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Why is the site being flooded with junk right now? What is being done about it?

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Appropriateness of recent LIGO question for MO

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Why was this question asking non-trivial examples of closed subschemes closed?

25 votes

Using MO as a platform to discuss papers in math?

23 votes

User destroyed without explanations or obvious reasons

20 votes

Questions which are research level but where the OP is unlikely to have the background to follow the research

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Why is Math Overflow a .net website unlike all the other sites which are .com websites?

18 votes

On the question about a strengthening of Bertrand's postulate

16 votes

on- and off-topic questions

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Streamlined tagging for Mochizuki

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Why was my spam flag declined on an answer that does nothing but promote the answerer's book?

14 votes

Should we have new moderator elections?

14 votes

The reason for putting on hold a question

12 votes

Why has the question "Optical methods for number theory?" been closed?

11 votes

YEAR is missing in many places specifically in questions

11 votes
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Update outdated links in the list of suggested alternative sites

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Tags "riemann-zeta-function" and "zeta-functions" are almost identical

10 votes
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close/reopen wars on Mathoverflow

10 votes

"what is" type questions

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A remark on the abc conjecture

9 votes
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Are downvotes zero cost?

9 votes

Why was my dissenting viewpoint in a post about diversity censored?

8 votes
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Loophole to avoid closure: deletion + bounty?

8 votes
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Can the flagging of off-topic questions be simplified?

8 votes

Migrating a question which is already posted on the other site

8 votes

Is "reciprocal voting" permitted?

8 votes
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Is it ok to ask for explanation of content in question?

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Should there be another tag for vector bundles in Algebraic geometry (over schemes)?

7 votes

What to do if you want up-to-date answers to an old question on technology

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