CURED - 2018-10-07

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Alex Francisco

01:27

PSQ with six up votes: “I don't know how to solve this and I saw it on social media”

Holo

HNPSQ

Alex Francisco

01:45

@Holo I cast a closure vote.

Holo

@AlexFrancisco Thanks!

Alex Francisco

02:10

@amWhy@ArnaudD.@CarlMummert@Did@Holo@JoséCarlosSantos@paulplusx@TheSimpliFire@us‌er21820@XanderHenderson For closure: Κ1, Κ2, Κ3, Κ4, Κ5

For deletion: Δ1, Δ2, Δ3, Δ4, Δ5, Δ6,

Δ7, Δ8, Δ9, Δ10, Δ11, Δ12,

Δ13, Δ14, Δ15, Δ16, Δ17, Δ18

Δ13 has been undeleted by users including BD.

Holo

@AlexFrancisco casted closure votes

Alex Francisco

@Holo ¡Gracias! :)

Κ6 and Δ19

It seems that this user is again starting to post PSQs…

Holo

@AlexFrancisco "This user" as in kappa6 poster?

Alex Francisco

@Holo Yes.

1 hour later…

Bill Dubuque

03:22

@AlexFrancisco Please do explain your emphasis here "xx has been deleted by users including BD". What is the point of mentioning my name here?

Alex Francisco

03:56

@BillDubuque Are you insinuating something?

paulplusx

@AlexFrancisco I think K5 has some effort.

Alex Francisco

@paulplusx It is considerably too broad. At least that's reason I chose.

paulplusx

Aah.

@AlexFrancisco 2K rep and still a lazy PSQ.

1, 2, same user.

1 hour later…

user21820

05:08

d1, d2, d3.

user21820

05:25

d4, d5, d6.

Alex Francisco

@user21820 Out of deletion votes today… I wish I could earn another 50 rep soon to get another deletion vote.

user21820

05:44

@amWhy @Holo: Can you please take a look at this?

2 hours later…

Alex Francisco

07:17

Δ20

Undeleted by MR and BD.

5 hours later…

user477343

12:13

But it looks good now... oh wait crap this is for Math.SE

Woops, deleting this comment

Holo

12:46

@user21820 I agree with your comments, but this answer, although not good, still answer the question in ZF

1 hour later…

user21820

13:57

@Holo But the question did not say "in ZF".

amWhy

Hello, @user21820, $\ddot\smile$

user21820

Hello!

Holo

@user21820 oh! so yea, this answer is wrong

Bill Dubuque

@AlexFrancisco I can't speak for you. Again, you wrote question "xx has been undeleted by users including BD". Why do you emphasize that a specific user was involved in an undeletion? Do you believe that information should play some role in the decisions made in this room? ANd later you do the same "by MR and BD"

TheSimpliFire

14:38

Minimal effort HNQ

well no longer

This PSQ has 3 upvotes and looks like it's on its way to be a HNQ

Alex Francisco

15:10

@TheSimpliFire Both closed now.

Well, both posts have one closure vote opting for “not in the scope of mathematics”. LOL

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user21820

17:24

d7, d8, d9.

1 hour later…

amWhy

18:41

→ 5 messages moved to Trash

Bill Dubuque

18:56

@AlexFrancisco Another question, in that list of 18 questions you want deleted, almost all are very recent except one which is 8 years old. Why did you single out that very old post? I see it contains one of my highest voted answers, and you seem to be complaining about my undeletions above. Coincidence or not?

@AlexFrancisco Also be aware that targeting my posts will not change my principles, including how I vote. I do collect stats on these and related matters and I will report targeting abuse of any user, as I have in the past - both as a regular user and a mod.

quid

19:35

@BillDubuque it seems @AlexFrancisco had induced it's closure some months ago. It would not strike me as that surprising that users go through the questions they had closed to look for potential deletion candidates.

Xander Henderson

@AlexFrancisco I am out of delete votes, but it seems that only $\Delta 1$ and $\Delta 17$ remain.

quid

In the spirit of your comments, maybe you could focus on the quality of the question to defend it instead of insisting on the fact that it is you that answered it. Was this the reason why you voted to reopen? ;-)

That fact who voted on something can be objectively relevant in that the standards of users are vastly different.

Bill Dubuque

@quid That was5 months ago. Rather curious that all of sudde it is raised for deletion right now after he start complaining about my undeletions multiple times above. Not to mention it sticks out like a sore thumb being the only very old question in that list of 18.

quid

That said, I recommend to avoid to use formulations of this form as it is reasonable to understand this as a personal thing.

Bill Dubuque

@quid My comments have to do with targeting of specific users - please stay on topic

quid

19:42

@BillDubuque well, yes. But apparently he thought it was a poor question already five month ago, isolated from any interaction with you.

Bill Dubuque

@quid We'll have to disagree on that - as we do on most matters

quid

@BillDubuque could you explain with what specifically you disagree in that comment?

Did you have any interactions then?

Or do you have reasons to believe that he did not think then that it is a poor question?

Bill Dubuque

@quid I have no interest in engaging in arguments with you since past experience has show it to be quite unfruitful.

quid

@BillDubuque I asked a simple question, but alright, if you do not want to answer, there is nothing I can do about it.

I do not want this point to get lost in the back-and-forth with Bill:

As a general reminder, do not use user-profiles or user-activity as a selector. Focus on posts on an individual basis, and avoid most any mention to who posted something or who did something.

Bill Dubuque

@quid Thanks very much for emphasizing that.

amWhy

19:53

@BillDubuque It would be most helpful that you carefully read and abide by quid's last statement, as well.

@quid. Thanks very much for emphasizing that this applies to all users.

amWhy

20:41

PSQ do it for me.

2 hours later…

amWhy

22:40

Another question seemingly asking us to do the asker's work for them

Holo

23:21

There is no way in hell this is not a duplicate!

user477343

@Holo that is a good post :)

Holo

@user477343 I don't where nor how to find it but there is just no way this is not a duplicate

user477343

Well, this is linked

But there are many more appropriate duplicates of that particular post

Holo

@user477343 This one is not about the intuition

quid

Q: Numbers to the Power of Zero

I have been a witness to many a discussion about numbers to the power of zero, but I have never really been sold on any claims or explanations. This is a three part question, the parts are as follows... 1) Why does $n^{0}=1$ when $n\neq 0$? How does that get defined? 2) What is $0^{0}$? Is...

Holo

23:35

Thanks @quid !

quid

That one is still closer:

Q: Why does $16^0 = 1$ and not $0$

If $16^2 = 16 \times 16$ and if $16^1 = 16$ why doesn't $16^0 = 0$? I don't understand the rationale. Does $16^0$ express the idea that $16$ is multiplied by nothing and therefore is $1$?