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Why was there pushback on a user's profile image?
For people who are either unfamiliar with US history (either due to growing up in other countries or who had White Supremacist textbooks in school), here are the first two paragraphs of the state of ...
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What happened to the dear user "quid" (9072), they appear deleted?
The user formerly known as quid asked for his account to be deleted from MathOverflow. That was quid's own decision.
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Flood of Similar New User(s)
With regard to Gerhard's response -- which I agree with -- I see a number of things problematic in some of the behavior taking place in the present circumstances.
I have no doubt that behind these ...
Todd TrimbleMod
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We have our first user with more than 200K reputation!
My favorite JDH paragraph, from Have you solved problems in your sleep?, is worth quoting in full.
At times, naturally, it is an interesting (or obsessive) MathOverflow question that I set myself to ...
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What happened to the dear user "quid" (9072), they appear deleted?
quid has outlined his reasons for leaving in this answer (See Footnote 1), in relation to his nomination for a mod position on math.SE.
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What happened to the dear user "quid" (9072), they appear deleted?
A recent discussion in comments under Alon Amit's answer prompts me to offer some reflections on quid's publicly stated feelings and judgments about MO and the differences between MO and Math.SE. I ...
Todd TrimbleMod
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What happened to the dear user "quid" (9072), they appear deleted?
Taking Asaf's post as truth that the user requested deletion of their own account (and having no information to the contrary), I encourage people in this community to at best send their well-wishes ...
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10 year 'temporary suspension'?
Naturally, we do not discuss details of individual users. This is indeed an unusual suspension. Also note that this is a network-wide suspension, so this is not necessarily related to this user's ...
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We have our first user with more than 200K reputation!
A lot of Joel David Hamkins best questions are things which are really elementary in statement, but quickly lead to thorny logical issues. Examples here are this question about a game involving ...
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Why was there pushback on a user's profile image?
Answering this for closure:
By the comment of Stanley Yao Xiao, the OP in question had a confederate flag as their avatar. A moderator (presumably) changed it, with the understanding that a ban would ...
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One person creating multiple Riemann Hypothesis-related accounts
What they're doing here on MathOverflow is relatively harmless. They're also active on other sites in the Stack Exchange network, where they are posting downright abusive stuff; here are some examples....
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Strange username
The user has changed to another username Math is like Friday.
(Just answering to make the possibility of considering the issue as solved.)
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We have our first user with more than 200K reputation!
My favorite answer by Joel was to the fourth question I ever asked on MathOverflow, six years ago.
I was just recently wishing there was an 'MO appreciation thread' on meta where users could express ...
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Do(es)n’t said user(s) simply exploit the loophole once detected by @MattF. (newly created accounts can spend the association bonus on bounties), and wouldn’t that part be solved by following his then-...
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Flood of Similar New User(s)
I believe that I can give a partial answer to your question. Looking at some of the profiles that you have listed, they seem to be all unregistered users. I used to do something similar (but with only ...
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Repeated TeXifying of question titles
The user has been contacted by a moderator. Please advise if the behavior persists.
Todd TrimbleMod
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Who wrote the year of death in the profile page of the late William Thurston?
Please see this discussion, from the old forum 'tea' before it was superceded by MO meta: http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/1429/loss-of-a-member/ The discussion indicates that it was Anton ...
Todd TrimbleMod
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We have our first user with more than 200K reputation!
His answer, explaining different ways to think about the continuum hypothesis is a really good one.
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We have our first user with more than 200K reputation!
As an amateur mathematician with an interest in set theory and computability, I have to say JDH has probably advanced my mathematical knowledge in those areas more than anyone else (there are some ...
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I think it is reasonable to be concerned, if only for the fact that we do not know what the ramifications of this behaviour are.
However, I think it is better to describe the behaviour and call out ...
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Is there any process to appeal suspensions?
Here again is the relevant meta SE question on appealing suspensions.
Here is some general advice for users who have been suspended.
It's natural, when being disciplined, to feel defensive, or to feel ...
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We have our first user with more than 200K reputation!
As for favorites (or "favourites", if you like), I will go with this one for narrow selfish reasons. It is his answer to a question of mine that I intended less than fully literally, but he ...
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We have our first user with more than 200K reputation!
Congratulations to professor Hamkins for this achievement! I hope I am not off the rails here, since his answers are mostly above my level of understanding. But I wanted to mention his great book ...
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What happened to the dear user "quid" (9072), they appear deleted?
There is some concern that quid's contributions have disappeared. I can verify that they are still here. For example, this question was answered by quid, and the comments are still preserved. It ...
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Negative reputation?
When looking at users tab you can choose what to display - reputation, editors, voters, new users, moderators. And you can also use period on which you want to concentrate. (I am not really sure which ...
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Why was there pushback on a user's profile image?
I just don't understand why the moderators would remove the avatar but leave a trail of comments around that allows others to infer what happened, or worse. I think the omission ultimately caused ...
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Repeated TeXifying of question titles
Maybe it could be useful to spell out explicitly why the edits in question were problematic. (Both for the benefit of the user referenced in the question and also for other users who want to help ...
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Is there any process to appeal suspensions?
As far as I understand, there is no rule against opening a meta post to discuss your own ban and defending yourself; especially if you wish to draw the attention of the community to a ban that you ...
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Is there any process to appeal suspensions?
Tim Campion already pointed out the FAQ post: What can I do to lift or reduce a suspension? I will add also link to another answer on Meta Stack Exchange: Where I can complain about an unfair account ...
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