@TheSimpliFire Maybe but there is a nice answer posted by robJohn

@LostInSpace robjohn should find higher quality questions for which he can post "nice answers".

very true @amWhy

math.stackexchange.com/questions/3544755/… I would like to call attention to Gerry’s posts here as in my opinion closing because “OP has abandoned the question” seems like an abuse of close votes. An OP has no obligation to stick around after posting a question, especially when they have already provided a well written and clear and concise post. I’m more drawing attention to the usage of votes and not the post itself.

Is this considered acceptable usage of close votes? It feels like a bit of impatience on part of Gerry. I don’t see why a post should be off topic simply because an asker chooses to stop engaging with comments. The ability for someone to attempt to write an answer and solve the problem does not change one bit at all.

@user64742 It is not in general an abuse of close-votes. If a question is poor, and the asker abandons it, there is no reason to keep the question.

However, in this case in my opinion the question is not a poor one.

Still, Gerry casting a close-vote is not an abuse, because he doesn't have binding or unilateral close-votes here. If others don't agree to close, his close-vote will vanish after a while.

@user21820 it is not poor. The case I’m referring to and asking about is when an asker chooses to ignore comments. Is not responding to a comment reason to close vote? I know that failing to respond within a certain period can and will result in moderators temporarily suspending an account for rudeness, but should that reasoning extend to close votes?

@user64742 I responded to your generalizing message. Check the little arrow to the left of my message.

I know how to read comments. The generalized post was asking about ignoring comments, not poor questions.

Then just take what I said in my next two comments.

Ok

I wonder now if failing to respond would result in a moderator locking the post for reasons of rudeness. I’m not sure now. :-/

@user64742 I am pretty sure that moderators will not lock a post for not responding to comments under the reason of "rudeness".

Oh ok

Sorry about the many negatives.

eh?

theres no reason to apologize

It's just that I noticed I haven't been very precise in my comments to you, and the many negatives don't help. Heh.

I was just bringing this up here in case some close voters acting like lemmings (I know they exist out there) vote to agree with Gerry and the post is closed.

And then we have a post closed for no decent reason.

@user64742 If that happens, you post a link here asking for reopening. By the way, it's harder for questions with high number of upvotes to get closed. I don't know how many but the number of close-votes needed increases.

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@user21820 Really ? I thought that only applied to deletions.

For example this question was highly upvoted, but still closed by 5 votes.

The number of delete votes needed is described here: Should delete votes be limited like close votes? (This post is linked from the FAQ post: How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean? What are the criteria for deletion?)

@amWhy As the answerer, I have to say I had no idea the asker was a ten-year old, is this mentioned somewhere? Nor did I know I am supposed to retract/delete the answer. Is this mentioned somewhere? The situations where you have to delete your answer? Is it some sort of unwritten rule? I actually voted for the question to be closed, but I had no idea I was supposed to delete the answer.

@Atticus Are you referring to this Q&A? That was answered by a guy called Howard, not by you.

@MartinR It's the one from here: math.stackexchange.com/questions/3545144/… . Howard was the asker and I was the answerer. It's the one were you told me there was already posted a link to a duplicate and I told you I don't have the patience to look for it when I already know how to solve it.

D1, D2, D3.

D4, D5, D6.

D7, D8, D9.

D10, D11, D12.

D13, D14, D15.

C1, C2, C3.

C4, C5, C6.

C7, C8, C9.

C10, C11, C12.

C13, C14, C15.

@ArnaudD. Thanks for correcting me. Somehow I keep forgetting all these details.

This question is now eligible for deletion. The question is unclear, was edited after receiving an answer, and the answer itself is not terribly good.

@Atticus I did not comment to, nor address you in any way, on your answer there.

@amWhy Weren't you refering to the question called "proving-an-inequality-using-high-school-math"? Maybe I confused them. My bad.

@Atticus It was a different question asked by a 5th grader. It is now deleted.

@amWhy My bad, I must've confused them because of the similar title. They were both deleted in the end.

@Atticus Don't worry about it! :-)