Thanks for pointing this out, and sorry for the blunder. The CW box is now checked.

Best wishes,

Matt

Feel free to vote it up!

as for too many edits making the question CW, well, so what?

I completely agree. But I feel compelled to remind people every now and then lest we get complaints when it happens and they don't like it.

(@Andres: ah, that clears things up. I wasn't quite sure whether the s goes with your given or family name.)

(By the by, I wouldn't go down the bounty route as that has a definite time limit; as for too many edits making the question CW, well, so what? If it gets it answered, that's the main thing, isn't it?)

@andrescaicedo: and there you've touched upon one of the unfortunate aspects of MO. The way the forum operates and the rapid time-frame in which the front page questions get displaced was very suitable for StackOverflow, but with math questions which sometimes need sto ferment a bit it doesn't work as well. If you really want to draw attention to it you can always put a Bounty on the question, and/or edit it a bit (the edits will bump it to top). Unfortunately too much of the latter will make your question CW.

I believe one upvote is sufficient to convince the community user to not bump the question.

That's correct

Ok, this brings up a question: I asked something a while ago, that I would very much like to know how to do. There are 3 answers, none of which touch the actual problem, but people voted one of them up twice, so the question is not bumped automatically every now and then, limiting very much its chances of being seen. Anything we can do for cases like this?

Bump it manually if you really think it will help. It could simply be that nobody on MO (or maybe just nobody) knows how to do what you want to do.

Some of the questions have an answer provided, but not accepted, I think in this case we can try to leave a note for the OP (if he/she is still active) to accept the answer. This way the MO Monkey won't touch that question again.

Some of the questions are just ones abandoned by their original owners. I think we should just all vote and close them as "no-longer relevant" to prevent their resurface? If you agree with that statement, help me vote to close this and this.