Devashish

Hi, this question of mine was deleted yesterday for some reason? I realize that it was off-topic, but isn't it more useful to have it around?

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@JitendraSingh DO you mean the scrolling while the Mathjax is rendering on pages where there is a lot of it? Beacuse I think that's normal

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Also, this one seems a bit unclear Is there such a thing as the reciprocal of sequence concatenation?

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@vitamind Btw, could you please explain exactly why this question or similar questions would be off-topic, because I was under the (evidently false) impression that it wouldn't be

@vitamind I suppose closing it is for the best then.

Its quite unfortunate really...we rarely get major discoveries from outside US/Europe, and for a major thing to turn out to be a hoax is sad

@Peter Yes. It does appear that the writers simply repeated their version of the story without doing due diligence :(

Otherwise, I suspect we will keep getting a lot of questions about this.

It appears that this is a 5-year old proof, and the reports claim a through review. So, I think it woukd be useful to to clear it up once, since I have also found the paper where he makes his proposal and a claimed refutation.

@vitamind Hi I am the person who posted the question.

Is this on topic: Sharing Mathematics Research

@MattSamuel Maybe its just because I am not familiar enough with abstract algebra, but it just seems to be making the same point as the other answers...just less clearly. Not exactly wrong...just not very useful(?)

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@TeresaLisbon Isn't it frowned upon for editors to put in new things into an OP. We are changing the question for all intents and purposes by putting our own assumptions into the it.

@TeresaLisbon it takes all kinds to make a world - or in this case, a site

@TeresaLisbon Yeah you're right. I intentionally put it that way a while back and never corrected it

@amWhy :P

Like in the comment here. I remember that Jose used to hang around here when this room was CRUDE, and he had the same tactic that I do now...and now...

@TeresaLisbon Its actually pretty nice that there are people like you who still have the enthusiasm to keep engaging with new users. I've noticed that older users tend to get more and more jaded:(

@TeresaLisbon I actually used to try giving individual feedback, but it gets exhausting really fast. Nowadays, I tend to give a silent downvote and flag and put up a template message. Patience is much easier when you only try to talk things out with OP's who respond constructively.

If a user is used to giving such answers and disagree with the PSQ policy, it is understandable why they might end up with such meta posts

@ParamanandSingh It might be a matter of rep. A lot of the time, there are very poor questions which very quickly receive a few answers with 2-3 upvotes even if the queston itself have -ve votes.

@TeresaLisbon Not an excuse, but that's probably because the people making the first replies become frustrated after seeing the same homework type questions appearing on the front page day after day 😅

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