*Mods I've read through the GameSpot Terms of Service thoroughly and the contents of my post is not transmitting any offensive material, it's not trolling (solely intended to to annoy and/or offend others), and it isn't flaming (insults, directly or indirectly). The SOLE purpose of this thread is to collect opinions on a question which spawned from my moderation.
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A few days ago, I created a thread asking if anyone can prove a tautology ( is a sentence that is true in every valuationof its propositional variables, regardless of the truth values assigned to these variables):
Then a mod who I shall not name locks it saying that I should do my own homework.
Then I make another thread (same thread) because I see no justification behind his actions:
Explaining that I did NOT ask anyone to post a solution. I can't be at fault for his assumptions. Then he TRIES to justify the second locking of my thread with this:
"If you didn't need help on it for your homework assignment, you wouldn't have mentioned it was your homework assignment. So... don't make this thread again."
^Proposition variable p: Mentioning that it was my homework assignment.
Proposition variable q: Needing help on my homework assignment.
His logic is as follows: p -> q
That proposition is logically wrong on so many aspects. I only mentioned that it was a part of a question of an assignment that I spent over 1 hour on (this is why i referenced that it was homework) to give an impression on the difficulty of the problem.
Secondly, I wanted to get answers for my homework assignment so I purposely mention that it's for my homework assignment right? (sarcasm, in case you can't detect it)
It's ironic how my topic was about propositional logic, yet he displayed none of it (anyone who takes high level discrete mathematics would know this).
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So...if you were a mod, would you have locked my threads:question:
*By the way, I managed to prove that tautology without a truth table and just submitted it as a part of my assignment earlier this evening. If anyone is interested, here's the tautology:
[(p -> q) ^ (q -> r)] -> (p -> r)
It is also known as hypothetical syllogism.
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