Questions tagged [moderation]
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Are judgments appropriate?
Regarding https://money.stackexchange.com/a/142559/34078
Having reviewed the edit history, answer author DJClayworth start off his answer by making a rather highly charged statement. His very next ...
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Scam questions and "if you have to ask" comments
We get a fair number of questions about scams, and one of the things that's inevitable is that, in the first few comments, one of them is some variation of:
If you have to ask, it's a scam.
This ...
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About flagging and community moderation
Our site is growing. And a result of that increased traffic is an increase in spam and new users who don't know the rules. I find it hard to complain about theses taxes on our success as a community....
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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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Reminder: Don't downvote spam. Just flag it
While cleaning out the spam queue today I noticed a flurry of down-votes on these posts. Just wanted to remind everyone that you only need to flag spam to get a moderator to remove it from the site. ...
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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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What should be done with factually incorrect answers?
Consider this question:
Are you allowed to withdraw from 401k for no reason if leaving the company?
and the ongoing chat about the correctness of the currently top-rated answer:
http://chat....
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10K+ rep users: Would you please help me clean up these closed questions with your delete votes?
Fellow 10K+ rep users (and willing moderators):
The following query displays non-migrated, unanswered questions closed as other than duplicate that have not yet been deleted from the site. The query ...
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How to defend myself against a deleted answer?
My answer was deleted because the mod says I didn't deal with support and resistance levels. True, because I dealt with the other part of the question: "everyone is selling" and "everyone is buying".
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Please reconsider "What is the rationale for a separate “National Insurance” tax in the UK? "
This question was closed as off-topic. While it was open, someone posted an excellent answer, but it was to a slightly different question to the one I asked.
Once my actual question had been ...
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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 posts containing broad, unsupported claims receive post notices?
While this community for the most part is pretty good about supporting their claims with evidence, occasionally we receive an answer that makes a broad, unsupported claim. Sometimes, those posts are ...
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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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Are lower rep users allowed to comment on higher rep users' questions & answers?
I'm trying to comment on this answer but my comment keeps disappearing.
All my comment is trying to point out is that the first part of the answer is irrelevant since the original poster's quote is ...
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Why was this question about student loan payments removed from the HNQ?
Earlier today, the question Taking college classes to avoid student loan payments indefinitely was manually removed from the Hot Network Questions list by a mod.
Why was this done?
What criteria do ...
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A not nice comment isn't OK but a not nice question is?
Paid a scammer money via PayPal. What can I do?
I left a comment under an answer that was probably deleted under "not nice" policy - assuming this as other comments were kept. My comment ...
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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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