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While I don't want to endorse the suggestion in Joseph van Name's second sentence, it does seem that answers which are not quite to the point, but "sound good", can get a slew of upvotes. I am current …

To clarify: the OP actually posed several questions in a barrage within this one, and my reaction in the comments to the original post was to this part: We fix an embedding of $F_2$, the free grou …

Hell no.

I am slightly unhappy with the direction of drift to answers to this question. On my reading, the OP mentioned a phenomenon and asked how editors should react to it. This seems to have been taken by m …

I might be behind the times here, but there is a Quanta article giving some history behind Freedman's classification of topological 4-manifolds and reporting on the new book The Disc Embedding Theorem …

Vaughan Jones has passed away at the age of 67. I think others on MO may be better placed than me [YC] to comment on the depth and impact of his work on subfactors and his introduction of what became …

Abel Prize for 2024 awarded to Michel Talagrand Félicitations!

Just so we can see how out of sync I am: please vote this answer up if you think this revision, or also to compare to the original one, made an improvement significant enough to warrant doing years a …

I am not sure if the following example counts, since the question (by Ozawa) was asked specifically with a view to solving an existing open problem. Nevertheless: the answer to Szőkefalvi-Nagy's unita …

I am somewhat torn as to whether it should stay open or be closed (and so I have neither voted up nor down nor voted to close) but I thought it might be worth some discussion or clarification of people's …

I think the title says it all. Personally, as someone who uses the "newest questions" as the front page, I'm not keen on people tweaking questions or answers that seem to have outlived active interest …

Apologies if this should go in the "requests to undelete questions" thread but this seems to be technically different. I noticed that this answer https://mathoverflow.net/a/465960/ has recently been d …

I just reviewed Status of Beal, Granville, Tijdeman-Zagier Conjecture which had a vote to re-open, and tried to select "keep closed". But then I got a pop-up asking me to confirm that I wanted to re-o …

The question I am referring to is Is all complicated modern math intuitively understandable? (See the user's math.SE account to see that the question was at one point migrated to math.SE.) I think the …

At the risk of being too venal: yesterday I had over 8500 and now I am under 7900. Anyone else experienced changes with similar orders of magnitude?