Questions tagged [moderation]
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Flag suspected AI generated answer for moderation
I recently stumbled with this answer and some aspects of it raised my suspicion that it is AI generated, albeit with slight modifications made by the poster. The answer in itself is highly technical ...
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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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Moderators accepting answer on behalf of lost users
Sometimes I find old questions with perfectly reasonable answers with none of them checked as solved.
An example I found today:
How can I get neovim to load my init.vim file when in sudo mode?
It is 4 ...
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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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How can I ask a moderator why he deleted my answer?
Some days ago I tried answering a question but it appeared the user asked multiple questions. But due to context, they still seem to connect to the same problem
A moderator deleted my answer with: &...
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How to deal with spam
This isn’t a question as such, but a public service announcement.
From time to time, and sometimes in waves like the current spam campaigns, the main site gets posts (both questions and answers) which ...
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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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How does flagging answers work?
What is the guidance for flagging answers? When should I flag? When should I not flag? What is the right flag in different situations?
terdonMod
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Is making personal attacks ever justified?
I'll admit, I'm writing this question out of frustration and that's never a good start.
I've spent some time away from U&L partly for personal reasons, and partly because a user launched a tirade ...
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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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How to deal with solutions edited into the question itself?
I came across multiple questions, where the original poster found a solution and edited the question to add that solution to the question instead of posting the solution as an answer. For example: 1, ...
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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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Top answers downvoted at the same time. Someone with an axe to grind?
My four top rated answers at Unix & Linux got downvoted, apparently within minutes of each other.
Here is a screenshot.
I don't really mind it, as it doesn't practically affect my reputation... ...
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What’s it like being a Unix & Linux moderator?
Inspired by this SF&F meta question, and given the upcoming moderator election, I thought it would be interesting to ask current and past moderators what it’s like to moderate U&L. (Blatant ...
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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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