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The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Is it good to ask somebody else's question on MathOverflow?
Get permission from the asker. Tell us the source when you ask. Otherwise, go ahead.
Here is an example of mine. Prof. Sokal was glad for the answers, and we have continued to correspond about it. …
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What kind of soft questions are acceptable?
Not a "discussion" forum. Not an "opinion" forum. …
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Mathoverflow and the mathematical community
Is it acceptable to cite MO's posts in a paper for a peer-review journal ?
Currently neither more nor less acceptable than citing other web sources in a paper.
We hope MO will be around for many …
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MathOverflow's Facebook page
As a comparison, see the Facebook page for the American Mathematical Monthly.
When it was decreed from on high that there should be such a page, most of the old fogeys (who make things run at the M …
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New tags: Functional Data Analysis, Time Series, Functional Time Series
Both (time-series) and (functional-data-analysis) tags exist at Cross Validated ... are there so many non-statistics uses of them that it justifies adding them here as well?
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Before MathOverflow
Usenet
For example, these newsgroups:
sci.math
sci.math.research
sci.math.num-analysis
sci.math.symbolic
See back in time to them HERE
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Suitability on MO of question on teaching engineers mathematical thinking skills
But (since MO is not an opinion or a discussion forum) what would not be on-topic:
What techniques have you used that were effective in teaching mathematical thinking skills to engineers? …
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Questions on Coq
Not a discussion board, and not an opinion board.
So, any posting about Coq (or any other topic) should be appropriate to that model. …
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Appropriate or not: "To what extent are the results in Paper X correct?"
Before you ask here:
Try to find errata for the paper. 20 years old makes that harder, since most things were not on the net then. Maybe you can contact an author of the paper?
Also look for pap …
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Best of MathOverflow, or papers inspired by MathOverflow
Beginning with discussions in MO, it was proved that the Apéry sequence is a Stieltjes moment sequence. My final streamlined argument for this was posted to the arxiv in 2020:
LINK
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Does Mathoverflow really want the 'Publicist' badge?
Of course we want the badge. If 1000 people use the link and come here, but 997 of them never come back, we have lost very little. But if the other 3 find out about MO and do become regular particip …
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Are MO Titles questions or Headlines:
Both systems of capitalization are OK for use here:
How to Answer Questions on MO.
How to answer questions on MO.
Conclusions:
Which system should you use? The one most comfortable to you.
Should …
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Try "question feed"
From another meta question here, I guess this is a little-known feature.
Look at a question page on MO. On the right, below BLOG, HOT META POSTS, Related etc., you will find:
Click on that to a …
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Is it possible to temporarily comment out part of a post?
"posting something"... Do you mean a question or an answer? I occasionally to the following with my answers.
"Delete" it, until I am ready, then "undelete" it.
I have never tried this on my question …
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