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Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
8:26 AM
Revamping the closure reasons in 2022 is 14 days old - no longer in the community bulletin. At the moment it has around 350 views.
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Q: Revamping the closure reasons in 2022

Tim CampionPrompted by Gro-Tsen's recent meta question, it appears that now may be a good time to rethink our site-specific close reasons here on MathOverflow. Background: If you have sufficient rep, you can click the "close" button on a question (or the equivalent "flag" → "needs improvement", which is av...

discussion on-topic close-reasons
@TimCampion Just a reminder that your post is no longer in the community-bulletin. So maybe, if you hope for more feedback from MO users, perhaps you might consider adding featured?
Somewhat related to this - should a question about removal of the custom close reason mentioning Mathematics be posted on MathOverflow Meta, so that this issue can be discussed.
This would save one place among custom close reasons - although this is probably not that relevant, since we've seen that Stack Exchange can add more spots for custom close reasons when some site requests this.
But I am mentioning this mainly because some MO users expressed this preference.
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A: How to make it easier to moderate blatantly off-topic questions?

Steven LandsburgI think ---though I have no data on this --- that posters who ask questions like this are extremely unlikely to do the work of rewriting those questions in a form that would be acceptable either here or at math.stackexchange. Moreover, I doubt very much that the pointer to the "How to Ask" page ...

The link to Mathematics is also in the standard close reason MathOverflow is for mathematicians to ask each other questions about their research. See Math.StackExchange to ask general questions in mathematics., that was my main motivation to include it too. They'll see that link sooner or later, and I thought it better to give them some guidance. — Glorfindel May 19 at 6:27
@Glorfindel: Yes, I'd very much like to see that standard close reason eliminated also, or at least used only sparingly for well-posed questions that actually would be appropriate at MSE. — Steven Landsburg May 19 at 10:22
This older discussion is a bit in that direction too - although it does not explicitly mention custom close reasons: Homework and migrating to math.se
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Q: Homework and migrating to math.se

Andy PutmanAs many people have noticed, one of the main functions of math.se is to be a place for students to get other people to do their homework for them. Obviously we do not want to facilitate such cheating. My personal practice has always been to suggest math.se to users that ask questions that sound...

discussion math-stackexchange
Personally, I am not in favor of removal. Of course, it is not up for me to say whether or not it should be removed - still, if I posted such a question on MathOverflow Meta, I would feel a bit like speaking for somebody else.
 

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