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Tagged with moderators user-behavior
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Where I can post a survey on backend development?
I'm doing research on backend development for a product I'm working on.
I would like to know where I can ask developers to take my survey on StackEchange. I'm looking for a good topic without looking ...
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How reasonable is it to hold chatbot authors accountable for their bots' behavior?
In a non-Stack Exchange online community, there is a chatbot that runs with the permission of the administrators. The primary purpose of the bot is to analyze the posts of others and suggest helpful ...
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What should a moderator do if a user posts content on a site that is well-meaning, but unfriendly in content?
A user posts questions and/or answers that are well-meaning, but unfriendly in content. Their posts get a lot of upvotes as well as a few flags. What should moderators do?
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Several communities on one platform. How can moderators adjust the behaviour of a new user from a different community who has just joined my site?
We have a network of 100+ Q&A sites. A user active elsewhere on the network joins a new community and starts posting non-friendly answers and comments. A moderator contacts the user. The user ...
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What should moderators do if a user joins the site just to share negativity on meta?
We have a network of 100+ Q&A sites where each site has an associated meta site. A user signs up on a new site and immediately starts posting questions on meta about how poorly the site engine ...
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How to stop a behaviour that certainly is negative but technically does not break the rules?
On a Q&A site a user occasionally breaks the rules a bit here and there, but not so that their posts get flagged. For example, they post comments like "It would be so great if moderators were ...
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How to handle a user who violates some rules in a way allows the user to save face while stopping bad behaviour?
Imagine that we have a Q&A website. A very active user of the site violates some rules (for example, creates a puppet account). Moderators agree that there is a problem, but they don’t want to ...
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How to de-escalate a situation when a user balances on the edge but others who want to correct them go beyond the rules?
The described situation happens on a Q&A site. An active user spends a lot of time on posting comments with recommendations on how to improve others’ posts. The comments are kind of short and even ...
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Examples of majority rule/mob rule communities that have succeed long term and don't degrade to lowest common denominator?
A recent episode of The Orville - Majority Rule - had an interesting premise: the entire society's laws were voted on by everyone all the time. The majority vote wins and that is how laws are created ...
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Does paying volunteer moderation teams make the team and community more effective?
I recently got an invite to Imzy. After a bit of research, I found a few articles about the site and was surprised to see that the platform supports "tipping" users and moderators.
Imzy is a new ...
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Dealing with ignorant users and moderators regarding game mechanics
In an online browser game targeted at children but equally played by adults, countless times I've been talked to with disdain and authoritative disbelief.
This happens when I try and help other ...
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As a moderator, how can I prevent alienation from non-moderator users?
I have been a moderator on a number of websites, and I have always noticed the same trend: when I first join, people appreciate me for whatever I add to the website, and I'm just one of the many ...
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Is it an abuse of mod powers to reveal aspects of user behaviour should users wish to apply to be moderators?
As a current moderator we get to view many actions that users carry out that are not visible to regular users (primarily speaking we know the type of posts that they flag and sometimes the type of ...
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How to handle moderation of users known personally?
I have several co-workers or friends who are active on a site that I moderate, they also know that I'm a moderator. I've come across a situation where one of these users has been participating in ...
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How do you deal with users that don't break the rules, but are always walking the line?
We had several users that tried very hard to walk just above the line of breaking the rules and not actually break them.
How should they be handled?
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