The one I refer to was the researcher at office hours. You suggested it be scripted and be part of a film about mathematicians. I assume you liked it, @Asaf.

The scenario on meta mentioned in answer 1 seems to have been deleted. It impressed Asaf Karagila enough to comment. You can ask Asaf for details; the intent was to convince a user why forum users might not treat his question as research level, as well as what MathOverflow was for.

@Ryan, You may need to go through the formality of placing an answer on the election page soon if you intend to accept.

I concur with quid. I will respect your choice, but not your reason. I imagine you and Qiaochu would be fine additions to the moderator team.

I think what is meant is that any question where the answerer has to read the preprint to answer the question is too much to expect. I imagine asking for specific theorems or approaches, spelled out in the post, are reasonable MO questions.

If you step out of the room for a moment, I'd be happy to nominate you. Of course, that would not answer your question.

Perhaps we could crowd source a rewrite of "Lobachevsky" for MathOverflow. "And who deserves the credit? And who deserves the blame? Antonin Ivanovish Geraschenko is (not) his name!", as well as "The secret of my success? Hyperlink!" (Rhyme forthcoming.)

Would this have a retroactive effect on reputation?

It is what I thought of, and is better than "weak" or "pa-fragment", in my opinion. However, there may be a more appropriate modifier than "weak".

MathOverflow is not a database. Nor is it a collection of PDFs. We could argue what MathOverflow is (or, to stick to this post, what an archive of it should be), but it might be better just to make a thing that serves many of the purposes of an archive instead. Scott Morrison's suggestion of a collection of PDFs seems good, but makes the assumption that PDF will be an available format long term. I do not make that assumption in the post above; I argue that more than one thing be created until we know what would make a really good archive, letting good be a guide towards perfect.