math.stackexchange.com/questions/4621509/… this question has attracted a ton of answers, some less good than others.

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18:13 request is an example of a low-quality question being hinted at in the comments and OP deleting as soon as they have solved the question, very frustrating

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@bobeyt6 This problem has been answered so many times , that it is really surprising that it still attracts so many users , just because it is counterintuitive (at first glance).

math.stackexchange.com/questions/4627527/… and math.stackexchange.com/questions/4627216/… user asking the same question also if the previous one was closed as a duplicate

math.stackexchange.com/a/4627534/1118406 answer to a question wiht no effort

edited and reopen-voted 3 times - Isn't the question still about how the product over all primes can be "regularized" ? Maybe, I miss something.

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please close

Hi, @postmortes! What brings you here?

please delete

@Peter Gone!

@SineoftheTime Why'd you answer the low quality question?

@SineoftheTime You also posted an answer to a no-effort question: math.stackexchange.com/questions/4627216/…

Open for deletion.

^^^@Peter, @JoséCarlosSantos, @BillDubuque

Please close.

@Feeds gone

@Peter Thanks to you and @Shaun!

Dv/Del Dupe of FAQ, nothing novel, very high rep cherry picking.

@BillDubuque And unfortunately, the user seems shielded from any escalation wrt EoQS sanctions.

close - no research effort

Please close PSQ

Can we discuss the appropriateness of a few users, who use this room to seek closure of questions and answers, who fail to internalize the standards they themselves enforce against others? @Bill I hope you "get" one examplar of the phenomenon I describe. Given your last post? I won't name names, but when such users post here with requests, but don't abide by the standards they regularly enforce, that's a real problem, and it sullies all users of this chatroom.

@Peter, too, any input? Despite having raised this issue with mods, they've done nothing. The only thing I can suggest is paying attention to the who doing the requesting, in this room and whether they consistently abide by the standards they want enforced against others. I'm not speaking of relatively new participants in this chatroom, because of a needed learning curve. I'm concerned about seasoned users...Does that make any sense?

^^^Mind you, that most regulars here have internalized the Quality Standards we seek to enforce. So this is not a common problem in this chatroom. I'm just being careful not to name a name.

@Xander You're welcome to contribute to the discussion I'd like this chat to have; if you think this should take place in a separate chatroom, I'm all ears. If you think hypocrisy is not to be addressed, please caution me. But it does matter to the credibility of this chat's purpose, when a frequent participant requests closure and deletion of posts, and is simultaneously answering questions no better than the ones they want closed, and whose answers of vlq posts, are just as wrong as

the answers they want closed. I have raised this issue in mod flags, many times in the past five years, which have resulted in no correction in behavior, nor have they resulted in any consequences. I don't care what mods do about this, but I must ask how we can protect this chatroom from such a user. If you prefer, @Xander, feel free to move my posts elsewhere. Thanks. I'll say nothing more here, and I'll follow your lead.

^^^No rush, @Xander. @ParamanandSingh Your contribution/advice, too, would be helpful.

@amWhy I agree there is a major problem with EOQS enforcement in cases like this. I think it has to do with the fact they the mods are use using a percentage-wise threshold but that doesn't work well when a user answers tons of easy questions. So they end up getting away with answering far more PSQs/dupes than others merely because they pick so many cherries that the percentage of problematic posts remains under the threshold. The criteria should be adjusted to handle cases like this.

@BillDubuque I completely agree.

@Xander, ignore my most recent comment above. It is now contained in a flag.

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@amWhy It was a hint, and it was a long comment, not an answer so I wrote it to have more space. However, I get your point and I deleted it. In this cases, should I flag directly the question without giving hints, or giving hints is acceptable?

@SineoftheTime Hints are tricky. They take more skill, sometimes, to work, than a full answer does. Also, over time hints have lost favor. But ten years ago, I sometimes offered a step by step guide, like (1) Find the derivative of f(x). (2) Put f'(x) = 0. ... etc. Giving an outline. But other users then decided to give full copy-and-paste solutions. I would stick around, after ending an guideline answer with, "feel free to post your findings below, in a comment." And usually, I could verify.

@amWhy Hi amWhy; just popping in and out :) I'm fairly busy with work at the moment but I try to wander around the site enough to keep a feel for how things are going :) I hope you're having a good 2023 so far!

@amWhy Ok thank you. I've seen some users doing this (i.e. writing a comment in an asnwer because of lack of space) and this was my intention. I've not answered the question, giving the full solution, because the OP did not show effort. But if it's against the policy, I'll keep that in mind

@postmortes Always welcome here! Good so far, but better come spring.

math.stackexchange.com/questions/4627826/… here is another Q without effort

@SineoftheTime I appreciate the restraint you showed. When I do the same (offer a long comment) in an answer field, I try to click the little box on the lower-right hand answer field and click "community wiki", mostly in a good faith effort to indicated "I'm not adding this here to gain rep; sort of just an FYI"

@amWhy Thank you again, I'll keep it in mind for the future

@SineoftheTime ;D

@amWhy So have a good day/evening, I'm going to study :)

@SineoftheTime Indeed, that needs to go! You as well. Don't stay up too late studying! Sleep well.

C no clue, no context etc PSQ, answered by high rep user.