Cranium Clamp

that being said, I find only good mathematics in your question, there’s nothing wrong about it, don’t think too much about the close votes.

@GeoffreySangston I have neither voted to close, nor voted on your question. (I just saw it now, because of my previous comments)

Of course, the same moderator will come along and delete these comments. I once posted a comment saying I was critical of him downvoting well-written answers on topics like PDEs.. and it got deleted soon enough. It is just abuse of power, completely poor behaviour all around.

The latest self-reopen is just another addition to his list of behaviours. I am not surprised at all. No one reading a thesis (in algebra/number theory/related areas) cares about a reference to a fact as trivial as when -1 has a square root in a finite field and hence, the question was deservedly, downvoted.

That moderator posts low-quality questions (and questions without any clarity too), posts trivial answers, begs for those to be accepted to increase their reputation, downvotes others’ well-written answers to stuff way beyond his expertise, closes others’ questions for ‘lack of context’ when the questions are perfectly fine and beyond what he can answer, and is basically an expert in browbeating on this website.