Questions tagged [moderation]
This tag is for questions dealing with moderator actions, pages, abilities or decisions.
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        2024: a year in moderation
                    It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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        Overly aggressive moderation on Alloy tag
                    Alloy is a lightweight formal specification language. Such languages are completely different in style and way of thinking than programming languages. We've been using SO to answer many questions.
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        "Lacks concrete context”, et al - drivng in the wrong direction
                    Over the last 2 months I have seen a significant proportion of questions closed, or marooned/abandoned by the threat of being closed. I understand the official figures are in region of 20-40% (about ...
                
            
       
        
            
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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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        It is with disappointment that I hereby resign as a moderator
                    Note the updates at the end: In short, my resignation is now in full effect.
A moderator is a person trusted by both Stack Exchange, and the community as  a whole, to objectively and fairly deal with ...
                
            
       
        
            
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        Rollback reason
                    Quite often I roll back the edit because the code was edited after the answer was posted. In such situation I feel obliged to post a comment why did I rolled it back. Not a biggie, but annoying. Can ...
                
            
       
        
            
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        Dealing with defamation and site-policy
                    Yesterday I got two separate accounts of defamation against me. 
The first one Find the rotation point of a sorted array that is "rotated" accused me of using multiple accounts to down-vote their ...
                
            
       
        
            
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        Why were comments removed that reported bugs in my question code?
                    The comments on my question here appear to have been removed.
Some of these comments reported bugs in the original code. Given that question code can't be updated, and new questions or selfie answers ...
                
            
       
        
            
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        Mod team updates and site status
                    Today the paperwork caught up with reality, and Simon officially relinquished his diamond. For me it is a sad occasion. Fortunately, I know Simon is not really going anywhere, and he'll still be just ...
                
            
       
        
            
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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:
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        Why is a NAA flag being handled by a Moderator?
                    I recently flagged an answer as "Not An Answer" and the flag was rejected with the reason:
  declined - flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention
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