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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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MathOverflow to the rescue -- not in the usual way
In programming, this is known as rubber duck debugging: you often figure out the solution during the process of explaining your problem in detail, even if you are explaining it just to an inanimate o …
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MathOverflow policymaking and transparency
A reasonable process for new "policies" in my view is:
Moderators and the MO board (or, for that matter, anyone else) discuss and make a proposal.
This proposal is discussed on Meta, so that reasonab …
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Name of the site
I am not opposed to it a priori, if we find a good name.
I would suggest to open a question to ask for suggestions for new names.
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What do we mean by welcoming when we're a site aimed at researchers?
Martin's comment and his recent thread on the welcome window hit the nail on the head. The correct way to be welcoming towards this kind of asker is having good "how to ask" instructions that essentia …
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Clarifying an answer that was deleted by moderators [2023]
In my view, answers like this one should be downvoted only, not deleted.
As noted in a comment, the Meta.SE deletion FAQ states "Answers that are wrong or that dispense poor advice should be downvoted …
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Is this thread really discussing mathematics or some technology?
From a quick look, it seems a modelling problem. It's basically asking "what is the best function with this properties". Where the meaning of 'best' is far from clear. Essentially, a function that doe …
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Should Kevin Buzzard's Lean question be left in its original state?
From the help center:
MathOverflow is not a discussion forum. … There's a place for discussion about mathematics, but it isn't MathOverflow. Blogs and threaded discussion forums are a more appropriate place for discussions. …
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Accepted
Can anybody provide a clear list of design changes that are obligatory, with explanations?
No design changes are mandatory, no matter what the SE people say. If we write some Javascript code ourselves, we can make arbitrary customizations to the UI.
The MO foundation has an agreement with …
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Problematic wording of the TOS, take two
The Stack exchange terms of service have been recently changed since a sentence in them was perceived as too strict by many users.
The change was in this paragraph:
In the event that You post or …
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Migrate questions without disagreeing on their research status
Sometimes mathematics and statistics (as well as mathematics and TCS, or mathematics and computational science) overlap.
There are times (such as for this question) when I'd like to be able to migra …
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What is the tag [derivations] for?
Another possibility is removing the tag altogether. Let us consider the pros and cons:
I can easily see people repeating the same mistake and misusing the tag, even with better usage guidance. So kee …
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"Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming." --- are we?
It depends. I think we don't want to be welcoming with a new user posting "plz solve teh linear algebra homework <see photo>". These questions deserve to be closed and downvoted into oblivion; they sh …
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affiliation or association (in the wording of the promotion help page)
(Disclaimer: I am one of the parties in the little discussion mentioned in the question.) …
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Using mathoverflow as a blog
My suggestions on how to deal with this behavior, possibly opinionated:
While some basic motivation for questions is expected, 'editorializing' in the way that you state is bad. Voting to close as "n …
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Moderator Elections: bug reporting for new voting UI
status-completed
In the activity tab of my network profile, comments on election pages appear without a title or a link that specifies where they were written. See last comment on this screenshot.
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