tea.mathoverflow.net - Discussion Feed (Varying a question that's been asked and answered) 2018-11-04T13:53:18-08:00 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher Harry Gindi comments on "Varying a question that's been asked and answered" (8262) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/591/varying-a-question-thats-been-asked-and-answered/?Focus=8262#Comment_8262 2010-08-11T07:26:49-07:00 2018-11-04T13:53:18-08:00 Harry Gindi http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/account/55/ @Kevin: Apparently a lot of programmers from Stack Overflow don't understand that "algorithm" != "useful algorithm", to use their notation. @Kevin: Apparently a lot of programmers from Stack Overflow don't understand that "algorithm" != "useful algorithm", to use their notation.

]]> Kevin Buzzard comments on "Varying a question that's been asked and answered" (8261) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/591/varying-a-question-thats-been-asked-and-answered/?Focus=8261#Comment_8261 2010-08-11T03:38:44-07:00 2018-11-04T13:53:18-08:00 Kevin Buzzard http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/account/65/ @vipul: I would *strongly* recommend that you think before you post. If you ask a question and you get an answer that's correct but doesn't answer the question you really have, then you probably ... Andy Putman comments on "Varying a question that's been asked and answered" (8215) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/591/varying-a-question-thats-been-asked-and-answered/?Focus=8215#Comment_8215 2010-08-09T11:40:43-07:00 2018-11-04T13:53:18-08:00 Andy Putman http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/account/113/ If it's genuinely different and you've given it an appropriate amount of thought, then ask a separate question. However, don't bombard MO with a bunch of similar questions over a short period of ... vipul comments on "Varying a question that's been asked and answered" (8214) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/591/varying-a-question-thats-been-asked-and-answered/?Focus=8214#Comment_8214 2010-08-09T11:36:41-07:00 2018-11-04T13:53:18-08:00 vipul http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/account/222/ This happens often to me: I ask a question, then get an answer to that question (strictly as the question is asked). Now, based on those answers, there is a slight modification of the question I ...
(ii) seems like the right thing to do but I don't know about the issue of whether it's fair to ask many similar questions -- since voting is done on individual questions, this might seem like an attempt to garner more votes (or try to attract more people's attention) by posting similar questions all over the place.]]>