Questions tagged [moderation]
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A complaint of over-moderation
I'd like to complain about my question and its self answer.
Another member has probably mistaken my answer as an expansion of the question, probably because it began with "a bit of context". ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Question being marked as a duplicate of another with general troubleshooting steps
I posted this question here trying to get specific help on how to deploy a metasploit payload via a tunneling service called pagekite. My question was closed and marked as a duplicate of another ...
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Mod deleted a valid answer for a false reason
In response to a recent question about getting people to trust untrustworthy software, I responded with a frame challenge explaining why this software should be considered malicious and abandoned by ...
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Admin keeps deleting my comment on why I voted to close
I voted to close a question on the basis that it's asking for assistance writing malware. An admin seems to disagree strongly with my characterization of the behavior as malware, and:
deleted the ...
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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Should the "breaking a specific system" close reason be retired?
There is a community rule for flagging questions here in SECSE:
Questions asking us to break the security of a specific system for you
are off-topic unless they demonstrate an understanding of the ...
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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Moderator deleted my answer without good reason
@AndrolGenhald suggested I ask this here.
My answer here was deleted for the reason that "this is covered by other answers". First of all, its obviously not a duplicate answer, but it also contains ...
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Being repeatedly targeted and harassed with disputable/arbitrary deletions of answers by a specific moderator
There's a specific moderator who keeps following me around on this forum and unilaterally deleting my useful answers, writing them off as "rants" within minutes of posting with no consideration of the ...
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Question closed as off-topic without further discussion
About a week and a half ago I've posted a question on the Security Stack Exchange forum relative to the SMB1 protocol: SMB1 deactivation on OSX and Linux
As a long-time user of StackExchange network ...
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Anonymous edits that don't change anything
So I recently checked and rejected 3 reviews that literally changed nothing from an anonymous user. These edits changed nothing, improved nothing, did nothing. I know there is the community bot, but ...
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