tea.mathoverflow.net - Discussion Feed (I hope that people will do this in the future.) 2018-11-04T23:20:03-08:00 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher Andy Putman comments on "I hope that people will do this in the future." (5535) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/399/i-hope-that-people-will-do-this-in-the-future/?Focus=5535#Comment_5535 2010-05-12T07:03:31-07:00 2018-11-04T23:20:03-08:00 Andy Putman http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/account/113/ I do think it's important to only do this with questions that are or should be community wiki. Harry Gindi comments on "I hope that people will do this in the future." (5532) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/399/i-hope-that-people-will-do-this-in-the-future/?Focus=5532#Comment_5532 2010-05-12T01:14:06-07:00 2018-11-04T23:20:03-08:00 Harry Gindi http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/account/55/ Andy Putman recently asked an improved version of a closed question. I think that this is a great idea for community-wiki/big-list/soft questions. If a question of this sort is potentially ... Andy Putman recently asked an improved version of a closed question. I think that this is a great idea for community-wiki/big-list/soft questions. If a question of this sort is potentially interesting but ultimately flawed, I think that if someone is able to formulate it better, he or she should be encouraged to do so, rather than defend a bad question from closure because it may garner some interesting answers.

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