Questions tagged [abuse]
For questions about (potentially) abusive behaviour by users, e.g. posts containing abusive language, or robo-reviewing (fast and blindly clicking through the review queue).
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What countermeasures does Stack Overflow take to prevent sock puppets voting in moderator elections?
Does Stack Overflow explicitly withhold election voting privileges for sock puppet (alternate) accounts?
Does Stack Overflow store some form of flag/signal on sock puppet accounts which relate that ...
mickmackusaMod
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How to rollback bulk self-vandalised answers posted by another user?
I came across answers by the same user which were initially good answers (at least most of them), but were recently edited in bulk by the author to convert them into nonsense (putting abusive text in ...
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Who watches the watchers? [duplicate]
If you feel you're being targeted and threatened by a mod, what are your courses of action to deal with this?
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How should we respond in the Staging Ground when OP ignores feedback, makes a trivial edit and submits for re-evaluation?
A particularly stark example here: https://stackoverflow.com/staging-ground/78609624
I and another user pointed out that the formatting is broken and that the question is currently unsuitable because ...
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Abuse of privileges? A moderator locked my question and removed all my edits and our back and forth discussion on whether my question is duplicate [duplicate]
Backstory (NOT ENTIRELY RELEVANT TO THE REAL QUESTION)
I believe my question isn't a duplicate, but a moderator does (note: I do not care whether you believe it was a duplicate or not). I created ...
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How and where can I report the user who permanently close my questions?
Recently one of the users on SO community started reviewing, closing and mark my questions for dispute (these questions are forbidden to answer) in my opinion without any reason.
This question is the ...
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A user replied to my comment with a racist remark, I flagged it, both our comments were deleted?
The comments I'm asking about are no longer visible to normal users, but the question is here:
How to Implement UDP Client Server File transfer in QT GUI in cpp?
I was the first to comment on this ...
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Is it abuse to answer then dupe-hammer a question? [duplicate]
I recently came across this answer in the Reopen Queue. A gold badge holder answered the question (which went on to be accepted and gain a lot of upvotes), then exactly one minute later dupe-hammered ...
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Is the re-use of the image on these posts appropriate?
Here are the posts:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/74637625/
https://stackoverflow.com/a/74615350/
https://stackoverflow.com/a/74490727/
https://stackoverflow.com/a/74450165/
https://stackoverflow.com/a/...
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Automatic ban for very aggressive users
Sometimes very aggressive users keep posting offending comments for quite a long time before they are suspended or banned.
IMO if the system receives a series of abuse flags - it should automatically ...
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What should I do if a user is constantly putting the post in reopen review?
I was one of the users who closed this question. If you look at the revisions you will see the user keeps editing the question without effort and putting it into reopen review queue. The edits are ...
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How should I deal with a user who repeatedly creates new accounts to ask poor questions? [duplicate]
I have an enormous issue with something that is going on in the tag I watch.
It's been a few months now that a certain user creates new accounts continually to ask poor questions. As someone who ...
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Is it gaming the system when a moderator candidate submits their nomination at the last moment?
In a probably unprecedented (and definitely antidemocratic) move one of the moderator candidates of the current (2021 Fall-on-the-Northern-Hemisphere) election posted their nomination 53 seconds ...
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SO Rules on exploiting posting answers to closed questions
I was writing an answer to a question today, and by the time I got to the submit button, the question had already been closed. I usually write my answers up outside of the browser editor, so I ...
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Close vote and voting rights [closed]
Does the voting rights of a person get revoked if they close vote on every question that they encounter?
What do we do if we know such persons which the system can verify?
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