Questions tagged [vandalism]
For questions about vandalism, the deliberate act of damaging a post.
10
questions
14
votes
2
answers
522
views
List of duplicates: questions defaced or vandalised
Periodically, we get questions about what to do when someone vandalises their question, or even someone else's question. Here I have compiled a list of these questions so that this kind of question ...
12
votes
2
answers
577
views
What can moderators do when a user defaces his/her own post?
Recently, there have been a number of users who deface their own questions soon after posting them. In some cases, members of the community have invested time and effort in order to answer these ...
11
votes
2
answers
452
views
Questions edited in such a way that they cannot be recognized
I specifically refer to this question, but this is not the first time I observe the following behavior: after a question is answered it is changed by the author in such a way that it cannot be anymore ...
17
votes
1
answer
749
views
What is the policy for users who deliberately vandalise their own posts?
I came across this post today:
proving $L^\infty$ norm inequality (disprove $\Vert f\Vert_\infty\le\sqrt{n}$)
The user deliberately deleted a large chunk of his/her own post, making the question ...
7
votes
0
answers
142
views
What to do about repeated self-vandalization? [duplicate]
Sorry if this is answered somewhere else -- it's my first time on meta.
There is a question which is being repeatedly vandalized by the OP and someone else (perhaps a friend?). Regardless, It seems me ...
26
votes
1
answer
935
views
Vandalizing question posted by others
Today I found a rather weird case where a question had been vandalized by another user to a completely different question.
I did a search here and saw a lot of posts on vandalizing questions posted by ...
23
votes
2
answers
1k
views
User defacing their question
I recently noticed a question, its title was "norm of the operator". I wanted to know what the question details were. To my surprise, I found this:
Dghggfssrrrrtiij Ffhjhhh ggssfvg guijvcd
I ...
33
votes
1
answer
772
views
Users who edit their questions to be unintelligible after receiving an answer.
Consider this thread, in which the user asked a question, received an answer, and then asked others to delete the question after receiving help. I have never seen this before, and I am not sure what ...
17
votes
2
answers
621
views
What is a mod to do? (Traceless edits and "deletions".)
A few users flagged this post to our attention.
The reconstructed time-line based on users' comments seems to be:
OP posted the question
Some users saw the question, started to compose the answer.
...
3
votes
1
answer
153
views
Robo-Approvers on the run?
How could this edit (I rolled back immediately), get any approves? Please look into the robo-approvers responsible for the approval of the vandalising edit. Did any of you see such activity recently?