@amWhy: thanks for helping me out on that mod-answered PSQ. It needs one more delete vote. I do try to apply the standards in those icky situations, but I prefer to avoid any confrontation via comments. I find it a bit difficult to argue with those whom I like or respect.

@ParamanandSingh I completely understand. I cast the first delete vote, you the second; this is not a situation in need of comments below answers.

Yeah. Btw the day started with losing 78 reps due to "user was removed" :(

@ParamanandSingh Yes, yesterday I lost 378 rep for the same reason. I now understand there was a user with sock-puppet accounts, who previously (a while back) upvoted many answerers' questions, but more recently was spreading out a lot of downvotes. After the sockpuppet accounts were deleted, the owner of the accounts deleted their original main account. The upvotes may have been, at one point, genuine; but their subsequent downvoting, systematically, of some users,

via multiple accounts, leads me to believe this site, including all users, is better off without them. I don't know specific details, just a general explanation of what happened.

@ParamanandSingh And my understanding is that there were quite a few of us impacted.

@amWhy: thanks for the details. Did my reviews in the mean while. Out of 20, 1 was a dupe and rest PSQs. Why don't people try solving it. I wonder if there are some students who have taken math courses by mistake or due to some other pressure.

There are some difficult questions in any math course, but that doesn't imply that every question is difficult.

@ParamanandSingh In some countries, like the US, all undergrads are expected to attain a certain level of math proficiency, and most incoming students are tested for placement in an appropriate level course. But also, due to the high rate of some answerers more than happy to oblige by answering PSQs, some keep asking them. It does the student no good, ultimately.

@ParamanandSingh Also, sometimes users are very shy about exposing their efforts, for fear of public humiliation. That's particularly a problem with female students, but it's try about many students of either sex. Particularly when very new, encouragement, prompts, coaxing supportively, can make all the difference. But it is indeed too difficult to read minds, or discern between shyness and laziness.

@ParamanandSingh Exactly; students may develop a comfort zone, but when challenged, become timid.

@amWhy: well I can understand the shyness part. I was very very shy during my childhood. In general I would avoid speaking to people much higher my age. But in an online forum you have some level of anonymity and you may be a bit frank.

Teachers usually came to know me when the results of first exam got announced.

Chag Purim sameach, y'all.

What's that??? Maybe some sort of greeting. How many languages do you know @XanderHenderson

@ParamanandSingh Happy Purim.

@XanderHenderson :Indeed, to you as well.

@ParamanandSingh google.com/…. It's a Jewish holiday/celebration.

Ok got it. So Happy Purim to you all too.

@amWhy It's like Jewish Halloween + Jewish Saint Patrick's Day. We are commanded to dress up in costumes and drink until we cannot remember.

@XanderHenderson Very good synopsis. ;D

Best. Holiday. Ever.

@XanderHenderson How many have you had? ;D Is it a one day thingy?

Thus sun just went down, so I have just started.

Please don't consume too much of drinks, it may affect your mod actions for sometime here. :D

Pft... no more moderating for tonight.

Ok enjoy your drinks!!

@XanderHenderson enjoy!! But if it's a sundown to sundown "thang", you best not work tomorrow :P

@amWhy No classes to teach tomorrow, but a lot of applications for the job of president...

I think that this question is not terrible. But my judgement is impaired. Should it have a big-list tag?

dupliactae?

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Linked punctuation in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer (64): Choosing from movies, combinatorics by Ahmad Yasin on math.SE

@XanderHenderson You are a bear now?

@user21820 No. I get to meta posts faster than the average bear. I assume that, lacking opposable thumbs, they have difficulty with the keyboard.

@XanderHenderson Hrmph. Where did your pragmatics go? If your rationale was reasonable, you could also say "faster than the average cheetah". =P

@user21820 Yeah, but cheetahs are wicked fast. I don't think that I am that fast.

@XanderHenderson You don't need to be fast. Cheetahs don't have internet.

(And you can chase this off to the grasslands if you like.)

:D

@XanderHenderson I didn't know cheetahs undergo "a wicked fast"?? :P Did you mean to say, "But cheetahs are wicked fast"??

@amWhy Lol!

@XanderHenderson ;P

@user21820 ;D

@amWhy I am going to pretend that I have no idea what you are talking about. :P

@amWhy Closed.

I think this answer should be a comment

@user21820 Thanks!

There was suggested edit which only fixed latex for norms. Someday people would go for slant leq instead of leq. Rejected it

@ParamanandSingh One day people will change \leq to \le.

Hahaha

I can't tell you the number of trivial edit suggestions I encounter.

Maybe that's what prompted you (@amWhy) to start the guidelines for suggested edits.

@ParamanandSingh Ahh, you know me so well!!

@XanderHenderson: how did the drinks go? Any hangover?

@ParamanandSingh Nope. But I celebrated heartily.

I make a motion that @XanderHenderson find a tenured position in Henderson, Nevada!

@an4s math.stackexchange.com/a/4041089/533556 Open for deletion. I tried commenting to the answerer, suggesting they make their answer a comment, but they "hemmed and hawed", instead. I invite your considered actions there.

And anyway, where in the heck did "hemmed and hawed" come from?

@amWhy I had already flagged it as 'not an answer' before reporting it here. I hope the answer-er rewrites their answer as a comment before it is deleted altogether (if the flag is approved)

@an4s It was deleted by the author of the post.

@amWhy: nice phrase "hemmed and hawed". Saw its explanation at merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hem%20and%20haw

@ParamanandSingh Yes, I looked it up, too! ;D

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@Peter Gone!

please close this. The beginning of question looks like a copy paste from some answer of mathse

@amWhy We make progress in cleaining the site from very low-scored posts :)

@Peter Indeed!

@amWhy: thanks for deleting those smileys from that question. It was really looking very weird.

This question was recently migrated from Physics.SE: math.stackexchange.com/q/4041121/137524. However, the question had been cross-posted by the author to MSE: math.stackexchange.com/questions/4038162/…. So the two questions are verbatim duplicates of each other. Of them, the original MSE version has relevant comments.

@ParamanandSingh They were annoying me, too. Some of these same users might be at risk of using emoticons on a school application, or worse, a job application!!

D1, D2, D3.

D4, D5, D6.

D7, D8, D9.

D10, D11, D12.

C1, C2, C3.

C4, C5, C6.

C7, C8, C9.

C10, C11, C12.

@amWhy Yeah, but UNLV SUCKS!

(Go Pack!)

@XanderHenderson Perfect! You can then improve it!!

Yikes, @Xander. Fortunately the asker on meta deleted "this question".

@TeresaLisbon Hi, we've missed you the last two days. Just checking in to make sure all is well. No problem taking time off from the site. As I said, I just wanted to make sure all is well with you!