Questions tagged [moderation]
Questions dealing with moderator actions, pages, abilities or decisions.
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What can/should moderators do about (partial) answers in the comments?
There is a bunch of semi-duplicates here about what to do about answers written in comments, but none, as far as I am aware, from a moderator. I will not make the case here about why answers in ...
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Comments with useful suggestions were deleted (by a moderator)
I have asked this question. 2 other users commented with useful suggestions. All the comments (including one that i wrote myself) have been deleted, but neither the other user nor I have deleted them. ...
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Helpful comments were deleted, so OP wonders if this means the question was deleted.
I've encountered an issue with the site this week. A few days ago, I made a post on math stackexchange titled The canonical bundle of $\mathbb{P}^n$ is $[-(n+1)H]$ via Griffiths and Harris. Ted ...
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Feature request: notification about my deleted comment
Feature request. As a user, I want to get a notification when a comment of mine has been deleted by a moderator. Ideally, I also would like to get a short explanation for the deletion in case it's not ...
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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of ...
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Deleting helpful comments on "low quality" questions
I just wanted to share something with the community that annoyed me greatly. I answered a question in the comments. It has gone through a couple of edits, including another user formatting it with ...
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Mod using their powers to unilaterally reopen their own closed question
This is in reference to a moderator's handling of a question they had posted. After the moderator asked the question, it was poorly received and closed by receiving 5 votes from the community. The ...
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Arbitrary deletion of reviewed and accepted edit
A question was submitted by a new contributor. The question covered an advanced topic in matrix calculus and received a very good answer which provided detailed coverage of those topics. However the ...
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User profile appears to be an ad for Australian disability insurance
User Care Assure's profile description appears to be an ad for an Australian company involved in their National Disability Insurance Scheme. The profile was created within the last day; the only ...
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I am requesting the moderators to delete that post
As I lack sufficient reputation to comment, I am creating a meta post. I am requesting the moderators to delete that post because they are cheating Solving $(a+1)^{\log_a(x-2)} - a^{\log_{a+1}(x-1)} = ...
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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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Moderation Strike Resolution
As many of you likely already know, moderators across the SE network have been engaged in a work stoppage since early June, for a number of reasons, which are outlined in the main meta post Moderation ...
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I wrote an answer to my own question but it got deleted because someone didn't understand my question
Yesterday I asked a question which was quite open ended and lacked direction because I wasn't sure exactly what I was asking. I put some examples and very general statements to try to account for my ...
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Moderator misusing his powers
I wrote a very beautiful (non copied) answer to a question. The question was this As you people can't see, I got $7$ upvotes on that answer. Now that question was closed because of a duplicate. I ...
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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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