Timeline for 2017 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
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| May 3, 2017 at 2:06 | comment | added | GentlePurpleRain Mod | Maybe I'm overthinking it. | |
| May 3, 2017 at 2:06 | comment | added | GentlePurpleRain Mod | @randal'thor I have seen mild cases of this happening (can't think of a concrete example right now). For a manufactured example, suppose someone posted an answer to their own question, and someone else posted a comment saying that you may not answer your own question. This is not in fact true, and will give the "newbie" a false impression of what is/is not allowed. With your examples, we may have "de facto" rules which work well, but if someone came along and said, "You must delete any lateral-thinking answers to a non-LT question," I suspect it may not go over well. | |
| May 2, 2017 at 22:26 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor Mod | Do you have any examples of this problem arising? To be fair, we do have a lot of "rules" which are simply convention (not established by a meta policy) but which are routinely followed even by mods. For example, the policy of deleting answers which don't include explanations, or deleting lateral-thinking answers to non-lateral-thinking questions, both of which have been enforced for years and yet didn't (AFAIR) spring from any meta discussion or community consensus. | |
| May 2, 2017 at 20:44 | history | answered | GentlePurpleRainMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |