Timeline for Should Reputation from mathoverflow be carried over.
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| Aug 19, 2010 at 4:17 | comment | added | Bill Dubuque | To elaborate on my above comment: it's difficult to forget high-level knowledge when teaching at lower levels. E.g. an algebraic geometer teaching intro algebra might (subconsciously) omit a step that's trivial geometrically but highly nontrivial algebraically. To step-down to lower knowledge levels when teaching requires serious conscious effort to remember precisely what's known at lower level. This requires much practice to perfect. The MO rep doesn't provide a good measure of such skills since rarely are low-level questions posed there. That's a strong reason NOT to transfer MO rep here. | |
| Aug 17, 2010 at 17:37 | comment | added | user1119 | I also support Katie Banks' point of view. If for no reason other than to start with a clean slate here. | |
| Aug 17, 2010 at 0:20 | comment | added | Bill Dubuque | To take Katie's point further, I know many mathematicans who have no problem explaining things to their peers, but who are terrible teaching at lower levels. For such folks it wouldn't be right to transfer their MO rep here. If you want rep here you need to earn it - just like everyone else. | |
| Aug 16, 2010 at 23:49 | comment | added | Matt E | Dear Katie, I think that your point is a good one, and is a completely reasonable argument. (I'm inclined to agree that there are several reasons to keep Math.SE independent of MO (regardless of ownership issues, which I'm not thinking about at all for now), and this is one of them.) | |
| Aug 16, 2010 at 20:30 | comment | added | Jamie Banks Mod | Matt E, I agree with you on the hierarchy of math questions, and I think it should be less a question of ability (as long as that's there) but desire to answer questions and participate here. For example, most MO users could probably provide correct answers to most questions here, but part of providing a good answer (either place) is having been around the community, and thus having a better feel for what level to pitch answers at, how others have dealt with particular difficulties in pitching answers to this wide audience, etc.-even knowing the question history of frequent users can help. | |
| Aug 16, 2010 at 19:42 | comment | added | Matt E | (Cont'd; I ran out of space in the previous comment): I think that the bureaucratic argument, although less intellectually satisfying, may be closer to the truth. (This, together with a sense of wanting to stay independent of MO. I would regard this latter reason as perfectly justifiable, by the way.) | |
| Aug 16, 2010 at 19:41 | comment | added | Matt E | Dear Kenny, I'm not convinced that the highlighted paragraph really applies to MO vs. Math.SE, in the sense that the niche of Math.SE includes that of MO (in that, as far as I know, all math related question are welcome here, including research level ones). Also, there is a sense of hierarchy in math, in which someone deemed competent to answer research level math questions is almost always competent to answer more elementary ones as well. Note: I am not arguing that rep should be shared, just remarking that your stated argument isn't particularly water-tight. | |
| Aug 16, 2010 at 18:45 | comment | added | kennytm Mod | @Owen: We could find the rep from linked accounts, but what's the next step? How often should the reps be synced? | |
| Aug 16, 2010 at 18:41 | history | edited | kennytmMod | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Aug 16, 2010 at 17:53 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | -1 for bureaucracy: of course it's possible to transfer rep between MO and this site. It would just require some (relatively routine) modifications in the software on both ends. Anyway, the question was whether MO rep should be carried over, which you have not addressed. | |
| Aug 16, 2010 at 17:30 | comment | added | Owen Sizemore | Why? I mean for example it is quite easy to find out what people's rep on MO is. Just google their name and mathoverflow. Now sure it might be hard to verify it's the same person. But really? If the problem arises that many people are on this site impersonating users from MO, that would be a separate issue (but that is highly unlikely). So I don't see the issue | |
| Aug 16, 2010 at 17:00 | history | answered | kennytmMod | CC BY-SA 2.5 |