@davidlowryduda @quid: I think I would like to talk to a moderator about something on Math SE... Could one of you create a private room? It's not urgent, so no hurry. Thanks!

@user21820 anybody talk to you yet?

@AlexanderGruber Not yet. Are you free now?

@user21820 yeah ill make a room

Ok thanks!

Or you could use an old one. No difference.

Sure, I can do that

@AlexanderGruber Perhaps we can black-list a disjunction of words: <urgent or URGENT or help! or HELP! or asap! or ASAP!>

The disjunction is true frequently enough.

@amWhy do you mean when they're used exclusively? so for example "HELP! URGENT do my homework ASAP!" would not trigger it?

@AlexanderGruber No, inclusively; using or in the inclusive sense so that any post with one or more of words in the disjunction should be blacklisted.

@amWhy ah, I see; that is the way our current blacklist is set up

a few things are in there like "question" and "stuck" and "interesting"

the argument the CM made when i was talking about it with him (we have to contact SE for blacklist modifications unforunately) was that it may be advantageous to leave certain words unblacklisted as a straightforward indicator of a bad question

i kind of wish we could just automate a close and delete for questions like that rather than force a user to choose a different name

@AlexanderGruber I see. Unfortunately, some of the questions using help! asap! urgent! are answered, anyway. They do indicate bad questions, but the door remains open for users to answer them anyway.

@AlexanderGruber Wouldn't that be nice?!

@amWhy yeah. the help vampire problem is a mirror image of the psq problem.

@AlexanderGruber Yeah!! I'd also say that both those problems wouldn't succeed, if it weren't for the --rep-wh-- err the rep hunters.

probably a harder one to solve, too. Negative reinforcement is harder to justify for answers.

I've got to go for a moment, but remind me later to get your input on an idea I've been working on.

@AlexanderGruber Sure will. C'ya!

Any moderator around? I have a question about what can be done with a user with greater than 1.4 K in rep, who has been on this site for 2.5 years, but is still posting questions such as this one, using uploaded images of their efforts, rather than formatting the entire post in mathjax. That same user asked three questions in one-half hour, and in all of them, they uploaded their effort.

I tried to address this asker, in a comment below the question I link immediately above. I think it's appropriate to vote to close the questions as "low-quality", or in two cases, "unclear what you are asking." This has been this asker's MO: ask the question; take a pit of my handwritten work, upload, despite having been asked nicely on numerous occasions to please use mathjax, not images.

@quid, @DanielFischer, @AlexanderGruber ... What perplexes me most (and/or what bothers me most) is that are seemingly indifferent to suggests about improving their posts, and unfortunately, I don't know that they will ever take that initiative, unless their are consequences to ignoring suggestions, reminders, even what might be considered "shaming" due to my emphasizing their reputation and their length of time on the site.

Note: I find it perfectly understandable, that a user who just joined yesterday, and who tries to format $f(x) = x^2 -x + 6$ by writing $f(x)$ = $x^2$ - $x$ + 6, and then uploads a link to her work, which almost surely is edited by someone who can upload the image of their work. In the case I list here, the asker clearly knows mathjax, yet they default to uploading an image of their work, which is not always legible, and we're talking about a fairly long-standing member of the site.

So I guess, all said, @quid, @DanielFischer, the appropriate thing to do would be to go to meta to ask my question, along with half a dozen links to this one user's questions, to substantiate my concern. Thanks for the feedback!

@amWhy Thank you for the pointer. I would recommend from now on to flag such questions; there is a designated mod message for "consistently low quality questions over time".

@amWhy I second what @MichaelGreinecker said. The user has a history of poor asking-behavior. But they were inactive for a long-ish time and thus not on anyone's radar I think. So, if they restart, it's good to signal it to us directly.

Thanks, @MichaelGreinecker and @quid. Shall do!

@AsafKaragila I'd really like to see your question (the one you've deleted) undeleted. It is an important question, a good many of us think. But I will wholeheartedly respect any final decision you make about the question remaining deleted.