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I think we should ask for a custom lock (without freeze) saying roughly "This question is no longer likely to receive high quality answers" that we can use for successful soft/biglist questions that h …

But the fact that math professionals are a relatively small and community also keeps the quality of discussion high. …

There's a new set of problems for the year again if anyone who would like to could keep an eye out that'd be great: http://math.mit.edu/research/highschool/primes/materials/2019/entpro19.pdf

On m.SE last year there was a problem with someone cheating on the entrance problem set for the PRIMES high school research program at MIT. Selection for PRIMES for this year has begun, and they're t …

Here are some examples of people we would like the site to be welcoming to: Prominent mathematicians who are less "online" than the typical MO user. Current advanced graduate students. Currently MO …

Another new set is out for this year, if people could keep an eye out that'd be great. Thanks! https://math.mit.edu/research/highschool/primes/materials/2022/entpro22.pdf

Over at tea we recently hashed out the following brief summary: MathOverflow is a questions and answers site for research mathematicians. We accept mathematical questions at the Ph.D. student leve …

I encourage my graduate students to ask questions on MO when they've asked me and I didn't know the answer quickly and it seemed like a good question for MO. My hope is that since I'm stumped they wo …

As Hurkyl explained on m.SE this question doesn't make sense. You already know how to prove this result, and the proof doesn't use "properties of the real numbers." All it uses is basic facts about …

If it turns out that we have any pseudonymous candidates, I would want there to be a question about their professional background. E.g. "Are you a professional mathematician? In what capacity?"

What makes Worldbuilding so nice is that there's an image in the bottom left which doesn't disappear when you scroll. I wish the MO logo in the top left would just stay as you scroll, but without tha …

In previous elections we've wanted to know what time zone people were in, so that we could improve our coverage of times of day when moderators are available.

I agree with the general sentiment that there’s overlap between the two sites and we don’t need to close all questions in that overlap. However, I don’t personally think either of these particular que …

One possibility, that might be less controversial, would be to have a cap on the number of upvotes you can use without having a single upvoted question or answer (maybe 20 votes?).

In my opinion, math education research questions are mostly off topic. Although they're important questions, our userbase doesn't have many math education researchers, and as a result most questions …