Conversation started Feb 3, 2015 at 17:16.
Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
Feb 3, 2015 17:16
This comment seems to have the well know problem with too long TeX strings without whitespaces in comment.
As a non-mod I do not know how much work is it to find the problem and edit such comment. (As I never had an opportunity to edit comment of another user.)
So if some of the moderators feels like this would be useful, you might consider editing it.
I am not sure to which extent this might be useful. (The question is quite old.) But I mentioned to the user who posted that comment what the cause of the problem might be: math.stackexchange.com/questions/930252/…
Arthur Fischer
Arthur Fischer
Feb 3, 2015 18:15
@BillDubuque From what I can see, your comment did not answer the general question posed in this comment. It basically pointed the asker to your answer, and set off a chain of off-topic, non-constructive comments, since deleted.
@MartinSleziak Fixed. It's often not hard to appropriately edit such comments. Copy the course into an answer box, check to make sure that the basic MathJax isn't causing errors, and insert a space or two or three, and then copy that into the comment.
Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
@ArthurFischer Thanks!
Arthur Fischer
Arthur Fischer
@MartinSleziak Actually, after looking at it, it seems that that comment is made obsolete by the answer by the same user. D'oh!
Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
If the comments is removed, so should probably be the whole conversation following it (and discussing why it was rendered).
Maybe it would be useful to leave that conversation there at least for some time, so that the poster of the comment gets my ping pointing him to the post on meta.
Arthur Fischer
Arthur Fischer
@MartinSleziak I might just leave the original comment there, so that your ping will get through, and then try to come back later to clean it up. (Do you mind if I edit your comment to request that it be flagged as obsolete once read by flawr?)
Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
@ArthurFischer Of course I don't mind.
@ArthurFischer Or if you prefer, you can remove my comment and replace it by a new one - mentioning that you have edited the post. (So that flawr is not surprised that his comment is correctly rendered now.)
Whichever possibility seems better to you.
Arthur Fischer
Arthur Fischer
Feb 3, 2015 18:24
@MartinSleziak It's been done. Probably easier to do what's already been done. ;-)
Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
:-)
 
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AlexR
AlexR
Feb 4, 2015 19:31
Hey, you guys might want to keep an eye out for questions like this one: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1133471/find-kth-term-of-this-sequence
I have the feeling that this is a contest problem, but I couldn't find the problem myself.
 
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user105491
Feb 4, 2015 23:41
Dear Mods,

As you have seen in the recent comments that I have flagged (and @Pedro and @Alexander have seen in the math chat room), a [particular user](http://math.stackexchange.com/users/200808/julian-rachman) has been saying some very unfavorable [things about me](http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/36?m=19884954#19884954) (see the link above and related deleted comments). This user is making me not want to come to chat, because everytime I come there, he keeps ignoring my comments and saying rude things to me. I would appreciate it if you could take some action against this user .
user105491
The links don't seem to be working above ^^. Sorry.
Famous Blue Raincoat
Famous Blue Raincoat
Feb 5, 2015 04:45
Link formatting, as all formatting, breaks down in multiline messages in chat.
Have you considering perm-ignoring the user? Click their chat avatar and select "ignore this user (everywhere)". This is what I do for a large number of chat regulars; it makes the main chatroom somewhat tolerable.
 
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Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
Feb 5, 2015 07:07
@ArthurFischer Since you say that it is not that much work, I will ask what is preferred course of action when I see such a comment. a) flag; b) mention it in the office; c) let it be; d) any of the above.
(I mean preferred from the point of view of moderators.)
Arthur Fischer
Arthur Fischer
Feb 5, 2015 07:21
@MartinSleziak Either flagging or mentioning it here aren't terrible options. This seems to be more of a "Fischer Mods' Office" right now, so your audience may not be as large if you do use this room. If you see something that is breaking (the layout of) the site, I wouldn't just let it be, so (c) is out, and therefore (d), too.
 
Conversation ended Feb 5, 2015 at 7:21.