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Did

Oct 24, 2017 20:44

@SimplyBeautifulArt This maybe how you would handle this, but I wish to proceed otherwise. To make some noise about these unpleasant actions, one could call it. The mention I had added are a simple way to express simultaneously the fact that the answer is correct and the opinion that the DV should be ashamed of their behaviour.

Did

Oct 24, 2017 20:38

@SimplyBeautifulArt I wish the mentions to stay because they correspond to four revenge downvotes given in short succession and because I have come to the conclusion that making such events as visible as possible was the best way. For example the OP of another of the downvoted answers reacted by commenting: "btw i did not downvoted the post.. but maybe someone saw a mistake"... to which I replied firmly, hence the mention at the beginning of my answer proved useful to dispel at least this OP's doubts.

user21820

Oct 24, 2017 08:36

@quid Thank you for your response! The answer is actually an improved version of the one I used in the discussion in the Logic room last weekend, and I felt it was a waste not to post it on the main site.

amWhy

Oct 23, 2017 23:09

@Joffan I agree with @SimplyBeautifulArt It's off topic. It's a problem statement question. Shows nothing in the way of effort. Asks, essentially, for someone to do their work for them. Doing that work for them, on a question like this, is problematic if that's what any potential answerer wants to do. In any case, the post should live or die on it's own merits, not the desire of someone to reopen so they can answer it.

Trevor Gunn

Oct 23, 2017 21:19

If the question were not homework then they should be able to put more effort into writing the question. If their response to "you should improve your question" is "I don't need to improve it because it's not homework" then I'm going to downvote and leave.

Simply Beautiful Art

Oct 23, 2017 14:36

I wish the above question "How to ask a homework question" to be changed to so that users knew that it's guidelines applied to all questions and not just homework questions. @amWhy @Did @user21820 @ChaseRyanTaylor @TrevorGunn @others

Simply Beautiful Art

Oct 22, 2017 23:51

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A: Reopening closed questions with good answers

Generally, my opinion is "No." You've got a bad question with a good answer. What do I think you should do? Downvote the question and upvote the answer (and vote to close if necessary). Since the OP has already received an answer, it is less likely that any further context will be provide...

user21820

Oct 22, 2017 16:16

@amWhy I think we need a downvote bank.

user21820

Oct 22, 2017 10:12

The crank we just met last week is back at it again and just posted this. It seems cranks never get worn out. Perhaps it's because they can't be turned.

Did

Oct 20, 2017 06:15

@amWhy Sorry to say but this was most foreseeable, imho. At the same time, election voters on the site have already shown at least once in the past how blind to the obvious they could be, so...

amWhy

Oct 20, 2017 00:19

Warning, folks: Jack (one of the "new mods") is already at it, in suppressing opposition to PSQ's and even those that are of very low quality.

Martin R

Oct 18, 2017 19:23

(Interestingly, both Michael and Dr. S have answered the same question before at least 3 times each.)

user21820

Oct 16, 2017 15:40

@amWhy Oh my goodness! This is a serious problem Math SE is facing!

user21820

Oct 16, 2017 11:29

@Did @amWhy @ParamanandSingh @LeakyNun: This answer has last two sentences false for the reason stated in JDH's and my comment. The construction is not proven to satisfy the desired property either, and I don't even know if it does. So I don't understand why it has so many upvotes.

user21820

Oct 14, 2017 15:19

@PeterSheldrick Although I don't think that's the entire context. You say that you made the question as a more difficult version of some other question. But you didn't say how (briefly) you made it.

Daniel Fischer

Oct 8, 2017 17:27

@SimplyBeautifulArt That post had only two delete votes, and four "Recommend Deletion". That can be overridden by the author alone. If it had been deleted by three delete votes (regardless of whether from the review queue or the question page), that wouldn't have been possible, it would then have required three undelete votes [or one from a moderator] to undelete. But since undeleting answers that were deleted from the queue raises a system flag, that's not much of a problem.

Simply Beautiful Art

Oct 8, 2017 17:20

^ Wait, how can they undelete their own post after having it deleted by the review queue?

Simply Beautiful Art

Oct 7, 2017 01:02

^ Why are we so lenient compared to other sites on our homework policies?

Simply Beautiful Art

Oct 7, 2017 01:01

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A: Proposal: ban verbatim homework questions which have no accompanying text

Judging from the comments, this proposal may be viewed as wild and potentially damaging to the site. This answer is to put this proposal into perspective and compare it to the other StackExchange sites. Here's the current Maths.SE stats (ref.): This ranks maths.SE second amongst all StackE...

amWhy

Oct 6, 2017 20:51

Indeed, @Xam!

amWhy

Oct 6, 2017 18:13

@GabrielRomon I see a string of -1's on DSG's profile front page of answers. While I empathize, pretty much any cluster of rapid succession downvotes, or >6 downvotes cast by a single user on another user in a 24 hour period, are typically reversed, to nullify all downvotes on that targeted user (within the previous 24 hours,) are all erased, and points lost from downvotes are also replaced. I'm just saying... not accusing, because with said user, frustrations among many other users run deep.

Gabriel Romon

Oct 6, 2017 17:37

How do you feel about S. Graubner ? He's reached 40k and keeps generating low quality content and spreading misinformation in his comments and answers.

user21820

Oct 1, 2017 14:03

@MartinSleziak Isn't the obvious solution to be for you or Andrej to post a new good question (as example to others) and to leave the old question closed (instead of rewarding the poster)? If you post it, you can then pass the link to Andrej to answer it. As I see it, improving bad questions just to keep the answers is contrary to the notion of wanting good quality questions on Math SE, because people will be emboldened to post lousy questions because the net result is positive reputation gain.

user21820

Sep 30, 2017 08:11

@Xam Thanks! The reason I ping you is that you are capable of judging the mathematical correctness of the post and you can downvote if you wish. Users who have 10k reputation cannot even vote to delete an answer unless it has negative score, so our hands are tied when it has too many upvotes.

Simply Beautiful Art

Sep 29, 2017 14:27

Please review this user.

Simply Beautiful Art

Sep 27, 2017 23:02

@SimplyBeautifulArt Thanks man, you the best

Daniel Fischer

Sep 27, 2017 13:57

@pilko You could post a comment and explain it. Or post a comment asking the author to edit so that you can remove your downvote.

Did

Sep 24, 2017 14:48

@user21820 Motl is too specific to be taken as representative of what is going on on the site (a physicist, extremely gifted at making believe they speak with authority, prone to verbal violence, probably upvoted by users from outside the mse's crowd, what have you).

user21820

Sep 24, 2017 14:35

@LeakyNun No edit war needed. We just need enough people who downvote to negative score and then we can delete it off.

user21820

Sep 11, 2017 05:47

@MartinSleziak I'll star it for other users to take note of it, though as explained before I disagree with keeping the question just because of good answers. =)

Simply Beautiful Art

Sep 10, 2017 23:07

And, of course, to get help from your professor, you should walk into his office, place your homework sheet in front of him, and silently wait for him to give you the answer. — Hurkyl May 5 '13 at 12:17

amWhy

Sep 10, 2017 23:05

@SimplyBeautifulArt I don't remember an election in which he ran.... But many have nominated him every election that I witnessed here. But he's declined. He's a very modest man, which I respect.

Simply Beautiful Art

Sep 10, 2017 20:47

2 problems in this PSQ

user21820

Sep 8, 2017 06:51

@amWhy @Did @Jack: I consider this answer wrong because it says we "assume that 0.999... represents a real number when we prove that it necessarily equals 1" (no there is no assumption; rather it's a definition!) and misleading because it says that the intuition that 0.999... falls a bit short of 1 has "a rigorous implementation in the context of a hyperreal number system" and "respects student intuitions and can be helpful in learning the calculus".

user21820

Sep 7, 2017 16:52

This answer is wrong, and the author has not bothered to correct it despite Did's comment. The question is a PSQ anyway and can now be deleted.

Simply Beautiful Art

Sep 6, 2017 20:31

@SmokeDetector I wonder what people are thinking when they do that.

Martin Sleziak

Sep 6, 2017 11:50

BTW would the above exchange (between Did, me and user21820) be more appropriate for Math Meta Chat room, which was started not too long ago by user21820?

amWhy

Sep 6, 2017 02:30

@DanielFischer No need to respond here, to my comments. Just please, please do not let one mod's volatility get out of control, in terms of actions taken against the "bearer of bad news".

amWhy

Sep 6, 2017 02:02

The banishment from the mod chat (by arjafi) preceded any comment from me there. I merely asked "why?", after his boldface comment (which was then deleted) and subsequently was kicked out of the chat room, and subsequently the room was made private. I know it's got to be a difficult position to be in, challenging a colleague, vs abiding by an unspoken agreement to back each other up. I'm simply scared of arjafi, and his retaliatory actions.

Simply Beautiful Art

Sep 5, 2017 18:21

Another possibly bad answer

Did

Sep 4, 2017 22:02

And the question is... tadaaa... math.stackexchange.com/q/2416852

amWhy

Aug 30, 2017 22:21

@Simply @Jack, @Did math.stackexchange.com/questions/2411560/… needs to be closed; most of this user's posts have been nothing more than problem statements.

Martin Sleziak

Aug 30, 2017 02:22

@MichaelHardy Well, if a post is marked as rude/abusive this means that either it got six rude/abusive flags or that it was intervention by a moderator. Neither of those two possibilities seems to me as something to take lightly and to shrug it of as "one user got offended" or "some people do not like this topic".

Martin Sleziak

Aug 30, 2017 02:22

Not to mention this is not the first post you made on meta which was marked as rude/abusive.

Martin Sleziak

Aug 29, 2017 23:41

A reopen vote would also put question in the review queue, where other users could add their vote to reopen if they agree with your assessment of the post.

Martin Sleziak

Aug 29, 2017 23:41

I will point out, in connection with your message about "principal concern of this chat room" that this room can be used also to post reopen requests.
(You can find some past examples by searching for [re open](https://chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=re+open&room=2165) or [reopen](https://chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=reopen&room=2165). And the fact that closures are listed also here (apart from the usual places) makes it easier to notice them and to start discussion about a specific closure, if needed.

amWhy

Aug 29, 2017 20:08

@SimplyBeautifulArt, @Did, @Jack, Problem statement question needs to be closed. math.stackexchange.com/questions/2410316/…

amWhy

Aug 29, 2017 18:09

Keep your eyes out for posts from this user, mtheorylord.

user21820

Aug 28, 2017 03:41

, and in my honest opinion a question that comes as a totally bald question should be removed from this site, as it encourages people to have a sense of entitlement to be answered on Math SE even without personal effort put in. I have also read a number of Meta posts including yours, where you can see clearly the striking difference between your own questions (of which many of them are out of curiosity) and the kind of questions like the one we are now discussing.

Simply Beautiful Art

Aug 28, 2017 00:15

@MichaelHardy my problem with that argument is this: the OP uses binomial coefficients. How does the OP define a binomial coefficient? I was first taught they followed from the binomial theorem, contrary to your claim of a lack of knowledge of the binomial theorem

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