Timeline for What is Math.SE?
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| Dec 10, 2014 at 1:24 | comment | added | Carl Mummert | @Alex Becker: one challenge with PSQs is that even users who agree on what the site is for may disagree with it. For example, some users who think the site is for teaching think that answering PSQs is teaching; others think the site is for teaching but answering PSQs is not teaching. | |
| Dec 9, 2014 at 9:14 | answer | added | Incnis Mrsi | timeline score: -12 | |
| May 21, 2013 at 17:32 | comment | added | Alex Becker | @amWhy I'm asking what presently the members of Math.SE consider the site to be for. The title is the catchiest variation on that I could come up with. | |
| May 21, 2013 at 17:29 | comment | added | amWhy | Is this question about "What is Math.SE?" [bold-face mine, quoting title of OP], or are you asking "what should Math.SE be?". Those are two entirely different questions, and asking the second seems to imply that Math.SE is not what it should be, thought this may not be the case. Perhaps you are asking both questions? But then I think the title should reflect this. And if you are asking whether Math.SE is what it should be, that's another question altogether. | |
| May 13, 2013 at 8:04 | comment | added | zyx | "things I want people to keep in mind ... for when we get to the next phase". --- Ruh roh! | |
| May 13, 2013 at 1:39 | comment | added | Red Banana | Many students, especially non-majors, are truly lost in the face of some exercises, and don't know how to describe where they're struggling. - But I guess they should at least admit it and show what they have tried (I guess that there's a lot of people who didn't even try to solve) - sometimes people just copy/paste the entire question here. | |
| May 13, 2013 at 1:00 | comment | added | Alex Becker | @Hurkyl Ah yes, that makes sense. I understand that some disagreement is over the effects of policy. But I think there is also a lot of disagreement over what our goals should be, and that that disagreement must be resolved first. | |
| May 13, 2013 at 0:39 | comment | added | user14972 | Ah, that's much more reasonable-sounding! Anyways, the main point of this tangent was to express the idea that the disagreement wasn't necessarily about the goals themselves, and things I want people to keep in mind if they talk about ways to achieve these goals either here, or for when we get to the next phase of discussing how to achieve them. | |
| May 13, 2013 at 0:32 | comment | added | Alex Becker | @Hurkyl It occurs to me I might have communicated poorly. I should have said "before anything else we must determine the goals of our policy", not "the best we can do is..." | |
| May 13, 2013 at 0:23 | comment | added | Alex Becker | @Hurkyl I'm a little confused. I'm not advocating any policy here. | |
| May 13, 2013 at 0:17 | comment | added | user14972 | ... while it is a good idea to discuss the topic of what people think MSE should be, we should keep in mind that simply having goals isn't everything, and my perception is that the conflict over policy is more idealism/realism-oriented rather than incompatible visions of what MSE should be. | |
| May 13, 2013 at 0:07 | comment | added | user14972 | It's important to keep in mind the difference between the goal of a policy and the actual effects a policy will have. In fact, the actual intent of a policy is mostly irrelevant (but ideally is correlated) to its actual merits and demerits, and it is the latter qualities upon which it must be judged.... | |
| May 12, 2013 at 22:10 | answer | added | user14972 | timeline score: 12 | |
| May 11, 2013 at 23:09 | answer | added | Brian M. Scott | timeline score: 50 | |
| May 11, 2013 at 14:48 | answer | added | Emily | timeline score: 10 | |
| May 11, 2013 at 14:17 | history | edited | Alex Becker | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 3 characters in body |
| May 11, 2013 at 13:52 | history | edited | Douglas S. Stones | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Fixed my name (: |
| May 11, 2013 at 13:42 | history | edited | user940 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | spelling |
| May 11, 2013 at 13:13 | history | asked | Alex Becker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |