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The comment got flagged as "unfriendly or unkind" by a 10k+-user. To me, suggesting to someone that they apologize or thank for something feels a bit rude, even if it is wrapped in kind words, so I ma …

My apologies. — The reasons why I mistakenly deleted this answer were the following: The answer got flagged as "not an answer" by a user who usually raises helpful flags. On a first glance, it seeme …

My apologies for the mistaken deletion of your answer. — What led to this mistake was a combination of several circumstances: it was a self-answer of an anonymous user which got flagged as "not an an …

It is certainly true that a significant part of MathOverflow's success comes from a certain amount of gamification. The main part of this is the point system, which both regulates community moderation …

A community-specific question asked in both previous elections was: As MathOverflow is growing, the diversity of the moderator team might become an issue of interest. As I understand, the present mode …

A community-specific question asked in both previous elections was: Do you think women are underrepresented in the MO community compared to the mathematical community as a whole? Is this a problem for …

A community-specific question asked in both previous elections was: What time zone are you in?

A community-specific question asked in both previous elections was: Assuming a notion of "culture" as explained here, what would a newly elected moderator do to preserve it? Will there be more efforts …

A community-specific questions asked in both previous elections was: For pseudonymous candidates: are you a professional mathematician? In what capacity?

Joachim König has answered my question Order of products of elements in symmetric groups in his paper A note on the product of two permutations of prescribed orders, to appear in European Journal of C …

Leonardo Zapponi has answered my question Parametric solutions of Pell's equation in his paper Parametric solutions of Pell equations.

The discussion initiated by my question Primes occurring as orders of elements of a finitely presented group led to the addition of Section 5 to: Maurice Chiodo, On torsion in finitely presented groups …

I looked into that case, and even though your assumption may be right, I didn't find any indication of inappropriate (= not according to post quality) voting. If you are asking questions related to re …

This is just to say that the case is under investigation. As usual with cases under investigation, details need to be confidential. As to the mentioned two deleted questions -- they were deleted by mo …

Vote up this answer if you think the instrument of moving a comment thread to chat should never be used at all. (Vote down if you don't think so, and leave alone if you don't care.)