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Hi Saad, we miss you already! Feel free to continue to post suggestions here!
@user21820 All gone.
@amWhy No any specific suggestion so far since I'm still dealing with serial down votes :/
But I forgot to say: Hi, @amWhy!
@Saad Sorry about that. I've faced the same, over time. When many come at one time, the script tends to reverse them. The worst are the "daily downvotes x 2"... by folks who know too many at one time triggers the script. But if you notice a pattern of any kind, do flag the downvoted posts for mod attention, because, sometimes, but not always, they can hone in on a likely suspect. Flagging can lead to suspensions of, or deletion of, some culprits, but not always...
But flagging's better than doing nothing. I've had a lot of success, not in restoring points, necessarily, but in aiding mods to find culprits. But sometimes even flagging isn't enough: mods do their best, but even they can't access info on who voted up or down for what.
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@amWhy Do you think it's more appropriate to flag first or pop up in Mod's Office first?
Often I see needs-attention flags stay pending for days or even more than a week, so I don't know if mods have really made some investigation or simply let it fade.
@Saad Both are fine options. In the mod chat, I would suggest asking to speak to a mod privately. @quid is a good choice, (he's very good at responding in a timely manner. @AlexanderGruber would be a good choice too.) They can open a private chatroom that no one else, save for mods, can enter or read. Sometime that helps because some culprit/serial-downvoters follow public chatrooms. Sometimes all it takes is one private chat with a mod, and subsequent flags from you, which they...
...will have information about from your initial private chat, and have notes, and be likely more attentive to. And when you do flag, you're always welcome to alert a mod in the mods' office that you've flagged a mod, and are hoping for a response.
@amWhy Private rooms sould like a good compromise between less-attended flags and public chatroom messaging. Thanks for your advice :)
@Saad You're always welcome!
in Math Mods' Office, 16 mins ago, by Aloizio Macedo
@Saad I understand it may feel frustrating to hear this, but please flag those situations. It is the best way for us to keep track of those things. From the user perspective, I know that this can feel like the flags are going to a limbo, but by leaving some flags pending we can have a better idea of how things evolve. And when/if things are addressed, it stays logged more efficiently for future reference.
Well…
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@Saad Aye. I'm sorry about that. Aloizio likes to play "by the book" (flag flag, only flag) though that's not the only option mods have. Stop by "whatever quid" sometime, to inquire about a private chat with quid.
@Saad, Alexander Gruber can also be pinged in that chatroom. And you can ask him too. You can't know how much I feel for what you're going through with rampant downvotes. I've been plagued with that, on again/off again, for years. And it is frustrating as heck.
@amWhy I'll take a note of that. Btw, before this detracts too far away from the purpose of this room, I'd say that quid seems to be the less busy mod on the site to have more interactions with other users.
@Saad He's very busy, but is likely the most devoted mod to this site, so he makes time to be here whenever that's possible, and he is dedicated.
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"whenever that's possible": more often than any other mod I know on this site!.
 
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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad ip for hostname in answer, bad ns for domain in answer, bad keyword with a link in answer, blacklisted website in answer, potentially bad ip for hostname in answer, +1 more (348): Homogeneity or heterogeneity of variance by 360DigiTMG_Guntur on math.SE
03:57
@amWhy I'm not fond of images either, but the typical image-only posts are PSQs where the image is of the problem alone. In this case, the image is of a solution, and was not copied from the answer, so it's better than usual?
However, on second thoughts, I note that it was posted 10 days after the answer, and it is odd that the proof in the image has a LaTeX link to the question, which is called "Lemma 2.3".
So I guess it is possible that the image isn't even the asker's own work... in which case I wouldn't think it should be preserved. But I can't tell for sure.
@HarishChandraRajpoot If you see a deleted question that the asker has improved, you can also post it here after voting to undelete, to get quick attention.
 
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@user21820 I'm afraid sometimes they attemp to save PSQs that they have answered by adding their own words as if they were OPs' efforts when OPs show no intention to improve posts at all.
E.g.: This one
05:39
@Saad Indeed, that's why I said "that the asker has improved".
@HarishChandraRajpoot: Your actions yesterday on the question Saad mentioned above (answering and putting words into the asker's mouth) is not in line with your words "now I try my best to avoid answering such PSQs". Please stop doing that. There are plenty of good questions that you can answer instead of lousy ones.
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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in body, no whitespace in body, potentially bad keyword in body (193): done,fasdfdsafdsafdsafadsfadsfasdfasd ✏️ by pilotppp on math.SE
09:26
The OP is again bumping the question onto the home page by changing the question drastically
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Q: Can I know why my suggested edit was rejected?

LaterI am a novice SE user, a toddler. I was notified that one of my edits, https://math.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/1384537 , was rejected. I followed the guideline of editing; there were some grammatical errors needed to be fixed. I think that "being substantial" means "changing at leas...

 
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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in title (98): Partial differentiation w.r.t complex conjugate by xman on math.SE
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@YuiToCheng Done!
 
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For closure:
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Q: $x \geq a/b$ and $x \geq c/d$ implies $x \geq (a+c)/(b+d)$?

Nicholas$$\text{If } x \geq \frac{a}{b} \text{ and } x \geq \frac{c}{d}$$ for some $a, c \in \mathbb{R}_{\geq 0}$ and $b, d \in \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 1}$, is it true that $x \geq \frac{a + c}{b + d}$?

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Q: Prove that if $a,b,c > 0$,$\frac{ab}{a^5 + b^5 + ab} + \frac{bc}{b^5 + c^5+ bc} + \frac{ca}{c^5 + a^5 + ca} \leq 1$;$a,b,c \in \mathbb{R};abc = 1$

Maths-LoverSo here is the Question . Prove that for all $a,b,c > 0$ :- $$\frac{ab}{a^5 + b^5 + ab} + \frac{bc}{b^5 + c^5+ bc} + \frac{ca}{c^5 + a^5 + ca} \leq 1 : a,b,c \in \mathbb{R}; abc = 1$$ Can anyone help me how to prove this?

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Q: If N ≡ 3 mod10, where $N = n^{n+1}-(n+1)^n$, then n ≡ 11 mod 20.

Pradeep SunyProve that if $N \equiv 3 \pmod{10}$, where $N = n^{n+1}-(n+1)^n$, then $n \equiv 11 \pmod {20}$ ($n$: Natural number).

 
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DA, DB, DC, DD, DE, DF, DG, DH
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DI, DJ, DK, DL
 
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D1, D2, D3.
D4, D5, D6.
D7, D8, D9.
@Saad Asker has actually added something that reveals something, so I have added a comment to that effect (but would prefer not to vote to reopen yet until the asker makes some more effort). =)
 
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Does anyone know if there's documentation to create python bots in stackexchange rooms?
 
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Q: How can we prove the following identity?

OilyHow can we show that $$ \sum\limits_{i=0}^{r-j} (-1)^{i+1} \binom{i+j}{i}\binom{r-l}{i+j-l}= \left\{ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} 0 \;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;{\ \ (j < r-l),} \\ {(-1)^{r-j-1}\binom{l}{r-j}\;\;\;(r-l\leq j\leq r).} \\ \end{array} } \right. $$ What kind of method can we use...

 
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@rschwieb Ugh... if you are using that many thinspaces (\;), you are doing something wrong.
22:42
Arg... there is so much certainty in the answers to this question, with very little reference to any kind of authoritative source.
@XanderHenderson Did you forget a link?
Oh, oops
sorry...
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Q: Generalization of the root of a number

Niklas R.Given that the n-th root is defined as follows$$ {\sqrt[n]a} = a^{1/n}$$ Can we infer that n can be irrational, negative or even imaginary? Usually we mean the square root (n=2) and then the third root (n=3) but is there no reason to think that there could not be n=2.1 for example, and that root ...


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