Questions tagged [moderation]
This tag is for questions dealing with moderator actions, pages, abilities or decisions.
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Has Stack Exchange Inc. actually declined anyone access to future downloads of SE data dumps?
Over one year ago, Stack Exchange Inc. drastically changed their data dump process and, aside from making it a major pain to download the entire dump of the Stack Exchange network, decided to add the ...
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Arguing one's innocence after the thread is deleted (accessing the content of the deleted thread) [closed]
Situation: a user is accused of violating the code of conduct in a comments section, and the comments thread has been deleted by the moderator. The user believes that their words/statements were taken ...
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Please welcome starball to the Meta Stack Exchange moderator team!
Meta Stack Exchange is different from most sites. It’s used by both the community and the company to coordinate across the entire network. Its moderators are commonly hand-picked by the Community ...
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Could ROs have more chat moderation tools so they don't have to rely on mods?
As a Room Owner (most relevantly on the new Stack Exchange Lobby), I occasionally have to deal with problem users. Although I can delete/move messages and kick-mute, that doesn't help all that much ...
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Question reopened by community, then deleted – Looking for Guidance
I’m looking for some feedback on how to handle a situation I experienced on one of the science-related Stack Exchange sites. I posted a question that was initially closed, which I took as a sign that ...
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Finally hanging up my diamond(s)
As you might have seen I'm stepping down as a moderator on Stack Overflow. It's something I've been thinking about for a while, for various reasons, but the main reason is that I'm hoping to retire ...
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Tooling for moderation updates
I’m excited to announce that we’ve recently formed an internal team whose time & work will be dedicated to building and improving tooling for moderation. We’ve intentionally not named this team “...
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Do unusually large slews of flags get notified with enough prominence to site moderators and community managers?
Motive There is a SE site that has a Question, currently in HNQ, whose edit history contains extremely personal information about the post author. I'm sure that plenty of users – thanks to the HNQ ...
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Review Queues implementation discourages reviews
So I reached the 500 milestone, and was granted the "privilege" of helping with review queues. In other words, given "tasks" like homework that I can't even complete because the ...
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The reputation gate is pretty much the only thing preventing comment abuse. Let's change that
Currently, reputation is the primary line of defense for preventing comment abuse. You can't post comments until you earn at least 50 rep - but after that, you have free rein; there's very little ...
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What to do if a question violates the rules and no one wants to fix this?
One of Stack Exchange network websites has a question that clearly violates the rules described in the help center of that site. As I strive to make Stack Overflow a high quality knowledge base, I ...
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How does the network want to handle links to X?
Ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter and renamed it to X[1] [2], the site has become an increasingly inflammatory platform[3], even more so than before. Extremist users have taken over the site and ...
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Editing a deleted question into shape and requesting undeletion via flag
I have been told that it is forbidden to edit after a question has been deleted. But I have also been told that deletion is "protective" as a chance to edit the question into shape and ...
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Ηow much reasoning should a moderator give for deleting and suspending? (What ought to be the due process)
Why this question is not a duplicate (beyond the questions being different why the answers don't cover the same issues) The answers on the "duplicate" question (the top three posts with the ...
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Improvements to the "a year in moderation" table
The table in the yearly "A year in moderation" posts (see e.g. this one) does not have a great UI, in my view. Here are two suggestions for improvement. Some zeros are structural. Sometimes,...
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