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News of potential interest to the MO community

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Formatting Sandbox

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Is MathOverflow "seeing a massive decline in activity"?

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Is the reduction in posts an effect of AI?

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Moderation of blog-style / discussion questions

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Poll on proposed update to our policy on AI-assisted answers

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Are technical posts on the use of AI agentic tools in mathematical research allowed?

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Are questions regarding consensus opinions across the mathematics community on-topic?

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Self-promotion in answers

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Is MathOverflow at risk of being let down by StackExchange Inc?

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becoming a moderator

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LaTeX style accents in regular text

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Would it be possible to become anonymous for just one question/answer?

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"Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice and somewhere else the tea's getting cold."

Score of 23
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Should we move questions focused on AI to ai.stackexchange?

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How do we fit in with Stack Exchange’s new AI agreement with Google?

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Should MO have an automated prefilter to catch LLM answers?

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How to post and verify messy constructions

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My post on "why we are stuck with Lean" got flagged as spam or offensive and moderators declined to look at it -- can someone explain what's so wrong?

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How can a new user avoid having a legitimate mathematics question classified as spam?

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3 answers
796 views

Should we ask AI first?

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Mailing lists / Usenet groups for research math [closed]

Score of 45
13 answers
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Possible updates to our AI generated content policy

Score of 35
121 answers
15716 views

Requests for reopen and undelete votes for closed and deleted questions

Score of 15
2 answers
545 views

How does one handle paper-request questions?

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3 answers
967 views

Completely Unexplained Downvotes

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Why did these two questions have very different reception?

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Should "here", "there", "this" and "that" links be deprecated

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We’ve blocklisted archive.today; let’s clean up MathOverflow’s links to it

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Please reopen this question about semiprimes [duplicate]

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Should I delete an old question with a wrong answer?

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Empty post title in "Top network posts" profile section

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Questions of the form: "AI did this. Is it new/notable/very difficult/ ... ?"

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Is it allowed to ask questions here about verifying a solution of a lemma from my preprint?

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If a question isn’t about “MO-hard” math, but an MO-level answer is required, should the question be asked on MO?

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Why did my reputation go down 100 points?

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Reputation loss (-100) due to Community Bot action on a valid research-based answer

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8 answers
4311 views

What is being done to make MathOverflow more welcoming to women?

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Curious visual bug in badge Curious

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1 answer
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Close/open oscillations

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Problems with the "Insert citation" function?

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Consistency in closures?

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6 answers
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"See this response by ChatGPT"

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3 answers
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Anyone else notice a math purgatory?

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Can I cancel my membership on this forum?

Score of 6
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632 views

LaTeX doesn't render for some posts on iOS due to incorrect phone-number detection


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