^^^My last two posts, I meant to request a merge! Certainly not migration ::face-palm:: Pretty much from the most I last linked to, to merge with it's dupe target?
@MartinR It's now closed, and open for deletion. Thanks for posting!
@amWhy It has been a long day, and I am not braining well enough right now to satisfy myself that a merge is actually a good idea in this case---there seems to be some distinction in notation, thus I am not happy merging the questions without more thought. I'll try to have a look at it tomorrow, after, I hope, I have gotten some rest. Group theory. Ugh.
@XanderHenderson You must obviously be in need of rest, because group theory is beautiful :P. No problem I brought the issue up because a number of posts were (correctly) closed as a dupe of one post, so I thought, in case there are any answers anyone might want to include, via a merge, I'd speak out. I'm not always comfortable with the dupe hammer, without considering some of the answers might be worth preserving. In the end, I found only one, but if it doesn't add anything different, ...
...then no merge needed. :)
@Xander Any plans for Show Low tomorrow evening? (I went to a map of AZ to refresh my memory.) Have you visited, or just pass through "Snow Flake"?
You can answer any time, @Xander, when you've got the time. :-)
As I've already said this multiple times before, this will be the last time, but: you seem to be engaged on a crusade to get rid of old questions. Most of us have little desire to deal with such old questions because (a) standards have changed over time, (b) these questions are not really the kind which continue to encourage bad questions, and (c) a philosophy of triage indicates that new questions should be prioritized.
So, please, feel free to continue posting your requests, but understand that it is unlikely that people are going to do very much with them.
The thing is , these questions main topics are somewhat timeless because I think most students who are studying in Undergraduate will have these questions. Since they are multipile versions of the same questions, closing the dupes into the best one saves a lot of time.
OF course, the best ones are usually always voted high, but just in case someone lands on the wrong one
Here are some examples on the topic of Orbit staiblizer theorem :
@Buraian Consider that users have a limited number of daily votes. It is more important to close/delete new posts and I do think that they influence users more than stone-old posts.
@Buraian You were off a bit on your suggestions yesterday; it helped me to close groups of questions as dupes of a post that was far better than the one you suggested. Yet you already took action, without considering criteria for "best question" which is not equivalent to the highest upvoted question. I don't have two hours to waste on cleaning up your wrongly chosen dupe targets.
@Peter What concerns me is when folks target old answers, more concern is raised about whether users are chasing down posts of specific users to target. The older the post, the greater the chance that such votes are suspicious.
@Buraian I trust that you mean very well. And you have been helpful. And it seems you are strictly focusing on collecting dupes for closure, but not interested in posts' deletions.
@XanderHenderson I don't much like references to "it seems many sources use a definition (what sources?) just as I don't like references to "I tried many things, but didn't get anywhere" (what work, where?) That's just me. Some users seem only to master how to write so it resembles context. I would think it would easier just mastering how to actually include context. My two cents for the day :/
@XanderHenderson Would you consider the possibility of deleting this answer single-handedly? After all, it's an answer to a question about the number pi which doesn't mention pi at all.
@JoséCarlosSantos Exactly my point of view. But that $\pi$ is not mentioned is not the only problem with this answer.
@amWhy I hope that the green colour does not mean that you also want extremely high petrol prices :) Clarification in the case of confusion : There is a party in German whose name could be translated as "the greens" and one of whose aims was (and is) exactly that.
We also have "pi-day" soon. I invented a challenge concerning a number both having to do with the current year and with the decimal expansion of $\pi$ , namely searching prime factors of the number we get if the first $2022$ digits of $\pi$ after the comma are written down. The number can be seen here
@Peter Ahh! Nice challenge. When exactly is pi day: March 14th?
03/14/.............
@Xander I've seen more and more questions/answers written in code on math.se. Yesterday I encountered a post tagged only "virtual vision" which struck me as entirely off topic on this site. Might the problem be that there are some questions/topics that don't yet to seem to have better-fit home sites?
@amWhy I have not noticed this, but I'll try to keep an eye out.
@JoséCarlosSantos Another moderator has already declined flags asking for unilateral deletion. I am going to keep my hands off of it for the time being, but I will bring it up for discussion.
Not sure this is the right place to post this, but: it looks like frequent spammer/sockpuppeter Wolfgang Muckenheim is back (here and at other sites in the SE network incidentally).
Not sure this is the right place to post this, but: it looks like frequent spammer/sockpuppeter Wolfgang Muckenheim is back (here and at other sites in the SE network incidentally).
@amWhy Did you mean to @ me in your last comment? (I mean, I do want to be aware of my own posts ... :P)
@Peter I don't know enough about dark energy to comment, but dark matter is not problematic at all. Either there is a lot of stuff out there that isn't very EM-interactive, or very fundamental ideas about gravity are wrong; the former seems like a more plausible guess, and "dark matter" is a reasonable name for such stuff.
@NoahSchweber Oh no, too late to edit. Perhaps Xander will be so kind as to delete the post pinging you directly. I had thought I pinged @user21820. He'd be very much wanting to know about the return of Wolfgang.
@NoahSchweber I'd guess blacklist might be a suitable tag for your recent question on MathOverflow Meta: How to respond to well-known sockpuppeters (I was also thinking about spam - but that probably doesn't really fit.)
@XanderHenderson That was a sincere thank you! You handled a post I had flagged, in a short period of time. Perhaps your action was independent, and the action triggered a message of "helpful" to my flag!
@Xander not immediate urgency, but the last five posts I reviewed in the close review are very highly voted posts from years ago, with superfluous reasons not really relevant, like "needs focus" when only one question was asked, and three "opinion based" when they were clear-cut math questions. It would not be reasonable to flag each of them.
5 Each of the five had one close vote cast. Perhaps we just need to let others weigh in, too. They are all quite old. Anyway, it's time, for me, for happy hour, or at least a could beer.
