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    A couple of hours after http://mathoverflow.net/questions/70346 was closed on accoount of incomprehensibility, David Speyer managed to comprehend it, explain it, and answer it, in the comments. I think it would be a good thing if the question could appear in David's formulation, together with David's answer (and, presumably, OP's acceptance). How can we bring about such an improved state?
    • CommentAuthorvoloch
    • CommentTimeJul 15th 2011
     
    The second half of the question still has not been clarified or answered and I believe it doesn't make sense. David certainly deserves to be praised by his effort in clarifying and answering the first half, but I don't think these ill-thought out, non-sensical questions should be encouraged.
    • CommentAuthorgilkalai
    • CommentTimeJul 15th 2011
     
    Gerry asked: "How can we bring about such an improved state?", I think the only way (without putting a burden on the mdoerators) is to reopen the question. Then the question should be edited and David's answer should be collected from the comments to become an answer. If the problem remains closed still another option would be to edit part 1 and to add David's answer to the body of the question.
    • CommentAuthorWillieWong
    • CommentTimeJul 15th 2011
     

    Gil Kalai:

    I think the only way (without putting a burden on the mdoerators) is to reopen the question.

    Voloch:

    The second half of the question still has not been clarified or answered and I believe it doesn't make sense.

    I think the question should be edited first to address Voloch's objection (which I imagine is shared by a few of the people who voted to close, looking at the comments) before it is re-opened.

    • CommentAuthorgilkalai
    • CommentTimeJul 15th 2011
     
    WillieWong "I think the question should be edited first"
    I agree
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    The question is still incoherent, so I can't come down in favor of reopening. It's impressive that David Speyer sussed out the meaning in the first half of it, but this feat stands on record already. I don't think it is a disservice to him at least to have his answer given as a comment.

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    The trouble with the status quo on Question 70346 is that (please correct me if I'm wrong) closed questions get automagically deleted by the software after some time. I'm that's right, then David Speyer's feat will not stand on record very long.
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    Where did you hear that? None of the big-list CW questions we've closed have been deleted, and some of them were closed quite some time ago.

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    @Gerry: No, there is no automatic deletion of questions.

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    I meant closed questions that have no answers, not the big list questions. I thought I read that they get deleted after some time, but evidently I misremembered. Maybe that's how it works on MathStackExchange.
    • CommentAuthorWillieWong
    • CommentTimeJul 17th 2011
     

    @Gerry: that is an SE2 feature. The criterion there also requires the closed question to have a net negative vote total.

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