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Remove Negatively voted Questions?
Questions which fulfil certain criteria such as having low score, no answers, few comments, few views, being closed etc. are automatically removed after a certain time. For details see
here.
As to de …
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Should delete votes add a post to the low quality posts review queue?
Presently, unlike "Very Low Quality" flags, delete votes do not add
a post to the "Low Quality Posts" review queue. -- Should they?
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Why all the negativity?
Rather I think you could provide a valuable service to the community
if you further elaborate (say, in a discussion post on Meta) on what you
would change in order to make using the site a more pleasant …
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Asking a question you know the answer to, but not answering
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 …
9
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What does research-level mathematics mean?
Assuming you are really rather interested in what is on-topic here on MO than in a
definition of "research-level mathematics": MO welcomes questions of various kinds
which are interesting to mathemati …
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"Answer your own question – share your knowledge, Q&A-style": is there consensus among MO mo...
I cannot speak for the moderators, but as far as I understand, you should
only ask a question on MO if you do not already know the answer.
However it may still happen that some time later (be it days …
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News of potential interest to the MO community
As nobody mentioned this here so far -- since last month (January 2021), zbMATH is completely open access.
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Tags that encourage off-topic questions
Vote up/down if you think the recreational-mathematics tag should/shouldn't be deleted.
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Tags that encourage off-topic questions
Vote up/down if you think the gm.general-mathematics tag should/shouldn't be deleted.
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2013 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
(1) For pseudonymous candidates, Are you a professional mathematician? In what capacity?
(Does not apply.)
(2) Assuming a notion of "culture" as explained here, what would a newly elected mod …
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2013 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
As MathOverflow is growing, the diversity of the moderator team might become an issue of interest. As I understand, the present moderators have much in common, and women are, to say it that way, under …
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Are questions related to mathematicians appropriate for MO?
As Gerry Myerson's examples show, occasionally questions about mathematicians and their lives are received well. -- But be aware that such questions tend to be at least on the borderline to off-topic, …
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Soft questions without reputation
I suggest that you don't worry about possibly getting a few points before your questions are made CW. If you really care, you can make a comment like "please wait with voting until the question is mad …
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Is it a problem if I post a lot of questions?
There are multiple ways in which one can contribute to MO:
asking questions,
answering questions,
editing other people's questions or answers in order to improve them,
commenting on questions or ans …
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Couldn't the comment vote rate limitation be made more ergonomic?
The comment vote rate limitation should be changed to 100 comments per hour.
Vote up if you support this alternative, and vote down if you are against.