@Bill I have spent much more time in the last month reviewing, moderating as a user, in the past month, or six weeks, and not necessarily just in my favorite tags, because of the fairly recent flood of homework-submission post asking for solutions, etc. I presume things will eventually calm down, except there are more than ever students who now know about MSE.

@BillDubuque Oh tell me about the robo-reviewing! For some, reviewing is nothing more than "I just want to max out with 20 reviews in this queue, the sooner the better!!"

I think the review queues would be far better if "leaderboards" in each queue were removed.

Hey @Xandy (err, @Xander)!

@amWhy Hello. Just FYI, I am unlikely to be around much for the next week or two.

I'm not really here now.

It's esp. frustrating for me because often I invest 10-20 minutes organizing posts on some topic only to have the organization thwarted by a few 5 second robovoters. Thankfully that doesn't happen too frequently (or else I might actually have more than a few gray hairs - or maybe none if it drove me to pull it out!)

@XanderHenderson Shhh! I won't tell anyone otherwise :-)

@BillDubuque heh! I hear you you!

@XanderHenderson Thesis work (doctoral, of course)??? Possible upcoming defense?

@amWhy Yes, among other things.

@XanderHenderson Yes; I know you have a lot on your plate/plates/table?

@XanderHenderson We'll miss you, but also we'll be pulling for you!!

@XanderHenderson Enjoy your hiatus

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Mostly non-latin title (86): How to solve 𝑥^2 + 𝑦^2 + 𝑧^2 ≥ 𝑥𝑦 + 𝑥𝑧 + 𝑦𝑧 ✏️ by TrendingControllers on math.SE

User redumped a psq. math.stackexchange.com/q/3607044/29335

“What linear algebra book should I study” version 994673 math.stackexchange.com/q/3607260/29335

Is a duplicate but I can never find the dupe math.stackexchange.com/q/3606698/29335

As for C4 the history of the question is that as soon as I answered it, the questioner deleted it. Isn't it possible to leave it up for a long enough period of time that his teacher can discover that he didn't do the problem by himself? Or am I just stupid for taking the time to type up answers that will be thrown away in moderation?

@user5713492 The question you should be asking is "Am I just stupid for taking the time to type up answers to very poor questions"? Don't blame moderating for the closures; blame the OP for posting a very poor question, and blame yourself for the choice you made to answer a crappy question.

If you had made the decision not to answer it, you wouldn't even know if it was closed, or not. And if the OP made the effort to ask a decent enough question, that might be worth your time, and wouldn't waste the time of moderators who serve as janitors cleaning up messes.

@amWhy It seemed interesting enough to me. If successive powers of a number in $(1,\infty)$ are progressively closer to integers, does it imply that the number is a unit in the ring of integers of $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt D)$? Anyhow, by letting the questioner get away with hiding his question from his teacher it seems you are more enabling his cheating than discouraging it.

@user5713492 I beg your pardon? I did not let the OP get away with anything. The only action I took was to close it. A closed question is just as visible to a teacher as is an open question. The only one who enabled the OP to cheat was you. Please stop blaming others for your being dealt your just deserts.

@amWhy Then what does 'Viewable by the post author and users with the close/reopen votes privilege' mean? Does the website somehow detect that an anonymous user is his teacher and make it viewable to him, even if he doesn't have close/reopen priviledge?

Focus on the mantra when encountering poor quality questions: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

@user5713492 That only applies to posts are deleted. The post you answered is not now deleted.

@rschwieb Up for deletion now.

D1, D2, D3.

D4, D5, D6.

D7, D8, D9.

D10, D11, D12.

D13, D14, D15.

C1, C2, C3.

C4, C5, C6.

C7, C8, C9.

C10, C11, C12.

C13, C14, C15.

@user5713492 That refers only to the blue box which explains the close reason.

@XanderHenderson Thanks, Xander, for the clarification. In other words, if the professor/teacher peruses this site, the post will be available to them to view, with [closed] in the title, but if they've never been to this site, they won't see what you and I see in the blue box.

You can easily check what a user who isn't post author see if you have a look at a closed post in incognito mode/private browsing.

@MartinSleziak Thanks for the information, @MartinSleziak.

This question is almost certainly a duplicate.

I found a target which I think is reasonable, though I welcome input regarding a better target.

@XanderHenderson cv'd accordingly.

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Repeating characters in answer (81): How can $\exists x \in X P(x) \rightarrow ((P(c) \rightarrow Q) → Q)$ be true? by Matthew S. on math.SE

If you ever encounter a newish user, who never asks any questions, who builds rep by answering a few questions so they can comment and vote, but answers a fair amount of PSQs too, and in particular, gives full solutions in the comments before and sometimes after a post is closed... Let me know. [If you want to pursue it, kindly comment to them, that you are confused, because you thought users are advised not to answer in comments, and I doubt they will be able to restrain themselves ...

...from flaunting. Else, if you see the MO: newish account, weird name, no questions, rapid effort to acquire rep via answering, plus answering very poor questions in comments, before or after closure... pass it along to me, or flag a mod with a custom message including something to the effect: this may be another account created by the chronic account creator, with a link to suspicious comments, etc.

Note also, that though this person recreates accounts like they they are disposable, and may be relatively new (say less than a month or so), you'll see nothing whatsoever consistent with the behavior of truly "newish users" They are fairly adept mathematically, they know mathjax inside out. You'll likely not suspect them to be newish. But if you see the pattern of behavior I described, click on their profile to confirm (or rule out) they've asked no questions, and they're a "newish" user.

Thanks for putting up with my TLTR prose; but the more eyes, the better. The mods are familiar with this revolving account creation from a specific person, so don't hesitate to flag, or drop me a comment. Thanks all!!

@XanderHenderson, @user21820, @rschwieb, @RRL, No rush, but I hope you have a chance to read my (likely overly wordy) comments above. (Yikes, my five sequential comments!)

And @Bill, if you're interested, and want to "keep your eyes open" for the behavior I describe, I'd love you're eyeballs in on this, too.

Also, note, @Xander, @user21820, @rschwieb, @RRL, @Bill, in addition to the link to a revealing question with comments, the same user also answered here. I have flagged for moderator attention, and sent out an alert in a chat with details. It is very very likely this account will be deleted. They go through usernames like it's toilet paper, always changing it up when they re-create another account.