Please do not steal a problem solver's limelight

[lookagain]

These requests are many months long overdue, so they have lost
much of their power:


The following are ways/suggestions for that certain users here have
stolen the limelight from certain users' answers to an OP's question
and/or posted what is essentially some nonpertinent information/
opinion, which has inflated their points prematurely on the board.

1) If someone beats you to the punch, and posts the same information
(or more) regarding an answer to the OP, before you posted yours,
then please back off and delete your post. It's your tough luck.


2) Do not post after someone's post with some "great answer/clever
answer" type of comment, because theirs should be the most recent post
to read as credit. You may think you are helping by praise, but you
are just calling attention to yourself, and inflating your points.


3) Do not post that the OP's question reminds you of a different
question, X, (without bringing it back to the OP's question), thereby
throwing the original question off-track.


4) Do not post that you don't really don't know how to do that
problem. Then why are you bothering to make that post!?


5) Do not post something along the lines of "As users X, Y, ...
have stated points A, B, ... above, that means such-and-such.
You are riding their coattails and not furthering the conversation.


6) Do not post some explanation with supporting details,
and then type something along the lines of "I'm actually
not that good at math," "Math isn't my main strength," or
"Other users would know much more about this than I would."

You're giving the OP mixed messages. Why should that OP
have enough confidence in you? It smacks of insincere
humility. It's better to just leave out one of those
sayings.


7) If you want to type back-and-forth conversations
in relatively frequent fashion about a non-OP math
question issue/topic, then it is better that you go to
a subforum such as "Odds and Ends" and treat that
issue there like it's a social network among friends.


Much of the above complaints center on the user's
insecurities about 1) their math knowledge, and
2) that they are still relevant contributing forum
members.



I work hard to try to be selective, and I practice
much of the above.

All of the above constitutes inconsiderate posting behavior.

 

[lookagain]

1) Lookagain, when one of the moderators ask me to leave, I shall.


2) Otherwise, I shall continue to post as I see proper.


I'll make sure, however, not to comment on your posts again.

1) That's not a valid statement, as it went off-topic and didn't address what I typed.
Being asked to leave isn't anywhere meaning to being moderated. Please stick to
the merits of what I typed, not some other scenario you imagine and presented here.

2) That's goes without saying. It's part and parcel with your defiance, defensiveness,
and condoning of your inconsiderate posting behavior.

 

[daon2]

What are "points"? And I may not speak for everyone, but as we are here to help with math problems, who really cares about credit? The problems posted on this site aren't exactly Nobel prize winners.

 

[lookagain]

What are "points"? They are the number of posts which determine
what category of proficiency a user is labelled next to their username.

And I may not speak for everyone,
but as we are here to help with math problems,
who really cares about credit?

It is disingenuous to use the question "Who cares?"
when I demonstrated I am one of them. so, no, do not
presume to speak for anyone.
And, it is a deflection away from what I typed in a previous post.

Also, it is not an either/or situation. The logic is that helping people with
math problems does not preclude the helper from getting credit.


The problems posted on this site aren't exactly Nobel prize winners.
This statement deserves a "So what" response. Don't change the
subject to the level of problems, minimize them/downplay them
by making false comparisons to some other non-related things
("Nobel Peace Prizes").

I am asking that when anyone replies to me that they use some
correct basic logical arguments, not some deflections
based in emotionalism.

 

[daon2]

Well, then, given that I have thousands of posts under my past unrecoverable usernames since 2005, I should be awarded many more "points"

I was clearly suggesting it is my opinion that getting credit for helping someone with a math problem (on an anonymous internet message board, nonetheless) is silly. Well, unless you plan to put your "point count" on your resume, and I highly suggest you do .

Anyway, I won't elevate this anymore. Have fun with your mission

 

[HallsofIvy]

Lookagain, when one of the moderators ask me to leave, I shall. Otherwise, I shall continue to post as I see proper. I'll make sure, however, not to comment on your posts again.

Hah! I thought he was talking about me!

 

[lookagain]

Well, then, given that I have thousands of posts under my past unrecoverable usernames since 2005, I should be awarded many more "points"

I was clearly suggesting it is my opinion that getting credit
Nope, you were clearly showing that you don't know how to argue,
especially not sticking to the merits of what I stated, and not making pertinent points.


I would suggest that all of our posts you have ever made be credited to me,
as long as you aren't caring who put out the effort with the specific ideas.
Getting credit means that that person is the author of those ideas and is
noted a such.
I was glad to take credit with several of your posts as far back as early
July of this year, and make the changes in those threads.
Because you don't care about the crediting of your posts,
that is you abdicating them, I took the credit.


for helping someone with a math problem

(on an anonymous internet message board, nonetheless)
immaterial

is silly. "Silly!?" Why don't you change your username to mine, because
you don't care to have credit for any of your posts?

Well, unless you plan to put your "point count"
on your resume, and I highly suggest you do .

Again, do not bother posting unless you're going to follow basic
argument-making. My resume has nothing to do with it.
You are going to keep changing the subject?

Anyway, I won't elevate this anymore.

You haven't elevated anything here. All you did
was meddle with your trolling posts, as well as
make a lack of proper arguments.


Have fun with your mission
Take your load of misplaced, misapplied,
inappopriate sarcasm and channel it into something useful in a
discussion..

...

 

[lookagain]

Hah! I thought he was talking about me!

I try to avoid you with your veteran association with the Physics Forum,
and, with different personalities, the likes
of psychotic, delusional liars such as lisab (or whatever her username is).
She stated in that forum that she never (or has never) learned anything from
watching television.

 

[lookagain]

Well, I don't know what "the finger pointer from behind his screen"
accused ya'll of, because I have him on my "IGNORE list";
perhaps you should do the same

Perhaps, to anyone who can communicate my post to Denis, Denis perhaps
you can stop meddling with other people's decisions of what to do in regards
to my posts.