Questions tagged [moderation]
This tag is for questions dealing with moderator actions, pages, abilities or decisions.
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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, ...
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Should Elchanan Mossel's dice puzzle be undeleted?
I'm fairly surprised to see that Elchanan Mossel's dice puzzle was deleted. The question seems to be attributed -- this is Elchanan Mossel's puzzle, and that is mentioned in the title itself. This ...
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Why was my answer deleted - is this arrogance from moderators?
When the first gamer comes to the pile for the last time there must be between 1 and 9 Euro in the pile. So the controller is worth between 1 and 9 Euro.
deleted by Rand al'Thor, Beastly Gerbil, ...
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My post was deleted for plagiarizing myself
I have a question about my Puzzling Stack Exchange post: Web of Spirits - a puzzle of romance
The post in question was deleted for plagiarism. Specifically, as stated in the delete reason, for ...
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My puzzle which have been posted on other forum
I created many puzzles, before I find this site, I posted the puzzle on other forum www.brainden.com/forum. After finding this site, I see this site is more active, with more members, so I posted some ...
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If I flagged a comment as 'Rude or Offensive', and it was marked 'helpful', why is it still there?
The title basically says it all - If I flagged a comment as 'Rude or Offensive', and it was marked 'helpful', why is it still there?
The comment contained... eerr... explicit reproductive content. (I'...
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Should comments that attempt to answer the question be removed (redux)?
Right now, we don't remove comments that spoil or attempt to answer the question. This has always struck me as a weird policy, though, given how much people strive not to be spoiled in other places on ...
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Putting on hold - a bit hasty?
I posted a riddle. I'm slower than a sloth [on hold]
Within 2 minutes (literally) it was put on hold.
I feel it would have been politer to make a comment first rather than putting it on hold.
I ...
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Should we delete comments that attempt to answer the question?
A common issue I've seen raised in comments is that a comment attempts to answer the question, and either ruins the puzzle or is annoyingly misleading. They may also simply be noisy or unhelpful.
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Deletion of correct answers?
Recently I've noticed a lot of answers which are correct - in some cases, I believe, even accepted - being deleted by the moderators (which means normal users can't vote to undelete them), simply ...
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Getting to business: How can Puzzling make the internet better?
xnor asked me in a comment:
Given the recognition that Puzzling is unusual in that challenges are not meant to solve a real-world issue, can you explain the role of being easy to find on Google? ...
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Why do you gain access to moderator tools before marking a question as protected?
4,000 trusted user Expanded editing, deletion and undeletion privileges
3,500 protect questions Mark questions as protected
2,000 access to moderator tools Access reports, delete questions, review ...
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May 2014: Who should our pro tem moderators be?
If your meta site does not have a post to nominate Moderators, start one now! Pro Tem appointments will begin about two weeks after the site is created. The more guidance we receive, the more informed ...
