Questions tagged [moderation]
Questions dealing with moderator actions, pages, abilities or decisions.
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Should moderators intervene when the accepted answer is blatantly wrong?
Generally the moderators have nothing to do with the actual mathematical content of the posts. Their work is when the posts are incorrectly made (e.g. questions in answers, or comments in answers), or ...
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Topics declared as duplicates in which order? [duplicate]
I'm asking this because I think an older question with a full answer shouldn't be declared a duplicate to a newer one. What the moderators think about this?
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Announcement: A change of moderators
There has been a lot of inquiry about recent events. This post is meant to clear that up and avoid speculation. In particular, I am posting this as a follow-up to a comment I had made previously.
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Rude and Sarcastic comments
I find the comments made by a moderator here to be rude and sarcastic. Though what the OP asks might not make complete sense and needs to rephrase his question in a better way, I believe that it does ...
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Announcement: private contacts by moderators
I am writing this post to discuss a possible small upcoming change in moderator policy. I post this here on Meta (instead in the Mods only discussion room) because
The topic is not sensitive.
There ...
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What would be “recommended experience” for a person who wants to run for moderator?
I believe that if someone decides to run for moderator, he should have at least approximate idea what will be expected from them.
We can learn something about work of moderators here: http://meta....
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Flagging a question before it is edited
I have noticed over the past few months some inconsistency with certain flags. If I flag PSQ with the closeflag "offtopic: missing context" and then it is edited later to be okay, I have had both ...
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More granularity in locking questions
Is it possible to have more granularity in of time-span for locking questions? Currently the available choices are 1 hr, 1 day, 1 week, and permanent. There are times where longer, but not permanent ...
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What standards should moderators should adhere to?
A couple of days ago there was a rather benign incident (in a now-deleted thread). Essentially, a moderator (which one is irrelevant, and anyway I forger) made a comment which was meant as a joke but ...
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About the plurality of tag names
It is most appropriate that the tag names of countable nouns should be in plural forms, but there are still quite a lot of tag names which should be in plural forms but they use single forms, for ...
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Proposal for a new Help Center section: Tagging
It is glad to have a new section called Help Center nowadays, as it can only be edited by diamond (ā¦) moderators, we can set up credible rules or regulations in here.
But the Help Center still lack ...
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Why is “Gone” completely gone?
A long-term suspended user known by many by his real name and lastly named Gone has recently gotten his account deleted. While I do not want to discuss the suspension or anything alike, I would like ...
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Is this account suspension abuse of moderator power?
Is this account suspension abuse of moderator power?
My account had been suspended for one year.
As some of you know, some users don't like my questions in the main because I tend to answer my own ...
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Historical lock for preserving old, low quality questions
The question Compute $ \lim\limits_{n \to \infty }\sin \sin \dots\sin n$ was recently closed (then reopened and historical-locked). I agree that, by modern standards, the question is not a good one. ...
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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 there too many comment deletions lately?
I noticed just now that a comment on my answer was removed (before I had the chance to see it, but the notification was still showing in my inbox). The comment was removed with the entire comment ...
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What flags can 10K+ or 20K+ users handle and what flags are only visible for moderators?
I want to help moderating this site, but I'm unsure what flags are seen by 10K+ or 20K+ users and what flags are only visible for moderators. This seems important, because I don't want to bother a ...
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Permanent flag-ban without warning. [closed]
I've flagged some posts and comments and nothing happened.
Edit 1. An update after correspondence with the The Stack Exchange Team about my flag-ban:
As people thinks here (Permanent flag-ban without ...
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Moderators not having a uniform response to flags about potentially graded assignments when the photcopy has the point values next to the problems
I flagged this question since next to each problem there is a point value assigned which is indicative of it being a grader assignment.
I was greeted with the following response and flag rejection:
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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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Appropriate use of moderator power with respect to question closure
Last night, I asked a question, a question I knew was on the borderline of acceptable on Math.SE, but I decided to hazard it anyway and make it as appropriate as I could. I flagged the post as ...
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Do deletion votes dissolve when a question is reopened? When else?
I recall a time where a question would have standing deletion votes, those would remain until the question is deleted (and thus the owner could abuse the system by deleting and undeleting, thus ...
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My comment was removed and I don't know why
I don't remember the exact words and perhaps the moderator who removed my comment would care to explain why he did so and paste my comment somewhere on the thread.
In this answer I left a comment ...
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Do you think this question deserves to be closed?
Today I've voted for closing this question for missing any context and for the OP has shown no effort. Another 4 users thought the same (I suppose) and voted accordingly. (Furthermore, one of them ...
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Moderators ignoring flags
For some reason the moderators have ignored my recent flags. My flags have not been declined, deemed helpful, etc. Is there a reason for that?
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What's going on with my flag?
While waiting for Alex Gruber to recharge his batteries, the moderation is working slowly. For instance, on September 3 I've voted to close this question as a duplicate. I was certain from the very ...
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Unilaterally closing a question that is not even 10 minutes old
This question was asked and closed in only $7$ minutes thanks to the unilateral action of a moderator. I find that to be fairly egregious. No comment given despite my asking for a reason either. If ...
