One can argue that HNQ reviews could be a function of this room too. As such I encourage everyone to contribute to current discussion on such in the Math Mods Office chat starting here In particular if you disagree with removal of all those HNQs then please do speak up.
Indeed. Thanks, @Bill! Please know, I have every reason to believe that by tomorrow morning, I'll wake up suspended from chat, and or from main, for my support and thoughts posted in the mod's chat in the last hour or two. I'll survive. But abuse of power is very active, and real, and should concern us all, I agree!
@BillDubuque Also interesting, as a take away from the math mod's office, is that two additional moderators entered, lingered, and left, without a word. One among the newest elected. I just find it interesting.
@Bill, from what you remember, in your experience, is it tabu for a mod to disagree with another mod publicly? (Say, in chat, in comments on main, comments in math.meta). Its it "supposed" to only occur behind closed doors? If you don't care to respond, no problems. I'll understand.
@amWhy I don't think so. In fact if the mod team truly represents the wide diversity of opinions in the community then we would expect their opinions to vary at times. The problem is that often only 1 or 2 mods do all the work (e.g. only 1 for HNQ handling) and often their opinions are very closely aligned, so diversity suffers.
Write $\rho=\beta + i\gamma$ and $\rho'=\beta'+i\gamma'$ for two distinct non-trivial zeros of the Riemann zeta-function. Is it known that $\gamma\neq\gamma'$? That is, does a proof exist that two zeros can't have the same ordinate?
Certainly, it is true under the Riemann hypothesis but I'm curio...
(There is a chat feed for HNQ entries, but I don't know how effective it is in terms of curation. Maybe if it's added to CURED — even as a ticker feed — it may help. But that's for the mods and the regular participants of CURED to decide, of course.)
@MartinR Agreed. I've flagged it as "missing context", but editing the title to include the inequality should be a quicker (and valid) way to remove it, due to MathJax.
I've heard many times that the distribution of the non-trivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function are hypothesized to match that of the eigenvalues of a random Hermitian matrix (see Wikipedia or this blog post by Terence Tao). However the following detail has always bothered me:
There are many va...
@ParamanandSingh I see… I hope that this is indeed the “standard operating procedure”. It would be unfortunate if close votes/flags to close on such questions did not go through successfully simply because “Needs details or clarity” did not appear to be the right close reason to any reviewers, and so they chose to leave it open.
Yes, and there are good reasons to object. Just that there are some clear-cut cases (that are not spam/abusive) that need not wait for reviews from 4-5 community members. I’m happy if the lines for “clear-cut” cases and “borderline” cases are extremely far away, but, any way you slice it, that question needs improvement.
Conjecture:
Given integers $a>b>c>1$ such that $\gcd(a,b,c)=1$. Then all the positive integer solutions to
$$\frac{1}{a}+\frac{1}{b}=\frac{1}{c}$$
is given by: $c$ any number and for each divisor $d<\sqrt{c}\:$ of $\,c$
$$ \left\{ \begin{array}{l} a_d=c+d^2 \\
b_d=\frac{c}{d}\cdot(\frac{c}{d}+1)...
@ParamanandSingh Thanks for help to identify a poor quality question and help in closing another a question. I think it's a-okay for a mod to be the fourth or fifth close vote; see you.
@Peter I think too little is said by the op, to know where to send it. I think it is off topic on this site (not about math as described...), but I chose needs clarity and details, because it is so unclear what the asker is asking/expects in an answer. The answer given is just a guess.
It strikes me as a post seeking a discussion and/or contemplation, rather than an actual question, in short.
@TheAmplitwist How about we leave that discussion in the mods' office chat. No need to link to other chats, most of the time?
@TheAmplitwist No problem, really. You haven a knack for this, which can be awesomely helpful. Just don't want chat rooms to become conversation-free, or 90% links to other's posts.
@Mast If you're decent in math, we can use some mods who are here in math chats as much as you are! Think about it. But I think hyper-neutrino would be a better fit. But heck, competition is always good, in elections!!
@Mast I'm just sayin' if you are drawn here, as much and as often as you're here, maybe there's an entrapped mathematician inside of you? :-). Or maybe your ready to take on another site, to moderate another site, if not here? In any case, thanks for chatting. And I'm sorry, I did not mean "competition" in that sense, because I've never been here to "compete". So I respect that. I don't need power on this site to feel complete. Hint?
@JyrkiLahtonen As I notice our days becoming shorter and shorter, in Wisconsin, I could help but remember your experience in Finland! 19 days to go to hitting "bottom" (shortest day of the year, far shorter than for me, indeed). But then you enjoy the magnificent Summers in June, with very long days (Sun/light). Cheers!
