Questions tagged [offensive]
regarding what constitutes offensive language or constructs in posts, or the process of flagging such content that doesn't belong
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Please restrict users who spam comments with rude/offensive words or have been recently flagged for such comments
Users should be prevented from spamming comments containing blacklisted rude/offensive words or continuing to comment offensive content after being flagged. I've been following a post where the OP, ...
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Don't show the contents of a post that was deleted as "rude/abusive" in New Answers to Old Questions
When scrolling through /tools/new-answers-old-questions, it can be rather unpleasant and typically not useful to see the contents of posts that have already been deleted as rude/abusive inline. If it'...
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Is implying moderator misconduct a violation of code of conduct? [duplicate]
While I believe the original revision of the question below provides sufficient details to distinguish itself from the duplicates, I'd like to tldr it: What recourse do I have if I believe a ...
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Is the term "Indian spammer" offensive?
I recently encountered a post here on Meta Stack Exchange that was worded very similarly to a poorly-received post by a now-suspended user. I flagged the post as relating to a likely sock-puppet of ...
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Let's remove spam/offensive edit suggestions from the original poster's inbox as quickly as we can
Some of us have taken it upon ourselves to seek out the worst of what finds its way to Stack Exchange so that the majority of users don't have to see any of that. That's how the spam and rude flags ...
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Why was this answer deleted and marked as offensive? [closed]
This is the question: And this is the answer which was deleted and marked as offensive: But checking the revision The content was: Which is nothing offensive. Also, the answer is valid because AWS ...
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1 answer
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Is casting R/A flags on blatant, but uncited, LLM-generated content acceptable?
This is about LLM-generated content that wouldn't otherwise be R/A, not abusive content that happens to be LLM-generated. Also, spam is still spam, even if it's AI-generated. For sake of discussion, I'...
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What is considered "unfriendly or unkind" (and not) under the new CoC?
As far as I know, every site still has a Comment Flag for "It's unfriendly or unkind". Under the previous Code of Conduct, "unfriendly or unkind" was defined, and the bar was ...
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How should I respond to unfriendly comments by moderators? [duplicate]
I recently saw an unfriendly comment from a diamond moderator on an SE site. I would flag the comment as unfriendly or unkind if a regular user had posted it. How should I respond considering that it'...
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Opinion: disparagement, accusation of dishonesty / hiding true beliefs, etc. on the basis of political affiliation is a Code of Conduct violation
Background reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity https://www.slatestarcodexabridged.com/I-Can-Tolerate-Anything-Except-The-Outgroup Why was this flag on alleged Code of Conduct ...
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9 votes
2 answers
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What exactly do VoteTypeId=4 (offensive) and VoteTypeId=12 (spam) mean?
According to the Database schema documentation for SEDE, the table Votes contains as VoteTypeId 4 = Offensive and 12 = Spam. The latter was mentioned, for example, here: How to find posts closed as ...
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12 votes
1 answer
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Unable to translate "abusive or unkind comments" from the user flagged post page
On the moderator page for user posts, the flag monitoring string "{N} abusive or unkind comments in past {M} days, {username}" is not ready to translation: Please add this string to ...
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12 votes
1 answer
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Why was this unfriendly/unkind comment flag declined?
A post that was over 10 years old got bumped recently. I read through the question, answers, and comments (this was probably a mistake). One of the answers had a string of questionable comments ...
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24 votes
1 answer
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Please remove comment notifications from the inbox if the comment was deleted as rude/abusive
I recently got inbox notifications of rude/abusive troll comments from a post I followed. The comments were already deleted by the time I viewed the post from the inbox notification, but they are ...
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1 answer
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We talk a lot about offensive usernames
Today we had the following question posted: What is SE policy regarding potentially offensive screen names? The specific user mentioned had already been taken care of, but the question is asking about ...
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