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I think you ask a quite reasonable question. One certainly could have a more condensed description of what is on-topic on MathOverflow, and put this in a prominent place where people see it before as …

Vote up this answer if you think the instrument of moving a comment thread to chat should be used along the lines of Todd Trimble's comment -- i.e. only if a discussion in comments goes off-topic or becomes …

As nobody mentioned this here so far -- since last month (January 2021), zbMATH is completely open access.

Change the term "reputation" to something more neutral, e.g. "points" or "score" I can't help myself, but I feel that having a numerical "reputation" value attached to oneself is in a certain sense …

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 …

Quite often I read a comment thread, and then decide which comments I vote up. As soon as this is more than one comment, I get an error message that I can cast only one comment vote every 5 seconds. - …

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 …

Make it possible to flag errors Presently the only ways to point out an error in a post are adding a comment and editing the post. However comments are not very visible in particular if a post has al …

Let me nominate Derek Holt (https://mathoverflow.net/users/35840/derek-holt), a long-term contributor of high-quality answers on this site. Being more senior than the present moderators and living i …

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 …

Everywhere were people come together, some are less polite than they should be, and some feel insulted also when nobody intended to be impolite, let alone insulting. MathOverflow is no exception here, …

The comment vote rate limitation should be changed to 10 comments per minute. Vote up if you support this alternative, and vote down if you are against.

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 …

Questions asking for the correctness of certain papers are generally off-topic on MathOverflow. Concerning the particular problem whether P=NP or not, there have been a lot of claimed proofs or dispro …

Yesterday, a question entitled Is Euclid dead? has been asked in which the OP states: "Currently I am leading a campaign for the return of EG to the syllabus of the high schools of my country (C …