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Should we lower the flag count for spam/rude-abusive for brand new users and chat flags?
While we do love our new users - oftentimes spammers are 1 reputation users, simply cause they (clearly) don't get any votes.
While I do realise there's potential for abuse - it feels like a lower ...
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What about the introduction of a new feature which raises the requirement for moderators to close questions from experienced users? [closed]
There were already similar questions back here in 2011 here in 2009 respectively. However, this issue must be raised again in slightly different manner because the SO platform functionality has ...
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Can moderation decisions pull a jury together to discuss before deleting? [duplicate]
Premise
All of the moderation systems for SE/SO (thinking of both the community moderators and users with reputation-based privileges for deleting posts) are based on either the opinion of one person ...
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How long should SE store IP addresses of users?
Right now as far as I know, SE stores the IP addresses used to access any SE site forever. Every moderator or employee with moderator powers can see a list of every IP address a user ever accessed the ...
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Why would only ♦ moderators be "Interested in the status of tasks you've already reviewed?"
Most of you know what an empty review queue looks like:
However, ♦ moderators see something different:
Interested in the status of tasks you've already reviewed? View your complete review ...
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The button for convert a reply to comment would have to exclude review comments
I have a problem with the moderation button to convert a reply to comment, and is that when I put the following option:
Migrate all comments also in this answer.
This includes also those that were ...
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Allow moderators to edit/delete comments directly from a user's comment list [duplicate]
Moderators currently have access to a nifty list of all a user's comments (500 at a time), which now includes a summary of flags on those comments. Unfortunately, we still have to visit the post where ...
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Keep pinned messages pinned (without 14 days limit) in chat rooms
I've read this answer to find out that pinned messages are being unpinned automatically after 14 days because "we found this feature to be abused too much". I fail to understand how a pinned message ...
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Can we allow moderators to upgrade a comment to an answer? [duplicate]
When someone posts an answer that's really a comment, mods can move it to the comments.
But when someone posts a comment that is essentially a complete answer (and no further answer is likely to be ...
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Separate moderator flags from flags the community can act on
The path a flag can take has become significantly more complicated now that we have review queues that can handle certain flags. It is not obvious from the dialog what exactly happens when you use a ...
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A proposal for a comprehensive overhaul of the chat flagging system
In this post I'll detail my ideas on how to fix chat flagging. Most of them have been posted in some form before, but I think it is necessary to view those different ideas together as they interact at ...
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Posts that are repeated targets of spam edits should be flagged to moderators
I just rejected a spam edit on a post today and out of curiosity decided to check the history of that post. It turns out that same post has been the target of repeated spam edit attempts in the past. ...
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Can Moderators get a timeline view by whole-site as well as per post?
Currently moderators can view a question timeline, showing everything that happened to a post in chronological order:
User A Answers
User B Commented on answer
User A Edited Answer
...
However, ...
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How to train your growing community to self-moderate
Two years ago I accepted the post of a pro tem moderator on Computer Science. At that time, and that's true for any new beta SE site, there were little to no users with enough reputation to moderate. ...
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Could VLQ get the convert to comment option in the mod queue? [duplicate]
A lot of people seem to use VLQ when they really mean Not An Answer. Many can't see the difference. I, personally, know the difference but find VLQ to be a rather rare flag if used properly.
However,...
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