Timeline for How to handle crankery on MathOverflow 2.0?
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| Apr 7, 2019 at 13:32 | comment | added | Joseph Van Name | -1. The problem is when users on this site vote to delete high quality posts because they do not appreciate the science behind them. | |
| Jul 13, 2013 at 16:50 | comment | added | Andy Putman | @NateEldredge : Good point, I deleted the link. | |
| Jul 13, 2013 at 16:49 | history | edited | Andy Putman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 13, 2013 at 15:02 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | @AndyPutman: I suppose the link you gave was to a spammy answer, which has now been deleted? For users < 10K, the link now leads to the question itself, which makes it look like you are saying the question is spam. | |
| Jun 26, 2013 at 9:04 | comment | added | Manishearth | @AsafKaragila iirc the VLQ queue is based on an algorithm. | |
| Jun 26, 2013 at 3:01 | comment | added | Kaveh | The text for spam flag reads as follows: "This question is effectively an advertisement with no disclosure. It is not useful or relevant, but promotional." It seems to me it applies to posts about crank preprints, doesn't it? | |
| Jun 25, 2013 at 21:50 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | Okay then. I suppose this was the only thing that got to the LQ queue. Which means that it works slightly differently than I have expected (if you flagged the post in your answer as LQ, it certainly didn't get there). Perhaps it's time to make a feature request... | |
| Jun 25, 2013 at 21:45 | comment | added | Andy Putman | @AsafKaragila : There are 6 people listed as voting to delete that answer, including you. | |
| Jun 25, 2013 at 21:43 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | Do you see only your reviews, or do you see mine as well? | |
| Jun 25, 2013 at 21:26 | comment | added | Andy Putman | Hmmm...My LQ review queue's history is very small (it only contains stuff about mathoverflow.net/questions/53669/…). Does anyone else see other things in it? | |
| Jun 25, 2013 at 21:12 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | No, the history should contain all the actions anyone did. I know that on MSE I can see the full history. Perhaps "enough" is 20k, then. Can you get 2.5k reputation really quick? :-) | |
| Jun 25, 2013 at 21:05 | comment | added | Andy Putman | Hmm...I didn't see in in the review queue's history. Maybe it just got deleted too quickly. | |
| Jun 25, 2013 at 21:04 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | It's hard to tell. I didn't see it there (I flagged it as spam (because it contained that shameless link to vixra) and it got deleted, though). If you have enough reputation then you should be able to see other people's action on the review queue's history. I don't have enough reputation here and I don't know how much is "enough", probably 10k. | |
| Jun 25, 2013 at 20:53 | comment | added | Andy Putman | Actually, this is important -- did the post above end up in the LQ queue? If not, then I'm not sure what went wrong. | |
| Jun 25, 2013 at 20:52 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | Oh right right, LQ queue is empty. I'm just distracted by the other numbers! :-) | |
| Jun 25, 2013 at 20:49 | comment | added | Andy Putman | @AsafKaragila : Huh, that's weird. My low-quality queue is empty; it had only a few items in it after the migration, and I dealt with them pretty quickly. Is there something wrong? | |
| Jun 25, 2013 at 20:47 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | The problem with LQ flags deletions is that they are only accessible from the review system which means that first we need to clear out the gigantic queue there for this to be an effective mean to fight cranks. | |
| Jun 25, 2013 at 20:15 | comment | added | Andy Putman | @YemonChoi : Sure is! Let's vote it into oblivion. | |
| Jun 25, 2013 at 20:14 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | Andy, isn't that a repeat offender plugging his vixra paper? I recognize the style | |
| Jun 25, 2013 at 20:06 | history | edited | Andy Putman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 25, 2013 at 17:35 | history | answered | Andy Putman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |