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How to cite comment by unknown user disproving Erdős conjecture?
This would not be a first, see arXiv:1909.00177
The citation (which I think follows the best practice) is
[6] Fedja, Communication on the MathOverflow website (2018), available
online at ...
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Celebrity usernames
This answer approaches the subject from more of a network level than a MathOverflow-specific stance.
The Stack Exchange Terms of Service deal with this issue as follows:
Under no circumstances ...
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How to cite comment by unknown user disproving Erdős conjecture?
The citation (which I think follows the best practice)
Indeed, that was a good way to handle it :-) The priority here is, as I said many times, to give the due credit to MO and similar sites that ...
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Users using AI to write lots of answers
As per a comment by @Todd Trimble [now deleted, on request from a user -- TT], any posts suspected to be AI-generated should be flagged.
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Celebrity usernames
I brought this up with the moderation team in email; I haven't heard back explicitly from everyone, but have an idea where most of us stand.
For now no official action will be taken. Putting aside the ...
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Celebrity usernames
After some further discussion amongst the moderators, I think we have decided that this username and account photo are inappropriate; they seem to only serve to provoke controversy.
I've changed both ...
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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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Flagging spam user
There are now lots of similarly named accounts (having to do with car insurance) showing up in Recent Badges. I think they are effectively spamming in the Recent Badges space.
Going back further, ...
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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 ...
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the number of on line users at a given moment
Here is a snapshot of the site analytics to which Martin refers:
So, roughly $40,000$ page views per day (in the summer).
Might be interesting to know what happened on May 14th and on August 8th...
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Flagging spam user
I'm happy to hear what the community thinks, but my instinctual reaction would be to destroy it. The account has no business here and the page is meanwhile free billboard space: not something I think ...
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Users using AI to write lots of answers
If AI-generated answers are actually correct - in particular, this will be relevant at a possible (likely? certain?) future date when AI becomes as effective at answering MO-style questions as human ...
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Why are usernames not unique?
MathOverflow has been part of the Stack Exchange network for a very long time, and the Stack Exchange network doesn't enforce this. (I'm not sure how it was back in the days.)
Just as in real life, ...
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the number of on line users at a given moment
As far as I know, there is no such thing. See also this post on Mathematics Meta.
Number of people online. On main meta you can find some feature requests such as View approximate number of users ...
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Influx of ridiculous number of spam users – what to do?
Unless the accounts start posting there's nothing to worry about. It's spam, yes, but low impact spam whose purpose (search engine optimization) is blocked wholesale by the SE software.
The general ...
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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 ...
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Why are usernames not unique?
It should be noted that one is allowed to change the display name at will. (This has caused some problems; I have seen the downside of being impersonated in this way.) Indeed, many of the display ...
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Getting list of users ordered by date joined
The first possibility that comes to mind is using SEDE. (Perhaps somebody knows how to find such a list directly on the site - but I am not really sure whether there is such a possibility. Answers to ...
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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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Is it possible to list all mathoverflow users from a given country?
You have tagged your post both (feature-request) and (support)
The feature-request part can be probably answered mainly by SE staff, which could say whether there are plans to implement something like ...
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How to report intrisically spammy user accounts?
I've tried destroying a few accounts with spammy profiles, and it takes less than 30 seconds to do each one. However, looking through the list of "autobiographer" badge recipients, I would ...
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In the MathOverflow data, can you determine the number of hours you've spent on MathOverflow?
I've tried to make this as complicated as possible by looking in the information_schema.columns to find all tables that have either a userid or owneruserid column and a date or creationdate column.
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In the MathOverflow data, can you determine the number of hours you've spent on MathOverflow?
Here are some similar questions on other sites:
How many hours I spend on SO (Meta StackOverflow)
To estimate how much time I've spent on SE, what tools are available to help, or at least how can I &...
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Why is a user with many upvoted posts shown with reputation 1?
Yes, that means the user has been suspended*. All you need to know about the situation is in the FAQ on Meta Stack Exchange:
When an account is suspended
The account will receive a private ...
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Links to the reputation leagues are broken on MathOverflow
As of last week, we also check for .net as a possible way to complete a valid domain, so ...
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Flagging spam user
There is no clearly defined networkwide policy on this topic, because the rules on self-promotion only apply to posts, not user profiles. Your ‘About me’ is your own space, and as long as it’s not ...
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