User blog comment:Forthright/MORE videos you MUST watch as a googolist/@comment-35470197-20191022011748/@comment-39541634-20191023165250

"Dealing with suspected beginners in a polite manner will make a community sound, warm, and creative."

I totally agree.

"(And I know that here is a difference between us. You are not believing that he is a pure beginner, while I am.) "

That's not the main difference in our opinions.

In my view, the question of whether he is sincere or not is besides the point. My point is that this kind of immature behavior should not be tolerated on an educational website like this one.

The reason for this is two fold:

(1) Even if the guy is sincere, it is annoying as heck.

(2) Not tolerating such behavior will help deter actual trolls who do similar things (and such trolls do exist).

"We have what are called developmental stage theories. Please remember how children learn many things. They are no studying as matured people do, but they actually obtain many opportunity to learn something new for them."

There are plenty of very young contributors here who do not behave like total morons. Saying that "this is how children learn" is disrespectful towards all the young members we have here who do take the subject matter seriously.

Besides, did you ever stop and think how this kind of behavior affects the ability of others to learn and/or enjoy the site?

"But there are as many behavious as there are beginners. Many of them look excited, but some of them might look funny for the majority due to the immatureness."

Exactly.

And I argue that this immaturity is a problem on a wiki like this. After all, this is a googology wiki, not a kindergarden. People come here to discuss googology, and not to have toddlers running around making poop jokes and talking nonsense.

Indeed, I strongly suspect that this is one of the reasons most of the math pros left here. It may not bother you personally, but many people find it really really annoying.

"Isn't that a different problem? He is actually interested in large numbers, although the attitude toward study is singular."

It's exactly the same problem: an immature attitude.

I would also like to remind you that the biggest, most annoying troll we ever had here was also interested in googology (and used to be a pretty prolific contributor before he decided to turn evil). So the important question isn't whether the person is interested in googology as a subject. The important question is whether the person is interested in having respectful discussions, exchanging information, learning, teaching and so forth.

In this respect, this wiki shouldn't be any different than any other discussion forum. And last time I've checked, immature behavior isn't something that's looked upon favorably in most online places, and rightly so.

"I am not checking the contents of pictures or movies. I just deleted one, because it has no description, which is relevant to the article"

Well, now you know what it was. Does it change your opinion?