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Examples of mathematicians moving to lesser departments to avoid 1 2
Is CUNY anti Semitic? 1 2 3 4 5
the two subjects most associated to mathematics in the layman imagination are
I knew Math was going woke when the Annals of combinatorics
Sitting in LDT conference.
Are all Annals papers really excellent? 1 2
Job market after getting a job 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
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

Moderation system, privacy, etc.

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    keoo

    1. He is the original Litteaux troll

    What is that about?

    ^ Oh, I would be in favour of heavier moderation, including closing threads. But this seems to attract cries of "oh noez muh freeze peach". So the question is whether people more libertarian than myself will object once a precedent is set for locking/nuking threads with many posts.

    The moderators seem sympathetic to heavier moderation -- they have cracked down on the incel spam in the recent past, and even some DEI spam when it was invading the tenure track sticky.

    Is the heaveier moderation issue one of willingness (i.e., the moderators are on the freeze peach advocate side of the line) or one of manpower (i.e., there are not enough moderators to seriously moderate this forum)?

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    pecf

    From a selfish perspective as an MO user: the TK thread provides an outlet for stuff which would otherwise be posted under various sockpuppets to MO. (Not that this benefits users of this forum, other than to give them some insight of what the majority of MO deletions are like.)

    I think it is a good idea to let a few massive threads stay alive. The TK thread isolates most of the pro-TK, anti-TK trolls in one place, keeping a lot of tedious circle jerks out of other threads.

    The same goes for the PH thread, and a few others.

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    onmo

    Thanks for nuking the PH thread. Could you please also remove the Hugs thread, which also has caused a lot of unnecessary harm to the parties involved?

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    tlpv

    Thanks for stepping up the modding. Your work is appreciated. Massive progress.

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    vjnq

    BUG REPORT:

    ~Strikethrough~ does not work correctly.

    This is ~strikethrough~. This is ~strikethrough~ in italic

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    osao

    Can we do something about the YP thread? It has been taken over, or was always intended as a vehicle for, casting aspersions on one of the on-record accusers while ignoring e.g. other corroborating accounts. In other words, it is not about YP, but about venting against another individual/

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    gtmc

    Unzicker is still a problem.

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    fjyr

    If DarkMJMR is permenantly gone (which I am fine with), we should remove the DarkMJMR button on the homepage. It is logically annoying to have a button on the website that doesn’t do anything.

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    kpay

    Can we do something about the YP thread? It has been taken over, or was always intended as a vehicle for, casting aspersions on one of the on-record accusers while ignoring e.g. other corroborating accounts. In other words, it is not about YP, but about venting against another individual/

    This is kinda hilarious. YP has been vilified on a CS mailing list, on various social media once the matter went public, perma-shamed at Wikipedia, and named-and-shamed in other MJR threads (recent example: "the missing stair"). There really has not been a lack of places to post castigations of YP. Well, YP could be a serial killer and it would not necessarily mean there is no problem with the accusations or the accusers, however well corroborated. If some of his accusers behaved badly as the matter ran its course, on a JMR board the neat thing is that they too will have their conduct brought up for discussion, whether or not it exculpates YP. It is possible for an observer to be disgusted by any Boolean combination of the accused and accuser, YP does not hold the monopoly.

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    sgnc

    I will be forever grateful to whichever one of you figures out how to ban this tedious Unzicker fellow.

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    gtmc

    I will be forever grateful to whichever one of you figures out how to ban this tedious Unzicker fellow.

    Can we please get rid of this crank? It seems like 30% of the front page threads are spam from him.

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    puss

    Can we ban threads that has certain keywords in its name? like "strong-est", "best", or "great-est" for example. Those kind of threads almost always become a shitshow imo

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    nxlc

    Can we ban threads that has certain keywords in its name? like "strong-est", "best", or "great-est" for example. Those kind of threads almost always become a shitshow imo

    Okay, PUSS

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    krxg

    Can we ban threads that has certain keywords in its name? like "strong-est", "best", or "great-est" for example. Those kind of threads almost always become a shitshow imo

    What a PUSS

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    ygae

    Looks like the Chat GPT / Donald Trump troll needs to be shut down.

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    okak

    If we can't keep the anti-vaccine crowd out, I think the "tragic death of young postdoc" thread needs to be killed. I would hate for their grief-stricken family to google around and find this.

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    pygk

    If we can't keep the anti-vaccine crowd out, I think the "tragic death of young postdoc" thread needs to be killed. I would hate for their grief-stricken family to google around and find this.

    I share this perspective. I'm not in that thread arguing about nonsense because it is precisely the wrong place.

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    ofxd

    If we can't keep the anti-vaccine crowd out, I think the "tragic death of young postdoc" thread needs to be killed. I would hate for their grief-stricken family to google around and find this.

    Agreed.

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    clbf

    It shouldn't need any fancy machine learning to auto delete identical posts repeated within minutes, regardless content.

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    pygk

    Related to this, perhaps subforums devoted to particular subjects would solve a lot of our moderation problems. I know its a little more work to set up, but I don't think the extra work would be awful to have a few common threads directed somewhere.

    Particularly, I would be very happy with a physics subforum so that I don't have to filter out all those annoying crank threads. I am happy to accept crank threads about physics if I decide I want to read about physics.

    An industry sub forum to redirect all the finance, coding, job advice, and ml content would also be very helpful.

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