@A-LevelStudent: you can also visit "constructive feedback" chatroom for more discussion on improving any of your posts. And really glad to see people getting sincere about improving posts.
@ParamanandSingh Sending a clarification here : I have spoken to the user of the infinity question on some occasions on the site, and I found that question very much out of the blue. Now I see that user has been suspended for voting irregularities, and it pains me that people who I take time out to address, end up trapping themselves in such inanities.
@TeresaLisbon : the profile info of that user shows that he lives not too far away from me. Sad to know he is engaging in unproductive activities on this site.
@an4s: mathse throws many kinds of weird things and perhaps there is no limit to how people are getting imaginative while creating such weird stuff.
Yes , all in a neighbourhood of NCR (I was born in NCR). I spotted one of his answers and asked him to do some modifications while giving guidance. He did it and liked it quite a bit, so the next time he wrote an answer he asked me to come there and again we got things to work out with him and the OP. I helped him out with one of his questions also, and I remember giving him some advice in Hindi about a week ago. Well, that is life.
@ParamanandSingh What I will do is catch the user after that suspension and mentor them for the next few posts. I will also ask them, because it could have happened innocently, if their classmates or friends are up voting each contribution, or something like that. That happens occasionally!
I tried to solve this question via comments, but it appears there is no positive feedback from asker. The asker had asked same question ealier. Both the questions are closed and they now seem like good candidates for deletion.
@ParamanandSingh In both questions, it matters which roots you assign to a,b,c : the expression is not symmetric in a,b,c. So both are wrong or need clarification. You can ask user to completely clarify the issue and ask a new question..
Actually the expression does not have a unique value, instead it remains invariant under permutations of $A_3$ so it is a root of a quadratic equation with rational coefficients.
I doubt if they are ready to improve the question in any manner.
One more delete vote needed on those. Let's hope someone else enters the room and does the honors
@ParamanandSingh New user, so I can't see much of a chance. To be fair, wasn't rude in the comments or anything, so no damage done at least. There's plenty of similar questions on the site, I'd think, so they can work with those.
@TeresaLisbon: I usually refrain from downvoting mathematically correct answers (there may be some exceptions, plus this is not any kind of policy of CURED). Most often when a poor question is deleted in time, the answers also get deleted (along with rep points).
Maybe some of members here won't like this lenient attitude, but it's ok with me.
@ShubhrajitBhattacharya PSQ is short for a Problem Statement Question: a question that looks like it was copied from an exercise in a textbook, usually in imperative form: Solve .... , Evaluate... , Determine whether ...., etc., with no input from the asker, other that "I have no clue", or "Please HELP me", or "Please provide me with a step by step, etc.
@ShubhrajitBhattacharya By the way, Welcome to CURED!
@ParamanandSingh Closed. With one more downvote on the question, deletion could occur.
@ParamanandSingh Closed, one more delete vote needed for deletion.
@amWhy Thanks for the details. I just asked so that I can also spot such questions whenever I can. I also would like to spot questions that are being posted from various exam papers. In this period of online teaching, many people are taking advantage of take-home exams using this platform negatively.
@amWhy Teresa Lisbon invited me here today. I didn't know about this chatroom before. I'm happy to be here!
@ShubhrajitBhattacharya I'm glad she invited you. Feel free to ask anything if you have a question, and feel free to post links to questions you find to be problematic.
@Peter No, I'm sorry for the confusion. I posted two unrelated comments back to back. I've only encountered them in the close review queue. But I immediately raised my eyebrows, wondering what we might encounter in the future, if anything. But I think users need to be more responsible in their choices of usernames; I mean who deliberately chooses a username that makes others wary of them?
Too bad there weren't meters like some sites have for "strength of chosen password", but instead, tests usernames to sort (red-light problematic choice) from (green-light usernames), and forces those with red-lights to try again.
@ShubhrajitBhattacharya Thanks for coming here and taking a look. You can come here more often if you like!
@ParamanandSingh That is true, I will take care of that next time. Maybe I will flag it, though, because I find that users are consistently posting answers to PSQs over and over again, so I need to do something about that. Your attitude is certainly lenient, though. For example, a question could go closed and undeleted while the answer stays and gets rep. So I like to get rid of some PSQ answers quickly, and refresh the question.
Of course, the reputation will go, though. Which is great!
@an4s I rolled back to the edit. I suspect the OP is cheating on a test or take home test. In any case, glad the question is closed. Thanks for the alert!
