discussion (off-topic)

[Steven G]

From this thread:

I fiddled around with "my purposely multiple steps" to make the whole thing "impressive?":

Givens: r = radius (25), h = height (45)
v = travelling velocity
t = time
u = central angle
a = arc length (path travelled)
v = travelling velocity

t = a / v
where:
a = pi(ru) / 180
u = 90 + ASIN[(h - r) / r]
v = pi(2r) / 40

As a "one-shot wonder!":

t = [90 + ASIN((h - r) / r)] / 9 ......t = ~13.903

Denis, nothing against you at all, but this is EXACTLY what I did. No difference at all and my post get deleted. Still no response from any moderator.

 

[Ishuda]

Denis, nothing against you at all, but this is EXACTLY what I did. No difference at all and my post get deleted. Still no response from any moderator.

Jomo,

Get your story straight. You said you had a response of essentially 'I didn't do it and I don't know why it happened'. If you are the only one this is happening to, I would more suspect some problem peculiar to you and/or your computer/computer connection. There are also such thing as 'transients' which really admit to no explanation. If you do want to get to the bottom of this then start collecting data (the 5 w's as much as you can) so that what is happening can possibly be put in context. I seriously doubt it is something aimed at you (although I have been wrong before)

 

[Ishuda]

Ya? When?

Well, there was that one time I though I was wrong but I was wrong. [Who could ask for a better 'straight man']

 

[Steven G]

Jomo,

Get your story straight. You said you had a response of essentially 'I didn't do it and I don't know why it happened'. If you are the only one this is happening to, I would more suspect some problem peculiar to you and/or your computer/computer connection. There are also such thing as 'transients' which really admit to no explanation. If you do want to get to the bottom of this then start collecting data (the 5 w's as much as you can) so that what is happening can possibly be put in context. I seriously doubt it is something aimed at you (although I have been wrong before)

Ishuda, I hope that this is not directed at me directly. My main issue, besides having about 10 posts removed, is why no one is responding as to what is going on. I could be wrong about this, but once I see my post listed in the forum I do not think that my computer can remove the post.
If I make any new posts I will keep a copy of it so that I can be precise about which posts I had deleted when I contact the an admin.
I hope in the end that this all works out as I have been having fun on this forum and would like to stay around for a while.
Steven

 

[stapel]

It seems I've stumbled late onto this conversation, and I certainly could be wrong, but my recollection is of many off-topic and incorrect posts which other tutors ended up correcting and explaining, at length, to the other poster. The original posters in the targeted threads seemed either to try to ignore the bad advice, to reply with questions that indicated confusion caused by the bad advice, or else to disappear entirely, perhaps to seek advice from a more reliable source. The other poster then started posting links to his/her own tutoring site.

I'm aware of the ad-links being deleted.

 

[Steven G]

It seems I've stumbled late onto this conversation, and I certainly could be wrong, but my recollection is of many off-topic and incorrect posts which other tutors ended up correcting and explaining, at length, to the other poster. The original posters in the targeted threads seemed either to try to ignore the bad advice, to reply with questions that indicated confusion caused by the bad advice, or else to disappear entirely, perhaps to seek advice from a more reliable source. The other poster then started posting links to his/her own tutoring site.

I'm aware of the ad-links being deleted.

Stapel, Thanks for your reply. I am not sure what you are really saying in the 1st half of your post (my fault) but the 2nd half is clear. First I want to say that I had about 10 posts removed, not one. 2ndly, I care very deeply about math education. I personally have videos for each and every topic you can think of. Did I post all, some, or many of my videos on this forum. The answer is no. Knowing how much trouble students have with going from written words to an equation I do admit that I posted the link to one of my videos. Do I think that I would get business from this, I do not think so at all. A very small percent of students who can't do these conversions (from english to equation) would know how to figure out how to go from the url of link (that just opens up a video and nothing else) to my website. And a very small percentage of these student who arrived at my website would hire me for tutoring. It never was about finding business at all but rather educating students. I admit that I knew that this might not be allowed but was hoping that just for this video it would be ok for me to post it when the need came up. OK, I was wrong and I apologize.
I still have the same question which I asked in the past. I made a post under administration issues 6 days ago asking why my posts were removed and received no response. 3 days ago I contacted a moderator and asked why my posts were removed and I although this moderator did send me a reply I was not told why the posts were removed. I ask this moderator to please look into this for me and again I have not heard anything.
I give my post great consideration prior to posting (and then go back to edit them to make them even clearer) and to have them removed is not what I want to see happen to them.
I am asking again, can a moderator or administrator please let me know what is going on? Not hearing a response just leave a bad feeling in my stomach about the people in power of this forum.
Steven

 

[Steven G]

It seems I've stumbled late onto this conversation, and I certainly could be wrong, but my recollection is of many off-topic and incorrect posts which other tutors ended up correcting and explaining, at length, to the other poster. The original posters in the targeted threads seemed either to try to ignore the bad advice, to reply with questions that indicated confusion caused by the bad advice, or else to disappear entirely, perhaps to seek advice from a more reliable source. The other poster then started posting links to his/her own tutoring site.

I'm aware of the ad-links being deleted.

Staplel, I re-read your post a few times (as english is not my thing) and now understand what you are saying at the beginning. I am sorry but almost all of my posts have been correct. I know of one case when I claimed that a poster who responded to a post(I forgot the poster) was not correct and this poster replied with a nice reply showing why I was wrong. I learned from this! Is this not what the forum is about? At worst it gave the original poster something to think about.
Steven

 

[Steven G]

Jomo,

Get your story straight. You said you had a response of essentially 'I didn't do it and I don't know why it happened'. If you are the only one this is happening to, I would more suspect some problem peculiar to you and/or your computer/computer connection. There are also such thing as 'transients' which really admit to no explanation. If you do want to get to the bottom of this then start collecting data (the 5 w's as much as you can) so that what is happening can possibly be put in context. I seriously doubt it is something aimed at you (although I have been wrong before)

Ishuda, I am not sure why you think that I need to get my story straight. Here is the entire message I received from a moderator.

I don't know what happened! I did not initiate or continue anything like that. As a matter of fact, I like your responses. This happened before randomly to other volunteers. Sorry, but I really don't know what to do about that....

Which part of 'I didn't do it and I don't know why it happened' is not in the moderator's response. The "I didn't do it" matches "I did not initiate or continue anything like that". "I don't know why it happened" matches "I don't know what happened!"
Steven