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From: William Elliot on 21 May 2010 03:36
On Thu, 20 May 2010, Bart Goddard wrote:
> Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen(a)math.missouri.edu> wrote in news:Nb-
>
>> I'm hoping that the s.m.moderated will only reject posts that are off
>> topic or spam or obscenity. I hope it will not reject posts based upon
>> the correctness of the math content, nor reject posts simply because it
>> is a troll. I would love to see those endless discussions about "is
>> 0.99999... the same as 1" be allowed to continue.
>
> That's pretty close to what the potential moderators have
> agreed to. The moderators might decide, however, that
> the 0.999... threads are dominating the group and curtail
> them (perhaps banning the topic for a month to let the
> the smoke clear.)
>
Better is to give posters of persistent mathematical nonsense
a rejection slip with a recommendation to post at sci.math.

Then those who love to read the lengthy blah-blahs, could be able to
read them at sci.math. For all we know, the one's who proclaim the
most that they love the stuff could be producing the pulp and are
attempting to preemptively undermine moderation. Even so, allowing
persistent nonsense, as contrasted to occasional nonsense, does
undermine moderation and needn't be tolerated as sci.math is an
available platform and alt.math.recreational an appropriate platform
for their frolics.


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