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Questions about current moderation policy and support about the way moderation works

7 votes

How to deal with an incompetent moderator

Well - it's rather presumptuous to assume incompetence. A quick look at the question seems to indicate that the key parts of the question involve microcontrollers and information specific to them to a …
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What can we do to keep this site civil / professional / work safe?

In defence of the XKCD comic - context is everything. Whenever someone asks me what the trackpoint is called, that's actually what I link to them. I've not got one complaint about it being NSFW. Most …
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14 votes
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Please allow me to ask questions again, after a year of being blocked

I'm a moderator at superuser, and I'd second that this happened due to the cold hard logic of an automated system, and the moderators didn't really have anything to do with this. MSU would have been t …
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HTTP Downloader Spam Answers

I think there's nothing left to do at this point. It has been flagged to oblivion. Amusingly even if it wasn't spam, IIRC google take out files are only available for a limited amount of time, I don' …
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When should a moderator not use his super-powers?

I'm the moderator who did it. It feels like the fair, and best course of action would be to treat these answers as I would any other answer from a user who I feel is inexperienced of the ways of the …
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Flag was declined but the question was deleted all the same

SF deleted it when I checked. No action was needed on SU. As such, no moderator intervention was needed While I do sometimes mark flags of that sort as valid, I usually take into account a few thi …
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Post Closed - Primarily Opinion Based - But it does not appear to be opinion based to me

Well - broadness isn't just for solutions, it is for problems. Incidentally I hate it when folks go "What about all these other questions" - it just is kind of a "If my question gets closed all the …
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7 votes

Do not migrate low-quality questions

We actually have statistics over the last 90 days for this overall. The table is as of 2023-02-08 at about 01:00 UTC. Site Migrations Rejection percentage Webapps 72 29% Stack Overflow 67 44 …
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Was my suspension for commenting called for?

. I noticed the "cleanup", repeated the SysRq comment (numbered 1 below), because there is nothing wrong with it, and fearing the follow-up would be deleted too, So you're aware a comment clean up h …
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Proposed resolution : Quoting cannot be called plagiarism

source: the question I'd point you at the theory of moderation. As a moderator, I generally consider suspensions to be a last resort, when other things have failed. …
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Too many edits issue. Post-ban support

You keep hitting on the automatic limits we can't do anything about. No we cannot remove these limits and they are automatic and there's no way to undo them. The official line here is you'll just have …
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Why were my flags on a meta answer post and comments containing expletives directed at anoth...

While I wasn't the moderator who handled the flags in question - the moderation style here is often about defusing issues rather than trying to take punitive measures. …
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Knowledge Repository

I note you posted an almost identical question, complete with the same typos on Parenting. So, we have a fairly comprehensive set of help pages which cover many of these issues, and quite a lot of it …
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