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Tagged with users moderation
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Where do I find the official guidance that I can link to regular users about handling posts from apparently suicidal users?
This came up again recently, with a post from an apparently suicidal user. In this case, the problem was exacerbated by the post itself including profanity/cursing too, which is usually cleaned up ...
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Let's provide a way to expunge old suspensions
All the changes happening in the world have made me think about how "records" affect people even years after they have arguably "served their time". Stack Exchange has followed the ...
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Should any Meta post that calls out a user by name be deleted, not just downvoted?
How can I report a specific bad user? suggests that calling out by name is, at the very least, discouraged.
The context is when the Meta post reports "bad behavior" and suggest a ban for the user. I'...
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Is there any mechanism to deter users from unnecessarily messing with user points? [duplicate]
I had noticed that some users uses their right to vote up and down a question unnecessarily.
I was a victim of such some months back, had to abandon my account for a new one because of some, some, ...
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I just noticed 40 "leave open" votes in less than 10min, just after midnight
By some user in StackOverflow.
Should I report this? How?
user225770
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Are the "users" also the customers of Stack Exchange Inc? [closed]
The title explains it all.
Yes I know and I have read the:
From Stack Exchange Inc.
We welcome questions that are clear and specific, representing real
problems that you face; Stack Exchange ...
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How much should the network-wide history of a user matter for moderation?
Currently, each site of the SE network handles user issues separately. Moderators don't have access to the suspension history and annotations on other SE sites, they will generally judge users based ...
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User 'quits' and goes on a rampage
We have a long-time user on Travel.SE who has, for whatever reason, gotten overly frustrated, changed his account name, and unaccepted everything, wiping his answers and turning his questions into ...
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What should I do when I spot a user who is up-voting their alternate account
The user Suresh Siva has 5 answers, each of them marked as answered and up-voted exactly once, all of them answers to questions asked by the user Suresh.
In fact in at least one of the answers is ...
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Handling "Problematic" Stack Overflow participants
What do I mean by "problematic Stack Overflow participants"? Here are the criteria:
Asks dozens to hundreds of questions over a period of 3-6 months (or more).
All questions are consistently of low ...
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Who is sasha and why is he a big villain?
Saw this on reddit,
Vim Tricks your mom never told you about -- VERY DARK CORNERS... published by Sasha: the biggest villian on StackOverflow, and now engraved in its WALL of FAME!
and was ...
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