2018-11-04T13:39:54-08:00 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/276/whats-the-right-place-for-opinion-questions/?Focus=3802#Comment_3802 2010-03-11T10:36:42-08:00 2018-11-04T13:39:54-08:00 David Speyer http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/account/23/

I rescued your comment from the filter. SBS is not set up to automatically screen first-time commenters, but there is a filter that tries to screen spam for us, and it marked yours. As far as I know, ...

I rescued your comment from the filter. SBS is not set up to automatically screen first-time commenters, but there is a filter that tries to screen spam for us, and it marked yours. As far as I know, it is a Bayesian thing so I can't tell you exactly what will set it off.

]]> http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/276/whats-the-right-place-for-opinion-questions/?Focus=3783#Comment_3783 2010-03-11T07:08:40-08:00 2018-11-04T13:39:54-08:00 Qiaochu Yuan http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/account/13/

If SBS is set up the way my blog is, the first time any given person posts a comment, it has to be approved by hand before it can appear.

http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/276/whats-the-right-place-for-opinion-questions/?Focus=3776#Comment_3776 2010-03-11T03:47:45-08:00 2018-11-04T13:39:54-08:00 Konrad V http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/account/66/

OK, done. But the comment didn't appear. I guess it was flagged as spam by Wordpress because of 2 links.

http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/276/whats-the-right-place-for-opinion-questions/?Focus=3771#Comment_3771 2010-03-10T21:09:18-08:00 2018-11-04T13:39:54-08:00 Scott Morrison http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/account/3/

Yeah, having access to a blog may be the only good alternative. I hear that a sufficiently interesting question on the

Yeah, having access to a blog may be the only good alternative. I hear that a sufficiently interesting question on the requests thread at the Secret Blogging Seminar can get you somewhere </shameless>.

]]> http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/276/whats-the-right-place-for-opinion-questions/?Focus=3762#Comment_3762 2010-03-10T18:55:30-08:00 2018-11-04T13:39:54-08:00 Qiaochu Yuan http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/account/13/

Math Reddit is awful. My suggestion would be to attempt to start and popularize a blog or, failing that, ask someone with an established blog to write a post for you. (Gil Kalai is one blogger in ...

http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/276/whats-the-right-place-for-opinion-questions/?Focus=3754#Comment_3754 2010-03-10T16:05:58-08:00 2018-11-04T13:39:54-08:00 Anton Geraschenko http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/account/2/

I don't know if such a place exists on the internet. One possibility that I suggested before was math reddit, but I don't know if it would be any good for this purpose.

I don't know if such a place exists on the internet. One possibility that I suggested before was math reddit, but I don't know if it would be any good for this purpose.

]]> http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/276/whats-the-right-place-for-opinion-questions/?Focus=3752#Comment_3752 2010-03-10T10:47:39-08:00 2018-11-04T13:39:54-08:00 Konrad V http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/account/66/

MO is not for opinion questions, where you can't select the &quot;right&quot; answer or even say one answer is &quot;better&quot; than another.So where is the place in the WWW where ...

So where is the place in the WWW where mathematicians can discuss opinions?

For instance, I would like to ask "How can we connect pure maths more to other sciences?". One solution would be via http://a.freshbrain.com/solvr/d/howto-connect-pure-math-sciences but I guess this is not satisfying and I don't know where to post this link.

Maybe there is no such place. Maybe most mathematicians don't want to go to such a place (and prefer discussions over real coffee).]]>