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The first line of defense against rude users, or users participating in bad faith, should be flagging as rude/abusive; enough flags of this sort will automatically remove comments (or the moderators can remove them manually, of course). If it's an ongoing issue, it's good to also flag the original post to notify the moderators with more information.

If the asker's behavior is disruptive enough, then I think closing the question is absolutely a good option to quiet things down and remove the platform for rudeness or disruption. However, it should not be closed as missing context. Rather, I think such questions should be closed with a custom reason (and I have done this on several occasions); this does autogenerateauto-generate a comment which can expose the close voter to targeted abuse, though, so use with caution.

You can always just use the catch-all "Not"This question is not about mathmathematics, within the scope ofdefined in the help center." I for one am of the opinion that "math within the scope of thedefined in help center" carries an assumption of basic politeness and decency.

With all that being said, I think that closure and deletion should be reserved for the most egregious cases. It is very rare [citation needed] for rude or disruptive behavior to be such a problem that judicious comment removal can't fix it.

The first line of defense against rude users, or users participating in bad faith, should be flagging as rude/abusive; enough flags of this sort will automatically remove comments (or the moderators can remove them manually, of course). If it's an ongoing issue, it's good to also flag the original post to notify the moderators with more information.

If the asker's behavior is disruptive enough, then I think closing the question is absolutely a good option to quiet things down and remove the platform for rudeness or disruption. However, it should not be closed as missing context. Rather, I think such questions should be closed with a custom reason (and I have done this on several occasions); this does autogenerate a comment which can expose the close voter to targeted abuse, though, so use with caution.

You can always just use the catch-all "Not about math within the scope of the help center." I for one am of the opinion that "math within the scope of the help center" carries an assumption of basic politeness and decency.

With all that being said, I think that closure and deletion should be reserved for the most egregious cases. It is very rare [citation needed] for rude or disruptive behavior to be such a problem that judicious comment removal can't fix it.

The first line of defense against rude users, or users participating in bad faith, should be flagging as rude/abusive; enough flags of this sort will automatically remove comments (or the moderators can remove them manually, of course). If it's an ongoing issue, it's good to also flag the original post to notify the moderators with more information.

If the asker's behavior is disruptive enough, then I think closing the question is absolutely a good option to quiet things down and remove the platform for rudeness or disruption. However, it should not be closed as missing context. Rather, I think such questions should be closed with a custom reason (and I have done this on several occasions); this does auto-generate a comment which can expose the close voter to targeted abuse, though, so use with caution.

You can always just use the catch-all "This question is not about mathematics, within the scope defined in the help center." I for one am of the opinion that "math within the scope defined in help center" carries an assumption of basic politeness and decency.

With all that being said, I think that closure and deletion should be reserved for the most egregious cases. It is very rare [citation needed] for rude or disruptive behavior to be such a problem that judicious comment removal can't fix it.

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The first line of defense against rude users, or users participating in bad faith, should be flagging as rude/abusive; enough flags of this sort will automatically remove comments (or the moderators can remove them manually, of course). If it's an ongoing issue, it's good to also flag the original post to notify the moderators with more information.

If the asker's behavior is disruptive enough, then I think closing the question is absolutely a good option to quiet things down and remove the platform for rudeness or disruption. However, it should not be closed as missing context. Rather, I think such questions should be closed with a custom reason (and I have done this on several occasions); this does autogenerate a comment which can expose the close voter to targeted abuse, though, so use with caution.

You can always just use the catch-all "Not about math within the scope of the help center." I for one am of the opinion that "math within the scope of the help center" carries an assumption of basic politeness and decency.

With all that being said, I think that closure and deletion should be reserved for the most egregious cases. It is very rare [citation needed] for rude or disruptive behavior to be such a problem that judicious comment removal can't fix it.