A relatively small group of people with relevant mathematical backgrounds will be authorized to post on the forum, but all discussion on the site will be publicly visible to visitors.
You should note that this policy is different from the policy of perhaps the largest and most successful internet mathematics forum Mathoverflow. Maybe you have already thought about this and decided that this policy will be better. I simply wanted to make a friendly reminder that whenever you want to do things differently from the “industry leader” it is often a good idea to have a clear idea exactly why.
Thanks, Sarunas. We’ve been thinking about this issue; multiple people have brought up the example of MathOverflow in previous discussions. It’s a very relevant data point, though the intent of this forum differs from the intent behind MO in a number of ways.
You should note that this policy is different from the policy of perhaps the largest and most successful internet mathematics forum Mathoverflow. Maybe you have already thought about this and decided that this policy will be better. I simply wanted to make a friendly reminder that whenever you want to do things differently from the “industry leader” it is often a good idea to have a clear idea exactly why.
Thanks, Sarunas. We’ve been thinking about this issue; multiple people have brought up the example of MathOverflow in previous discussions. It’s a very relevant data point, though the intent of this forum differs from the intent behind MO in a number of ways.
Video recommendation: Joel Spolsky, cofounder of Stack Exchange, examining consequences of various forum designs: The Cultural Anthropology of Stack Exchange.
It might also be worth talking to David Zureick-Brown (co-founder of MO) about this (and maybe other things). He’s already interested in MIRI’s work.