@Asaf: someday you might have to write grants where you have to use these terms like "abusive forcing for nice couples"... and I'm pretty sure the grant dudes will find it... peculiar.
Speaking of badges, Theo upvoted an answer for me so I'd get a Nice Answer badge, but it was also an accepted answer. Doesn't that imply I should get Enlightened as well?
Publicizing a question here, as Math folks might know about it: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/17835/has-the-typesetting-of-knuth-and-gangs-concrete-mathematics-been-modified-over-s
@JM To get Vox Populi you need to vote 40 times in one day. The only way to do that is to have more than 10 of those votes on Questions, and not Answers.
Then what of Robin Chapman? Also, when you draw up puns like this, you need to think a few more step through. For example, you should have also a followup handy if I were to ask you back: then what would Jeff Atwood be?
No I mean, didn't Erdos actually win a bet or something for it? Someone bet him that he cannot go without for period X, and so he did so. And after winning the bet he said something like "and congratulations, you've held back modern mathematics by X"?
By way of contrast, I asked a question on theta functions in MO (yes, yes, it's very niche...) and only a few votes in the span of a day (but at least I got a very useful answer). It would probably have gotten a "Tumbleweed" if I had asked it on m.SE...
I heard from Stefan Geshcke that Joel Hamkins was the first set theorist on MO, and until his arrival they were mostly about categories when someone asked about foundations.
I wonder what the eventual goal of M.SE is. When it was proposed on Area51, was it intended to exist in cooperation with MO or in competition? I read somewhere in "cooperation" but in practice it seems like any decently difficult question could be profitably posted to both sites.
Questions that fit both of them are just like the one I posted on MO today and on MSE a week ago. Like most of the large-cardinal questions and forcing ones.
