[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in body, no whitespace in body (190): aasdasdasdasdasd ✏️ by Jun Lee on math.SE

@user170039 I'm here to teach mathematics - not to play games.

@user170039 I'm not interested in wasting any further time discussing puerile matters like rep.

@user170039 Again, I have no interest in such nonsense. Please don't ping me on subjects on which I have no interest.

@user170039 I'm not here for anyone's "support". Rather, I am here to teach mathematics.

@user170039 Have a good evening.

@user170039 Of course it was not me. But don't worry - I don't pay any attention to those silly stars (see the above discussion).

@user170039 If a room owner removes stars on your comments, some people would accuse them of being biased, so your request is better taken to the moderators. I'm not the one who starred your comments, and I see no reason to selectively unstar your comments.

I have no problems with unstarring most of the recently uselessly starred messages, leaving only the constructive ones, but I don't want to do it while there are still people waiting to pounce on me for every possible action I can take.

I would encourage other room owners and moderators (e.g. @quid) to add their opinions explicitly (not by starring).

And I'm hardly the only one doing unstarring around here, so I don't claim to speak for the other room owners who are doing it.

For deletion: DA, DB, DC, DD, DE, DF, DG, DH

stars offed

For deletion: DI, DJ, DK, DL, DM, DN, DO, DP

@user21820 @user170039 ok, regarding your earlier pings, there have been mass deletions and a lot of dialog between then and now, so I'm not really able to make heads or tails of what you were asking without context. Can you summarize?

@user170039 I apologize for starring some of your comments. I should have known better, but gave into a temptation. When your request reached me, it was unfortunately too late. Apparently a star can be cancelled only within a 5 minute window (like all other votes), and I missed that opportunity.

@JyrkiLahtonen A solution to this would be adding you to the room owners. (Although it's unclear whether it would be a good move considering recent comments and complaints - whether they have some merit or not.)

@MartinSleziak I think recently I have been drawn into too many skirmishes here. That would definitely not be a good idea.

Understood @user170039. And I agree that some kind of a compromise is needed. A part of the problem is that some users see CRUDE activists as extremists when in fact they are defenders of a compromise that has served the site for a number of years now. Of course, we should also seek to analyze why the anti-CRUDE movement has also been gaining some traction lately in spite of the policy being relatively old. Part of the reason is that CRUDE has made it easier to jointly enforce that policy.

Anyway, having a compromise would have some advantages over the alternative of a prolonged fight after which some kind of a thermal equilibrium is reached (when the participants know to choose their battles wisely).

Another problem is to bring new users up to speed. Those who are unfamiliar with the history of this debate not unnaturally have a hard time appreciating that the current status quo (if you can call it that) actually is a compromise as opposed to some dogma cherished by chanting monks.

But, all that discussion should take place in meta posts, where people can upvote and downvote (whereas here or in meta comments we can only "star"/upvote). Sorry about going off-topic.

The population visiting this room is too small for us to reliable gauge the relative supports of various opinions by counting stars. Unfortunately I cannot offer better alternatives (other than taking it to meta visited by more people).

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] No whitespace in body (97): Multinomial Theorem Formula ✏️ by ayush kedia on math.SE

@JyrkiLahtonen I am unfamiliar with the circumstances of the compromise. Is there a meta post or chat record which summarizes?

@JyrkiLahtonen If you sincerely seek a compromise then it is absolutely essential to stop the vicious ad hominem attacks on those whose views differ from yours. It is impossible to discuss any issue here without being barraged by your bizarre off-topic personal attacks. This behavior has demolished meta in the past and will do the same here if it is not reigned in.

math.stackexchange.com/questions/1009388/… should be deleted in my opinion.

@MohammadZuhairKhan It's gone now.

Okay

close 1, 2, 3

🤮Almost literally because of the blurry picture math.stackexchange.com/q/3221261/29335