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Mariano comments on "Delay before deleting" (17313)

2011-11-30T21:15:45-08:00

Well, everyone knows the italians are all crazy...

theojf comments on "Delay before deleting" (17311)

2011-11-30T20:07:48-08:00

@voloch: Only that I feel like I have a fairly good grasp of language within US, and not in, say, Italy. I make no claims either way as to any other society, although if I had to bed I'd guess that most are about as bad as we are, some slightly more and some slightly less.

voloch comments on "Delay before deleting" (17295)

2011-11-30T05:39:49-08:00

What's the relevance of American society as opposed to, say, Italian society?

Angelo comments on "Delay before deleting" (17292)

2011-11-29T23:19:59-08:00

To Theo: edit the thread however you'd like.

Avoiding expressions that can hurt or offend others is certainly imperative in a public forum like this one. I don't know if mental illness language is more prevalent in American society than anywhere else, and I don't intend to start in a debate on this.

theojf comments on "Delay before deleting" (17290)

2011-11-29T14:21:40-08:00

@Angelo, Thank you. Mental illness language is extremely prevalent in American society, IMHO problematically so. So I also hope that my comment will remind others not to use it. If you like, we can edit this thread a bit just to leave a general reminder.

Angelo comments on "Delay before deleting" (17205)

2011-11-24T00:19:05-08:00

Dear Will, I got it. In any case, anyone can read the blog and make up her or his mind.

Will Jagy comments on "Delay before deleting" (17204)

2011-11-24T00:12:34-08:00

Angelo, it is not entirely about political correctness or about manners, although those are also good things to bear in mind. The trouble is that any person posting or reading on MO may well also read the comments about him, or her, here on Meta. Indeed, we deliberately announce at the original question when there is a discussion about it on Meta. Then, that person may post on Meta, and sometimes wars are started.

Angelo comments on "Delay before deleting" (17203)

2011-11-23T23:44:40-08:00

I edited the post. In any case, I did not intend it as an insult.

Gerry Myerson comments on "Delay before deleting" (17200)

2011-11-23T20:34:37-08:00

@theojf, well said.

theojf comments on "Delay before deleting" (17198)

2011-11-23T19:48:06-08:00

(Edited) Just a general reminder: please refrain from calling people mentally ill, at least publicly? There are a lot of issues surrounding "mental illness" language, and most I'm not sufficiently expert to explain or argue about. But I know extremely capable people for whom the moniker "mentally ill" is often applied, and I think the safest thing is (at least) not to use it as a casual insult.

quid comments on "Delay before deleting" (17193)

2011-11-23T06:58:12-08:00

It's in the FAQs that deleting closed questions is a 10k thing.

Ryan Budney comments on "Delay before deleting" (17191)

2011-11-23T06:32:29-08:00

@Yemon, it's probably a 10k thing... but I don't remember when this option popped up.

Angelo comments on "Delay before deleting" (17190)

2011-11-22T22:34:14-08:00

I checked out the questioner's blog . I can not make any sense out of it.

DavidRoberts comments on "Delay before deleting" (17189)

2011-11-22T22:25:07-08:00

I put another spam flag on it. How many do we need? 5?

Andy Putman comments on "Delay before deleting" (17188)

2011-11-22T22:03:33-08:00

I'm pretty sure that if enough people flag a question as "spam", it gets deleted. That seems to best way to instantly delete things.

nb : The question mentioned at the top of the thread has 3 spam flags so far. Just a couple more...

Mariano comments on "Delay before deleting" (17187)

2011-11-22T21:47:05-08:00

One can only vote to delete after a dya or two after closing—at least I get a popup informing that :)

Yemon Choi comments on "Delay before deleting" (17186)

2011-11-22T21:07:30-08:00

Ryan: I hadn't noticed the feature you mention. How much reputation does that require?

Ryan Budney comments on "Delay before deleting" (17185)

2011-11-22T21:05:35-08:00

You can further vote to delete the question. I've never used this feature before so I'm not sure how it works.

Yemon Choi comments on "Delay before deleting" (17184)

2011-11-22T21:04:44-08:00

Mariano: I just flagged that for moderator attention (and downvoted, although that is unlikely to be sufficient deterrent)

Mariano comments on "Delay before deleting" (17183)

2011-11-22T21:01:23-08:00

I know we can't change the software... but if someday we can, we should be able to delete some questions faster! Closing http://mathoverflow.net/questions/81609/ was not strong enough :/