Questions tagged [moderation]
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Communication with moderators over posts needing citations
Yesterday an answer I posted to a question was flagged with the following notice:
Want to improve this post? Add citations from reputable sources by
editing the post. Posts with unsourced content ...
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Why was my reasonable comment deleted?
In the Gerardo Furtado answer to Why does it hurt the next day after doing significant exercise?, I had a comment asking about whether the mechanism described had sound scientific basis. This comment ...
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Moderators and community curators are on strike - how will it affect the site?
Many moderators, former moderators, and community curators (regular users who vote on, comment on, edit, flag, and close content) are on strike across the Stack Exchange network as of June 5, 2023. ...
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Who should the moderators be?
High time to obtain some pro tem mods. [In short, soon 4 users will be made temporary moderators. After site graduation (or earlier in case of heavy moderation problems), pro tem mods will become ...
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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.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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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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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.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Biology.SE's place now Bioinformatics.SE is in beta
Now Bioinformatics.SE has made it to beta, I'm wondering if the community/mods think that the remit of Bio.SE should change? (lets assume for the sake of argument, that Bioinformatics will persist ...
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Do we want to experiment with changing the close/reopen vote threshold?
Would we rather have a close/reopen vote threshold lower than 5?
Recently, Stack Overflow experimented with and decided to change the threshold for close/reopen votes from 5 to 3.
They found an ...
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Is there any moderator guideline?
Helly Everyone!
I'm quite new to this site and StackExchange in general. I try to actively participate in the moderator activity of the site to make it better. I try to keep my votes, editing etc. ...
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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.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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What is a "post notice" or "notice on answer"?
A message appeared in my Inbox informing me that . . . a notice had been attached to one of my accepted answers. The notice seems to me a comment from a moderator, but as far as I can tell the author ...
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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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What is a moderator's job?
Ok this might be a little personal and not much useful but I am just curious so bear with me.
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Is a moderator's job a full-time paying one or is it more like a hobby as for most other users?
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New moderators, please be more reserved with your close hammer
As both of the new moderators indicated in their election Q&A, voting to close questions is the responsibility of the community, provided community members with sufficient reputation are actively ...
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May be time for a flag to Cognitive Sciences SE
I have been seeing a number of questions come up that are more neuroscience related and are likely more appropriate for Cognitive Sciences SE.
I realize that this has come up before in this Biology ...
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Is there a list of generic help comments?
Is there a list of generic comments available to users with higher rep to use in instances of reviewing and general site moderation?
I've seen some users re-use the same moderation comments (e.g., ...
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Is this not considered evidence of effort?
I have to say I was completely taken aback by an exchange with a moderator:
How does pressure travel through the cochlea exactly?
"I downvoted because I see no evidence you tried to understand ...
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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.
As most of you here might be ...
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What's wrong with this question that was edited to include research?
The question, uhh... in question:
If you only ate fruits, vegetables or smoothies would you be able to skip drinking water?
You can follow along by looking at its timeline. Some parts may only be ...
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Why require at least 6 characters when improving answer?
I saw an answer to a question on this site, which I found difficult to read, due to the author not having split the text in to proper sections.
So I simply added the paragraphs, where it made sense. ...
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What is the consensus on Questions that result in Primarily Opinion-Based Answers?
Today we had a question that unleashed a torrent of opinion-based answers. If evolution is not about increased complexity, why does so much complexity evolve?
While a few of them were factually ...
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What will happen to our pro term moderators after the upcoming election?
Will the pro term (beta) ♦ moderators stay on as full moderators after the election? If not, are they permitted to run again?
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Why was my answer deleted?
I have a question about my Biology Stack Exchange post: What's the current conclusion about humans being omnivores vs herbivores?
Why was my answer deleted by the moderator ''Chris''? it didn't ...
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How do i fully delete my Biology Stack-exchange account?
I want to delete my account, is that possible?
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Downvoting and recommending closure
Is it ethical to downvote a question and recommend closing it simultaneously?
The reasons for downvoting a question are stated as "This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear ...
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