Timeline for Should we vote to delete wrong answers?
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| Jan 18, 2018 at 8:05 | comment | added | user21820 | @PyRulez: Yes I have no problem with soft-answers that do not claim any incorrect facts. I also have no issues with opinion-based answers about definitions that don't have clear-cut factual answers. | |
| Jan 18, 2018 at 7:54 | comment | added | Christopher King | @user21820 I don't really have an example on hand. I was just noting that any definition is subjective (although usually easy to answer) and questions about definitions are on-topic on this site. So this answer only applies to completely objective answers. (Also note that soft-question is also subjective.) | |
| Jan 18, 2018 at 7:52 | comment | added | user21820 | @PyRulez: I don't understand your question. What specific scenario do you have in mind? Do you have an example posts that you would like to know my opinion on? | |
| Jan 18, 2018 at 7:06 | comment | added | Christopher King | @user21820 What about things like definitions? | |
| Nov 28, 2017 at 7:17 | comment | added | user21820 | @user8734617: Yes that is an often encountered problem and worse still there is no obvious indication so many users do not know this, including some who think (wrongly) that the poster does not want to delete. | |
| Nov 28, 2017 at 1:03 | comment | added | user491874 | Just something to vent out... as a fresh user I posted an unuseful answer which I wanted to delete. Found no ‘delete’ button on my Android StackExchange app. Thought it was something to do with my reputation and tried to do other useful stuff hoping that soon I would be allowed to delete that answer. Was finally more than relieved when others deleted it for me. Finally found out that, had I used the browser instead of the app, I could have deleted the answer all along... | |
| Nov 27, 2017 at 8:56 | comment | added | user21820 | @PeterTaylor: I did not miss the point. During an ongoing discussion in the comments, I have no problems with the answer being there. Eric asked a different question about the answerer sincerely believing their answer to be correct. I submit that this should be very rare (if at all) for professional mathematicians. I also submit that people who are not experts in a field may have so-called sincere belief that they are correct exactly like people who have so-called sincere belief that the earth is flat. In that case, experts should vote to delete mathematically wrong content. | |
| Nov 27, 2017 at 8:48 | comment | added | Peter Taylor | Your response to @EricWofsey seems to me to miss the point: while A and B are discussing why they disagree on whether A's answer is correct or not, should A's answer be visible or deleted? | |
| Nov 27, 2017 at 8:47 | comment | added | user21820 | @ParamanandSingh: The irony is the downvoters on my answer here. I cannot fathom which sentence is objectionable to those who treasure mathematics. However, I do know quite a number of Math SE users who have refused to fix errors that are pointed out to them, sadly. | |
| Nov 27, 2017 at 8:23 | comment | added | Paramanand Singh Mod | Couldn't agree more with your remark on sincerety. +1 if one is sincerely trying to post incorrect answers then there is not much hope left. | |
| Nov 26, 2017 at 6:43 | comment | added | user21820 | @EricWofsey: That is acceptable in other (subjective) subjects, but not mathematics most of the time, where it is really a matter of manually verifiable fact whether or not something has been rigorously proven. Sure, for difficult or long proofs this is time-consuming, but it cannot be that two sincere mathematicians insist that one another is wrong about whether a proof is correct and refuse to work together to figure out the problem. | |
| Nov 26, 2017 at 0:29 | comment | added | Eric Wofsey | I generally agree with this sentiment, but you are missing another important possibility, which is that the author does not understand why their answer is incorrect and sincerely believes it is correct even after their error has been pointed out. | |
| Nov 25, 2017 at 14:33 | history | answered | user21820 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |