]]> http://cstheory.blogoverflow.com/2011/07/welcome-to-the-theoretical-computer-science-community-blog/#comment-6 Sun, 17 Jul 2011 13:43:53 +0000 http://cstheory.blogoverflow.com/?p=42#comment-6 Part of the purpose of the blog is to be able to have more open-ended discussion. The cstheory policy decision not to permit discussion of non-peer-reviewed papers (especially relating to P/NP)( is here. In that link, you will see that people were explicitly saying that a Q&A site is not a good medium for such discussion, but that a blog would be. Not that Joe and I plan to feature every paper that claims to resolve P/NP, or to efficiently solve graph isomorphism. My point is that the scope of the blog is much broader than the scope of the Q&A site.

]]> http://cstheory.blogoverflow.com/2011/07/welcome-to-the-theoretical-computer-science-community-blog/#comment-4 Sun, 17 Jul 2011 10:12:06 +0000 http://cstheory.blogoverflow.com/?p=42#comment-4 Looking forward to great posts!

“Some of the founding members of cstheory participated in discussion of a proposed solution to the P/NP problem […]. This effort made it clear that the worldwide theoretical computer science community was ready for – and needed – a structured way to ask research-level questions and to consider answers to such questions.”

I was not aware of this piece of history. It seems ironic to me that exactly the type of question that apparently lead to the founding of cstheory.SE is deemed inappropriate on the site today.

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