tea.mathoverflow.net - Discussion Feed (delete and reopen)

Harry Gindi comments on "delete and reopen" (12750)

2011-01-25T12:06:31-08:00

Apply liberally for maximal lulz.

Emerton comments on "delete and reopen" (12746)

2011-01-25T06:03:04-08:00

Dear Minasteris,

People can read closed questions, and leave comments on them. It is not as if your question has vanished.

In earlier threads it was explained (particularly by MO Scribe) why your question attracted votes to close: it was poorly phrased, and the emphasis was such that it was not clear whether it was either interesting or difficult.

You could try editing your question (which is possible, whether or not it is closed) to take into account the comments you have received from me and MO Scribe, and then start a thread on meta asking for people to reopen it.

One thing to remember is that there is no single "you" who voted to close; five individuals chose to do so for five individual reasons. To get your question reopened, you need to convince five people to vote for this. Reposting your question is never going to be a successful approach. Editing your question to reflect what you now know, and to put the question in a context which makes it clearer what the true issues are, may well be successful.

Regards,

Matthew Emerton

minasteris comments on "delete and reopen" (12739)

2011-01-24T23:56:35-08:00

My first question was closed as not of research level.When i explained why this is a research level question( a fact that now seems to be accepted, or not? ) it was closed as duplicate (not reasonable to me too).The answer that i have from MO is that it is open(or too difficult) for any a.
So , because of your strong belief that nobody would tell something (are you sure?) i accept not to go further (although i do not think that MO's policy is too close the too difficult questions: there are many examples of too difficult but not closed questions at MO ). Thank you.
NOTE:I am not asking because you didn't answered the question, but because nobody who might had an idea at MO (there are expert people at sieve techniques,or not?) can't post an answer because it is closed and maybe will not pay any attention to a closed question so any chance of me to learn something from an expert about this or to have an opinion from someone expert goes away.

Yemon Choi comments on "delete and reopen" (12726)

2011-01-24T21:23:50-08:00

It's not reasonable to expect that someone will come along and essentially write a research paper in order to answer your question.

In my view, this nails it (and is a response I may refer people to in any similar, future events).

Ben Webster comments on "delete and reopen" (12724)

2011-01-24T20:04:40-08:00

As a point of MO policy, I would say the answer is absolutely no. If you do that, I think the correct response would be to delete the new question and undelete the old one. There's a procedure for the MO community as a whole to decide they were wrong to close a question, that's the reopen button. We discussed your question a lot as I recall, and you couldn't convince 5 people to press the reopen button. That's how MO works.

Emerton comments on "delete and reopen" (12723)

2011-01-24T18:12:37-08:00

Dear Minasteris,

The answer (to your question about reposting your question) is "no". As I (and others, such as MO Scribe) have explained to you on several occasions, there is a reason that your original question has not been answered: on the one hand, standard conjectures imply that there are infintely many numbers that can't be written in the form you ask about; on the other hand, as MO Scribe explained in their answer, and as I explained in my answer on Math.SE, rigorously proving this would seem to require cutting edge seive techniques, if it is possible at all.

It's not reasonable to expect that someone will come along and essentially write a research paper in order to answer your question. You should just accept that the answer is currently conjectured to be yes, but is not proved, and leave it at that. (Alternatively, you could try to learn the relevant techniques yourself and prove it.)

Regards,

Matthew Emerton

Scott Morrison comments on "delete and reopen" (12718)

2011-01-24T10:34:39-08:00

For context, you should read this comment thread first before jumping in here.

minasteris comments on "delete and reopen" (12717)

2011-01-24T08:49:54-08:00

There is a question of mine that in my opinion should not have been closed because i haven't get still any answer.Could I delete it and ask it again? the question is this http://mathoverflow.net/questions/50159/do-we-have-a-proof-of-the-infinitness