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Is it possible to require pre-approval for content on an SE site? If not, how can I deal with a site with too much hostile content?
The comments on this Politics SE answer are but one of example of how argumentative and caustic people can be to each other specifically on that SE site compared to other SE sites.
I am open to the ...
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How should I respond to unfriendly comments by moderators? [duplicate]
I recently saw an unfriendly comment from a diamond moderator on an SE site. I would flag the comment as unfriendly or unkind if a regular user had posted it. How should I respond considering that it'...
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Is it possible to see the removed content due to my flag in my own question?
Years ago I flagged a comment or maybe an answer for "Harassment, bigotry, or abuse" in my own question, and it was probably removed by a moderator. I just found out earlier today on my ...
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Comment "flagged" on opening author profile in a new tab [duplicate]
I am faced with a very weird behavior with a comment on the moderator election page (reproducible only on Chrome/Safari on iPadOS 16.4). Opening the comment's author profile in a new tab leads to ...
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What should I do if I want to find out more information as to why an answer was deleted by a moderator? [closed]
Note: I am asking as a general question for all sites, not specifically for Stack Overflow as in this case.
I came across this deleted answer:
and I was wondering why was the answer deleted?
Now, ...
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What makes a comment substantive enough to deactivate "one-flag deletion" due to "certain keywords"?
Per How do comments work?
Comments containing certain keywords can be deleted with a single flag.
It is thought "thanks" is one of them.
Which for a second was alarming; a single flag can ...
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Can't mark custom comment flag as helpful after the comment has been deleted automatically
What happened:
A user voted to close a question as duplicate, generating an automatic comment "Does this answer your question?"
Another user flagged that question with a custom comment flag
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AI to use grammar syntax for auto-flagging comments
We were having a titillating discussion in the Teacher's Lounge about toxic comments when it came up that "imperatives" could indicate rude comments. I won't defend this, but I'll explain ...
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Flagging comments on mobile is impossible unless you previously switched to desktop view prior to mobile site removal
Do not press "mobile" at the bottom of the page or otherwise try to reproduce this bug! While this flag bug was fixed, there are other subtle bugs with the same root cause. It's very hard to ...
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Is flagging a bunch of "thanks" comments OK?
I made a SEDE query to find all the comments that contained thank, the @ character, weren't saying yes/no to something, and were less than 20 characters. The query is here. It returned over 1400 ...
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Can the chat message pop-up be inserted after 5 comment "back and forth" argument strategies?
When users complain about a iffy post, they start suggesting edits and then another user gives an explanation on how that edit suggestion is wrong.
The users go back and forth, and then suddenly, when ...
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"Move comments to chat" triggers auto and manual flagging and suspension
A recent moderation of moving a comment discussion to chat resulted in a user's comment to be flagged multiple times and the user was hit with a chat auto suspension.
No judgement on that users ...
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Could we allow for (custom) flagging of our own comments?
While you can flag your own posts (and its sometimes used as a way to get the attention of a moderator), comment flagging on your own comments is disabled. Taking into account that mods can now flag ...
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Let moderators know that custom comment flag will not delete the comment
Could we let the moderators know with a brief message that when they flag a comment with the something else flag that it won't be deleted?
I know that all the current moderators will know, but future ...
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Wrong rate limit message when attempting to flag a comment
When clicking the flag link on a comment, I got the following message (emphasis mine):
You may only attempt to flag this comment every 3 seconds.
However, that's incorrect; it was my first attempt ...
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