[seqfan] Re: Concerns about some recent comments by Jaroslav Krizek

[Charles Greathouse]

> An idea that might act as a sort of lightning rod to divert crankishness
> from polluting the entries would be to have some kind of *unmoderated*
> comment area on the site, with a disclaimer about "the unmoderated views and
> comments expressed here are not necessarily validated nor endorsed by the
> OEISF".  Many news sites and blogs now have these, and they certainly absorb
> a lot of spew--I saw one this weekend that claimed over 99K comments!

We could have a dedicated subpage for each sequence, or possibly even
use the Talk page for that purpose.
http://oeis.org/wiki/A000000/Comments
http://oeis.org/wiki/Talk:A000000

Charles Greathouse
Analyst/Programmer
Case Western Reserve University

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Marc LeBrun <mlb at well.com> wrote:
> It seems to me these comments ought to be removed, because they're totally
> irrelevant, at least for the handful of sequences I checked.
>
> I'm not sure what further response to recommend.  Presumably such spamming
> is "FITW" (Fixed In The Wiki) by having an editorial review process?
>
> You might gently suggest to the contributor that while OEIS entries are not
> an appropriate venue he might want to consider writing up his conjectures
> for publication on another web site, perhaps his own?  ("kicking the can")
>
> An idea that might act as a sort of lightning rod to divert crankishness
> from polluting the entries would be to have some kind of *unmoderated*
> comment area on the site, with a disclaimer about "the unmoderated views and
> comments expressed here are not necessarily validated nor endorsed by the
> OEISF".  Many news sites and blogs now have these, and they certainly absorb
> a lot of spew--I saw one this weekend that claimed over 99K comments!
>
>
>
>>="N. J. A. Sloane" <njas at research.att.com>
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>> Dear Seqfans,
>>
>> Both Tony Noe and I are worried about some recent comments from Jaroslav
>> Krizek
>>
>> If you do a search for "Sequence a(n) is contained in following relations",
>> you find a bunch of similar comments by Jaroslav Krizek.  Some make sense,
>> but others don't.
>>
>> It seems that he just wants the world to know his
>> "Conjecture: There are no numbers n such that all their means A, B, G, H
>> and K are integers".
>>
>> As a result quite a few entries have extensive comments
>> from him, which do not seem very important.
>>
>> Suggestions about what should be done?
>>
>> Neil
>>
>>
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