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Just so we can see how out of sync I am: please vote this answer up if you think this revision, or also to compare to the original one, made an improvement significant enough to warrant doing years a …

Vote up/down if you think the linear-algebra tag should/shouldn't be deleted.

Vote up/down if you think the recreational-mathematics tag should/shouldn't be deleted.

Since you can't accept more than one answer, a common method to approximate fairness is to accept one, and vote up the other correct answers. One person will get 5 more points than the others.

I would like to thank Todd (whom I know to some extent) for telling us how MathOverflow came to be set up and also the people he mentions (whom I don't know) for doing it. I see it as an extremely va …

Well since you advice posting as an answer and saying that it's only a comment I will do it. As many commenters said, for infrequent user that is a quite bad threshold. The issue is in many topics I h …

The comment vote rate limitation should be changed to 1000 comments per UTC day. Vote up if you support this alternative, and vote down if you are against.

In true Jeopardy style, I respond with "What is a recent political concern which bears some relation to MathOverflow and with which the forum community might concern itself?" More seriously, the sear …

For the purpose of offering an offsetting position: NO

Categorizing comments/answers like slashdot by attaching particular descriptors Slashdot categorizes comments into different types like normal, offtopic, troll, redundant, insightful, interesting, fu …

The following is a feature request by Ali Sadegh Daghighi, here: https://meta.mathoverflow.net/questions/1032/how-can-i-keep-from-asking Problem: The problem is about frequent asking by some users i …

I gained the understanding early on that certain symbols like X had a degree of flexibility. They could be different numerical quantities (usually a stand in for a real number, although sometimes a co …

In my opinion MathOverflow should allot sub-portal for open questions or conjectures. This sub-portal should be managed by community - the same which manage MO. The role of mathematicion is to ask que …

As I have pointed out some time ago, if people want to contribute mathematical content, they should post an answer, not comments. In this specific case, @Nate Eldredge and @Michael Greinecker should h …

Vote up this answer if you think the instrument of moving a comment thread to chat should be used along the lines of SE's intentions -- i.e. to move longer discussions in the comments to chat as a mor …