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Can MO go back to +5 rep for questions? Should it?
Let me answer from the perspective of someone who is not a mathematician but follows this community for certain topics of interest.
This is a community of professional mathematicians where, indeed, ...
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What is MathOverflow's "agreement" with Stack Exchange?
Suggested in comments but I don't know if this is allowed. In any case: I've used an OCR program to copy the contents of the 2.5 pages below. I've used some minimal editing to keep the format vaguely ...
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How can I donate to MathOverflow — if I should?
Update: Donations are now possible, see this post: Donations to MathOverflow, Inc
[Apologies for the long delay in answering, I was on my honeymoon! I may update this quick answer after I get back to ...
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Would newly elected moderators join the board of MathOverflow Inc.?
The members of the MO board are the six current moderators, Anton Geraschenko, and Ravi Vakil.
Whoever becomes a moderator becomes a member of that board.
Todd TrimbleMod
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At what point should MO recognise it needs to leave Stack Exchange Inc?
In my opinion, if it were easy for MathOverflow to leave, then we should have done it already. There's no bright line, but it's become clear over the last few years that Stack Exchange Inc is not an ...
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Would newly elected moderators join the board of MathOverflow Inc.?
This is an important question, thanks!
My response is a clarification of @Todd's answer, but it seems better to give it as a separate answer. The board exists because of the need of a legal entity ...
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Can MO go back to +5 rep for questions? Should it?
I received a huge reputation boost from this change, but I still think that answering a question still takes much more effort than writing well-posed questions. Coming up with a good mathematical ...
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Can MO go back to +5 rep for questions? Should it?
I don't have a strong opinion on this subject, but insofar as I have one, it is this: Changing the rules is more trouble than it's worth. I lost points back when +10 was downgraded to +5, and I ...
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At what point should MO recognise it needs to leave Stack Exchange Inc?
For one thing, I would consider SE changing drastically the licensing on MO data, or making commercial profit out of it, to be a red line. In my opinion, MO data should remain free to access, to use ...
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Has word "mathoverflow" trademark?
A trademark infringement occurs when unauthorized use of a trademark (or a substantially similar mark, like a distinctive logo or motto) happens in the same domain of operation as the original. In the ...
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How can I donate to MathOverflow — if I should?
I'm an employee of Stack Exchange and can only give a partial answer. The hosting and maintenance cost of the main MathOverflow site, Meta MathOverflow and the chatrooms hosted on http://chat....
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At what point should MO recognise it needs to leave Stack Exchange Inc?
I love MO, and have always been a big fan of 'sticking it to the man' whenever possible. That being said, as I get older I'm beginning to feel the effects of constantly cutting off my nose to spite my ...
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Is there a software solution if we do cut the cord from SE?
Converted from a comment:
Codidact was born of a previous mass exodus from SE and has some experience with migrating data from SE to their software platform, QPixel.
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Can MO go back to +5 rep for questions? Should it?
I am not against the change, but I am strongly against the change being implemented retroactively. I felt the same way when question upvotes were changed from 10 points to 5 points retroactively, and ...
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Is there a software solution if we do cut the cord from SE?
Converted from a comment:
PhysicsOverflow has a setup that's reasonably close to MO. It runs on the Question2Answer software. It was in part set up a kind of exodus from physics.stackexchange
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Is there a software solution if we do cut the cord from SE?
Converted from a comment:
I would expect the database to be in a form similar to the existing periodic data dumps at https://archive.org/details/stackexchange (not that I have any idea what those ...
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How can I donate to MathOverflow — if I should?
I am also not a representative of the MathOverflow Foundation. Most of the people I know who are are also moderators, and I will let them speak officially. Below is my idea of what they would say:
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Has word "mathoverflow" trademark?
I am neither a lawyer nor an official representative of MathOverflow. My opinion is that this will cause more problems than it will solve.
Suppose someone posts something defamatory on your website. ...
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Can MO go back to +5 rep for questions? Should it?
Full disclosure: I benefited a lot from this change, as I ask a lot of questions.
Overall I think it is fair to have upvotes for both questions and answers count the same, although it will - even ...
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