This post seems to be an interesting case. The OP posted it as a PSQ in the first place, but after getting so many complete answers (!) the OP added "efforts," which are probably from these answers, in order to avoid the post being deleted.

Is such action of the OP legitimate given such purpose? Also are these reopen votes based on such "efforts" legitimate?

@AlexFrancisco I honestly don't know if there is a bright line that can be drawn in a case like that. My general philosophy regarding the site is that it should be a repository of high quality questions with good answers. If a question eventually becomes a high quality question, and it happens in a way that does not invalidate the answers, I am not sure that I would complain.

Linked post is this one:

@TheSimpliFire I must say that I disagree with user243301.

@XanderHenderson Yes, have you cast a delete vote for that question? It needs one more

I seem to have cast a vote on that question a while ago. :\

I cannot cast one now

@amWhy: That is... surprising... Never expected deletion of user. We had better get two more helpers for every one that gets tired.

@TheSimpliFire II and III deleted. I now has a comment explaining what is the missing context, and we'll see whether the asker adds it in.

@AlexFrancisco Up for deletion.

@user21820 For I, they've added I sort of found the answer by intuition and by some general trial and error... but somehow I am not satisfied with this. I tried derivatives but the expressions come out quite unpleasant, after Sonnhard answered using that method.

Also up are this and this.

@TheSimpliFire I know that. That's why I listed 5 things that are to be added. Do you really think the asker will add them all?

@user21820 first deleted; second 1 more

For closure: uno, dos, tres and cuatro

@user21820 @XanderHenderson Close this question?

@TheSimpliFire See how entitled users are becoming? They copy their homework exactly even including the hint, so that others can do it all for them.

@user21820 Heh, at least they used Mathjax

Yea. Though if I'm in a cynical mood I'd guess that they do that only to maximize the likelihood of getting a full solution to their homework before their question gets closed.

It seems that this user has been frequently posing (near) PSQs recently.

For closure: c1, c2, c3, c4

For deletion: d1, d2, d3, d4, d5

@XanderHenderson Well, the question itself, no matter how many efforts are showed, is far from being inspiring, edifying, or at least interesting since it's so trivial. So I still find it not useful to keep it.

c5

c6, c7

d6

d7

d8

d9

d10

d11.

d12.

c8 shows no effort because obviously one should cancel the identical term off from both sides...

@Did @amWhy @XanderHenderson: This is useless because it is ridiculously lousy compared to other answers and is also a self-promotion.

d13.

d14 is a terrible question with 5 answers.

d15 is a terrible answer; it has a false claim that "we need to use ..." and does not even answer the question at all.

d16.

@user21820 Too bad I've run out of deletion votes…

c9 did not get closed earlier.

@AlexFrancisco Aww. Another day then.

d17.

d18.

@AlexFrancisco Oh, no doubt. The question you cite is not good, and should be closed. It has 4 reopen votes now, by the way. :(

d19.

d20 is a terrible question by an asker who expects the whole proof written for him/her, and yet has 2 reopen votes already.

@amWhy: You have any votes to spare? =)

@user21820 and sadly, he got what he wanted

There is s serious problem with this question

d21.

I am out of delete votes

@XanderHenderson Lol your PNG is called MESZv, just a little different from MESSY.

But it appears on my browser as vectors.

It half works for me

Haha so both your browsers have problems. =P

In my phone at the browser it the same as my pc, in the app only the title works

Opera and Chrome are both borked. Safari is fine.

d22.

When does the counter reset? @user21820

at the end of the MSE day

which is presumably midnight GMT

since it happens at 5 PM for me

and I am at -7 GMT right now

@Holo There's no rule. Everyone uses whatever counters they like. Normally, I use only one counter for each batch that I generate. Other people usually use their own counters. I just followed your lead because it's a convenient labelling.

Oh

ha!

I answered the wrong question.

Haha

I was thinking the "delete vote counter," since mine just ran out.

Haha..

@user21820 yes, but when your counter reset?

d23.

@Holo Well I usually reset after a while; no point counting to ∞.

@user21820 go to $\omega_1$ and then reset

@Holo I don't believe ω[1] exists. =P

d24.

I'm on a roll now.

Open for deletion

Oh no, have cranks invaded CRUDE!?!

@SimplyBeautifulArt: Hello there! Mind sparing a few votes for all the above?

@user21820 wait, you don't believe there exists uncountable ordinal?

:P

d25?

oof lol

rip John Ma.

@SimplyBeautifulArt Bye bye d25.

d26 is an exact repost of a PSQ in less than 1 hour.

d26 prime.

d27 doesn't need so many downvotes, but is a bad question anyway.

d28 is no better.

c10 shows no effort and looks like a contest problem.

d29.

c11.

@AlexFrancisco @amWhy @XanderHenderson @Holo: Up for deletion.

d30.

@user21820 It shows effort, right?

I feel that this is a PSQ too. Anyone can say "I have done this" without actually showing it.

And that too 6 answers for that.

@user21820 I just had voted the question down for poor question/lack of research, (after someone apparently cast another upvote for it). One more delete vote needed.

@amWhy Delete vote? I can't see any despite the question being over two days old

I can see one reopen vote on the contrary

@paulplusx A bit too little effort, but feel free not to vote to close if you don't want to.

@TheSimpliFire Hmm maybe you don't have enough rep yet, in which case you will not be able to vote to delete until it changes from "on hold" to "closed".

@user21820 That's probably why. Is it 20K? Right, I'm off to answer PSQs now ;)

Lol.

What is the value of this question?

@paulplusx @user21820 what about this one?

@TheSimpliFire $-4$ :P

@paulplusx Indeed I had voted to close that one.

@user21820 Thank you :-)

Collating from above...

d26', d29, d30.

c8, c9, c10.

@AlexFrancisco Up for deletion.

@user21820 d26' is gone. I had already voted to delete d29, d30 (each needs only one more delete vote to go). Each of c8, c9, c10 need only one more close vote.

@amWhy Okay thanks! =)

Hello, @quid!

Hello!

Happy Saturday, everyone!!

This question is a PSQ, "I don't know where to start," already 3 upvotes, and 3 answers

Close

This question, same asker as in my last comment, did just as bad in this post

@amWhy why "Seeking personal advice."?

@Holo That was an accident, I meant "off topic" $\to$ Why off topic: Lacks context. But I clearly missed the correct circle, and apparently clicked "seeking personal advice". I had already auto clicked submit, when I saw the error and quick tried to change it. Didn't work. $ \left(\ddot\frown\right)$

$${{}^{{}_{ {\overline{--} } }^{ {\LARGE \bigodot} }{}_{\large<}{}_{ { \overline{--} } }^{ \LARGE \bigodot }}_{ \quad \! \Large \frown } }$$

@amWhy Happy Saturday .Although, it's gonna be Sunday for me in 35 mins :P

@amWhy The asker goes by "I think Euclidean algorithm will be helpful" :P

@paulplusx Yup, that's about it!

@Holo That's a scary sad face. A bewildered cat, with whiskers?

@amWhy I thought on this as bags under eyes

How can a user even try attempting to solve after posting a PSQ if it gets answered (with upvotes) in minutes after the question was posted.

try to solve**

@paulplusx It's closed now.

@Holo Yup I can see it... Maybe try large instead of Large for the outer circle for the eyes. Anyway: a quicky anxious frowner: >:-(

@JoséCarlosSantos Thank you. Also, I feel that the answer should be downvoted and deleted.

I am out of flags. This time it's 20 :-D

@amWhy This is not possible to create 2 different sizes for the outer and inner circle in $\bigodot$, but I can do this:$$\require{enclose}{{}^{{}_{ {\overline{--} } }^{ ~{\small\enclose{circle}{\Huge\cdot}} }{}_{\large<}{}_{ { \overline{--} } }^{ ~\small\enclose{circle}{\Huge\cdot} }}_{ ~~~~ \Large \frown } }$$

@Holo Very well done! Applause.

ASCIIjax art is amazing :P

Anyone up to responding to this premature meta post. I've commented, but I think the question will only get feedback representative of many users on this site, users that the asker seems not interested in acknowledging.

Hello, @ArnaudD.