Questions tagged [moderation]
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The Six Subjective Question Guidelines -- Enforcement Notice
Just a quick note here on meta to let everyone know we will be enforcing these six subjective question guidelines.
Great subjective questions...
inspire answers that explain “why” and “how”.
tend to ...
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Posse request: jobs/career/etc. tag cleanup
We discussed merging career and jobs, but now it's time to put a plan into action. Aaronut's plan is great, but we need some help from the posse:
Step 1: Clean up the tags
There are currently ...
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What are the rules around moderators closing questions outright?
I'm not a fan of seeing questions closed without the usual 5 closing votes, but I understand that sometimes that's necessary. Still, what are the rules around moderators closing questions outright?
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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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Programmers.SE Summer Cleaning
So it's summer-time, and while you may be thinking that means warm temperatures and blue skies (sorry, Southern Hemisphere!), the Stack Exchange network has caught the clean-up bug.
Our sister sites ...
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Why was my question closed?
I recently had my question closed, but I don't understand why, and it doesn't seem fair.
Why wasn't my question left open so others can decide if the question is good themselves, and how can I get ...
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The business of being a migration path for Stack Overflow
So over the past few days I noticed a bit of an up-tick in the number of questions being migrated from Stack Overflow that aren't good fits for Programmers.SE or Stack Exchange in general: either they'...
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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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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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What to do about the proliferation of bad questions from generic accounts?
For instance, user252244 has asked twelve questions in the three days they have been a member and ten of them have been closed. That's an 83% close rate. These generic "userXXXXX" accounts seem mostly ...
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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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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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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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What is an "extended" discussion?
Since I've recently noticed, for the first time, that some higher ranking users have the habit of deleting discussion in the form of comments in bulk, under the justification that it falls under the ...
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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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Programmers.SE Summer Cleaning, Part II: Electric Boogaloo
So in Part I of the summer cleaning project, we focused on deleting the bottom portion of our closed question backlog: things that never got any love and just were dying a slow, cold death.
In part ...
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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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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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Moderators Taking Community Function
Hi All,
I have come across quite a few questions now that have been closed a single Moderator (and a couple with 1 Moderator, and 1 Community Member).
Shouldn't this not happen? Half the point of ...
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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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Since when did Vote Count indicate the correct answer to the question?
Really!
We find highest voted answers to the questions often not conveying the point or answering the direct question.
I find Vote count is more of a popularity contest ,rather than what ...
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What's constructive about being lazy and incompetent?
So we have a question that's pretty popular today: Are programmers getting lazier and less competent
Which, to me personally, reads very much like a rant and the answers its received have mainly been ...
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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:
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What's constructive about being CVS-crazy and Bugzilla-nuts?
So we have a question that's pretty popular today: Software engineering has become all about the red-tape and not about the programming.
Which, to me personally, reads very much like a rant and the ...
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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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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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Why are spam flags for posts that were deleted being dismissed as invalid?
Silly question? I don't think so...
Referring to the question What is the flag option for, and the accepted answer provided, I should be contributing by flagging obvious spam as such, which I ...
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Need a link to the rules
I'm not sure if this where it's brought up, but i can't see any other avenue to discuss (or query) why this question was closed.
Should this be the wrong avenue, please email on my username with a ...
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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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Do we need a definition and policy on what would be considered "overly broad" questions?
It seems to me there is a difference of opinion about how to handle questions that would be considered overly broad, and that is leading to inconsistent handling of questions.
For your consideration,...
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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
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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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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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