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How does stackoverflow prevent the tyranny of selfish moderators? [duplicate]
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When is it acceptable for a moderator to make a unilateral decision to close a question?
How does ...
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When is it acceptable for a moderator to make a unilateral decision to close a question? [duplicate]
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What are the rules around moderators closing questions outright?
I'm just looking for some guidelines and examples, with an explanation of why it would not be acceptable to ...
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How to reconcile guidelines, community opinion and moderation
First of all, I realize that this topic has already been discussed ad nauseam, so I apologize in advance if nothing fruitful comes of this. I strongly feel that there is a large disconnect between ...
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How do we define constructive questions?
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Mark Trapp closed this question on the licensure of software engineers on Programmers for the reason of not being constructive. More recently, another question about replacing XML with JSON ...
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leave constructiveness judgement to community? [duplicate]
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When is it acceptable for a moderator to make a unilateral decision to close a question?
I recently had the pleasure of reading the top 1500 questions/answers on programmers....
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Why was the question about "when" statements closed?
Why do decent questions get unilaterally closed by one admin? Here's only the most recent case:
Is there such a thing as a "when" statement?
I can understand the need for the pure junk/...
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Sidebar is FAQ'ed, lets update the FAQ tags
Yes! The sidebar has been FAQed!
Our faq has 18 questions in it while faq-proposed has 40 more. What questions should move there for easier access for people unfamiliar with the workings of meta?
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Why was my question about being asked to do an unpaid job closed?
Being asked to do a job without being paid for it
I asked this question because I've seen several ethical questions proposed on this site with fairly good responses.
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Please, engage on MSO discussions about migration process
It's important that we disallow SO to push trash to us. Engage on these questions on MSO:
Programmers is about to go live, which questions should we migrate?
Multiple duplicated question on SO are ...
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Why was this question migrated to PM?
I'm just curious as to if there have been changed in topicality recently, after I saw this question had been migrated from here to PM.SE:
Should a group of three students working on a big programming ...
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Why was my question about migrating VB.NET developers closed?
I asked a question about VB.NET and C#, but a moderator closed it within a few minutes of it being asked without allowing the community to decide whether it should be worthy of the site.
I want to ...
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