@quid I do not know how much you follow meta.MO and to which extent you are interested in news from there, but since you were mentioned there, I thought that I might let you know.
What bothers me quite a bit is that many people come to MO to get some help with their mathematical problems and are met with nothing but our standard "closed as not research level" verdict and a few comments about which written and unwritten rules they have violated 30 minutes after they make th...
> I do not think that we will change our official policies or even that there is any need for that. The policies are fine; it is their interpretation and implementation that often frustrates me. I have no idea why quid left MO, but I suspect that he (or was it she?) might have felt the same way.
This might be another example of a question on MO which was closed a bit prematurely: How to evaluate this integral? (Although I think a bit of context - for example, source of the problem - could be added. However, this post was later reopenend.)
@MartinSleziak I follow it only sporadically (then the volume is pretty low so rare visits still give a rather complete image), but I am certainly interested to see if something interesting is happening. Thanks for the info.