Questions tagged [moderation]
Questions about current moderation policy and support about the way moderation works
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Knowledge Repository
The rule across the SE network is General Questions General Answers.
The sites are a repository of knowledge.
Mokubai said that it is not a place to collate encyclopedic information that Super User is ...
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Pondering mod status tags
We've been using the status tags - things like status-review were used for 'internal' SU moderation tasks. At some point, review tags on per site meta get fed into tickets internally.
I feel like a ...
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Proposed resolution : Quoting cannot be called plagiarism
Proposed resolution : A quote which is fully accredited and formatted as a quote, is not plagiarism.
This definition is in line with all the world's dictionaries and all the world's legal sources.
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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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Why were my flags on a meta answer post and comments containing expletives directed at another user declined?
The author of this answer to a meta post literally told OP to "shut the freak up" (only they didn't say "freak") in both their answer and several comments. (The answer is not ...
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Do not migrate low-quality questions
I recently noticed a trend where low-quality off-topic questions are migrated away to a more appropriate site. These low-quality questions will then usually be closed on the destination site, causing ...
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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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Please review the deletion of my answer of the post mentioned here
Several days ago, I posted an answer to the following question:
rsync: identical files (contents, size, timestamp) between source and destination are not being seen as identical
A moderator deleted my ...
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Why is a specific question with a certain answer marked as opinion-based?
Can someone explain to me why the question Can the use of OPKG on ZyXEL Keenetic Ultra II cause damage to the firmware or its incorrect operation? is opinion-based?
I really don't understand people ...
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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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Why was my comment removed?
I asked Why is Chrome using 1.5 CPU cores even though I just started my computer and only opened Chrome (didn't go on any website yet)?, and an answer suggested:
The task manager of Chrome tells you ...
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answer converted to comment?
so I've been away for a while, and may be behind in the news-on-the-scene, but I am unclear on the mod/administrative rationale for the activity on this question/answer:
Is there any service like ...
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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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A hidden passive-aggressive attitude toward questions
Some moderations to close a question do not make sense here. The reason stated for the closing of question the at the top of the page, for example, says this question needs clarity. The OP has asked ...
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Can moderators provide deleted comments when a issue is raised on Meta?
I have recently raised an issue here on Meta about suspension for commenting. As comments were deleted and I could not register all of them, some users may ask themselves if in those missing comments ...
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Was my suspension for commenting called for?
I have been suspended last week. No reason or previous warning was given,
but presumably it was because of my activity on Tetsujin's answer to
"What to do when my Mac is frozen?".
Since it ...
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How to deal with an incompetent moderator
Asked this question:
https://superuser.com/questions/1565766/difference-between-a-serial-and-a-usb-port
a few days back and it got closed because "Closed. This question needs details or clarity. ...
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Anyway to contact moderator? I believe they closed my thread because of misunderstanding
I'm talking about this thread Where to get boot image for Windows
I'm looking for boot image FOR Windows, not boot image OF Windows. The moderators closed the thread for "duplicate" and ...
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Why was my comment explaining reason for a downvote deleted?
Earlier today I have downvoted this answer and left a comment explaining my action. It was something like this:
-1 because this is an unreadable 5 lines long run of words with no formatting or ...
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Continuous overuse of moderation rights
Occassionally I come upon a question which seems rather obvious to me, but was nevertheless closed as either "not focused enough" (example 1) or "unclear what's being asked" (example 2).
Well that's ...
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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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HTTP Downloader Spam Answers
Just a heads up to reviewers tonight: there’s a newbie who has been posting answers to questions about large downloads. He has answered at least 5 other questions the same way: promoting his app. Here’...
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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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Why am I able to flag my own questions?
I just noticed that I (as everyone else) can flag my own questions.
There are fewer options (no "spam", "rude or abusive" nor "very low quality") to choose, but it's still possible to flag your own ...
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Wrongly Closing/on Hold'ing questions?
If a question that can be seen by some as a somewhat broad question (and others not that broad), but can be (and gets) answered as if it is a direct question (Q&A), is it wrong or ok for a ...
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How to do better edits in the future?
When reading such answers, I find it useful to:
have the answer edited when an obsolete link is dead (the second link is dead)
have screenshots to quickly see how the GUI looks like (the question is ...
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Post Closed - Primarily Opinion Based - But it does not appear to be opinion based to me
Post: Shared data between multiple devices / Operating systems
I'm not asking for the best one, I'm not asking whether people like a solution or not. I'm asking "What solutions exist to address this ...
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Closure of question and rude approach
My question here has been closed. Rename files 000…001…002… to 001…002…003 as too broad. From my point of view, it is clear what I am asking. I'm asking of a simple way for these files to be renamed, ...
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What to do about outdated questions now that "no longer relevant" doesn't exist as a close reason?
There used to be a close reason called "no longer relevant" that we were supposed to use, but it no longer exists.
What should we do instead in this day and age?
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How to handle users appropriating other users' correct answers
A while back I came across this question.
How to connect an old motherboard with a 12 pins power connector?
All of the then posted answers were entirely incorrect. I posted several comments and my ...
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Moderator abuse
Assist me in creating ics-events with complicated repeat patterns? is closed because the moderator doesn't understand what ICS are (They are just text strings in a .ics-file and I was looking for ...
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Incorrect duplicate
Yesterday I asked this question about a flash drive. Today, I came back to look for answers and found that it had been marked as a duplicate. I was excited to learn that my question had already been ...
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Comments disappearing on question [duplicate]
I commented earlier, on this question. Now, the comment is gone, along with at least 3 other comments both by the question author and at least one other user.
The comments I remember, in order, were:
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Should I handle rude fragments myself? or is it better to get moderator involved?
I flagged a question as rude because of
Edit: whoever downvoted this question is a [rude part here].
Note: the question wasn't rude as a whole, only this one sentence was.
One of the moderators
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Flag was declined but the question was deleted all the same
I flagged this question about DD-WRT SysLog timestamps for moderation intervention as a cross-posted question.
But the flag was declined by a moderator. Then the question was deleted "for reasons of ...
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When should a moderator not use his super-powers?
I am asking this question because of a recent encounter with a moderator
on this post.
A moderator asked me to add an example to my answer, and when I didn't, he just
deleted my answer.
Some extra ...
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Have I been penalized for an answer 1 moderator didn't like?
I posted an answer that met both the spirit of the question and the literal question asked. It was a lot different from other answers, all of which were going down a trail suggested by the OP as a ...
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Was this "roll-back edit" flag declined correctly?
My attention to this question was captured by the fact that answers do not match the question at all. Turned out that it was completely rewritten by the latest edit with following comment:
Re-wrote ...
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This question was closed-as-dup but the accepted answer is out-of-date
Google brought me to this question:
Is there a way to identify the busy (CPU-consuming) tab in Firefox?
But that question is marked as a duplicate of this one:
How to find out which firefox tab is ...
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Was this flag declined correctly?
I flagged this post as Very Low Quality. The flag was declined.
Was this flag declined correctly?
UPDATE:
I changed the flag based on the helpful feedback by moderator Mokubai. In the interest of ...
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Too many edits issue. Post-ban support
Scenario
I was banned the past year in 2014. I have a post-ban in which I can't ask any question in superuser.com.
Here are two discussions about my problem:
Am I a victim of any sort of ...
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Please allow me to ask questions again, after a year of being blocked
I added a bounty to a question, lost 50 reputation points and found out I was no longer able to add comments under the question I placed a bounty on. Because of that I was not able to reply in ...
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Is answering to a software recommendation request considered spam?
I gave an answer today, being just a software recommendation, to a question, asking for a recommendation. It's now deleted, so here are the contents:
It exists and is called muCommander
brew ...
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Is there something off with how reputation is built on Stack Exchange?
Is reputation only built or assessed by tenure and quantity and not by fewer but well researched, studied and articulated questions and relevant answers?
Original title started as this:
Why does ...
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Thanking, and criticizing, moderators for their actions
How can I thank a moderator for their help, and how can I air a criticism of a moderator's actions or behaviour?
I had posts wherein two different moderators intervened.
The first one was very ...
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What are some common "gotchas" associated with moderation activities?
Over the past few years, I've run into several little "gotchas" when it comes to common moderation tasks such as migrating questions, reviewing posts, or evaluating suggested edits. These mistakes ...
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Can a user be blocked by email address?
Can't provide refs, as the posts are being dealt with as they arrive, but how does admin deal with serial idiots, who just won't take 'go away' for an answer?
Can they be email address banned, IP ...
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Was my "not an answer flag" for this answer not warranted?
I recently flagged this answer(The link is to the revision it was in when I flagged it) as "not an answer", and had my flagged marked invalid.
flags should not be used to indicate technical ...
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Troggy's beefy arm of moderation needs a break
The smell of smoldering thatched roof cottages lingers in the distance. A ♦ seems to be newly absent from those old dragon scales.
As part of the 2014 SuperUser moderator election coming to a close, ...
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Questions about bypassing or circumventing network security
I have seen a number of questions on how to bypass network security. I was wondering if superuser (or stackexchange) had a policy or stock answer about this?
As a regular kind of user, I can ...
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