Timeline for answer to How to write a good MathOverflow question? by Kim Morrison
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| Sep 22, 2022 at 10:41 | comment | added | The Amplitwist | Also, the SE network changed the licensing from CC BY-SA 3.0 to 4.0 (a complete description of the change is in this post on Meta SE: Creative Commons Licensing UI and Data Updates), so the last line about licensing should probably be updated. | |
| Sep 22, 2022 at 10:36 | comment | added | The Amplitwist |
The blockquote > formatting used to put the text on a yellow background, which doubled up as a form of highlighting, but this is no longer so. The current white background instead de-emphasizes the part within the blockquote compared to the surrounding text. Maybe it's better to avoid encouraging the use of blockquote markup for emphasis due to this change.
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:25 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Nov 14, 2017 at 5:20 | comment | added | Ooker | Wow, thank you for addressing my fear for having my question closed on this site. I have research questions, but they don't get to the postgraduate level of math, and it's quite sad when my questions are silently ignored in Mathematics Stack Exchange | |
| Feb 10, 2016 at 13:01 | comment | added | user9072 | I just saw that block quote remark: at least in the mobile version the blockquote is not good for emphasis as to me it looks a lot more quote-ish there than on full version. | |
| Feb 10, 2016 at 11:17 | history | edited | user9072 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
updated max title length to current restrictions
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| Sep 25, 2014 at 21:25 | comment | added | Kim Morrison Mod | Why not? It looks nice, I think. (It's not like markdown promises to indicate semantics.) | |
| Sep 25, 2014 at 9:25 | comment | added | Federico Poloni |
Your sample question abuses the > formatting tag (originally meant for quotations) to highlight text. It is a common strategy here, and I have been guilty of using it myself occasionally, too. But do we want to explicitly suggest and encourage it?
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| Sep 17, 2014 at 23:09 | comment | added | Kim Morrison Mod | @isomorphismes, I think the best summary of etiquette for asking questions is 'visibly have put in effort to follow the above advice'. | |
| Sep 17, 2014 at 8:38 | comment | added | isomorphismes | @ScottMorrison In the Do your homework section you said do basic googling before asking on MO. Sorry, by "a reason" I meant to say "There has to be a reason that people [a] answer questions and [b] are annoyed by, rather than simply ignore, bad questions". I'm presuming that [a] and [b] spring from the same source, which is tied up in the norms which probably a lot of MO users understand, but I don't as well without it being explicitly described. | |
| Sep 17, 2014 at 7:39 | comment | added | mdg | Btw, every regular doodad is in fact a widget. | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 23:17 | comment | added | Kim Morrison Mod | @isomorphismes, I'm not sure what you're asking for. Who says "Just read Wikipedia for X; don't ask here"? A reason for what? | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 8:02 | comment | added | isomorphismes | It would be cool if in addition to saying "Just read Wikipedia for X; don't ask here" you could elaborate on the etiquette of asking here. Theoretically people can just ignore bad questions. But since this isn't the attitude, there has to be a reason. | |
| Aug 31, 2014 at 2:02 | history | edited | Kim MorrisonMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 12, 2013 at 14:42 | comment | added | user9072 | The advice "Make your title your question" is good in my opinion. However, what I find unfortunate is if users then do not repeat the question in the body. Could a phrase be added there, like: 'Yet please also make sure that the body of the question does not depend on the title, and thus in any case also state the question in the body.' (This is not mainly about people sayin 'question is in title' though I find this somewhat onfortunate to, but some say strictly nothing on the q in body if it is in title.) | |
| S Sep 25, 2013 at 10:25 | history | answered | Kim MorrisonMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
| S Sep 25, 2013 at 10:25 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Kim MorrisonMod |