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The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.

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"Questions" of the type "I have written something, please give me feedback"

In a private discussion, a point was made that for amateur/young mathematicians that do not yet have a large network of colleauges to send (stuff down their throat) preprints to, this type of posts could …
Per Alexandersson's user avatar
5 votes

MO-Hard Questions

The question that asks if a square of area $4n^2$ is the geometric figure with the most number of domino tilings, of all figures of the same area, here, is still unsolved. I find this question quite i …
8 votes

arXiv vs MathOverflow - popularity of disciplines

I guess that MO is more forgiving about discussing curious problems, or recreational mathematics, such as Stanleys question about certain chess positions for example. Problems which are easy to state …
Per Alexandersson's user avatar
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"Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming." --- are we?

I think MO has a smaller problem compared to SO. After reading the blog post regarding the highlighted difference in goal of the asker and answerer at SO, I believe that Mathematics is of a different …
Per Alexandersson's user avatar
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Big list of feature requests and suggestions for a fantasy MO 3.0

Possibility to categorize favourites. I am a hoarder, every question which I would like to return to, I favourite. The problem is that it is a bit hard to manage. I would like to be able to create cu …
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Publicizing conjectures on MO

The approach which seems to be throwing every conjecture conceivable on the wall and see 'what sticks' should be discouraged, IMHO. There is also a difference between conjectures and conjectures. I …
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