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Xander Henderson

yst 23:12

All posts on the site are expected to meet a certain standard. Posts that don't meet that standard are likely to be downvoted, closed, and/or deleted. "Being nice" in this context means helping people to improve questions, I suppose.

Xander Henderson

Jan 24 22:35

@JoséCarlosSantos Consider what would happen if someone came into this room to see that you have called their post "useless". Do you think that this is an approach that is likely to be welcoming to those people? Do you think that people whose work is discussed in this way are likely to want to hear further advice about how they can improve?

Soumik Mukherjee

Dec 2, 2024 15:01

What should be done about "how to improve my solution" type of questions?

Martin R

Oct 12, 2024 09:37

@user21820 The question should be closed. All relevant content is in links to images, and the author did not improve at on request.

Feeds

Sep 10, 2024 03:15

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A: Requests for Reopen & Undeletion Votes (volume 01/2022 - today)

I request reopening of this question. I had answered this question when it was open. It was closed with a reason of "need details/clarity". I suggested an edit to improve the question that addressed this lack of details. I do not know whether my edit was reviewed. But soon after that the question...

Bill Dubuque

Jul 10, 2024 22:07

I think part of the problem is due to lack of team time (half of the team is very inactive). It the inactive mods were replaced than maybe the situation would improve.

SmokeDetector

Jun 17, 2024 06:08

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad ip for hostname in answer, bad ns for domain in answer, blacklisted website in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer (277): How Does One Improve Problem Solving Skill‭ by John Wilson‭ on math.SE

Attila Vajda

May 9, 2024 22:29

@Peter @user21820 You shouldn't just delete stuff, but give feedback, guidance, and allow time for learners to improve their questions. People are genuinely interested in their questions, while you seem to be genuinely interested in downvoting and deleting people's questions. It's not cool.

Jose Avilez

Apr 8, 2024 17:36

@JoséCarlosSantos that's the lesser point: the edit doesn't change the substance. The whole point of the edit approval queue is to ensure that the edits improve the quality of the question/answer, which requires careful reading of the question.

Bill Dubuque

Mar 3, 2024 00:21

@Jakobian Spamming the site with hundreds of dupes of common exercises is not a good way to improve searchability.

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KReiser

Dec 3, 2023 18:52

This is like saying "since this source is in Linear-A, I'm going to write my paper in Linear-A". You can and do have a duty to improve things for other mathematicians. This is getting somewhat far afield from the topic of undeleting your post; I'm going to stop responding now and I'll be moving further off-topic discussion out of this room.

Shaun

Dec 3, 2023 18:47

It's not my notation; it's the notation of the authors of the preprint. But that's besides the matter. I want to know how to improve my attempt at a proof.

KReiser

Dec 3, 2023 18:45

Anyways, you really ought to try following the advice in the comments - if you improve your notation, the proof is immediately clear. I don't think there's much to be gained by undeleting your question, so I'm not going to vote to undelete it.

Xander Henderson

Dec 3, 2023 18:05

@Shaun That question was downvoted, then deleted by the community user because that is what happens to downvoted, inactive questions. I don't see any reason to undelete it---obviously, the community was not interested enough in the question to do anything about it, and you were not interested enough in the question to do anything to improve it before it was automatically deleted.

Peter

Nov 24, 2023 19:22

@Jakobian He would better join in here instead of bashing to users trying to improve the quality of this site.

Shaun

Nov 4, 2023 14:29

I thought I'd come here in search of feedback. The main chat room isn't receptive of such requests on how to improve posts.

Peter

Sep 17, 2023 11:06

mabye someone else can support my point of view here ? I think a question should be deteted after some time , if the author did not react and try to improve it. I just would like to know that I am not alone with this opinion.

Xander Henderson

Sep 6, 2023 16:56

@BillDubuque I have asked a simple question: what concrete thing could the asker do to improve the question?

Xander Henderson

Sep 6, 2023 16:31

And, again, what kind of context would improve the question?

KReiser

Sep 6, 2023 15:50

@Peter This is the same question you were mentioning above - I think it's a little deceptive to not mention that. Further, I think it's a fine question: it displays research effort, and it found an incorrect statement in a reference source - what would you want to improve the question?

Xander Henderson

Sep 6, 2023 15:10

How would you improve it?

Feeds

Jul 19, 2023 14:42

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Q: Proof of the Collatz Conjecture

I came up with a proof that I think holds up to prove that the Collatz Conjecture will always result in the 4,2,1 loop. If anyone could take a look at it and let me know how to improve it, that would be great! The basis for the proof comes from the idea that 3x+1 will only produce even powers of ...

SmokeDetector

May 2, 2023 09:48

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in body, link at beginning of body, potentially bad ip for hostname in body, potentially bad ns for domain in body (141): How to Improve School Performance with Affordable School Management Software?‭ by Disha Patil‭ on math.SE

Bill Dubuque

Mar 29, 2023 21:36

If we greatly improve the search experience, then there will be far less PSQs (since users can find an answer by searching). Further, they will receive much higher quality answers - being informed by (all) users over the oast 13 years, vs. only the past 13 minutes (of front page exposure). But there is no hope for such as long as massive duplication is permitted.

user2661923

Mar 3, 2023 22:53

I request that this posting be re-opened, because the original poster has edited the posting to improve its quality.

Xander Henderson

Jan 24, 2023 13:28

@Peter Answers should be posted as answers. In this case, I don't see how one might improve the answer.

Noah Schweber

Dec 29, 2022 20:12

@bobeyt6 FWIW I hope the OP improves that one, because "under the hood" they are actually asking a worthwhile question: namely, how simple can the examples be (especially if some complexity conditions are added to prohibited boring things like ordinals)? In the comment thread I've brought up this point with them, and I think there's a decent chance they'll improve the question.

amWhy

Dec 28, 2022 17:30

I sort of wish the network still described initial closure as "on-hold". It would be interesting to know if doing so helped improve the rate of subsequent edits to questions.

Peter

Dec 28, 2022 12:47

@Pedro I do not see the problem. If you think you can improve the question , why don't you edit it ?

amWhy

Dec 23, 2022 15:08

@3ibfwcbi Then improve the question.

3ibfwcbi

Dec 23, 2022 14:26

Thanks Peter. If anyone is interested in commenting why my this question was closed and downvoted , they are most welcome. I want to improve my question. Most of math I learn is by self study only so this website is very important for me.

XZYZ

Dec 23, 2022 14:18

I will be happy to improve this question.

Paramanand Singh

Dec 6, 2022 04:45

@KReiser Thanks for requesting asker to improve their question by adding comment discussion on their post (irrespective of whether they heeded the request or not). It is better to engage with asker if time permits. I have closed the question for now.

Feeds

Nov 12, 2022 17:52

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A: Requests for Reopen & Undeletion Votes (volume 01/2022 - today)

I want to request to reopen Polynomial Approximation of Multiplicative Function, or receiving advice on how I can further improve the problem such that it meets the standard of Math Stack Exchange. The feedback I received is Please provide additional context, which ideally explains why the quest...

user2661923

Aug 18, 2022 13:33

It It may be that the final answer does not allow guaranteeing survival on your next move. Rather, the optimal move might be one that represents the best reward vs risk ratio. For what it's worth, if I the problem is re-opened, I have already left a comment indicating how I think that the OP should improve the posting.

Peter

Jun 25, 2022 12:03

@Shaun Posts containing advertising for bad made up videos do not belong on this site. Instead of complaining why do you not just improve the question so that it deserves an undeletion ?

rschwieb

Jun 22, 2022 13:49

close until improved. It seems like the poster is willing to improve it.

Jyrki Lahtonen

May 29, 2022 06:46

(cont'd) The edits did improve the question a bit. But, as is often the case, each and every one of the multiple confusions have probably been covered already. Not in a single post though, which is a common enough problem with questions like this.

hyper-neutrino

Apr 27, 2022 17:18

The purpose of this room is to co-ordinate the effort to improve site quality and help make Math.SE a better place for everyone. Berating and insulting people who are in need of guidance is not productive for anyone nor welcome on the network.

Spring

Apr 6, 2022 13:10

I started a bounty on my question (which ends in three days) and in the meantime, I tried to dissect the problem and included what I think is a simpler problem that could solve my question. However, it might seem as if I'm asking several questions, so I would like to ask for a feedback on how to improve my post and what to focus on.

amWhy

Mar 8, 2022 23:47

Inviting help to expedite the deletion of this question, based on the fact it is a PSQ from a contest question, absent any context, and answered fully in an answer. Downvote only if you think the question deserves it; else, it can be deleted in a bit of time. Given that the OP received a full answer, I have little faith the asker will improve the question.

rschwieb

Feb 25, 2022 21:22

Update on the link in my previous comment: it's been closed, but before it was closed it got an answer the user accepted. I have a feeling they are not going to improve the question. Probably going to need deletion, then.

user21820

Feb 22, 2022 07:51

@rschwieb Not at all. I think I made it clear that people who want to get feedback on their attempt should put it as an attempt in the question. So they certainly can learn and improve. Secondly, it's not about enforcement but culture. There is no reason to encourage people to fill up the answer boxes with stuff that even they are not sure of.

rschwieb

Feb 10, 2022 19:24

@Peter Totally understand closing those. I take it you do not allow for a period for them to improve the question before deleting, though? While they certainly should be closed ASAP, it is harder to defend deleting them within hours of posting in the public eye.

Ѕааԁ

Jan 1, 2022 14:45

@user21820HATESSMOKING-HATS And it would be a continuous effort to improve my English :)

amWhy

Dec 14, 2021 20:56

This post was closed and deleted, it was since undeleted, and an edit not attempting to improve the post sent it to the reopen queue. Edit by @JyrkiLahtonen. No reason was given for it's undeletion, nor it's reopening attempt. But Jyrki voted to undelete; then edited. I'd just rather not see users going rogue to get their personal likes reopened. The question is a PSQ.

Peter

Dec 10, 2021 11:44

@ParamanandSingh I think, it is justified. I reopen-voted and also upvoted (in the comment I mention that I want to motivate the author to continue to improve his/her old posts.

amWhy

Dec 3, 2021 16:28

But I think the question also is lacking. If only two of four answerers too the time to help the OP improve their question.

Feeds

Nov 28, 2021 05:30

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Peter

Nov 21, 2021 12:23

@TeresaLisbon I would improve it , but someone surely will consider it to be a "fake-edit". So we will have to wait whether the author somehow reacts. My answer should be a motivation to him/her.