votes
2
answers
411
views
What needs math?
I probably do not understand the forum https://mathoverflow.net/questions
Have noticed that if someone asks how to solve any equation - then this post with a question quickly removed. Okay. Suppose ...
- 448
-14
votes
2
answers
606
views
Why my nomination for 2022 Community Moderator Election withdrawn without convincing reason?
I was honored to participate in the elections for moderation in MO 2022 , but I am sorry to say that my candidacy was withdrawn today without any convincing reason, frankly, I did not find it ...
- 2,236
-15
votes
1
answer
955
views
Why was this question asking non-trivial examples of closed subschemes closed?
Why was this question asking non-trivial examples of closed subschemes closed?
- 1,149
-18
votes
1
answer
316
views
Proposal for a new rule for down-vote
As I see it, the most common causes for down-voting a question should be:
The question is completely incomprehensible, or makes no sense ("Are all prime numbers green?");
The question has a trivial ...
- 44.4k
-19
votes
5
answers
2k
views
MathOverflow updated site theme is ready for testing!
As part of implementing the new unified themes across the network, we're gradually rolling out updated site themes for each site. As of today, we have enabled your updated site theme for testing.
If ...
-20
votes
3
answers
2k
views
Algebraic geometry [closed]
Who did not graph such equations as $y^2-x^2=1$ in secondary schoool?
THEREFORE: Algebraic geometry (since it is only about zero-sets of polynomials in several variables) is high-school-level stuff, ...
- 11.2k
-20
votes
2
answers
726
views
Should Theoretical Computer Science SE and mathoverflow be merged?
I asked the same question at SO meta and I was asked to repost here.
Preamble: I have a feeling that I am disturbing honeycomb by raising this question.
Now that mathoverflow.net is a part of the ...
- 381
-21
votes
2
answers
1k
views
Don't we have a redundant math site?
We have mathoverflow.com with 144000 questions and answers, and we have math.stackexchange.com with 522000 questions and answers. Isn't there a redundancy? Shouldn't both sites be merged? I propose a ...
- 101
-23
votes
3
answers
1k
views
Freedom of speech in scientific discussions - An invitation to more tolerance in Scientific debates
I hope this post enjoys some tolerance, and don't get closed or put on hold immediately.
I believe that freedom of speech in scientific discussions is one of the key values which enriches the debates ...
- 3,071
-23
votes
1
answer
1k
views
Is there any way I can get a moderator removed for misconduct?
One of my posts that answered a question (for those who can see them now, they are at Is there some known way to create the Mandelbrot set (the boundary), with an iterated function system?) was ...
