@Mostafa By that logic everyone should create their own chat room for individual topics. 0celot7 should create another chat room for himself if he has a problem here. I am not going to. I am fine here.
No one has a monopoly on this room but when multiple people ask if you not perhaps want to take your conversations about a specific topic to another room I'd kindly ask you to consider that.
@anonymous I think if the ratio of the number of people interested to the number of the posts generated is too low, then logic, ethics and civility say you should create another room.
@anonymous The ignore function is to ignore users with whom, for whatever reason, you do not see yourself having productive or civil conversations
You cannot ignore a topic, you can only ignore users. Note that 0celo7 and Mostafa are not saying you should not visit this room anymore, but that the JEE exercise conversation should take place somewhere else.
@anonymous Let me phrase it like this: If you do not respond to friendly suggestion I will kick you from this room if you continue to discuss things when other regulars have expressed a preference for you to take it somewhere else. I would much prefer not to but this room is not yours to hijack against the express wishes of others.
@ACuriousMind Sure but it's annoying af. You have to either identify where the conversation started and move relevant messages to a new room, or you have to live with conversations crossing room boundaries.
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Then I hereby point out that sometimes when you guys talk about math, I choose not to chat here.
I decline to present that as a request that you move the conversation.
I feel some people here don't understand what a group chat room is. If you are having a problem then you should move out rather than telling others to move out.
@DanielSank Wait - do you just not participate and lurk or do you find our math chats annoying? Because there's a difference, and I would move them voluntarily out of this room if it is the latter
@DanielSank Obviously it is. But I find their request hilarious. We weren't talking about topics unrelated to science/physics anyway. When JR and K talk about cooking or storybooks or movies for hours then no one asks them to move out!
I agree about the cooking thing, but that's actually irrelevant.
In one way of thinking about it, the only thing that matters is whether or not users do or do not want a particular topic in the chat.
In other words, rather than measuring ok-ness of a topic by some imaginary objective Platonic metric, you can measure it by asking "are any users asking us to leave".
@anonymous A group should usually try to find solutions to problems together. In this case some people voiced their problems you refused to compromise in any way.
@anonymous No one ever voiced any problems with that! I'm sure that if people voiced significant annoyance at JR's and K's conversation you could've talked about it
I think this JEE discussion is very different from that cooking, music or even topology one. This one is like a serious test practice and problem-solving session that really needs a dedicated room.
@anonymous That's people socializing. There is a sliding scale here - there's a difference between you not liking a conversation, and you feeling it detracts from the atmosphere of the chat room.
@anonymous Why? The JEE discussions tend to be long and about very specific problems no one except for the people taking the test has any reason to care about. It's hard to follow them. Music and cooking are perfectly normal small talk topics. Why do you think they detract from the atmosphere?
@ACuriousMind I don't like Western music (the ones which most people here talk about) . Cooking ( I am not interested in what you are having for lunch).
@ACuriousMind Asking JEE topics to move out is also a personal dislike of 3-4 here. However other 4-5 people including me, Yashas, Kaumudi, Koolman and Ramnujan are interested in JEE. So if you use your mod powers to stop 4-5 people from carrying out a science conversation then you will be abusing it. Period.
@ACuriousMind ugh, tell me about it. I've been on the same book for months now, and Im still halfway through. I dont find reading as exciting/relaxing as I used to.
@ACuriousMind my undergrad thesis was more or less like that. And I had so much fun. I could do more or less whatever I wanted to. I only met my adviser twice or thrice
@ACuriousMind One dimension: let $x\in M$. If $x\in M^\circ$, take $U$ a neighborhood of $x$ s.t. $U\approx \Bbb R$. If $x\in\partial M$, take $V$ a neighborhood of $x$ s.t. $V\approx\Bbb R_+$. Now $V\cap U=W$ is a neighborhood of $x$. The connected component of $W$ in $U$ is of the form $(c,d)$, and in $V$ it is $[0,a)$. These are not homeomorphic, contradiction.
I was exactly that type, which resulted in a 4-years long depression for me, and hence this rep diagram (very similar to my life as a whole in the past 2~3 years) These standardized tests train people like that.
@0celo7 Hmmm...seems true enough to me, but doesn't generalize to higher dimensions because removing a point in higher dimensions does nothing to the fundamental group
Starting serious study of Physics again!! One difficulty that I'm facing now is how to study topics that I used to know very good but now almost forgot (like Classical Mechanics)
