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Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
2:35 AM
I re-tagged it math-philosophy. — Gil Kalai 9 hours ago
The question has been retagged recently. This should lead to removal of philosophy tag during the next 24 hours, if nothing new happens.
In fact, as the script runs at 03:00 UTC, it might be less an 1 hour until the tag is removed. Meta.SE: How can we get rid of misspelled and unused (or “zombie”) tags?
 
 
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Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
3:44 AM
I have recently mentioned a few suggestions which tags could be created on meta. (Mostly judging by my experience that such tags turned out to be useful on Math.SE or Meta.SE and my guess that there might come more questions about that topic and we already have some questions where the tag might be suitable.)
I will add also hog-questions-list which was mentioned here before: chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/10243/2017/5/22
This is the name used on Mathematics Meta. Meta.SE called corresponding tag simply hot-questions.
 
Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
4:14 AM
I was reminded of this partly because I tried to follow a bit which questions from MO get into HNQ.
And partly because of this recent exchange:
@ScottAaonson. I too am glad you'll be sticking around. I would have been sorry indeed to author the question that proved to be the straw that broke your camel's back. My experience on MathOverflow is that some questions get immediate skepticism from a handful of posters yet grow to be highly viewed and judged questions. This balance between rejection (this is "shoveling bullshit") and broad and even enthusiastic support (7500 views...) is healthy, and I've seen only a small handful of postings ever that I felt were truly inappropriately handled. Not bad for a volunteer effort! — David G. Stork 11 hours ago
@DavidG.Stork Since I see that you mentioned number of views and number of upvotes as a supporting evidence for quality of the question. I'll point out that this question was (in fact, at the moment still is) in the network-wide hot questions list. In such cases, many of views and upvotes come from users outside MO community, so one should be a bit more careful in evaluating such questions or at least take this into consideration. (I am not qualified to judge whether it is a suitable question or not - I am just mentioning this as a factor in voting/view count.) — Martin Sleziak 35 mins ago
@MartinSleziak: Thanks. I was unaware of that fact. Nevertheless, I made my remark when five contributors voted to close this question and left it [on hold]. The point +29, and just one answer has +57 and getting contributions from elite mathematicians—which certainly counts as some support (though admittedly not the level I had said, due to my ignorance). Thanks again! — David G. Stork 15 mins ago
 
Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
4:26 AM
BTW philosophy tag is gone now. So the information that the script runs around 03:00 UTC is probably correct. (I am not sure how long actually the execution of the script might take and perhaps the effect might be visible only a bit later due to caching.)
 

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