Timeline for If you went into a coma now and woke in twenty years time what would be your first post on MO? [closed]
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| Jul 10, 2010 at 17:21 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | @algori: the potential to generate interesting answers is not a valid reason to keep a question open. As we've discussed on meta multiple times, almost any question has this property. | |
| Jul 10, 2010 at 16:04 | comment | added | algori | Harry -- I also have several technical questions I'd very much like to see answered. But I don't seriously think that what prevents people from answering those is them spending hours trying to figure out a clever question to come up with on mathoverflow after 20 years is a coma. | |
| Jul 10, 2010 at 15:34 | comment | added | Harry Gindi | Pretty serious. I have a technical question that has not yet been answered, and I resent people taking up the top spots with worthless and pointless questions like this. | |
| Jul 10, 2010 at 14:57 | comment | added | algori | Guys -- how serious can one get? The question may look a bit silly but it can potentially generate some interesting answers. I for one would be interested to know what people think mathematics will look like in 20 years. Voting to reopen. | |
| Jul 10, 2010 at 14:49 | comment | added | algori | Given the reaction of the public, I'd rather ask not what your question would be, but how quickly will it be closed. | |
| Jul 10, 2010 at 14:39 | comment | added | Andrey Rekalo | @Steve Huntsman: The "Hello, world" post would probably get more upvotes on Stackoverflow. | |
| Jul 10, 2010 at 14:23 | comment | added | Steve Huntsman | Now that I have closed per the comments above, I will say that my first post would be an answer to this question (which I would lobby to have reopened under the circumstances) consisting of the sentence "Hello, world." | |
| Jul 10, 2010 at 14:18 | answer | added | Angelo | timeline score: 43 | |
| Jul 10, 2010 at 14:16 | history | closed |
Mariano Suárez-Álvarez Ryan Budney Pete L. Clark José Figueroa-O'Farrill Steve Huntsman |
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| Jul 10, 2010 at 13:35 | comment | added | S. Carnahan♦ | I encourage votes to close. | |
| Jul 10, 2010 at 13:22 | answer | added | Charles Matthews | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 10, 2010 at 13:19 | comment | added | supercooldave | I agree with Mariano. | |
| Jul 10, 2010 at 13:18 | comment | added | Mariano Suárez-Álvarez | This is, maybe, appropriate for a blog post. | |
| Jul 10, 2010 at 13:17 | comment | added | Anweshi | Might it not be more suitable to ask, "the answer to which question would you seek among arXiv preprints?" | |
| Jul 10, 2010 at 13:13 | history | asked | Bruce Westbury | CC BY-SA 2.5 |