Timeline for Moderators: stop deleting benign comments!
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| Jan 14, 2020 at 21:37 | comment | added | user91988 | @RobertHarvey I'm unsure what that has to do with anything. I've been around SE a long time on other accounts. I'm quite familiar with the horrible moderation here. | |
| Jan 8, 2020 at 10:12 | comment | added | jwenting | I've seen many cases of moderators selectively deleting comments and even answers that don't agree with their personal opinions. Not so much on this SE site but on several others it's endemic. | |
| Jan 6, 2020 at 18:15 | answer | added | maple_shaftMod | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jan 4, 2020 at 12:41 | answer | added | ChrisFMod | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jan 3, 2020 at 18:34 | answer | added | Dan Wilson | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jan 3, 2020 at 9:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSoftEng/status/1213022317787451392 | ||
| Jan 2, 2020 at 23:38 | answer | added | Thomas OwensMod | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 2, 2020 at 22:01 | comment | added | Eric Lippert | @Brian: Thanks for that insight; that sounds like a reasonable policy. | |
| Jan 2, 2020 at 22:00 | comment | added | Brian | @EricLippert: If I see a comment in the form, "did you try X and what was the result," I'll flag it as "It's no longer needed" once the poster edits their post to say, "I tried X and this was the result." That's not to say that I consider such comments a problem, but rather that such comments have already accomplished their goal. If the poster replies to the comment (rather than modifying their post), I don't flag such comments, since doing so removes useful information. That said, I would not fault other users/moderators if they moved such replies into the answer, then deleted the comments. | |
| Jan 2, 2020 at 20:57 | comment | added | Eric Lippert | I likely have an observer bias, but my perception is that even when my comments are phrased in the form of a request for clarification ("can you say more about...", "did you try X and what was the result?", and so on) they are frequently deleted or "moved to chat". Low-quality questions that are hard to answer is a much bigger problem for me than irrelevant comments; let's focus on that. | |
| Jan 2, 2020 at 20:48 | comment | added | Doc Brown | Related: When should comments be deleted?. I hope Thomas did not change his mind completely since 2011. | |
| Jan 2, 2020 at 20:38 | comment | added | Doc Brown | If this is becoming a petition, tell me where to sign it. Could not agree more! | |
| Jan 2, 2020 at 16:07 | history | edited | Robert Harvey | CC BY-SA 4.0 | edited tags |
| Jan 2, 2020 at 15:54 | history | edited | Robert Harvey | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 12 characters in body |
| Jan 2, 2020 at 15:48 | history | asked | Robert Harvey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |