It means that they are an a o p s homework cheater who copied their homework from the site.
You do not know and cannot know the motivation of the poster. You do not know if this poster is an AoPS student. If the poster is not an AoPS student, then posting this is not cheating. This poster may have posted this as a mute counterpoint to the massive quantity of adulterated AoPS questions posted every single day.
Apparently the poster doesn’t know how to post inline LaTex so that it renders on this forum.
Allow me...
Point \(C\) is the midpoint of \(\overline{AB}\), point \(D\) is the midpoint of \(\overline{AC}\), point \(E\) is the midpoint of \(\overline{AD}\), and point \(F\) is the midpoint of \(\overline{AE}\). If \(AF=3\), what is the number of units in the length of \(\overline{AB}\) ?
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Don't expect anything to be done about this though; moderators love encouraging dishonest students.
You are very presumptuous! None of the moderators have ever encouraged dishonest students.
Over the years, Melody has trolled and barked at many obvious homework cheaters.
...And those who facilitate and enable homework cheaters.
Source: https://web2.0calc.com/questions/should-you-consider-anything-before-you-answer-a-question
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Why do you care if AoPS students cheat on their homework? They are only hurting themselves. It’s not the same as cheating on a test, where it affects everyone in the class.
You seem obsessed by this behavior. Maybe you should seek some counseling. You’re never going to stop homework cheaters.
GA
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Your analysis is short-sighted and lacks precedent examples. Your conclusions are illogical.
Why would spammers overwhelm a website that has fallen into decay? Spammers and trolls are interested in active and populated sites, not dead ones. The motivations and goals of hackers are very dissimilar from the motivations and goals of spammers and trolls. There is no evidence of hacker activity on this site.
The adulterated AoPS question spammers and wrong answer trolls are motivated by a desire to inhibit or stop “homework” cheaters from using this site. Their attack is effective. Early on, within the first month of the AoPS adulterated-question spamming, the number of visitors and page view counts dropped precipitously. [I have statistical samples, but I’m not going to post them here.] Though effective, students are still posting valid AoPS questions, and receiving legitimate detailed answers to them.
Later, mostly in the past the weeks, the number of Wrong Answer Troll posts increased. This was in response to the students who were still posting valid AoPS questions. Many of the presented answers are copies of formal solutions by skilled AoPS teachers that are adulterated to make them false. It’s notable that these wrong answers usually appear within one to three hours of the question posting. Someone is paying close attention to AoPS questions. If a correct answer is posted then another adulterated skilled answer post will appear with a different solution. This sometimes appears as a game of cat-and-mouse.
Three weeks ago the number of juvenile rants complaining about homework cheaters increased five-fold. These rant posts are so inarticulate and illiterate they seem theatrical. That is the posts are made by someone attempting to appear as a moronic, illiterate juvenile. This newest spam attack appears to be an attempt to provoke a type of “cancel culture” aura toward the homework cheaters. The spammers should quickly find that this tactic is the least effective of their three-pronged attack.
This forum isn’t going anywhere, unless Andre Massow, the calculator and forum creator and administrator pulls the plug. There is nothing to indicate that will happen anytime soon.
The Calculator is Herr Massow’s child, though it’s sometimes wayward, I doubt very much he’s ready to disown it anytime soon. The forum is his grandchild. In the early days the grandchild brought in all types of multicultural party animals. There are not many parties anymore, but there are still many animals. Even so, the forum is family, so it’s not likely to go anywhere anytime soon. I hope not, anyway.
Source: https://web2.0calc.com/questions/we-should-really-put-this-site-on-brave-as-a-verified-website#r7
IF the sewer pipe of adulterated AoPS questions is plugged or restricted, then this forum will return to normal –perhaps a new normal, within a few weeks.
GA
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