Questions tagged [low-quality-posts]
For questions relating to posts of low quality, generally or possibly with regards to specific users.
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Enforcement of Quality Standards
Math SE has a long-standing policy regarding what constitutes a Good Question. The policy is intended to ensure that the collection of questions and answers here is of high quality, is searchable, ...
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Is CRUDE healthy?
The chatroom CRUDE stands for Close, Reopen, Undelete, Delete, Edit. Is the way this room is currently used healthy for Maths Stack Exchange?
There is a core of users which can be counted on one ...
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What is "very low quality"?
TL;DR: What does it mean when a post is "very low quality"?
The site allows us to flag a post as "very low quality", in which case that flag is reviewed by several users which can either dismiss it ...
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Quality blocks enabled for questions
Questions are the lifeblood of any Stack Exchange site. But asking good questions can be difficult, for some people entirely too difficult to bother with. When the Trilogy sites reached traffic levels ...
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How to deal with users consistently posting low quality answers
There are a few users on this site (which I will refrain from mentioning here) who constantly posts low quality answers. Even after several comments on their answers they do nothing. The answers can ...
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Can I try to tell experienced users not to answer bad questions?
I have recently started using the website and I am trying to do my best with moderation. I flag questions very often, I edit posts when they can be improved, I have written a few of those "What have ...
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What to do when other users answer low-quality questions?
This question is related to many I've seen on here about "low-quality posts," so I apologize in advance if it's an exact duplicate of one I haven't found, or simply too close to others. My question is ...
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Can we have "2021: a year of EoQS"?
In Paramanand's questionnaire response, he suggests that the effects of the EoQS should be studied. This made me realise that I don't really know anything past the "theory" of the EoQS since ...
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How to handle a new user posting low-quality answers
How should a new user posting a lot of low-quality answers be handled?
I think that the quality of most of the answers is not low enough to call for a flag on its own. In most cases they are an ...
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What clears a Low Quality flag, and what removes a review from the LQ queue?
On several occasions, I have noticed that when I raise Low Quality or Not an Answer flag, the flags get cleared up without the post deleted, or without the review going through the general process of ...
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Deleting Wrong Answers in "Low Quality" Queue
It is decided[1] that deleting answers just because they're wrong/incorrect is not condoned in StackExchange-land.
However, I feel it is a different situation when the answer is a borderline low-...
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Follow up to 'Users who consistently post low-quality answers'
In this thread, there is a discussion on how to handle users who consistently post low-quality answers. In the comments, a moderator mentions that one such user is "under a magnifying glass", yet ...
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Non-human reviewer
In this Low Quality Post review, the Community user gave Looks OK to the review target. How can a non-human being review posts like real users?
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Are answers given by comments for low-quality questions against the principles stated with the EoQS?
Very often I’ve seen low-quality questions (i.e. questions which don’t fit the requirements for what Good Question is supposed to be) hinted or answered by comments (here one very recent among many ...
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Specific user "spamming" questions of the same type
I noticed a user has posed many questions, none of them answered and all of them of the same type. They have not responded comments nor improved the questions in any way.
How am I as a community ...
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Why are clumsily formulated questions downvoted & closed so much?
Regularly, I feel that a significant part of the community closes or downvotes question because they don't fit neatly into the category of "well-presented question", while the question is ...
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Is the "hint" approach creating a perverse incentive?
Recently, there has been a crack down on enforcing quality standards for both people asking questions and those answering them. The idea (I think) has been to reduce the rather significant influx of ...
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When is a post "very low quality"?
At the question
When you randomly shuffle a deck of cards, what is the probability that it is a unique permutation never before configured?,
I had flagged the answer
The chances of a particular ...
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How to handle answers which are only CAS output?
I'm quite uncomfortable with the fact that there are many answers by specific users (especially in the "integration"-tag where I spent most of my time here) which are clearly pure CAS output. On top ...
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Increase the point where reviews are disputed
I noticed two answers that arguably should have been deleted from the review queue (Exhibits A and B; see also Exhibit C given by dustin in the comments, and there are probably many others as well).
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Two cheers for EoQS
NB: this post has been edited in the light of @quid's comment revealing all moderator messages link to a text that explicitly contradicts MSE's deletion policies, without disclosing the latter in any ...
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Users providing only answers in Maple [duplicate]
This question is about users who stubbornly only provide Maple code and their output as answers, even if the question does not ask for it.
Yesterday I decided to review some low-quality posts (there ...
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Why is an answer not deleted even when all reviewers recommend deletion? [duplicate]
Today I vote to "recommend delete" an answer in the low quality queue and I just check that, although the low quality review was completed, that all six reviewers recommend deletion, the ...
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What to do when a user is just providing "answer" to a low-quality-question?
I recently came across a lot of such posts where the questioner "just posts" a question without any attempt, without any thoughts, without any source. Just "Question" and with &...
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Suspensions for low-quality contributions
How does the automated flagging system for length and content work? Can it trigger suspensions by itself without human input? How is the severity of the penalty determined?
I am wondering because I ...
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Problem : You have reached your question limit
When I try to ask a question, my Mathematics Stack Exchange account says that I have reached my question limit and should fix my previous posts. But I don't have clue how should I fix my previous ...
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When exactly is the comment "This does not provide an answer to the question..." added by SE software?
In some situations SE software adds a comment which looks like this:1
This does not provide an answer to the question. To critique or request clarification from an author, leave a comment below ...
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What to do with answers to low quality questions? [duplicate]
Would it be ethical (or acceptable) to dislike an answer to a low quality question for encouraging poor quality question, or would it be better to comment under the answer? What about flagging it for ...
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How to insert a post into the "Low Quality" review queue?
Once in every while, I come upon an answer which is determinedly wrong (highly upvoted critical comments, knowledgeable users can easily determine the erroneous nature).
Such gibberish should have no ...
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Where should I post my answer?
Yesterday I answered this question:
What should be the technique applied here to get a equation of just $x$ to solve for $\cos x?$
At the time I answered, the question had some other answers. The ...
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Why is this low quality review ended?
This LQ review is no longer available, and I wonder why.
My try:
According to an answer by one of our mods, an LQ review will end if the post
is edited before or from the review
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What to do about two erroneous answers to a post?
[Edit: to explain some things that were not so clear in the original post]
I believe in being straightforward. Without linking to the specific question, people will just treat this as another vague ...
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Reason of closing a question with good answers
Let us look at the question Evaluate $\int_0^{\pi/2}\frac{x^2\log^2{(\sin{x})}}{\sin^2x}dx$
I understand, that the formulation is rather short, but we have at least two precise, large answers. I ...
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A question about enforcement of quality standards
I'm reading this post about enforcement of quality standards, and it puzzles me.
I feel like most of the time, it a user were able to ask a question that follows the quality standards, they would ...
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Are the curators becoming overbearing in impeding the use of the site by askers/answerers?
I see one dimension into which MSE users might be partitioned into two parts, is into the "asker/answerers" and the "curators".
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