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monty comments on "Who is voting these up?" (22246)

monty — Wed, 29 May 2013 08:52:03 -0700

@quid: You are right. I am not very fluent in English.

quid comments on "Who is voting these up?" (22245)

quid — Wed, 29 May 2013 08:28:01 -0700

@monty: In view of your comment on main: presumably your 'towards' arises translating 'gegen' yet 'against' seems the meaning you intend.

Asaf Karagila comments on "Who is voting these up?" (22244)

Asaf Karagila — Wed, 29 May 2013 08:07:48 -0700

monty,

Your comment here is a good contender for "most incoherent comment award".

monty comments on "Who is voting these up?" (22242)

monty — Wed, 29 May 2013 08:01:10 -0700

I was not voting this up, but I would do it if I could. Douglas Zare you are wrong. And now you are gathering an army to fight towards the reality of mathematics. Mathematics is discourse between mathematicians. Things that cannot be said must stay outside.

Joel Reyes Noche comments on "Who is voting these up?" (22239)

Joel Reyes Noche — Wed, 29 May 2013 06:35:54 -0700

I'm deleting my comment so as not to add to the noise. I didn't upvote or downvote the answer.

quid comments on "Who is voting these up?" (22238)

quid — Wed, 29 May 2013 06:18:25 -0700

Me too. (But then sometimes voting on MO is very strange so it could be a coincidence.)

SteveLandsburg comments on "Who is voting these up?" (22235)

SteveLandsburg — Wed, 29 May 2013 05:20:45 -0700

Prior to seeing this post, I was thinking exactly the same thing.

Douglas Zare comments on "Who is voting these up?" (22231)

Douglas Zare — Wed, 29 May 2013 04:37:32 -0700

The voting on this answer does not seem normal: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/18375/is-there-any-finitely-long-sequence-of-digits-which-is-not-found-in-the-digits-of/132035#132035

The answer is wrong. It received 5 down votes, then 3 up votes, then another down vote (which is how the author currently has 29 reputation). Some of the people arguing with the author have made incorrect statements about trivial things, and have made other questionable statements, but it is still odd that so far 4 of AGreen's comments received exactly 3 up votes, too, comments including statements like, "But in order to have an absolute proof, you need absolute information. This is given by the laws of physics... That is a proof completely independent from assumed axioms. It holds for mathematics, because mathematics happens in the real world." I would not expect that to be voted up 3 times. The most plausible explanation to me is that those all of these up votes came from the same 3 accounts, and that they are the same person.