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Cross posts to Math SE
If you have posted a question at MSE and want to cross-post it at MO or the other way around, you can do it under the following conditions:
Wait several days, not just hours. I would suggest a week.
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Can I ask a question on MathOverflow and also on another site?
Cross-posting is discouraged in general, because it can lead to duplication of effort by people answering on different sites. However, it is appropriate under some circumstances.
Most of the advice ...
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If I can't get an answer on math.stackexchange.com or dsp.stackexchange.com, when should I post here?
Waiting a week would usually be considered reasonable.
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Type of content to be posted on MO and differences with MathSE
It makes sense to talk about the core communities of each forum, so that it becomes easier to understand the scope and the differences. Not being active on the mathematics forum, I will give my ...
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Asking the same (subjective) question on Math.SE and MO
In general, cross-posting is frowned upon. And rightly so, it feels like an unnecessary duplication of effort, especially when the two communities intersect on a non-trivial subset of their users. To ...
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If I can't get an answer on math.stackexchange.com or dsp.stackexchange.com, when should I post here?
The reason to wait a week or so before crossposting is to avoid having someone spend a lot of time trying to answer on one site, without realizing that it's already answered on the other. After a ...
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Appropriateness of question on delay differential equations
IMO, yes, that's definitely a graduate-level topic, and so appropriate for MO in that respect. (And I say that as a grad student who's studied delay equations a little.)
AFAIK, cross-posting should ...
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Well-received but unanswered Math SE question; should I consider posting it here or requesting migration?
Gathering comments together into an answer --
There's no problem cross-posting a research-level question from MSE to MO after enough time has passed to give potential answerers a chance to post ...
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible