Questions tagged [moderation]
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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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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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Fast mod-deletion of positively scored question
I was reading this question Is there any programming language with a “negative” type system? (10K link), when the system informed me the question had been deleted.
The question was deleted by a ...
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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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What is the process after a closed question was been edited to meet all the requirements but the reviewers don't react?
I asked a question.
The question was very shortly after closed by moderators without any comments. Isn't this bad practice? This also annoyed another contributor who was writing a detailed answer to ...
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Hostile community
I have been banned from the software engineering community for no real reason.
My contributions were quite positive and in areas no one bothered to contribute.
And even if they were not so positive, ...
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Moderators: stop deleting benign comments!
OK, I'm going to escalate this to a formal complaint. The active deletion of comments that are not harmful to the site has to stop.
Under this answer, there was a brief but meaningful dialog in the ...
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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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Why was my comment deleted?
On this question, I left a comment to the effect of
You should write equality tests that make sense for your specific object. This may or may not include all of the properties of said object.
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The community needs your support! Can you provide it?
Unless you've been living under a rock for the past few weeks, you're fully aware of the problems plaguing the network right now.
Effectively, this site is now un-moderated. Two moderators have ...
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I'm resigning as a moderator from all Stack Exchange sites
I'm resigning as a moderator from all Stack Exchange sites, effective today.
I didn't make this decision lightly, frivolously or suddenly. A persistent pattern of corporate missteps, and a ...
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Why was my valid edit rejected?
I want to draw attention to other mods regarding rejection of the edit here, https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/202550
This post seems directly related to object ...
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How to deal with cross-site duplicate closed posts
Stackoverflow is not accepting any post from my account due to some low quality auto/self deleted posts with negative net scores. Response of the site is as follows,
You have reached your question ...
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We are no longer accepting questions from this account
When I try to post a question in software engineering site of SO, it gives me below message and I cannot post any.
Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account. See the
Help ...
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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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How to defend myself from the accusation of being rude.?
I have a question about my Software Engineering Stack Exchange post: && and || are not logical but conditional operators?
I would like to know how to defend myself from the accusation of ...
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Should I approve edits on off-topic questions or answers to poor or off-topic questions?
Should edits to off-topic or low quality questions (such as this) be approved if they do nothing to improve the topicality or quality of the question itself?
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Migrate one question, Close another
This question:
Why is "||" the symbol for or?
was closed for being Off-topic on StackOverflow. I recommend that it be migrated to here, where it would be decidedly more topical.
Then, I recommend ...
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inconsistent application of deletion of "uncivil" comments
dunno who the moderators are but the deletion of my comments in this thread coupled with the retention of similarly disrespectful comments from gnasher729 appears to show favoritism, or at least, ...
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New Site Name and Scope: how to handle blatant debugging questions?
Per my reading of July 22nd discussion primary focus of the coming changes is to prevent the flood of debugging questions. Both SE Community Manager and our moderators appear to be in agreement about ...
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Call for volunteers: close voters
Programmers could benefit from a few more regular visitors who close questions on the front page and the Unanswered page that are clearly off-topic.
"Clearly off-topic" means:
We don't do ...
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How do I get the text of a comment that was deleted by a mod?
I wrote a comment yesterday to somebody else's answer. Today all comments for that answer were deleted by a moderator ("Comments removed as they were getting noisy").
Can I somehow get at the text of ...
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How to dissuade "iterative" questions?
So this question recently came up, and I'm not sure quite how to deal with the problems it caused. There are (at time of writing) 39 edits. Now some of them are grammatical, and some are clarifying, ...
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If I was a homework cheater, [duplicate]
...if I was a homework cheater, I would applaud an approach like that...
I'm for deletion if not improved in a reasonable timeframe.
But minutes after closure is, I think, too speedy.
I tend to give ...
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What happened to the question "is the mvc software architecture used only in web development"
I had just finished typing a great answer, and It wouldn't let me post?
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Can we just have a place for programmers to ask questions?
i understand in stackoverflow, questions are closed as "off topic" "not constructive"
that is why we come here!! /* programmers */ should be alot more liberal as to the type of questions allowed.
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What recourse is there for a post that is locked for reasons that one does not understand or agree with?
This post: < Best practices for refactoring parameter file structure in multiple environments > was locked.
I believe I set out a very dispassionate and objective counter-argument to the points ...
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How to better fit the "on-topic" format
I'm not asking as a result of bitterness, I'd just really like to know what I am doing wrong per the spec.
I have only two questions on programmers SE, both of which got closed. By contrast, I am an ...
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Are general NDA questions on-topic?
There is some controversy about this question. There have been multiple questions about non-disclosure agreements. A quick look at the tag shows that many of them are open, even though just as many of ...
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Where did my comment go?
This question has some controversy over whether it belongs on P.SE, so I posted a comment yesterday pointing out that the FAQ says "freelancing and business concerns" are on-topic. Someone upvoted ...
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Are we notified if comments are deleted?
Update: Changing this to be a feature request.
Request: Notifications of removed comments with included rationale.
Reasoning: Personally, pandering to people's sensibilities is silly from my ...
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Three-Strike moderation suspension policy
Typically certain user actions may result in a temporary suspension of your account:
A trend of low quality questions and answers after the user has been shown how to write a question or answer
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What Are Some Examples of Good "Guiding Comments" to Leave Users To Help Understand The Site?
From Chris F's Meta Post:
You can help out. If you see a question or answer that doesn't meet our community standards, use a (polite!) comment to ask the author to fix it, or be bold and edit it ...
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If you hate the question so much, why bring it back?
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/150266/is-c-too-hard
You keep editing it to bring back the question, yet insisted it be closed.
You won't let me delete it.
Ridiculous.
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Moderation for NSFW topics
I recently came across a question on Programmers asking what the first known pornographic video game/software/etc. was (wasn't able to find that particular question). A comment on there asked if ...
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What can we do about incorrectly pedantic moderation?
I've just seen a question closed by a moderator because "Career advice is explicitly off-topic, per the FAQ" (link), which is simply incorrect: the FAQ makes clear that career advice specific to ...
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Is it a good idea to edit out curse words and foul language?
I have gotten in the habit of editing out curse words and other foul language from questions and answers when I come across them. Sometimes it is a great question or answer, just that unnecessary ...
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Can we keep these questions open, but locked?
There are some highly-voted questions on our site that don't match the FAQ, but I feel are extremely valuable to programmers.
I've only been programming a few years, and when I came across these ...
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Do moderators discretely neglect the FAQ when they close certain question and not others?
My question was close because it was off topic. Here it is
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/132878/how-to-sell-yourself-to-the-manager
It was asked in the context as developer. ...
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Congratulations, Anna Lear!
Good news, everyone!
Everyone's favorite Programmers mod, Anna Lear, has joined the Stack Exchange Team as a Community Manager, where she'll be working her magic across the network.
Anna's been an ...
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How does one deal with trolling, when more than a single comment is involved?
A user has been going around on this question and trolling -- posting anti-C++ answers -- to a question whose activity ended ~3 months ago, with no technical basis, to every possible comment box. ...
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Dangers of too eager moderation
My impression is that a lot of moderators on stackexchange sites overuse their powers. It seems they browse the site for fun in their free time, and close questions trying to find a reason. They ...
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Is This Moderation Style New? If So I Like It
I just noticed the warning box in the following question:
Is there a canonical book on functional design specifications?
I think it is very helpful. Is this new? Who can moderate questions like this?...
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Was a comment complaining about sexism deleted by a moderator?
In Are there any jobs in the programming field that don't require you to sit at a desk all day?,
one user said in comments
(2 upvotes) +1 this is a good suggestion... I forgot to mention that.
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Should we be deleting questions which still have valuable answers?
Reviewing an old answer of mine, I noticed that one of my links to another answer of mine had gone stale, losing both the content and the context of that answer.
Now I seem to remember that the ...
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When is "collaboratively edited", hijacking someone's question?
I'm upset that my question caused such negative responses. For my part I am sorry to have contributed to the Bait, Bully and Gang activity that I feel the post was creating. I was on the defensive for ...
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How to resolve ongoing trouble with moderators?
DISCLAIMER: This question is not a response to cleanup activity of old content. It is about current content, that is blocked soon after posting.
I am aware, that I am not the first one to address ...
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What should an OP do if his post being locked indefinitely?
What should an OP do if his question on programmers.stackexchange.com being locked by a moderator?
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Why was my question about the consequences of using Windows XP closed?
I open this question on meta because I want to know why Anna Lear closed my question? Is it my question really sucks or Anna Lear was angry with my comment in other unrelated question?
Someone told ...
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Too many answers is the sign of a bad question
You may have noticed a few whale questions—ones with a ton of answers—getting bumped to the front page and subsequently closed as "not constructive." This is part of a cleanup based on some new ...
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