Increase the allowed length of comments. I am running of space more often than not and have to either castrate both my thought and my language in such cases or make a chain of comments instead of a ...

I guess I still would. The clear case is when one can answer a question. The regular practice of picking up a question that is accessible, answering it, and communicating the answer can be very ...

I support Darij completely. I'll even go a bit further and say that any thread that stood open since 2009 until 2019 without any complaints or controversies is good enough to stand forever and I'd ...

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 ...

The main things that are quite irritating now and can easily drive people away (IMHO) is the not always applicable assumption that everything is either a research level question or not, a very ...

I wouldn't really bother too much about the unfairness of up/downvotes. It is true that the number of upvotes I receive for my solutions is often (though not always) a decreasing function of the time ...

I guess as long as the user contributes interesting and useful stuff, it is his choice what name to post under (provided it is unique; throngs of indistinguishable unknown-google's irritated me quite ...

I really do not like the idea of a two-step process for anything, especially if it means creating a thread of unbounded length (after the first 4 screens are full, I doubt I will be willing to look at ...

Just relax. There are so many people who are able (and often very eager) to vote for closure, deletion, reopening, etc. directly that adding new "active flaggers" to them will do more harm than good, ...

IMHO it depends on the question. If somebody is interested in something very special that most MO users would, most likely, never care about (like 0-2 reputation question hanging out there for a month)...

All that assumes that there is some noticeable portion of users who bother to read "Terms of service", which, I'm afraid, is a rather unjustified assumption :-) So, it will, most likely, continue as ...

Erm... Why can you nominate only yourself? I guess the persons who are likely to make the best moderators (or the best presidents of the United States) are least likely to engage in self-promotion. If ...

Above all it should be noticeable. The MSE grid paper background is nice but done in blueish white on grayish white and nearly invisible even for people with normal color sight (checked 6 months ago) ...

An obvious motivation is "the severe disagreement with the reason to close". As far as I can tell, the most abused premise for closing is "not a research level question", which often really translates ...

I said what I think of the problem itself in the comments (1 2). So yeah, the posts of this sort (randomly created puzzles that aren't even well-posed as written) will not be enthusiastically welcomed ...

It seems like I was too optimistic in my other meta post and open civilized discussion turns out pretty hard to maintain for almost any side. Yes, we do have different opinions on sensitive issues, ...

I personally have nothing against political discussions as long as they do not degenerate into pointless accusations and refusing to deal with a person holding an opposite point of view, whatever this ...

Since I was one of the "delete" votes for "Riemann Hypothesis", I'll present my standpoint here. In that particular instance you do not need to know pretty much anything beyond elementary algebra and ...

Welcome to MO! Yes, you can try even that title but be prepared that somebody will eventually edit it to something more informative. The main point is to be crystal clear in the statement of the ...

Hard questions (from anybody) are usually not closed unless one can demonstrate that they are just some variations of well-known "hopeless" problems. If you got discouraged by the phrase "This ...

This is certainly no ad board or any other service connecting the potential employers to potential consultants, it has never been intended to be one, and (I hope) it will never become one. However, ...

"Statement on scientific publications by three national Academies (Academie des sciences, Leopoldina, and Royal Society)" https://www.leopoldina.org/uploads/tx_leopublication/...

I am on the opposite end from Andy. My (humble, as usual) opinion is that (barring complete trivialities where you intend to send the person the direct message that he is either too stupid or too lazy ...

I would link to some standard place like amazon where you can read the review and see the price without any hesitation whatsoever. Linking to some obscure bookseller, indeed, makes an impression that ...

There were some old "fancy ways around the html/LaTeX/markup conflicts" like doubling the backslash, etc., which now may screw the formulae to the extent that they are no longer legible. I think you ...

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/379145/geometric-combinatorial-problem-in-the-euclidean-space This question was deleted by nobody less than @ToddTrimble just 10 days ago after having 9 upvotes and ...

I would say that the suspension on one site should not imply the automatic suspension everywhere, though moderators should be able to do it in the extreme cases manually (anyone with a temper worse ...

It is, of course possible, and one does not need a big discussion to start such a project, but one needs to have a clear idea of how the problem can be approached and how to split it into cases/steps/...

I nominate quid: https://mathoverflow.net/users/9072/quid IMHO, among all smart people here he has shown most tact, common sense, and respect to others in meta-discussions, despite he can be quite ...