theojf comments on ""Question closed" edits?" (6950)

theojf — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:08:00 -0700

In this case, it looks like OP added their second question to http://mathoverflow.net/questions/30983/ . So there's no real loss.

theojf comments on ""Question closed" edits?" (6949)

theojf — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:05:35 -0700

OTOH, there is the functionality of being able to actually delete one's own question. So it may be against the spirit of the game, but it is allowed by the rules.

WillieWong comments on ""Question closed" edits?" (6793)

WillieWong — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:27:28 -0700

As a matter of etiquette, what is the MO policy about "closed" questions? Browsing MO recently I came across two cases

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/28400/an-inequality-question
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/31140/equation-system-question-closed

where the original posters (I assume they are different individuals) "closed" their own questions by replacing the question text with the phrase "question closed". As a personal opinion I feel rather annoyed at this, especially in the first case (where Scott was nice enough to revert the edit and put back the original question text) where the question may be a genuinely interesting one, and the answers and discussions are of some merit. I have been under the (perhaps incorrect, as there's nothing to this effect in the FAQ) impression that part of the reason for MO is as a publicly available and searchable record of what has been discussed. Somewhat reinforcing this notion is the idea that duplicate questions are discouraged. To close a question by essentially deleting the question text is contrary to what I thought of as the spirit of MO (again, I may be under a wrong impression).

What are people's thoughts on this?

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