Questions tagged [moderation]
This tag is for questions dealing with moderator actions, pages, abilities or decisions.
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Finally hanging up my diamond(s)
As you might have seen I'm stepping down as a moderator on Stack Overflow.
It's something I've been thinking about for a while, for various reasons, but the main reason is that I'm hoping to retire ...
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Tooling for moderation updates
I’m excited to announce that we’ve recently formed an internal team whose time & work will be dedicated to building and improving tooling for moderation. We’ve intentionally not named this team “...
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Do unusually large slews of flags get notified with enough prominence to site moderators and community managers?
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There is a SE site that has a Question, currently in HNQ, whose edit history contains extremely personal information about the post author.
I'm sure that plenty of users – thanks to the HNQ ...
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Review Queues implementation discourages reviews
So I reached the 500 milestone, and was granted the "privilege" of helping with review queues. In other words, given "tasks" like homework that I can't even complete because the ...
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The reputation gate is pretty much the only thing preventing comment abuse. Let's change that
Currently, reputation is the primary line of defense for preventing comment abuse. You can't post comments until you earn at least 50 rep - but after that, you have free rein; there's very little ...
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What to do if a question violates the rules and no one wants to fix this?
One of Stack Exchange network websites has a question that clearly violates the rules described in the help center of that site.
As I strive to make Stack Overflow a high quality knowledge base, I ...
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How does the network want to handle links to X?
Ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter and renamed it to X[1] [2], the site has become an increasingly inflammatory platform[3], even more so than before. Extremist users have taken over the site and ...
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Editing a deleted question into shape and requesting undeletion via flag
I have been told that it is forbidden to edit after a question has been deleted.
But I have also been told that deletion is "protective" as a chance to edit the question into shape and ...
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Ηow much reasoning should a moderator give for deleting and suspending? (What ought to be the due process)
Why this question is not a duplicate (beyond the questions being different why the answers don't cover the same issues)
The answers on the "duplicate" question (the top three posts with the ...
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Improvements to the "a year in moderation" table
The table in the yearly "A year in moderation" posts (see e.g. this one) does not have a great UI, in my view. Here are two suggestions for improvement.
Some zeros are structural. Sometimes,...
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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of ...
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Stack Exchange guidelines on image sharing
Under what conditions can one use images found in the internet on Stack Exchange?
Particularly images from Wikipedia.
Is it sufficient to supply a link to the page where I borrowed it from?
What are ...
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Confusing declined flags: proposed actions taken despite declining
As I was reviewing my flagging history, I noticed multiple flags that I raised on posts with the status-review tag were declined with the generic decline message*. Interestingly, the intended actions (...
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What's the impact on a recipient user account if a "unfriendly or unkind" flag is accepted?
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The flag ["unfriendly or unkind"] if accepted has quite a lot of impact on the account which has been flagged.
What's the impact on a recipient user account if a "unfriendly ...
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Please welcome Spevacus and rene to the Meta Stack Exchange moderators team!
After discussing it with the Meta Stack Exchange mods and some potential candidates, we are excited to welcome Spevacus and rene to the MSE moderation team. As with previous moderator appointments on ...
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