Hello everyone, long time no chat. This answer is literally just a picture of a cake with a sarcastic caption. It has +4–2 votes. Would anyone care to check it out? I brought up the matter with the poster, but he is being too oblique.
^ Continuing the above thought, if anyone could be on the look out for this user, I would appreciate it. I often seem to have run-ins with people like this, but when I open the profile, it’s the same guy from Croatia who claims to have abandoned a highly reputable profile for no apparent reason. Perhaps I am being melodramatic ¯_(ツ)_/¯
@ChaseRyanTaylor I don't understand even what sarcastic point is being made in that post. Did he/she post any crank post that contains nonsense about mathematics and not just cake?
That post is clearly sarcastic as you said, but I can't even figure out what is the sarcasm... But yet the other answers by that user (I've looked at a few) don't seem to point to the user being a crank. I'm concerned more with cranks. Sarcastic posts tend not to mislead students, even if they give a bad taste, but crank posts will mislead most laymen.
@Did @amWhy @SimplyBeautifulArt @Jack @Xam: Am I missing something marvelous with this PSQ that it doesn't deserve to be closed, not to say downvoted?
@ChaseRyanTaylor Oh okay "crackpot" then! =) Yea there are serious issues with the US right now. Actually, there aren't many places in the world where there aren't serious issues, so that isn't really saying much... Anyway better not get off-topic here. =)
In fact the other one should also be closed as a duplicate. This way we would only keep the first version of the question, which is the only one where OP gave some context in the question (rather than in a self-answer that only covered one half of the question).
@ArnaudD. The second post I listed can still be marked a duplicate of the original (first post listed). I've now just closed the second post as a duplicate of the first. So the third post is both a duplicate of the original post and a duplicate of a duplicate of the original post. It helps make transparent that the asker has asked the same question three times.
@ArnaudD. Actually I just reopened the original question (two days ago), and closed the second as a duplicate of it, and the third as a duplicate of it, and the original.
How do you feel about S. Graubner ? He's reached 40k and keeps generating low quality content and spreading misinformation in his comments and answers.
@GabrielRomon There are a couple of threads. But no one names the username fully; many know them as the "Dr." (note the quotation marks). At their current rep, they may well have received the same in downvotes/deletions.
@GabrielRomon There are some very dedicated users who keep current with crappy new answers, and occasionally catch past posts. But too many downvotes from one account, and I think also too many delete votes, in one day, risk reversal via an SE script that runs 3 hours of the MSE new day.
So it takes some commitment from users, over the long haul, to try to reverse the sad state of affairs with this user. And yes many users are dumbfounded that they've been allowed to continue.
@GabrielRomon I see a string of -1's on DSG's profile front page of answers. While I empathize, pretty much any cluster of rapid succession downvotes, or >6 downvotes cast by a single user on another user in a 24 hour period, are typically reversed, to nullify all downvotes on that targeted user (within the previous 24 hours,) are all erased, and points lost from downvotes are also replaced. I'm just saying... not accusing, because with said user, frustrations among many other users run deep.
Reminds me when at one point I had HUGE fun with Asaf, trying to create the weirdest expression equalling 1 or some such thing. (Eventually we were 'caught' and the comment thread deleted.)
@GabrielRomon sadly Dr. G isn't the only user who generates low quality content by answering PSQ posts and giving not very instructive answers. Another of such users is Michael Rozenberg, who seems to be "friend" of Dr. G. There were many times when I saw a put-on-hold/closed question and turned out the both users answered such question. And there are some other users too :/
