Questions tagged [moderation]
This tag is for questions dealing with moderator actions, pages, abilities or decisions.
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What's the impact on a recipient user account if a "unfriendly or unkind" flag is accepted?
I read:
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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Request: Require moderators to leave a message they themselves type, when closing a post
Some of my question posts have been closed with "off topic" or "lacking context" and nothing more than a generic link to the guidelines. After reading those I then still see no ...
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Are Mods on all sites aware of and able to handle the mass defacing/deletion attempts by users unhappy with the OpenAI announcement?
Phrasing it in the form of a question, since I really don't know the answer, but there's a pretty big issue going on right now with users (at least 20 so far that I've seen) defacing and/or deleting ...
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Does a moderator have unlimited power to moderate their site? [closed]
If I moderated a site, could I fill it with my own sock puppet accounts, prefilled Q&A with subtly wrong answers, and delete only constructive comments (without telling comment authors their ...
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What should be done about "push moderation"? [closed]
A loaded question or "push question" is a question designed to advance a certain position, such as "Why is C++ better than Rust?" Although this may be a good question with good ...
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"A year in moderation" posts should include number of edited comments
Comments can be edited by moderators. The linked post mentions that changes are logged to prevent abuse, and suggests that moderators should do it "almost never". There is no visible trace ...
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Changing how community leadership works on Stack Exchange: a proposal and rough timeline
For nearly fifteen years, Stack Exchange community leadership has taken a very simple form: there is the community-at-large, and there are moderators elected by ranked-choice voting. This system is ...
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Is the term "Indian spammer" offensive?
I recently encountered a post here on Meta Stack Exchange that was worded very similarly to a poorly-received post by a now-suspended user. I flagged the post as relating to a likely sock-puppet of ...
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When is it OK for site moderators to go against the consensus established by their community? And when should such a decision be overturned?
Last year in particular I made a few gambles as a moderator by establishing new policies on the local meta without first gathering community consensus. However, every time I found my policies ...
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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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What is Stack Exchange doing to fundamentally fix the recent and ongoing chat disruption through serial starring of messages?
Many chatrooms right now have someone or something methodically starring every single recent message, disrupting the starboard messages and making stars effectively useless because they're on every ...
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Could altering the level of reputation required to view and comment on deleted answers improve people's trust in the impartiality of the site?
I believe that trust in this platform and the quality and impartiality of the information it provides is very important. For this question, my assumption is that one of the things we want to do is to ...
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When discussing in chat about an alleged CoC violation, is it ok to link to the post containing the alleged CoC violation? If not, how to discuss it?
When discussing in the chat about an alleged CoC violation, is it ok to link to the post containing the alleged CoC violation? If not, how to publicly discuss the alleged CoC violation?
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How should a user who writes a chat message that is deemed in violation of the Code of Conduct be disciplined? [duplicate]
If a user writes a chat message that is deemed a violation of the code of conduct, should they receive a chat suspension, an account suspension, or both?
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