Questions tagged [vandalism]
For questions about vandalism, the deliberate act of damaging a post.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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:
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I ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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?
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