Yeah, that is annoying. I know Tom Leinster; he's not the one who closed it, just one who suggested some formatting changes that would make people more likely to read far enough to answer it (use latex markup instead of mathematica markup). The other guy seems like one of those editors on wikipedia that go around deleting articles just because they can. On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Fred lunnon <fred.lunnon@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/22/09, Mike Stay <metaweta@gmail.com> wrote:
Link?
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/9555/ga-factor-problem-closed
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Fred lunnon <fred.lunnon@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, I swallowed my reservations and posted a question --- > and it looks like James was right on the ball there. > > What a strange system! Mind you, they do seem to have an > impressive amount of traffic, even if much of it is pretty tedious ... > > WFL > > On 12/20/09, James Buddenhagen <jbuddenh@gmail.com> wrote: >> That site has a strong /algebraic geometry / category language/ type >> flavor and if your question doesn't fit the mold they are likely to >> put you down, close the question and send you elsewhere. Maybe just >> my experience. Some people here might thrive over there, not me. >> >> --Jim >> >> >> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Mike Stay <metaweta@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Have you tried math overflow? >> > http://mathoverflow.net/ >> > -- >> > Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com >> > http://math.ucr.edu/~mike >> > http://reperiendi.wordpress.com >> > >
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