CURED - 2021-12-31

6:48 AM

@user21820HATESSMOKING-HATS C12 is over a decade old.

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SmokeDetector

8:23 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad ns for domain in answer, bad keyword in answer, bad keyword with a link in answer, blacklisted website in answer (338): What does the subject GRE measure?‭ by ishita dixit‭ on math.SE

9:23 AM

this should be a duplicate. Does anyone know a good target ?

9:42 AM

D - at least an entertaining title :)

9:59 AM

Q: Possible variation of the $'3n+1'$ problem as $'n+1'$

@ParamanandSingh Yes, but it's completely useless nonsense and the answer isn't really helpful.

Feeds

10:30 AM

This is a variation of the Collatz Problem. Let $$f(n)=\begin{cases} n+1 & \text{$n$ odd}\\ \frac{n}{2} & \text {$n$ even} \end{cases} $$ with $K\in\mathbb Z^*$ Will the series converge to 1, $\forall n\in\mathbb{N}$ ?

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11:47 AM

D: Completely wrong answer that got accepted...

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2:07 PM

@user21820HATESSMOKING-HATS I agree. Recently there was a discussion regarding closing of old questions in math mods office and your C12 seemed relevant.

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3:49 PM

@ParamanandSingh I just took a look. Indeed Xander's remark that the quality standards have been around for a decade, but only recently got enforced more strongly. I take that into account. I only close/delete-vote old posts that are not just poor quality but also useless.

@Ѕааԁ *answer of mine =)

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6:36 PM

@Ѕааԁ @RRL @ArcticChar @amWhy @MartinR: What do you all think of this cheating attempt?

This is very concerning, as this question was from the 2021 AMC 12B competition. The contest was held yesterday, February 10, so I do not know how Double Knot had access to the problem before then. — user596778 Feb 11 at 19:10

To the folk raising flags about this question: we are aware that it is a question from the AMC, and that it was posted before the exam. Unfortunately, the exam period has passed, and there isn't much that the Math SE moderators, nor the community moderators, can do. It is up to the MAA to decide what, if anything, they can do. — Xander Henderson ♦ Feb 11 at 21:45

Since the moderators will not step in, should we close-vote it although it doesn't violate the question quality guidelines?

(By the way, in case any of you are unfamiliar with AMC, you can generally guess better than chance that problems come from AMC when they have some strange extra step that obtains a non-negative integer from some reduced form. In this case it is "Then d2 can be written in the form m+np–√, where m,n,p are positive integers and p is not divisible by the square of any prime. What is m+n+p?".)

Immediately after I posted here about this cheating attempt, it got upvoted. Clearly some people lurking here support cheating!!

Martin R

7:13 PM

@user21820HATESSMOKING-HATS The context problem policy is described here: math.meta.stackexchange.com/q/16774/42969. Questions from an active context will be locked (if moderators are made aware of it) until the context is over. That seems to be the case here.

7:55 PM

@MartinR No, the timeline shows that it was never locked. After all, I don't even expect 1% of all cheating attempts on Math SE to be discovered and flagged and locked in time. But that wasn't my question; I asked whether you think we should close-vote it for the reason that it is a cheating attempt, since moderators will not step in.

And although they won't step in, I'd also be interested to know their opinions @ParamanandSingh @TheSimpliFire @XanderHenderson

On the one hand, it is not a stated goal of Math.SE to police contests (or homework). On the other hand, if some members of Math.SE believe (as I do) that it is a good turn and supportive of the greater mathematical community, including those administering and competing in contests, to do what can be done to prevent abuse of this resource, then what's the problem? I don't see anyone saying that the policy should be that every Math.SE member must participate in policing, so those who choose not to could just allow others to proceed without campaigning against their efforts. — Todd Wilcox Nov 23 '12 at 5:08

@jsj Because most of the contributors here empathize with the honest math competitors and despise cheaters to such contests. This is an ongoing contest, not a past one. — DanielV Sep 10 '18 at 13:06

@jsj Honor systems don't just magically perpetuate themselves. They work because people support them, so that's what we're doing. And you might want to take note of the word that DanielV used, "despise". It's not inaccurate. — JonathanZ supports MonicaC Sep 17 '18 at 20:07

8:30 PM

4 cheater-supporters already, and counting... I didn't know there were so many of them lurking here.

9:10 PM

@ParamanandSingh So I've brought it up here and nobody objected. Do you think it's okay to delete it? (We cannot rely on the community voting in this case because it is swamped by votes from untrained people; the 11 downvotes are just not enough.)

@user21820HATESSMOKING-HATS I had downvoted it the last time you mentioned this answer.

Happy new year to everyone!!

@ParamanandSingh Ah so you were the only one. Lol, sigh...

@ParamanandSingh Same to you!

Bogus non-answer.

And -1 to the bogus answer above

@ParamanandSingh Thank you!

D1, D2, D3.

D4, D5, D6.

D7, D8, D9.

D10, D11, D12.