John Carlos Baez on Nostr: nprofile1q…czyzh - Interesting. For some kinds of math questions there's a right ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqfv8fspvsmf4nzewaaumysjwjf8hmve7f4p6tu76xugefacslejks2czyzh (nprofile…zyzh) - Interesting. For some kinds of math questions there's a right answer, e.g. true-or-false questions (which can be very powerful in mathematics). For these it can be really helpful for beginners to know what's the right answer. For other questions, more open-ended, there's nothing at all like a unique right answer.

I personally never even paid much attention to this check mark business.
Personally I think the competitiveness comes in when we see charts like this:

https://mathoverflow.net/users/2893/john-c-baez

I'm the 100th best person on MathOverflow this month, etc.