Not an answer, but if I flag as such some people might decline the flag without even reading to see that it does not answer the question.
@AlexFrancisco The first one is an interesting case. Some people would consider it a good question because it is borne out of curiosity. Some people consider it a bad question because it is too broad or opinion-based. I personally just close my eyes to such questions.
This question came across the reopen queue. I opted to skip that review task, as I can honestly see a case being made either way. Of particular importance in my thinking is this comment.
If the question is a duplicate (@MartinSleziak you are some kind of wizard with the search engine... is it a duplicate), then it should be marked as such. If not, I have some sympathy for the desire to have an answer on MSE to the question "Like, what is equality, really, man?"
@XanderHenderson In my opinion (as a logician), the question is a good and important one (that students often never understand even if they are masters students in logic), and the correct answer to that is this one.
I think I've answered a similar question before, along the same lines, but too lazy to search for it.
I won't reopen though, since the question is too short for Math SE.
@user21820 You have posted an answer to Explaining the meaning of equality. (Which is among the questions I linked.) Of course, it is quite likely that there are more such questions.
@user21820 I agree that the question is a good and important one; I was mostly concerned about the likelihood that it was a duplicate. The brevity is a little offputting, but I'm not sure how to ask the question with more verbosity. :)
In any event, I flagged it for moderator intervention, in the hopes that it can be labeled as a duplicate.
@XanderHenderson: By the way, do you agree that this post is not really an answer to the question? Technically, the question did not ask for a human method, but this post is such a poor method that it is hardly helpful beyond kids' numbers.
@XanderHenderson @amWhy @Did @ZacharySelk: This and this are thoroughly misleading as they make the basic logical error of conflating syntax with semantics.
@XanderHenderson @Did: I don't understand why the second link in my above comment is getting different treatment for saying the same wrong thing, namely that 3+2 ≠ 7−2 just because they don't look the same...
It seems like there are routinely low effort, sloppy PSQ questions from new users that immediately after being posted get upvotes, sometimes multiple.
Is this a case of sock puppet accounts? What are the mechanisms that exist to stop this from happening if it is sock puppet accounts? Do people ...
Unfortunately, there are also users who regularly upvote answers to ancient poor questions! They do it at low frequency so as not to get detected by automatic scripts, and they think that no one knows what they are doing.
Yeah, I've been watching that. I'm not really sure what to make of it, however. The bad actors either (a) don't bother reading meta or (b) don't care that they are acting badly (and, in fact, likely believe that they are doing good). The only people with any power to fix the problem are the moderators, and it seems that they are more-or-less copacetic. shrugs
@XanderHenderson So I learn a new word today, but still don't see how it fits your sentence. Lol!
Anyway I don't really blame the moderators; there are too few of them who actively attempt to maintain the site, and they can't just take action unless they are absolutely certain, which would require a silly amount of digging.
