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The user named "Luke" posts a lot of questions that look close to homework problems to my eyes, mostly of the point-set topology variety.
http://mathoverflow.net/users/18465/luke
His questions are typically answered quickly, sometimes with comments to the affect of my sentence above. He's been posting questions of this variety for several years now, so it's hard to imagine these are actually homework problems but they're certainly not research questions.
I thought I'd mention this quirky trend.
I first ignored this since I do not know much anything about topology, however I now stumbled over it on main, so: my general stance on this would be to insist on motivation being provided. (The frequent lack of which is IMO in general the main source of most controversy related to mathematical questions.)
Assuming this is the same user as http://math.stackexchange.com/users/36171/paul?tab=questions it would seem that some of these are homework of some sort, although perhaps not part of a formal assignment
OK, the continued refusal to be candid about motivation and context, and the lack of indication of any growth in learning, are starting to get on my wick. If it doesn't contravene the "letter of the law" on MO, it seems to go against the spirit. I am not sure I'd be OK having someone with this attitude as a future colleague.
followed soon afterwards by
I did not flag it, but personally I find this comment
@Yemon Choi: You are not very welcome. It seems that you only can do this, what other could you do?
made by OP on the question mentioned by Yemon Choi considerably worse than various other things considered as offensive by some around here (I do not mean my recent problem, or at least not mainly).
(The point why this is a lot worse IMO is that it questions the mathematical competence, as opposed to creating some issues on secondary levels.)
@quid: since English is evidently not the first language of "Luke"/"Paul", I chose to read that comment more charitably as
You are not very welcoming. It seems you only do this [complaining], do you have any other [constructive comments or answers] '?
I don't see myself as in the wrong here, but I'd stop short of saying the comment was offensive. The long term behaviour, on the other hand, really does offend my sensibilities, as it does not evince any growth in understanding, merely someone calling the plumber every time he or she wants to turn the radiator up or down.
More of the same. These would be fairly fussy homework problems if that's what they are.
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/123828/a-question-on-linearly-lindelof-space
The last question before the current one http://mathoverflow.net/questions/123697/a-question-from-arhangelskii-buzyakova might (or might not) shed some light on the motivation.
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