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12:17 AM
@amWhy Two undelete votes beware.
 
@SimplyBeautifulArt Thanks for the heads up! Good to see you!!
 
@amWhy Attempting to vtc.
Gud to see you too!
 
@amWhy Question requires one more delete vote.
@SmokeDetector Seems to be PSQ-y. Voting to close.
@amWhy Requires 1 more delete vote.
 
@SimplyBeautifulArt Yay!! it's gone!
@SimplyBeautifulArt Now gone too!
 
12:33 AM
@DanielFischer TREE(2) = 3 please :D
@amWhy 2 more vtc.
Blacklisted user has a PSQ or two.
@user21820 1 more vtc.
@user21820 1 more downvote to vtd.
2 days ago, by Gabriel Romon
https://math.stackexchange.com/posts/2523557/revisions and https://math.stackexchange.com/posts/2523608/revisions lmao this guy is insane
@user21820 1 more vtd.
I don't particularly like this answer.
 
1:05 AM
@SimplyBeautifulArt Nor do I. (voted to delete). Note that one of our dear mods, Jack, answered one of the PSQs of the blacklisted user!.
 
1:25 AM
@user21820 Agreed.
@amWhy Open for deletion.
 
@SimplyBeautifulArt Great! thanks, now only one more delete vote needed.
 
2:09 AM
@GabrielRomon The asker regularly posts PSQs. The question you are referring to is one such PSQ, with no effort shown (do you see any?). Another one is here. If you think it is not a PSQ then nothing on Math SE is a PSQ.
 
Delete worthy math.stackexchange.com/questions/2526797/… (only one delete vote needed to delete). Hi, @user21820. Good Morning?
 
@amWhy: Hello! I will go through the other messages later, as I need to go now.
 
@amWhy Deleted.
 
@SimplyBeautifulArt Yay! Thanks!
 
2:29 AM
"I'm desperate to get this using any thing". Same user has preceding PSQ questions, one of which s/he also is "desparate".
 
 
4 hours later…
6:02 AM
@user21820 There is now a post on meta concerning one of the questions linke there: Why was this question deleted? 3. (Namely about Integral of $\int{\frac{(\sin{x})^{4}}{(\cos{x})^{5}}dx}$.)
There is not feature on the site to write to a user directly. One can contact users using the chat feature, via inviting them to a chat (if they have a chatprofile). For the specific case you could ask in chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/2165/crude where some of the involved users are around frequently. (In fact chances are the deletion originated from a message there.) — quid ♦ 12 hours ago
As quid pointed out, this deleted question is a one of the listed question in this comment. — John Ma 9 hours ago
 
 
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11:25 AM
@user21820 these are low quality questions indeed, but I don't think they deserve deletion given the extra efforts of Jack d'Aurizio and Blue to produce Latex geometric figures
 
 
1 hour later…
12:42 PM
@GabrielRomon Just because people spend effort on poor questions does not make the questions any less poor. They can and should post their answers on good questions. If a poor question gets deleted and someone thinks their answer is applicable to a much wider audience than the original (lousy) one, they can just post their own (often generalized) question and answer independently and let the original be deleted.
Nov 5 at 4:43, by user21820
I'll also note that your method of undeleting and locking to preserve a good answer seems to be sub-optimal. As Martin and I have discussed extensively before, there is another option available (which Martin has in fact used a number of times): Write a new question (a different one) and move the good answer there, leaving the old lousy question closed. Jam can do this, or you (as a moderator) can do it if you love Jam's answer.
Nov 13 at 2:41, by user21820
By the way, in case you want to know, this has been deleted and the answer transferred to a better question.
For another example by Martin:
Nov 19 '16 at 8:35, by Martin Sleziak
This question gained some attention after (probably) getting into hot questions list and also being mentioned on meta.
Nov 19 '16 at 8:35, by Martin Sleziak
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Q: How can you simplify $\cos^6x+\sin^6x$ to $1-3\sin^2x cos^2x$?

AlbertHow can you simplify $\cos^6x+\sin^6x$ to $1−3\sin^2x\cos^2x$? I know that $\cos^2x+\sin^2x=1$. I thought about trying to use $(\cos^2x+\sin^2x)^3=1$, but that did not lead me anywhere. I found some other questions about the same expression, but they simplify this to another form: Finding $\si...

Nov 19 '16 at 8:35, by Martin Sleziak
I wondered how the questions could be salvaged. (So that we do not lose answers posted there.)
Nov 19 '16 at 10:44, by Martin Sleziak
Would it be ok if I post a new question about the same identity (and with sufficient context) and then flag for merging?
Nov 19 '16 at 10:45, by Martin Sleziak
As I have mentioned above, I was not able to find a duplicate. (If such question already exists on the site, it would be a better target for merging.)
Nov 21 '16 at 9:25, by Martin Sleziak
@MartinSleziak I went ahead and posted new question about the same trigonometric identity.
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Q: How can we show $\cos^6x+\sin^6x=1-3\sin^2x \cos^2x$?

Martin SleziakHow can we simplify $\cos^6x+\sin^6x$ to $1−3\sin^2x\cos^2x$? One reasonable approach seems to be using $(\cos^2x+\sin^2x)^3=1$, since it contains the terms $\cos^6x$ and $\sin^6x$. Another possibility would be replacing all occurrences of $\sin^2x$ by $1-\cos^2x$ on both sides and then comparin...

@GabrielRomon: So as you can see, in both cases this approach is not only fully in line with the goal of preserving question quality on Math SE, but also the moderators are more than happy to help to move quality answers to a good substitute for a bad question. Furthermore, Martin will be able to tell you that this approach is rather well received (even though Martin says that sometimes there will still be inexplicable downvotes on the new good question).
I guess you can ask @MartinSleziak if you wish to know his viewpoint (which differs from mine in certain respects), though we both find this approach acceptable.
@amWhy Incredible. I strongly believe that anyone who has really gone through "a 100 book" as the asker claims, would have found at least 1 good book to be able to ask a better question that that; right now I can't even guess what it's about.
@user21820 <− @amWhy @Did @SimplyBeautifulArt: Just 1 more vote needed.
@amWhy @Did: It is closed and ready for deletion (no doubt due to showing no effort).
@SimplyBeautifulArt It's just false, and anyone who has a rudimentary understanding of even the mere statement of the halting problem and unprovability should know.
@maxematician: Hello! I saw your most recent comment on your question, and have decided to vote to reopen. Please be assured that those of us who may appear harsh with poor questions do actually love to help people who actually want to learn mathematics!
 
1:11 PM
:P Good day fine sir.
 
@SimplyBeautifulArt: Hi there!
@maxematician: However, I would like to request you to remove your this comment with coarse language. Thank you!
 
Dang it, you beat me
 
 
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3:22 PM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Repeating characters in body: Technique to solve this equation by Maddude on math.SE
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Mostly dots in answer: A tricky geometry problem by zia on math.SE
 
 
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5:35 PM
@user21820 Poof!
 
Since the post is deleted (revisions/timeline) - unpinning and unstarring.
 
6:13 PM
Sorry if I already posted about this question: It is now closed, and is open for deletion: math.stackexchange.com/questions/2526941/….
Also, this question, (and the previous three questions by the same asker) math.stackexchange.com/questions/2527801/… needs to be closed. (Take a peek at the asker's other questions, some of which I've voted to close, if you have the time.).
 
 
3 hours later…
9:19 PM
Every single post from this user mathb is a bare-boned PSQ, and yet, it seems each one of them has been upvoted at least once. E.g., this most recent question is great compared to their others
 

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