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| Mar 5, 2024 at 12:29 | comment | added | Xander Henderson Mod | What we will not tolerate, as moderators, is users vandalizing their posts, deleting questions immediately after receiving answers, or playing games like this ("Oh, no! Someone posted an unverifiable contest problem!"). There is no way for us to verify that this question is, actually, part of an attempt to cheat, so we can't let it enter into the decision making process in terms of whether or not a permanent moderator decision should be made. If you think it is a bad question, vote to close. Do not expect the moderators to do everything. | |
| Mar 5, 2024 at 12:27 | comment | added | Xander Henderson Mod | (b) As moderators, we are typically relatively hands off when it comes to deleting posts. Remember that moderator deletions cannot be undone by anyone except another moderator or SE staff. A mod deletion is about as permanent as anything which happens on the site. So it is a power we use sparingly, and typically only to destroy spam and other nonsense. However, the fact that the moderators won't act here does not prevent the community from acting. If the someone looks at that question and says "Oh, hey, that question is a poor fit for the site," they are free to cast a close/delete vote. | |
| Mar 5, 2024 at 12:25 | comment | added | Xander Henderson Mod | The context requirements exist as an attempt to protect the integrity of the site as a repository of high quality questions and answers. It is about trying to ensure that the questions asked here are broadly interesting (rather than giving individualized aid, the goal is that any question asked here will be useful to future readers) and searchable (more context makes it easier for future readers to find a question). | |
| Mar 5, 2024 at 12:23 | comment | added | Xander Henderson Mod | @N.Virgo I think that you misunderstand (a) the purpose of the "context" requirements, and (b) the role of moderators in this. (a) The context requirements do not exist to prevent cheating---the SE network is not designed to prevent students from attempting to gain aid that they are not supposed to have access to. Indeed, even in the case of competition problems, our policy is very restrictive (we cannot, as moderators, delete a competition question unless we can publicly verify that the problem is from an active contest). | |
| Mar 5, 2024 at 8:51 | comment | added | N. Virgo | What the hell? We have reasonable questions being closed left, right and centre because commenters say they "lack context" and therefore might be cheating, but when a question very clearly is cheating on a known, specific text, the mods are all like "oh, our hands are tied, we can't do anything." This site's policies are completely twisted around so as to produce the least optimal outcome in every situation. | |
| Feb 29, 2024 at 11:18 | comment | added | Ham Lemon | Oh yes that is true, I did not consider that, you would have to buy the mathematical gazette series A and B and then translate it to find the problems, they are not distributing it for free right now. Sorry😅 | |
| Feb 28, 2024 at 18:13 | comment | added | Xander Henderson Mod | @HamLemon That seems to give the rules, but I am having trouble finding a publicly viewable list of problems on that site. I will ping the other moderators, and see what they think. | |
| Feb 27, 2024 at 12:09 | comment | added | Ham Lemon | The end date and other information required to confirm that this is a contest is also given in the aforementioned site. The book Gazeta Matematica is used as a source for district Olympiad problems too as the OP has provided in his document (you can ask the source from him) and these contests are also used to select students for the national mathematics Olympiad of Romania. The current version can be downloaded or purchased on official sites (can be directed from Gazeta Matematica Facebook page) and you can find that all the problems that the OP mentioned have been asked by the OOP | |
| Feb 27, 2024 at 12:05 | comment | added | Ham Lemon | I do not know how much I am helping, but I did find regulations for the Mathematics Gazette and Viitori Olimpici Contest, these questions are indeed from the current version of Gazeta Matematica which is used as a source to provide questions to students. The regulations clearly state the person should not be using any other solution except for his own and will be disqualified if found to break that rule : i.sstatic.net/JzSnb.jpg. also the other rules can be found here : gmb.ssmr.ro/concurs/regulament. | |
| Feb 27, 2024 at 1:06 | comment | added | Xander Henderson Mod | Please understand that Math SE is not set up to prevent cheating, and it is simply not something which we can generally do. Imagine, for a moment, if a particular user decided that they didn't like another user and started accusing them of cheating on exams or competitions or some such. It would be very hard for us to adjudicate the truth of such claims. As such, we have very stringent rules governing when we will temporarily remove contest content. | |
| Feb 27, 2024 at 1:05 | comment | added | Xander Henderson Mod | @Wizard That doesn't really cut the mustard. A .pdf document on some random Discord server is not a publicly viewable list of problems or a ruleset giving a contest end date, nor prohibiting outside help. | |
| Feb 26, 2024 at 21:04 | vote | accept | Martin.s | ||
| Feb 26, 2024 at 20:14 | comment | added | Martin.s | I’m sorry, but I was out of town at that time. Here is the PDF cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1211764223856738305/… | |
| Feb 26, 2024 at 19:30 | history | answered | Xander HendersonMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |