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Well, that's an interesting point actually. Not just commenting before they have finished reading it: also commenting without enough knowledge to say anything u
by Confusion 16y ago
Well, that's an interesting point actually. Not just commenting before they have finished reading it: also commenting without enough knowledge to say anything useful about it.
Moderators on meta.mathoverflow.com decided not to allow possibly premature discussions on mathoverflow: http://meta.mathoverflow.net/discussion/590/ http://meta.mathoverflow.net/discussion/590/. The arguments are quite reasonable:
So answers could linger on MO asserting that some parts
of the proof are correct, other sketchy, other flat out
wrong and precious few people will be able to decide for
sure if this is true or not.
- sprout 16y agoConsensus is an imperfect metric. Some of those things, even if discarded by consensus in the near-to-long term could prove valid in a couple years' time. We want as many avenues of exploration as possible, even once the proof is decided right or wrong.
- tqft 16y agoA minor point: that decision on meta.mathoverflow.net barely involved the moderators at all. One said what he was inclined to do, but otherwise it was the MO community.