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Moreover, the post wasn't MO at all and to respect MO I tried to avoid going into lengthy discussion in my comments. But here, I would like to thank MO for its tolerance. …

I asked a question on MO and it now has three correct answers, all more or less using the same strategy and similar to each other. If I accept all of them, do they all get the reputation they deserve? …

Here is a question that I recently posted on MO. The last paragraph of the description reads: The reason that I am interested in this question is that we are currently working on an assessment …

Here is the longer version of the title: Which is more appropriate: to "risk" asking your question directly on MO, or to check the appropriateness of your question on meta in advance? From …

4 years and 6 months ago I asked on MO: "Who introduced the terms “equivalence relation” and “equivalence class”?" It was somehow a resting stone of a long journey that started 13 years ago from today …

What is the general point of view of the mathematical community about MO ? The community I am going to talk about is just a handful of mathematician colleagues of mine whom I was talking with today a …

It is for days I want to write this answer. Now that I've come to write it, your question is not there anymore. Thus please consider my answer as a general impression of another "newcomer" about how M …

Yes, Indeed you can gain a bronze badge as a self-learner by answering your own question, providing that your answer scores 3 or more. That means MO supports self-learning by principle.

Your idea, though nice, has a "big soft" problem! More often than not, the person who asks the question does not tag it "soft". Indeed, I have just checked the soft questions that are still alive on t …

Check AMS Mathematics Subject Classification, you will find the 2 digit classification "97" for mathematics education. Thus it seems that It is allowed to ask mathematics education research questions …

Right now, there is a question posted on MO that rightly does not belong to MO: The equivalence of the mathematical induction and the principle of the smallest. Of course, such questions comes and goe …

Thanks that you brought this question up again. The only answer for the question that you have mentioned was from François. And, if I understood his argument correctly, the main reason behind up-vote/ …

"No", would be an obvious answer to the "or" part of your question. But, to be honest, your question explicitly includs a strong judgment that is even more opinion based than original question! To be …

Not sure if my recent paper "Equivalence: an attempt at a history of the idea" qualifies as one of the "best of Mathoverflow or papers inspired by Mathoverflow". But I am sure Mathoverflow was a force …

I've just answered a question on MO by introducing a book. I was about to hyperlink the book to a particular bookseller then suddenly I doubted if it is all right to do so. Is it?