Questions tagged [vandalism]
For questions about users who delete the content of posts or otherwise deface them by adding nonsense, as well as questions about reversing and preventing the same
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How can a user unhappy with the LLM partnerships protest constructively (and ideally- effectively)?
I'm more asking this on behalf* of the many people I see trying to express protest to the OpenAI partnership in ways that get themselves into trouble:
Deleting their own posts- individual or en masse
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"Posts by deleted user" page should allow sorting by last activity
One common use of the "Posts by deleted user" page is investigating vandalism by a deleted user (generally part of a rage-quit), either edits or deletions. If the user doesn't have a lot of ...
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Raise an autoflag if somebody deletes a post that was previously undeleted by a moderator
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Raise an automatic flag if a post that was undeleted by a moderator gets deleted by anybody other than a moderator.
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If a moderator undeletes a post, this usually overrides a ...
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When an account is scheduled for deletion, make every action reset the timer
Consider the following scenario:
A high-reputation user schedules their account for deletion – which has 24 hours time. (They don't have enough voting activity to trigger a staff review of their ...
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Prevent account deletion for 24 hours after edits or deletions of posts
I encountered an interesting abuse of the system today where a user setup an account deletion. Knowing how long it would take for the deletion to process, immediately before it would become active, ...
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Suggested edits with HTML comments and other sneaky stuff: can we alert reviewers?
When suggested edits contain possible spam, the system adds a notice to the review task that says something like "hey, be careful -- the system identified this as possible spam" so that reviewers know ...
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Why has this user's tantrum about a question they wanted deleted been successful?
This heavily-downvoted semi-dupe has been deleted after its author vandalized it several times and tried to vandalize the upvoted answer as well — mine, to be precise — apparently with the ...
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Should a post be downvoted for being self vandalised?
When a post is self vandalised, the post should be rolled back to the previous version. This Self-Vandalism, what is correct action question addresses the correct protocol.
Ok so when a user has a ...
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Is vandalism of own deleted posts tolerated?
Now and then a user will delete their own posts; if they do this too much, they’ll get caught at it. Similarly, if they vandalize their own posts by replacing them with garbage, they’ll get caught if ...
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What to do when OP defaces his question?
I've stumbled upon this closed question (reason — too broad): Big O operation (attempted answer provided). This question seemed really out of Stack Overflow's format to me, and effectively too ...
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Apparent moderator script vandalizes post [duplicate]
This edit https://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/3819037 was apparently done by a moderator user named "Community" and appears to be robot vandalism.
I can T written ints 1 ...
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How to handle vandalism in low quality queue?
I've stumbled upon such an artifact in low quality queue:
It's an obvious vandalism. Unfortunately, I've got only the options on the picture. None of the options pass.
How to proceed with such posts ...
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Repeated vandalism attempts
These two users seem to be fighting each other by defacing each others' posts with gibberish -
https://stackoverflow.com/users/1699283/patel-the-rock?tab=activity#patel-the-rock?tab=activity&...
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Self-Vandalism, what is correct action
Reviewing low quality posts, I was sent to review this Question
BASH Combination simple program to get some output
Where the user had vandalized their own post by replacing it with
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User seems to edit and flag own questions for deletions
This user seems to be making edits to his own questions and saying that he's flagging them for deletion (not sure about the flagging part though since I don't have enough rep for that, but that's ...
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