Which browser, on which operating system?

@PhilipJ.White See also the "on publishing proofs of famous open problems" section here: terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/… If your techniques can prove $e+\pi \not\in \mathbb{Q}$ then they can prove other results that are low-hanging fruit, and you will build a reputation for solid work. With this established you will be taken more seriously than arriving out of the blue and claiming the proof of a famous conjecture with no track record.

@MartinSleziak I had a look through that question (and others on academia.SE) just in case I thought they might be immediately useful to the OP, and most of the advice is aimed at younger academics or people adjacent to academia (eg Do you personally know any other researchers in the endorsement domain? Consider in particular former colleagues, former advisors,... or If you are a registered student in a recognized university or institute, you can register in arXiv with your school email address,... )

For context to the OP, here is a recent paper that managed to make the first progress on an irrationality result for decades arxiv.org/pdf/2408.15403 It proves that no sum of integer multiples of $\pi^2$ and the number $1 - \frac{1}{2^2} + \frac{1}{4^2} - \frac{1}{5^2} + \frac{1}{7^2} - \frac{1}{8^2} + \cdots \approx 0.781302412896486296\ldots$ can be rational. It's over 200 pages long and written by some of the best people in the world in the area. And it's really quite delicate work, it turns out...

I guess people could be warned, and they can choose to copy a link to their handle in the plain text description. I worry about unilaterally removing links to people's (presumably) professional account as they might rely on it as a means people can contact them, find out more about them etc.

@FedericoPoloni ah, I see. I guess people who have a X/Twitter handle in their bio will still display it? But in the edit profile form it will no longer be visible? We are hiding reputation by default using this mechanism, as you suspect.

That said, an outright "social media account" field seems reasonable, but I can imagine that if SE wants to validate the input as being a social media site (difficult for mastodon!) this is nontrivial. And this is only something that people can take up with SE say on the network meta site. Getting support here for such an interface change will be a drop in the bucket of the collective network users.

@JosephVanName the functionality is at the Stack Exchange level, and there are many more communities on here than MO. And, for better or worse, Twitter has been an online public square for pretty much the entire lifetime of the SE network and its individual precursors (like StackOverflow, MO etc).

Whatever my own personal view of X/Twitter, or the views or experiences of others, people really still do use it.

@Alex meta is also used for announcements. See my meta posting history, for example... people didn't vote to close my six strike update posts that I recall.

Thank you Tim, for this explanation, but more importantly for all your contributions to MO and in moderation. Please take care.