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In case you haven’t heard yet: They botched the kerning on the late pope’s tomb inscription.

And in between comes German, which uses only „Wort“ or »Wort« (and ‚Wort‘ and ›Wort‹ exclusively for quotes within quotes) – except for Swiss German, which prefers «Wort».

@Vincent Declined flags are not public, at least I cannot find them.

@Scott I am not exactly sure whether this is a counter to something and if yes, to whom, but: If something feels like AI to you, flag it. There is no need to fact-check it. Most AI stuff reveals itself by not addressing the question. Don’t worry if such flags are wrong occasionally.

@joojaa I fail to see a scenario where this would make much of a difference and be practical. Most AI copy-and-pasters don’t read the policies anyway (otherwise they would cite the AI, because that’s general SE policy). Also, taking into account the correctness of answers when moderating is something that SE generally hates for good reason.

@Vincent … which is the suspension reason that most suited for posting AI garbage.

@Scott If you think it’s AI, raise a custom flag. Ideally comment on why the answer is broken, doesn’t address the question, etc.

Oh, and I found another reason to have risers separate: You can actually make it a piece of useful furniture that can be used to store stuff and similar. So, there is a reason to keep things modular here.

@joojaa I use a riser right now. It’s half a styrofoam box we had lying around.

@Scott why aren't all chair and table 3" too short and require risers then? – Tables have to be assembled anyway and increasing leg length is comparably cheap. That being said, a considerable portion of office tables is too short.

@Scott Because that would increase manufacturing, transportation, and storage costs by an amount that is much higher than that of a riser.

I had worked on art. – You mean the article(s)? — Also, if the university pad your publication fees, wouldn’t that be evidence in itself that they were aware of the publication?

Welcome to Academia SE. While I understand that you wish to stay anonymous, this question strongly feels like there are some important details missing, which prevent a useful answer. At least, please edit your question to clarify: 1) What kind of position did you have at the university? 2) How was the exposed fraud perceived by the public and the university? 3) What were the consequences of the exposed fraud? In particular, did and does the university support the fraudsters or not? 4) Who signed off on the university paying those publication fees? Did they come from a grant or similar?

@think_meaning_buildß The issue I was referring to is the deletion of that post. Also, if I thought that discussing this publicly would be a good idea, I would not have pulled the discussion with Buffy to a private room. Participating in any guessing games have a similar effect as discussing it, so I won’t do that either.

I just noticed that our manuscript has been accepted by a journal that requires that “TeX files […] must be generated using […] TeXLive 2012 or earlier”.

@think_meaning_buildß Sorry, but I do not see you having a special investment in that issue.

(If anybody else deeply cares about this issue, ping me to request get access.)

@Buffy chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/156580/…

@AzorAhai-him-: As for the number of questions where the type of conference doesn’t matter: I went through the first page of questions tagged conference and just going by the title, I would expect that twenty out of fifty fall into this category.

Also relevant is this meta question and everything linked therein:

@AzorAhai-him-: While I don’t see splitting the conference tag into two, we might add a tag warning about this (i.e., a text that shows up whenever the tag is chosen).

@Buffy I deleted the post, since it is beyond redemption anyway, but in general the problem would have resolved itself through roomba deletion in a few days.

@MartinSleziak Yes, did that. Could be that the bot that kept it alive has been deactivated. I will look into that later.

@MartinSleziak Don’t delete it. It also shouldn’t get autodeleted, since it was closed as a duplicate IIRC.

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@CodyGray Correct. Just “pixcap”, no URL (at least half of the posts; the other half contained “pixcap.com” or even an actual link). Also nothing else that I would expect to help identification.

@Cow Well, you already have some in the database. I wouldn’t go through this, unless it helps powerful pattern recognition or similar.

What about the list of posts? Would it help you?

@Cow Thank you for helping us nuke this stuff.

As for the posts themselves: I can nuke stuff myself on Graphic Design. Would you care for a list of deleted posts?

@Cow I see, but AFAICT, the pattern is pixcap.com not pixcap. That would miss half of the spam.

Can y’all blacklist pixcap? I just nuked a series of spam for this on Graphic Design (and found no non-spam mentions). It may be relevant that most spam posts do not contain URLs – which is probably how they fell through the cracks so far.

!!/report ethereum.stackexchange.com/a/164830/2714

@gparyani No, it wouldn’t. If anything, the context is relevant to the moderation of German Language and thus at most would be something to be posted on German Language Meta if all people involved want that for some reason and it is relevant to whatever is discussed there. It is not relevant to Meta Stack Exchange at all.

@JonCuster: Mind that I am not saying that learning German is a bad idea. I am saying that I find it unlikely to be the solution to the asker’s problem or even a major part thereof.

@JonCuster: Given the rest of the question, I am pretty confident that the language thing is just a pretense to avoid the company of the asker (for whatever other reason). I have never met any academic in Germany who expressed that they were stressed by speaking English. (Rather I had international scientists complain that they are lacking opportunities to learn German because Germans never speak German in their presence, even at lunch.)

Also mind that I am not disputing that there is a somewhat realistic mindset that considers elementary math useless. I am also not claiming that there is not a single person out there who holds that stance. I am disputing that there is a considerable number such people, in particular amongst math educators.

This holds for all people I have ever encountered who are worse at math than expected for the general populace or their profession. They have math anxiety, are lacking intelligence, or have experienced really bad teaching. It’s not that they consider the respective math useless.

@user21820 You are still inverting your logic here. Yes, somebody who knows what multiplication means won’t consider it useless. But that doesn’t mean that people who are not firm in multiplication automatically consider it useless.

@user21820 I do not dispute this claim (and neither does the source you are rejecting on this basis, as far as I understand). Therefore, I do not see the need to delve into this. In fact, your claim presupposes that there is a gender disparity in math anxiety, which is the same thing you are criticising the source for (again, as far as I understand).

And yes, those arguments may not be very reasonable, e.g., any monetary costs for quitting smoking quickly amortise, but smoking is an addiction that completely messes with your brain and makes you mostly incapable of doing any reasonable decisions when it comes to smoking.

@user21820 It is precisely those who are half-hearted who tend to avoid getting help, because they value their pride more than their health … – There are many more factors contributing to this like time and money required, etc. But pride can be one of the factors and any arguments attacking their pride (such as considering those who did not manage to quit delusional, half-hearted, etc.) are more likely to make them double down on whatever (wrong) arguments they have for smoking.

As far as I see the discussion so far, neither of us has produced a survey of “math haters” on their rationales that would confirm either claim and that is the only thing that would convince the other. All I can provide on that respect are studies into math anxiety (which admittedly is not exactly the same thing) and those do not mention perceived uselessness.

@user21820 Math haters in my culture may be mathematically more advanced, but uselessness of whatever part of mathematics they are struggling with is usually not amongst their arguments. This may be culture-dependent of course, but that’s not what your arguments are addressing.

@user21820 The problem, which you haven't realized yet, is that all these people who don't want to learn basic arithmetic have the WRONG idea of what arithmetic is. – I am pretty aware of that. Actually I would go further and say that most do not even have a wrong idea of what arithmetics is. That being said, I do not see how all of this relates to the claims in question.

In fact, ignoring that gender stereotypes contribute to math anxieties may be detrimental to helping people overcome it.

The observation that math anxiety is more prevalent in girls is about how society is, not about how we would like it to be.