I'm confused by that question---the asker is a low rep mod? Derp? What am I missing?

@SimplyBeautifulArt Gone. I don't care if it is an SE associate. Such lousy questions are worthless.

@Anneliset. Perhaps it was because it was not clear what was your question and what question your question was asking about. Also, you originally had "interpreter" instead of "interpret". That is incorrect.

math.stackexchange.com/questions/2582641/… a PSQ @SimplyBeautifulArt @user21820 @amWhy

This HNQ is ridiculous, not just because the two answers are technically incorrect, but also because the asker accepted one of them.

In particular, this one is utter nonsense.

@Did @amWhy @SimplyBeautifulArt @ZacharySelk @DavidReed @LeakyNun: Please take a look at the utter nonsense linked above. It may be better to ban Math SE from HNQ.

@user21820 HNQ?

Hot-Network-Question.

ah

i dont think banning math se from it is fair

if anything we need to stop letting people post homework

@Typhon It's not fair, of course, but it's better for the quality of Math SE.

removing it from HNQ wont necessarily stop the problem though

it might have nothing to with HNQ

and more to do with people being dumb in their answers

Sometimes, contrary to what a lot of people think, being unfair is actually the better way to go. For an unrelated example, consider that we ought to be unfair to unrepentant murderers and at least jail them so that other people can live in peace. But to address this specific issue here, the main reason for my claim is that the drive-by visitors from other SE sites often know nothing about mathematics and either give rubbish answers or upvote rubbish answers.

Of course, this is just my opinion, and I'm not in any position to attempt to change the SE system.

Also note that drive-by visitors can upvote but cannot downvote (100 association bonus is not enough for the 'privilege' of downvoting), though that doesn't make much difference since they (for above reason and because of rep loss) practically never downvote.

technically fair for murderers would be to violently execute them in the exact same manner they killed their victims so they truly feel the pain the caused

but regardless preventing bad questions from being popular would prevent the issue altogether

after all, the only reasonable purpose of posting homework on se is for the purpose of cheating

@Typhon According to some moral systems, life-for-life is just. I lean towards life imprisonment, because there is the possibility of error on the part of the judge. We can discuss this in more detail in SBA's realm, but for now I need to go. I'll move this there first.

or at least thats my opinion

Wait it's intertwined so I'll just quote them. Please continue in SBA's realm.

@user21820 no need to go into that further. I was merely pointing out that it was a poor comparison to our situation.

Ok fine; I was just addressing the fact that sometimes unfairness is right.

@SimplyBeautifulArt out of curiosity do deleted questions ever actually get deleted?

cause if not there is no need to have it undeleted

high rep users can still locate it

This answer does not answer the question, and its content is too imprecise to be meaningful. No wonder people misunderstand undefinability, because too many do not define definability properly. That user is also a semi-crank who posts nonsense (here and here and here) that need to be deleted.

And for people who don't believe me about the crankiness of that user, see this nonsense and this rubbish. In case they get deleted, as least we have a record here that people can find.

Delete? 1164th question on math.SE

Delete? 975th question has been closed without answer and very little information in the comments what is asked.

Very poor answer suggesting you should just plug "Solve" into your calculator.

@SimplyBeautifulArt Y U no flag as NAA?

@DanielFischer Well it's an old answer... but I guess we could...

@SimplyBeautifulArt No longer.

:P

I know my most recent answer is link only, but do I really need to include contents from the linked videos?

@SimplyBeautifulArt Do not include any content. In my opinion it is even bad to link to them, but that's your choice.

@user21820 Well I think that's the point of the question.

@SimplyBeautifulArt I know that, but experience has shown that silly sheep sway themselves easily with nonsense.

Since HNQ was brought up in this room again, I'll just repeat that posts containing MathJax are automatically excluded: Do questions with LaTeX in titles appear in Hot Questions? and Are the questions with TeX markup in titles excluded from Hot Network Questions?

@MartinSleziak Yes, but some questions are hard to give a LaTeX title.

@user21820 I have just looked at it. Was it the question or answers that bothered you? I personally don't take issue with the question. I think questions that involve finding errors in incorrect proofs are extremely valuable actually. Helps sharpen reasoning.

@user21820 Ah nvm. I see you have said you have issues with the answers