Title
I knew Math was going woke when the Annals of combinatorics
the two subjects most associated to mathematics in the layman imagination are
Sitting in LDT conference.
Are all Annals papers really excellent? 1 2
Job market after getting a job 1 2
Examples of mathematicians moving to lesser departments to avoid 1 2
Why did Minhyong Kim leave Oxford?
[nuke] If you want to prove anything significant, you need to go crackpot mode 1 2
What are the best places for conference tourism? 1 2
The olden days
Taking the wife with you for a conference 1 2
How hard to get in EPFL
Again, please find a solution
Good introductory books on chaos theory and its practical implications 1 2
The most important problem in your sub-sub-field
Best MJR IDs 1 2 3 4 5
[nuke] Novikov Conjecture
At what age should one grow their Einstein hair out like Carlos Rovelli & Michio
How does Eric Weinstein have so much free time? 1 2 3 4
Is CUNY anti Semitic? 1 2 3 4 5
What's your appraisal of Aaron TK Chow? 1 2 3
Indian job market rumours 1 2
When do you think an AGI will be a better mathematician than, e.g., Von Neumann?
Salary in Singapore
PhD advisers at random places with a good track record 1 2 3
Jacob Ziv has died
Why did Teleman return to Berkeley from Oxford?
How high is the salary of an assistant professor (US tenure-track equivalent) in
Have you told your parents you’re an undergrad yet?
Rough Job Market 1 2
Top mathematicians still in Russia 1 2
What is the highest form of technique you hope to achieve?
What's your favorite Soviet? 1 2
Are pure mathematicians underrated in terms of fame & acclaim? 1 2
PSU vs UMD 1 2
Yay I got a TT offer at a top ten!
Will the program "toposes as bridges" lead to a rain of results?
Proof techniques that you can’t support or of which you are suspicious 1 2 3
Good enough Putnam score to list for the top grad schools (Harvard, MIT, etc.) 1 2 3
Tenure track job application results 1 2 ... 142 143 144

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    wgxi

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    rvxu

    Can we only have the "[nuke]" message in front for threads whose original post has been voted on to nuke? It would help separate actual good quality threads from the rest.

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    wacw

    Can we rate-limit thread creation? Say, no more than one every 30 minutes? We have nutters who are spamming low-content threads (probably Unzicker again) and it's hard to keep up. It's not an ironclad fix but it might be enough of a hassle to get them to knock it off.

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    xkre

    Can we rate-limit thread creation? Say, no more than one every 30 minutes? We have nutters who are spamming low-content threads (probably Unzicker again) and it's hard to keep up. It's not an ironclad fix but it might be enough of a hassle to get them to knock it off.

    Done.

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    wqds

    ^ I can adjust the rate limiting based on whether a thread is nuked. For example, if a thread is nuked in the last two hours then its author isn't able to create new threads for two hours following the nuking and his posting limit is diminished to 5 posts per hour for the next two hours.

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    yxdo

    Might be good to replace the “report” button pop-up with something that takes a confirmation (“do you want to report?”) Otherwise it’s pretty easy to accidentally hit that button while scrolling.

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    wacw

    ^ I can adjust the rate limiting based on whether a thread is nuked. For example, if a thread is nuked in the last two hours then its author isn't able to create new threads for two hours following the nuking and his posting limit is diminished to 5 posts per hour for the next two hours.

    A good idea!

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    ofvk

    Now that the number of threads has grown significantly, a search function might be useful (at least for the thread title if not texts of individual posts within a thread).

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    czhw

    Now that the number of threads has grown significantly, a search function might be useful (at least for the thread title if not texts of individual posts within a thread).

    Sorry Peter, you’ll have to figure out how to use google properly if you want to find all mentions of “Scholze” on MJR.

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    ofvk

    Now that the number of threads has grown significantly, a search function might be useful (at least for the thread title if not texts of individual posts within a thread).

    Sorry Peter, you’ll have to figure out how to use google properly if you want to find all mentions of “Scholze” on MJR.

    Wrong guy - this is Terry.

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    ykej

    Now that the number of threads has grown significantly, a search function might be useful (at least for the thread title if not texts of individual posts within a thread).

    Sorry Peter, you’ll have to figure out how to use google properly if you want to find all mentions of “Scholze” on MJR.

    Ooh spamming this chat is FANTASTIC shitposting

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    wacw

    Could you please add YouTube to the allowed domain list? I want to post talks and also Lean demo videos.

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    xxrz

    Could you please add YouTube to the allowed domain list? I want to post talks and also Lean demo videos.

    please no

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    uifc

    Can we have a thread next to the spam bucket where people can suggest addresses that should be unblocked? While I understand the rationale behind the current policy (and I don't want YouTube links here as well), I think that it's way too restrictive in its current form. For a start, I would allow any address that has 'edu' or 'ac' in it (how are we supposed to gossip about people if we can't even add a link to their website?).

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    jbts

    Absolutely do not allow links to someone's academic website, that's a great way to get IP addresses harvested.

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    nnva

    Some of my more serious posts with mathematical content appear, then disappear, while the off-hand shitposts remain, in both cases using "New ID for each thread". Am I doing something wrong?

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    sbqy

    ^ Probably confused the preview with the post.

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    lbny

    Policy seems clear, implementation is opaque. It is not clearly indicated when a post has been accepted.

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    fklt

    Can we have the ability to delete posts within the first few minutes of making them?

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    ysfi

    Just want to congratulate whoever set this site up. You have achieved a high level of toxicity in a short time.

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