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Seems like this has a surprising acceptance rate just by quickly looking at the Badges page. They have given out quite a few! One things, though, is that I am
by joshfinnie 17y ago
Seems like this has a surprising acceptance rate just by quickly looking at the Badges page. They have given out quite a few!
One things, though, is that I am sad that it is just for questions. It seems like they could harvest this group of people and write some nice explanations to some difficult problems, yet their FAQ explicitly doesn't want this:
"MathOverflow is not an encyclopedia. MO is a site for questions that have answers. MathOverflow visitors should know how to learn new things and do mathematics on their own, but we all get stuck sometimes, and this is where MO saves the day."
- Tawheed 17y agoThis is my BIGGEST qualm about the StackOverflow line extension strategy. A Q&A site is NOT a community site, a proper community site has discussions, sharing, along with some Q&A.
- andymoe 17y agoI think these sites fill their niche well; Each question can have discussion surrounding it, or a specific answer, and the comments can enhance the quality of the answers. I was never able to get specific questions answered as quickly or as well until I started using stackoverflow type sites.
- joshfinnie 17y agoEach question should have discussion surrounding it, I don't think the StackOverflow mindset is the way to go about this, however. The discussion on each answer is shoved below in an unnested order which makes conversation almost impossible. StackOverflow works wonders for easy questions with finite answers, not dicussable "research-oriented" math questions.
- digitallogic 17y agoAgreed, which I find somewhat of a paradox. Questions w/easy finite answers are generally easy to solve via a Google search (for example, the most points I've earned are from answering 'how do you copy a python list'), and the more complex questions that should have answers along the lines of "well it depends, you could do 1, 2, or 3" have one accepted answer that isn't the best solution for the context I'm working in.
- Tawheed 17y agoAbsolutely! At best it saves me a google search here and there, but only if there is a hard and true answer. Check out the group discussion interface at http://braintrust.io http://braintrust.io, it caters to actual debate and discussion taking place. Screenshot here: http://braintrust.io/about/3.gif http://braintrust.io/about/3.gif
- DeusExMachina 17y agoWell, you could have found another niche/problem to solve with a new website.