Timeline for Good chalk in the UK
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:58 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://mathoverflow.net/ with https://mathoverflow.net/
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| Dec 11, 2013 at 3:01 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 5, 2013 at 10:44 | comment | added | HJRW | @AndrewStacey, in that case, I hope you voted to close the question linked-to as well. | |
| Dec 5, 2013 at 0:30 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 4, 2013 at 23:05 | answer | added | Tara Holm | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 14, 2011 at 13:23 | comment | added | Andrew Stacey | Allen, "Walking in the rain" is my most highly rated question by far. 3 of my top 4 by votes are closed, as are my top 5 by views. The punch-line is that I agree with closing all of those (indeed, I initiated the closure of several) and think that none of them are good MO questions. I tend to regard anything that gets more than 10 votes as being potentially suspect! | |
| Mar 12, 2011 at 19:30 | comment | added | Allen Knutson | I very nearly didn't ask that question for fear it was inappropriate. It is now, of course, my most highly rated and viewed question (by far). | |
| Mar 12, 2011 at 18:54 | comment | added | Andrew Stacey | Gerry, it's easy: "Neither the parent nor the teacher be". | |
| Mar 12, 2011 at 4:40 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | So, how do you avoid embarrassing your kids at parent-teacher conferences? | |
| Mar 11, 2011 at 23:41 | comment | added | Andrew Parker | I second the recommendation for Hagoromo mail-order. | |
| Mar 11, 2011 at 22:07 | comment | added | Andrew Stacey | I did vote to close. This isn't about research mathematics. Lots of non-mathematical questions might benefit "the community" (for example, "How do you avoid embarrassing your kids at parent-teacher conferences?") but are still "off topic". Just because a similar question was asked before is no guarantee (or justification) for it being asked again. And there being no other place to ask such questions is similarly no reason to ask here. | |
| Mar 11, 2011 at 20:33 | comment | added | Ben Green | My brother bought me three boxes of Hagoromo Fulltouch Chalk by mail order from Japan. I am not aware of an off-the-shelf source in the UK, but who cares? | |
| Mar 11, 2011 at 20:02 | comment | added | Yiftach Barnea | Jose, yes the question might not fit a narrow interpretation of the rules. However, I see little difference between this question and the question I referred to. The question is very concise, so the “damage” is minimal and on the other hand the “benefit” to mathematics might be bigger than most normal questions. Finally, I see no alternative where I can find an answer to this question. | |
| Mar 11, 2011 at 18:47 | comment | added | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | I feel your pain, but I wonder whether despite the admittedly useful precedent this is an appropriate question. [I did not vote to close, by the way.] (For what it's worth, I ended up buying my own chalk in Japan following a recommendation in the other question.) | |
| Mar 11, 2011 at 15:44 | history | asked | Yiftach Barnea | CC BY-SA 2.5 |