Questions tagged [moderation]
This tag is for questions dealing with moderating actions, pages, abilities or decisions.
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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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Should answers without references be removed by the mods?
As an example, user @BobaFit recently posted an answer to In the US, what do federal politicians commenting on education policy propose the federal government should do? which I find quite compelling, ...
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When are comments on this site unfriendly or unkind?
I'm more of a lurker here. I usually just read a little here and there, but I get into it every now and then if the right HNQ caught my eye. So I'm not super familiar with this community.
I flagged ...
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Are questions arbitrarily closed as off-topic?
I saw multiple questions closed as off-topic, I would like to ask what are the exact criteria of that behavior and what does the moderator team to prevent abuses in that sense?
Among multiple examples ...
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am I wrong in thinking that an author raising "no longer needed" flag is always honored?
I believe there was a moderator post a while ago (on this meta site) which said that if an answer author raises "no longer needed" flag, the comments always get deleted. It makes sense ...
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Why should moderators have the right to remove misinformation rather than correct misinformation?
Why should moderators have the right to remove misinformation rather than correct misinformation?
I think we should correct rather than remove just like we combat falsehoods with education rather than ...
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Attempted subversion of a question
There has been a recent attempt at subverting a highly active question question What is the pacifist position on Ukraine? (+36 and nearly 9000 views at the moment of writing.) Specifically: they ...
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How is this site moderated for exclusion of and ousting of people? [closed]
I would like to know how contrast about who should win an election, who is the one out, and who holds a view that is not eligible to stand, is dealt with on this site. Perhaps, it is the role of ...
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2021: 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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Why is a factual statement about Trump, backed by wikipedia articles, labeled "personal opinion" by a mod?
In this answer which was deleted I made the argument that Trump often lies and promotes conspiracy theories, which is why people who stay with him don't value veracity and science and therefore are ...
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2020: 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 past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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Is a question on whether someone is a "black supremacist" going to be mod-deleted? If not, why not?
The question on whether Trump was fascist was ultimately mod-deleted because it had a positive score and perhaps it would not have been deleted had this decision been left to the community. The one ...
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Why was my answer explaining an anti-White hate statement deleted?
I wrote this answer, which was deleted by @Philipp using his moderator powers. I do not believe that this was the correct course of action to take.
In that answer, I explained the background behind &...
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Why was this flag declined?
This answer, by its own admission, does not answer the question. Other users have pointed this out as well. Indeed, the answerer admits:
Fair point that I should have been more on point to the OP's ...
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Why was this answer on "Why don't Presidential debates disable the candidates' microphones while it's not their turn to speak?" deleted?
I answered the question Why don't Presidential debates disable the candidates' microphones while it's not their turn to speak? with this answer.
It was an answer and had an answer in it. But then it ...
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Will there be a candidate questionnaire for the upcoming election?
The announcement for the pro tempore moderator elections says:
For these elections, the candidate questionnaire is an optional feature that individual sites can choose if they want (example here). If ...
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What are the rules about using Bounty Messages to evade comment locks?
The comments on this question were locked by yannis due to excessive off-topic discussion and debate. Recently, a user posted a bounty on the question, but the bounty message has nothing to do with ...
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What does it mean when my answer is deleted by a moderator "Via Vote"?
My answer was deleted by a Mod, but the comment on the deletion says "via Vote":
What does this mean? It looks like it was deleted by a moderator, not by collecting delete votes from ...
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Haphazard comment moderation
I have noticed the standard for comment moderation has been lacking recently. Entire debates are allowed to develop under some answers while comments that provide specific suggestions on how to better ...
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Edit rejected. No deviation from original intent
I suggested an edit to the only answer to my question Is there any good evidence for institutional racisms in the United States?.
The edit got rejected by user "JJ for transparency and Monica&...
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@Philipp moderator seems to be into showing his attitude a bit too much. Am I missing something?
I am not a contentious type of person. Maybe I'm missing something. But here are two examples.
I asked this question, but it appeared to some users as too broad. Since this concept of "broadness&...
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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Is this an appropriate username?
One of the top users for Politics.SE has a username like
[username]--Is RBG Dead Yet
Presumably in reference to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
I don't feel feel a username like "is ...
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Not Rude and Abusive. Why?
After reading this thread, I flagged this comment for moderator attention. As someone who has lived in the state of Illinois, I can assure you that it is not "full of nazis" and take offense that we ...
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Comment deletion policy should be changed significantly
The moderators are too quick to delete comments. They frequently delete them without giving any notice. They should raise the threshold for comment deletion considerably.
As an example, a recent ...
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Are Stack Exchange policies on topic?
I asked some hard questions in Meta about policies which got me banned from Meta. I asked about my stats that are not available to the user or moderator on how suspensions and bans work and why?
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When should we remove a question from the Hot Network Question list?
As you might have read in the recent global meta announcement, moderators now have the option to manually remove a question from the Hot Network Questions list.
Should Politics Stack Exchange make ...
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Why did the question "Is President Donald Trump a racist?" get closed?
On March 4th, a user posted the question "Is President Donald Trump a racist?". Moderator Philipp closed this question a few minutes later with the reason "Promotes or discredits a ...
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What is an appropriate way to handle users who do not think that question about whitewashing of antisemitism in government are on topic?
I asked this question to find out if (in a specific instance of) antisemitic affiliations within the Democratic Party have, there have been any apologies issued.
A number of users (Alexander O'Mara,...
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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Are diamond mods allowed to lock questions which they were involved in an edit war?
The question originally called Who shovels shit in full communism? has been locked with a comment by diamond mod Philipp saying
This question was locked due to an edit war. Please do not put ...
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Why are people who unapologetically and repeatedly post racist drivel not banned for extended periods of time?
A certain user – a student of mathematics – has a repeated history of posting offensive racist content. Furthermore, based on various posts on meta, it seems that this user doesn't seem to understand ...
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Should qualified partial answers be deleted?
Suppose we have a complex question like:
Do Nation X and Nation Y both have freckled parliamentarians?
User Mr.Foo answers:
As a resident of Nation X, I know of seven freckled parliamentarians, ...
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What is "serial voting" on this site?
This site has less than 20 active users. I can imagine quite easily that a few of them vote in concert because they are more or less like-minded. I got a few rep points taken off for "serial voting"....
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Term Limits for Moderators
In a follow up to this question moderator involvement was discussed, and it was noted that moderators are elected, seemingly for life. While another post deals with adding additional new moderators, ...
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Isn't a 1 year suspension a bit excessive?
I don't know the details involved in what led to a particular user's suspension, but I did notice that after the expiration of his previous 1 year suspension, he managed to earn another 1 year ...
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SE sites seem to be ruining the fun by disallowing comments
Example question: Is Fox News correct that Mueller shouldn't be going after a campaign finance violation?
This question isn't exactly tied to politics.se, it's simply the last place I happened to ...
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onhold and deletion of questions: voting based on political bias and user beliefs
I have noticed what seems to be a strong political bias in votes on politics.stackexchange in general and, more importantly, in [on hold] votes. I have following questions concerning that:
What is ...
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if it's not about politics, what is it about?
My question here was put on hold because it is presumably "not about politics, government or political process." But the question very clearly sets up the context as that of the current political ...
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Preemptively protecting hot network questions
I asked a question last night, and it was received pretty well, to the point that it managed to get into the Hot Network Question (HNQ) list. But as a result of this, a moderator protected the ...
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Do we really want to tolerate personal attacks and antisemitism here?
We have a user here who frequently engages in personal and antisemitic attacks against other users. They have very few answers or questions, their only purpose on this site seems to be to spread hate ...
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Why is this post not rude or abusive (as evidenced by declined flag)?
I'm trying to make a sense of a declined "rude or abusive" flag.
The flag was declined with a canned "declined - a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no evidence to support it" message without a ...
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Why mods handle non-mod flags before the community has its say?
I have noticed that on this SE, my community flags get handled by a moderator BEFORE the community has its say through the review queue.
Why is it so?
I thought that the SE theory of moderation said ...
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Deleting this user name is not rocket science
A user who created an account to ask a fairly trollish question about rockets hitting a Jewish-majority country chose a user name of "vonbraun".
Wernher von Braun is the main person listed on the ...
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VTC old questions
If a question is close worthy, but hasn't been touched in years should I vote to close?
It seems wrong to necro-moderate, but presumably it helps clean up the site.
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Lack of moderator patience and deleting critical comments
A moderator closed this question in a very short space of time by using their moderator privilege. The question was given no time for community self-organization or improvement.
The question was ...
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Can you suggest a standard comment for opinion-based answers?
I noticed that many new users come to this website with the misconception that it would be a website would be a forum to post their personal opinion, not a Q&A site for posting factual answers.
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Moderator Censorship
What significance could the information in Donald Trump's tax return have to his campaign?
We're having an issue right now. We have a Mod who selectively deleted many comments which were of a ...
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Call for Pro-Tem Moderators
Update August 24, 2016
Welcome Philipp as our newest moderator, after he graciously accepted the nomination. He will stand alongside the existing moderators.
We have a slot open for a Moderator ...
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Why are anti-semitic questions allowed, but comments complaining about it not?
The question Why did America only attack Japan with atomic bombs and spare Germany? , which in more than one version speculates that Jews were responsible for a purported decision that Hiroshima and ...
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