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duplicates 3033036: 4x4 Determinant and 1953843: What will be the value of the following determinant without expanding it? The distinction is transposing and also that one posts uses a,a+1,a+2,a+3 and the other one a,a-1,a-2,a-3. Otherwise the method used there are rather similar. Are they close enough to be considered duplicates?

@MartinSleziak I believe so.

I have cast the duplicate close vote - we'll see what others think about this option.

@MartinSleziak Well, I have a linear-algebra gold tag badge and so…

@MartinSleziak I agree that they are close enough to be considered dupes; I also have a LA gold badge, but it is good to have let folks weigh in. Well, I guess someone didn't wait, to consider, which should be a dupe of which.

@amWhy Where's the doubt? One of them was posted today, whereas to other one is more than two years old.

Dupes aren't always closed in the form of "newer a dupe of the older." Anyway, it's been handled. I'm not about to quibble.

@amWhy To me it seems that there is not much difference between those two questions regarding the input from the OP (a.k.a. context). Of course, if something different would be a better choice, it would probably be relatively easy for the people with dupehammers to change direction.

@MartinSleziak I agree.

Delete queue questions

@AlexanderGruber I know you've done an awful lot wrt closing poor questions. It seems the close review is up to 345. Anything you can do to help speed up the handling of at least a handful of them would help. ( I don't know if there are more people voting to close questions, which might account for this, but anyway, just thought I'd ask!).

@amWhy I've tweaked your search to only look for questions with a negative score that were last active more than 3 months ago (these are questions that won't get Roomba'd, if I understand correctly). The link is:

math.stackexchange.com/…

Thanks, @XanderHenderson. But last active two weeks ago, I think would suffice. But I don't know the details.

Closed, negative score, non-duplicate, last active 14 days ago.

Ugh... I just spent 45 minutes on the close queue, skipping just about everything in the hopes of finding things that I could comfortably click "Keep Open" on. Only three questions met that rather low bar. One was an audit.

@XanderHenderson What is a question has -101 votes?

@Holo Then it'd probably have been deleted. Though not the case on meta, for that one post about changes to the site

@TheSimpliFire ... I was making a joke

I gathered that

:P

@XanderHenderson I unpinned my re-post of a repost for the most recent closed answers and replaced it by pinning your search! Thanks!!

@amWhy It was a re--post of a re-post of a repost

@Holo indeed it was!!

$\overset{\!\!~ \Large\require{enclose} {\enclose{circle}{^{\ \because}_\odot}}}{ \overset{ {^{\Huge\backslash} }{ \Huge(}\ \Large\vdots\ \Huge){}^/}{\Huge\!(\quad)}}$

That looks... Weird

This question may be MO grade? I would post it there if others thought that was worthwhile/ take input on how it could/should be altered.

FYI: Robert Frost is now user334732

If I do so... I should self-delete the MSE post as to not crosspost?

I got in some trouble for cross posting to CStheory earlier on in my MSE career. But it seems like there are more math+MO questions that are cross posted and less concern about the duplication.

Here's the thing about reading the metas on this: there is a ton of it... and also it isn't necessarily representative of the community's current attitudes... so I figure I would ask here.

@amWhy Yes-- I gave a final this morning that needs to be graded, so I'd been planning to do a bit of review queue later tonight instead

Wonder why it's been overflowing lately

Probably finals

Users who have not gone through the "close review queue" today might want to take a look. There are well over 300 questions which have received at least one close vote from users.

@AlexanderGruber That's great. Even if grading keeps you up later than expected tonight, attending to the close review queue tomorrow will likely be just as helpful. It's hard to say what the overflow is due too: more users initially voting to close poor posts (without the habit of using the close review queue)? End of the semester homework/exams/finals bringing a lot of PSQ's in?

PSQ with 3 upvotes

@Holo So frustrating! downvoted, and voted to close. Worst offender is Robert Israel, with over 300 K in rep, and answering a Calc II problem. Shakes head in dismay.

@amWhy A lot of high reps answer that question :/

@Holo Very sad. It seems that poor quality integration questions, and series questions overload this site, and receive far more answers, and fewer downvotes (more acceptance) than in virtually any other field say than elementary number theory.

In other fields, they may receive lots of poor questions, but they are more readily closed, and less likely to be answered by rep seekers.

I think I'll use this question, as one example among four or five such questions, to call out what I'm referring to, on meta. I'll take some time to gather poor questions receiving too many upvotes, too many answers, given the quality of the question.

@amWhy True, some tags "answerers user base" is basically 7 or 8 people, while number theory/integrals/series/sequences has a lot of rep framer as answerers. Maybe because those subject are more clear to people without background(for example, model theory is gibberish to someone that never study some kind of logic, but anyone that finish highschool can understand integral questions)

@Holo That could be. And "number theory" ("elementary number theory" anyway) is often an undergrad's sophomore math major's year exposure to "How to write proofs" class. So anyway, we're generally talking about subjects covered, if not before, at least by a sophomore level undergrad education in mathematics.

But what explains Robert Israel and Jack D'Auzorio's attraction to answering sophomoric questions?

I cannot answer this :\

@Holo No problem... It was a rhetorical question that baffles me :/