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After examining the Stack Exchange API, we, i.e, the SOBotics team, wrote a chatbot that could report these posts to us. That way we could solve all the issues we faced! Thus, Natty was born.

After talking to Shog9, a community manager, about this system, he advised us to:

After trying to improve the comments, Shog himself provided us with a set of comments.

After examining the Stack Exchange API, we, i.e, the SOBotics team, wrote a chatbot that could report these posts to us. That way we could solve all the issues we faced! Thus, Natty was born.

After talking to Shog9, a community manager, about this system, he advised us to:

After trying to improve the comments, Shog himself provided us with a set of comments.

The New Answers To Old questions page in the moderator tools is one of the best tools that can be used to assist moderation and has often been described as a place to find flaggable answers. There are nearly 9000 new answers to old questions per week.

It worked well but after looking at some stats, we realized that most of the posts are quite obvious:

All the posts that are flagged go directly to the Low Quality Posts Queue (a few after a delay of 15 minutes). Many of the posts which could have been autoflagged were lying around for 6 or more hours (until a human user checked those and flagged them). Hence autoflagging them would have cleaned those within an hour. Apart from that the NAAs enter the moderator queue after an hour and are prioritized based on when the post was flagged and not when the post was created. Adding a comment on the post as soon as they post such an answer would make the user aware of the rules. This would result in either the OP deleting the NAA as informed or tailoring their post into an answer for that question. All in all, it would help clear NAAs faster.

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• Downloading and adding javax.enterprise.context.RequestScoped to my project — Which was edited to a proper answer before the end of the grace period
• Need to find reports on Search. E.g. Top searched keyword, categories; (Image for <10k)— Which, even though wasn't a link only answer, was deleted as such.
• How to skip values on particular indexes in Line Chart using MPAndroid Chart Library? — Which was a rhetorical question posted as an answer

The New Answers To Old questions page in the moderator tools is one of the best tools that can be used to assist moderation and has often been described as a place to find flaggable answers. There are nearly 9000 new answers to old questions per week.

It worked well but after looking at some stats, we realized that most of the posts are quite obvious:

All the posts that are flagged go directly to the Low Quality Posts Queue (a few after a delay of 15 minutes). Many of the posts which could have been autoflagged were lying around for 6 or more hours (until a human user checked those and flagged them). Hence autoflagging them would have cleaned those within an hour. Apart from that the NAAs enter the moderator queue after an hour and are prioritized based on when the post was flagged and not when the post was created. Adding a comment on the post as soon as they post such an answer would make the user aware of the rules. This would result in either the OP deleting the NAA as informed or tailoring their post into an answer for that question. All in all, it would help clear NAAs faster.

• direct link — Image for <10k
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• direct link — Image for <10k
• direct link — Image for <10k
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• Downloading and adding javax.enterprise.context.RequestScoped to my project — Which was edited to a proper answer before the end of the grace period
• Need to find reports on Search. E.g. Top searched keyword, categories; (Image for <10k)— Which, even though wasn't a link only answer, was deleted as such.
• How to skip values on particular indexes in Line Chart using MPAndroid Chart Library? — Which was a rhetorical question posted as an answer

After examining the Stack Exchange API, we, i.e, the SOBotics team, wrote a chatbot that could report these posts to us. That way we could solve all the issues we faced! Thus, Natty was born.

Sentinel is a small web dashboard that was written to track all the posts that we have detected. Most of the true positives can be seen there. A few of them are:

After examining the Stack Exchange API, we, i.e, the SOBotics team, wrote a chatbot that could report these posts to us. That way we could solve all the issues we faced! Thus, Natty was born.

Sentinel is a small web dashboard that was written to track all the posts that we have detected. Most of the true positives can be seen there. A few of them are: