Why are those kind of posts deleted [duplicate]

While looking at my list of 'recently deleted answers' I found two deleted questions, and I strongly disagree. Both are non-trivial (interesting) problems with interesting answers.

My opinion: MSE is about questions and answers, sometimes an user doesn't show much efforts in his question but receives good quality answers. In fact this is very common for non-trivial topics, for a simple reason: the less trivial a topic is, the less we understand it, higher the chances are that our efforts are nonsense.

Is an ideal finitely generated if its radical is finitely generated?

if $$x+y+z=0$$ then $$(\zeta(x) +\zeta(y) + \zeta(z))^2= \wp(x) + \wp(y) +\wp(z)$$?

• MSE is about Good questions with good answers. Mar 8 '21 at 16:32
• I have no doubt that those are interesting posts, but there's a guidelines on math.SE which makes lot of sense to be there, and that is that a question needs to have context, attempts, etc. If it's too little or isn't there, then they're likely to be closed, and then perhaps deleted, as was here the case. Mar 8 '21 at 16:38
• I agree that for difficult questions one may not get any significant attempts from most askers, but perhaps they may say a thing or two about $\zeta(x)$ like they said about $\wp$ being Weierstrass elliptic function. Context is not just about attempt, but giving some reasonable amount of information which makes the question interesting to people (including but not limited to asker/answerers).
– Paramanand Singh Mod
Mar 8 '21 at 16:40
• @ParamanandSingh Nothing prevents from editing the question instead of voting to delete, when there are some good quality answers. Doesn't that make much more sense? "the guidelines" don't say that we should delete good quality answers, which is the effect of the delete votes. Again this is not about deleting the question, but deleting both the question and the answers. Mar 8 '21 at 17:20
• @reuns: two reasons: 1) reviewers may not be expert in that topic and hence may not feel really confident in editing and 2) it is not advisable to change the intent of a poster by editing their post otherwise poster may feel bad. I admit that I don't like good answers (including yours about $\wp$ here) being deleted, but a combination of good answer + bad question gives little learning opportunity to people who are new to the topic (they may be just put off by reading the question itself) .
• @amWhy How can I guess what needs to be improved in the question? In the context of the tag elliptic functions we usually don't define $\wp(z)$, for $\zeta(z)$ (Weierstrass zeta) it may be different but it is hard to guess what people with different knowledge want to see written in the question. Once you know what the question means it is obvious why the OP didn't show any attempt: because it was too hard for him at this time. Mar 8 '21 at 17:33