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How to handle crankery on MathOverflow 2.0?
@YemonChoi There are some users that (as a matter of principle, it appears) upvote everything with negative score.
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Those are the ones I found. Pointless and boring.
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(Ah, some sleuthing revealed hypothetical history, funny non-well-orderings, and the like.)
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OK, they are already deleted. (Hmm... No, none of them appear on the list.)
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How to handle crankery on MathOverflow 2.0?
Asaf, are there currently any examples that have not yet been deleted?
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What's our consensus on people resurrecting old questions just to edit formatting?
Hi Joel! I am not opposed to minor edits or spelling corrections, I do that myself every now and then, and they of course improve the site overall. I am opposed to seeing twenty of them at the same time, so they cover the front page, in posts whose clarity is not really improved by these changes, which is what we saw a couple of days ago. (This is the "we are all expecting to be reasonable" I mentioned days ago. If one edits reasonably, nobody will be annoyed as a result, and everything gets better.)
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@quid I noticed you also tested other features (automatic removal of spaces, etc). What were the results?
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My suggestion worked.
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Try "$ \$\{\}\$ $Hello ...."
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:-)${}{}{}{}{}$
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To be clear, the ridiculousness we are currently seeing in the front page, where at least 6 rather old and dormant questions are there simply because of minor edits by the same person, is not reasonable, and I would encourage this behavior to be avoided.
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Petition a feature-request that stops this from happening. It will most likely be rejected, and some of us will be minorly unhappy for a small amount of time, and the world will move on.
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No, @quid. It means your edit should not remove the Hello.