Timeline for Moderators: stop deleting benign comments!
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| Jan 6, 2020 at 18:41 | comment | added | maple_shaft Mod |
@RobertHarvey I can't speak for other diamonds, but for myself, I rarely take action on the auto-generated Comment flags, and usually when I do, I am deleting stuff like +1 excellent answer, you go girl!, -1 it stings when I pee, etc... Believe it or not, half of the comment flags I deal with are submitted by real human beings and those I take a little more seriously.
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| Jan 6, 2020 at 18:36 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | As to the "segregation of comments," I strongly feel that diamond moderators on the Stack Exchange network spend a disproportionately large amount of time evaluating, moderating and in general ruminating about comments. For the most part, I think it's a waste of time; comment moderation by diamonds should generally be limited to controlling incivility. Comments exist for a singular reason: to provide an escape value for content that doesn't belong in posts. It's always been this way, from the network's inception. | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 18:22 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | The problem could be greatly simplified by simply not responding to automated flags in this way. Automated comment flags do not represent the intent of the community; they are simply triggers that the system provides that say "You might want to check this for problems." If community members are flagging my comments as chatty, irrelevant conversation, I can accept that, but that's not what appears to have happened here. | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 18:15 | history | answered | maple_shaftMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |