Questions tagged [moderation]
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Why is non-English content apparently allowed on this website?
On one of the posts in the main Q&A site, there is a comment which is written in a foreign language, certainly not in English:
Per the network's global policies, having language-specific sites as ...
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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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Problem with new user
A new user has been asking questions (mostly) about Newtonian Mechanics from time to time (which happens to be my top tag). Said user generally begins questions with "I aspire to become like you ...
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One of moderators keeps deleting one last single comment with the crucial piece of information, that clearly explains, why the given answer is wrong
How to interpret the velocity from relativistic Doppler effect/equation for the redshift of cosmic background radiation?
Another issue is that all recent downvotes on the original question are related ...
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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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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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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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Should comments trying to answer a question be deleted?
Note: I do in no way want to say that the current moderators somehow do a "bad job" at moderating Physics SE. I think that they do a great work at, well, moderating this network and my full ...
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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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Erasing comments for questionable reasons
Warning: Apparently one is not moderator after they reached 10K, unlike what SE privilege help pages declare, which led to the following incorrect assumption of the answer's author directly erasing ...
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Why did all the comments on my answer vanish so quickly?
I had a couple of comments under my answer (this one), and was about to reply to a comment of the question author when I noticed that the author had accepted the answer and deleted his account. Then, ...
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Why "Leave Open" votes don't cancel the "Close" votes?
Once the question has been closed, one can cast re-open votes and a question requires exactly as many re-open votes as close votes in order for it to be re-opened. Given the homogeneity of time, I ...
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Should a rude comment be deleted if the addressed user doesn't mind?
On the linked post, a comment was made addressing me with words that might be considered mildly rude by some. I had absolutely no issues with the comment (and thus, I didn't flag it). And yet, the ...
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An Issue with Detecting Identical Titles
I was editing a question titled "newton's law of restitution" and I edited the title to "Newton's law of restitution" (There were latex issues in the body of the question and I was not editing the ...
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Data collection: When should (or shouldn't) we exclude questions from the Hot Network Questions list?
The SE team has made
several promising changes to the "Hot Network Questions" system.
If you have previously found HNQs to be problematic, you are invited to participate in the discussion ...
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Update on the Manish situation
The fact that one of the moderators is pretty much inactive has been brought up many times already (e.g. this meta post from last year). In fact, he has been invited to step aside a couple of times by ...
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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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Question was protected while I was writing an answer. Can a mod post my answer?
I was writing a comprehensive answer to a question when it became protected before I could submit my answer. Could a mod please submit my answer for me? I took a lot of time to write up and research ...
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Why did I get chat suspended for a year?
I've been chat banned for a year after having served a 2-day sentence.
Can you please point out what I said that was particularly offensive? I don't believe I said anything wrong, at all. (Of course ...
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Why Can't Suspensions be Discussed on the Meta? [duplicate]
I think the reason behind any act of moderation comes under the domain of the meta discussion of the website. Thus, the reasons behind the suspensions should also be open to discussion on the meta ...
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Why might providing contact information be considered spam?
My (now changed) answer to the question,"Why is $PV^γ$
constant in an adiabatic process?" received the following comment:
You do not need to "archive" the question in your answer, that's what ...
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Why was this meta answer deleted?
It was an honest question, and I know Bernardo takes the issue very seriously.
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Open justice v secret police
I'd like to raise a point for discussion. It concerns moderation, and I think the best way I can summarise it succinctly is open justice v secret police. It came up on this post, where DavidZ said "...
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Chat and the moderation thereof
After discussion at the biweekly chat session starting here and looking at the answers and comments to this post, the feedback appears to be overwhelmingly negative. As anticipated at the end of the ...
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When should moderators close questions?
I have recently found instances of moderators closing questions (which of course occurs with their single vote) instead of leaving them to be judged by the community in the review queues. For example :...
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Was this plagiarism flag correctly handled?
In a recent question, a user complained that one of their answers (10k+ link at the moment; screenshot answer now undeleted, see the answer timeline for more details) was unfairly flagged as ...
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About merging of questions
This question of mine merged with this one while the questions were pretty different with each other. And this answer of Gennaro Tedesco (before is edited by me, even after that!) is completely ...
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Can one moderator cancel or reduce the suspension given out by another?
I was wondering if this is even discussed anywhere in the policies of this network?
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Should moderators manually delete closed questions? Under what circumstances?
The question Do we know if the human brain follows Moore's Law? was volunteered for deletion by its author, and I guess one or two other members also think it's worth deleting. But I'm hesitant to ...
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Problem of unnecessary censorship in Physics stack exchange
I posted a review comparing my experiences in physics stack exchange and at physics overflow.
It was clearly an answer the question "how are they different from each other?"
This is written purely ...
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A bounty set by the Community user?
See this question.
The question sits on a +2 -18 vote status, but has +100 bounty on it, from "Community". Digging further into it leads me to this, which seems to suggest that Community is a kind ...
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This question shouldn't violate the homework policy
See this Physics SE post. I maintain that it doesn't violate the homework policy for someone to provide a complete answer because (1) the OP attempted the question and got it wrong (2) the OP has the ...
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Guru's are always right? Censorship in place of scientific arguments
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All these answers and comments below have been a truly learning experience for me. I was told a lot of useful and important things, for instance that I can write an answer myself, that I can ...
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Suggestion: an idea to audit the question close/delete mechanism without any moderation privilege
On my opinion, the current question voting/deleting mechanism is bad, because it often closes(deletes) valid questions as well. But it is my opinion only - until now.
Now, I've found an idea to get ...
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How much are 3k+ users moderating through the review queue?
This question is an offshoot of Ben Crowell's question Have we lost the necessary critical mass of professional physicists?, and I'm asking it separately to help avoid multi-threaded comment ...
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What happens with "the explanation of the Mendeleev table"?
Who can explain me the strange things that happen all the way with my question about the Mendeleev table here? At the beginning I could not edit it or make comments after it. That's why I tried to ...
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Is there any more I can do to help
I try to answer as many questions as I can, and when I am not doing that, I am going to the 'review' section and doing what I can there and when that is done, I read through as many questions as ...
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How can I dispute a declined flag?
How can I constructively dispute a declined flag, if I think that my flag was really legitimate and should not have been declined? I am interested to know what can be done generally in this case, but ...
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Community, help us moderate the site!
Related:
A guide to moderating Physics Stack Exchange yourself: close voting
Community, help us close questions!
When I first discovered community moderation on this site, I was pretty ...
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What are the basic characteristics for becoming a physics.SE moderator?
As the moderator election 2012 is in progress, users (above 300 rep.) are invited to nominate themselves in the election. So, some users will ask themselves, "Could I become a moderator?"
I strongly ...
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A guide to moderating Physics Stack Exchange yourself: close voting
So one thing that came out of our recent chat meeting the call to close questions was that some of our high rep members have been reluctant to cast close votes because it has been more or less ...
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Community, help us close questions!
Back in the early days of the site, there was a question about letting the community close questions through the normal 5-votes-to-close mechanism. That was a little impractical at the time because we ...
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Should we make an official policy out of cleaning up comments?
Programmers.SE recently adopted the following policy on comments:
We moderators will now be actively cleaning up questions and answers that have extended discussion in comments: any additional ...
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