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12:35 AM
Hi I'm a new mod on MO.
when I was elected, quid had just one piece of advice for me
"don't migrate crap"
today's the first time i'm considering migrating something over here -- would this be an appropriate place to talk about the merits of my particular case?
and whether it qualifies as "crap"?
 
Sure go ahead @Tim
 
so here's the post
I have to say I'm a little confused by the situation.
It's a year-old post, but it's been community-bumped 4 or 5 times
I think this is mostly because it has 5 0-score answers
I haven't looked in depth but they don't appear to be outrageously low quality or anything
It was closed today, I think because folks got tired of it getting bumped
someone flagged it and asked to be migrated, and I'm thinking the idea has some merit, but I'm not totally sure
 
@TimCampion one cannot migrate old posts.
 
well that would settle it!
is there a specific time limit?
 
The question itself would be alright though.
@TimCampion yes 30 days IIRC.
 
12:40 AM
ah ok
 
Maybe 60.
 
I think the procedure to migrate would be to reopen it, then re-close it with the migration option, so I wasn't able to see that I couldn't migrate it because I couldn't yet commit to the first step
@quid Thanks so much!
 
@TimCampion exactly.
@TimCampion you are welcome thanks for asking.
 
looks like it's 60 days fwiw
 
@TimCampion indeed, thanks.
 
 
14 hours later…
3:14 PM
@TimCampion IIRC the community user bumps posts which have answer(s) with zero score.
I have posted something about this on MathOverflow Meta: Auto-bumping of unanswered questions.
So you were right when you said: "I think this is mostly because it has 5 0-score answers."
If getting bumped by the community user seems like a problem, upvoting one of the answers could resolve it. (Well, unless somebody else balances the upvote by casing a downvote.)
BTW this answer is rendered fine but when I click on edit, it no longer works:
Does it behave in the same way for others?
 
I am not having an problems, but the formatting off that answer is atrocious. It would probably be okay for a TeX document, but MathJax is not TeX. :\
 
3:32 PM
I should have said that the fact that the question is closed now should make it immune to bumping by the Community user, too.
Now the preview looks fine to me, too. Is it possible that this could be influenced by the order of the answers? (Which is random for answers with the same score.)
 
 
6 hours later…
9:59 PM
@XanderHenderson These two questions in the fractals tag are identical. Maybe from a take home?
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Q: Transformation $f^n:X \rightarrow X$ is a contraction transformation with a contraction coefficinet $s^n$

bosanac$(X, d)$ a metric spaces and let $f:X \rightarrow X$ be contraction transformation with contraction coefficient $s$. In this case, the transformation $f^n:X \rightarrow X$ is a contraction transformation in the metric spaces $(X, d)$ with a contraction coefficinet $s^n$. Show that. I have this qu...

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Q: Contraction Transformation With Contraction Coefficient

glemisanki$(X,d)$ a metric spaces and let $f:X→X$ be contraction transformation with contraction coefficient $s$. In this case, the transformation $f^n:X→X$ is a contraction transformation in the metric spaces $(X,d)$ with a contraction coefficinet $s^n$. Show that. I have this question. I know how prove ...

Or any mod, really. I just mention Xander since I know he's knowledgeable in the subject matter.
 
10:32 PM
@MarkMcClure I removed one copy, thanks. It's hard to know what exactly is going on. I tend to think it's just somebody being in a rush to get an answer. I mean an hour is a really long wait already. :-)
It's really identical including the "thanks" part, which suggests it's a pure repost rather than independent persons having the same need.
 
11:30 PM
See you @quid :/
 
@amWhy what's up?
 
11:50 PM
@quid It seemed like you were giving me the brush off, so I replied "See you" to you here, while not being terribly happy with your sudden departure. Hence the :/. But I'm used to being brushed off. I hope you are leaving the site to get some good sleep, in which case :-). But I know you better than that.
Any way: see you
 
Hi mods, this question is undergoing more or less the same thing that happened here, which was dealt with by Xander. I ran out of space in my flag to address this issue, which is why I'm raising it here.
 

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