GingerAle

Despite Synth's insistence, there are no viruses here, but perhaps there is bug spray for a mutant synthetic dung-beetle, that balls up fecal matter and throws it all over the forum.   

This is disturbing! Not Synth’s comments –he’s bitched about Melody for weeks. Nothing new there.  But for you CPhill, something is very amiss! 

CPhill, there is no doubt you are a good mathematician and certainly prolific in your output. However your moderator skills are poor. Synth may have the right to speak his piece of dung, and if this was directed directly to Melody, she could deal with it as a small part of a day’s work.  But Synth directed this to you in particular and to the forum in general. The stench of it should not be left to linger without a counter point and contradiction. 

Letting that synthetic piece of sh*t make such a comment about Melody (twice) without contradiction is tantamount to agreeing with it.  It is very poor form, and is bloody dishonorable on many levels. Who the f**k are you, and what did you do with Sir CPhill? 

Rather than play hide-and-seek with this post, I’ll continue this (sometime) on a new post, without the overt, but worthy, criticism...  It will be a Timeline post. It will delineate the least common denominator  for the success and failure of this math forum.

GA

Topic of the Day: Show Some Bloody Respect!!

Rom is not a college student strutting his skills. Rom is a professional engineer. I’m sure neither of you understood what that means.

A professional engineer is like a doctor of mathematics and physics (instead of medicine). Just like in the medical field, many who attempt this level of education drop out or fail long before reaching their goal.

A professional engineer’s ethical responsibility often far exceeds that of a medical doctor. Because if an MD fails, a person may die, but if a PE fails, many hundreds or thousands can die. Every high-rise, bridge, plane and nuclear power plant is certified by professional engineers.

Guess what happened when they don’t get it right!? That’s right, they get an “F” on their report card, and mum paddles their butts.

Rom is one of the most advanced mathematicians in the (educated) world –at least the top two percent.

You two should have more respect. Though, I really don’t expect anything like respect from the Synthetic floater, but I do from you, CPC. 

BTW, Rom passed and you two failed. I can’t paddle your butts, but I can give you a negative six (-6) and negative seven (-7 )points for a net of minus five (-5) each.  Rom gets a plus six (6) for a net of positive five (+5) on each post.

GA

Yes …well, I’m not a moderator, but I am a Genetically Enhanced Chimp, and …

(continued on your post…)  

So, maybe I could test this theory anyway…

But without proper credentials, it’s unethical…and probably illegal. Worst of all, the real moderators might be really, really pissed at me. I would have to stay in the high treetops to avoid the incoming missiles of banana peels, mangos, and small coconuts they’d throw at me.

Living in the treetops may seem like the highlife, but it would become tiresome, quickly.  It is a nice place to visit, though.    

The brilliant, bear-feeding-troll-post link now works.

GA

Hear, Hear!

Other irritating posting behaviors include:

*Titling the post with Help #, or halppppppppppp  or help pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

*Posting a question as an image –worse, using a link to an image. 

  The links often become inactive after a length of time, and these are very difficult to search for in the archives.  

*Deleting posts after the question is answered.

*Posting numerous, closely-related questions.

  Some students just dump their homework on here with abandon.

*Questions presented without context or related charts, graphs, or tables.

  I wouldn’t expect younger students to have skills in presenting well-couched context, but presenting a proper question (in context) is necessary for learning advanced mathematics.   

*Repeating questions.

  Students repeat questions because the answer is wrong or not understood. Rather than belaboring themselves by asking for clarification, they repost them, without so much as a hesitant “f**k you!” Sometimes the questions are repeated as part of the curriculum (AoPS is well known for this), but the students don’t remember them, nor do they bother to look through their posts, so they just post them again.  Another form of repetition is where a question was previously asked (often many times) by other students. It’s easier to repost the question than research it.  

It’s too bad the Mods can’t make you invisible. 

In response to your complaint that the moderators chose to delete an anonymous post, lamenting about homework and feeling suicidal, instead of helping the situation. 

I think they are helping the situation. The Moderators are skilled mathematicians, not trained psychologists.  They are not obliged to help with psychological issues and neither should they

–especially for lamentations that express suicidal ideations. Hiding such posts does help the forum, because shared suicidal ideations may be contagious –especially in young persons.  

This may be the only public math forum on the net that allows social posting. Andre Mossow created and implemented the “off-topic” label and filter for this purpose.  When used, readers of this forum can filter out the social posts and focus on the math posts or the vice versa. 

Some of the forum’s social posts are wondrous examples of coming-of-age social interaction, and a few have anecdotes of life with amazing narrative commentaries. And, of course, there are hilarious troll posts relating to math and social commentary.

In contrast to those wondrous examples are the many social posts that fit in the category of mind-numbing drivel –often posted as hyper-emotional teenage angst. This mind-numbing drivel, requires purging to de-clutter (and sanitize) the forum. This was known in the old-days as much ado about nothing!  Now it’s known as piss-and-moan about everything!

 Most of your posts fit in the mind-numbing drivel category. You rarely post anything beyond mumbling idiocy; others add their own mumbling idiocy to your posts, creating a cauldron of synthetic offal that you slowly heat with your slow burn about being maligned and dissed. You are attempting to breed contempt toward the moderators, and Melody in particular. 

Your attempt at contempt is contemptible in reason and application. Your communication skills consummately suck in your single phrases of mumble and murmur about being dissed for posting sewage and slop. 

Have you noticed that those who post on the thread never agree with you? At best, they only sympathize –a little.  If Melody bit your head off, half the forum would applaud. The other half would if they were aware. None would applaud as loud as me, except for the other troll on here who was the first to define you as a synthetic floater that won’t flush. 

On this forum, you have an amazing opportunity to learn mathematics, yet, you’ve never asked a single math question.   You should avail yourself of this opportunity.   Of course, it is easier just to piss-and-moan about everything. 

GA

You know EP, I’m pretty positive whoever posted that was an idiot.

He could be a smart-ass troll … or maybe he was measuring the ORP of THC, LSD, or 4-phosphoryloxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine and contaminated himself.

The ORP registers as idiot, but it’s not an exact measure.

GA

Oh yes, they can!