Questions tagged [moderation]
This tag is for questions dealing with moderating actions, pages, abilities or decisions. For questions about moderators, use the moderators tag.
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(How) Should we change attitude to easy questions since we have LLMs now?
We decided long ago that it's OK to have answers to easy questions (like "how to find the length of a string"). It helps to find answers to easy questions on this site, even if you could ...
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How to handle suggested edits which rewrite a question (or answer) using generative AI?
Today I've noticed several suggested edits (such as this one) which have all the hallmarks of the editor taking the question and prompting a generative AI tool to expand on it. Typically they add ...
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A user (or AI bot?) is vandalizing their own questions [duplicate]
I just came across a question that has been repeatedly edited with vandalism, and has been rolled back by multiple users (including me now):
Is it Possible to Use Casting as "array slicing" ...
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Burn all AI to the ground (even if it's only in past revisions)?
I recently topped 500 rep (woot me), got access to review queues, and reviewed this answer, which looked AI-generated. (As I edit, the whole question, not just the answer, has been deleted.) I used an ...
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Are comments occasionally/frequently cleaned up without a concrete reason?
On the Ask Ubuntu network site, there is a policy of deleting old comments if the moderators do not feel like they are important enough, and they decide the comments made by users are a distraction to ...
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Why was this accepted answer deleted? [duplicate]
This answer seemed perfectly fine to me, was accepted and upvoted, and the poster isn't banned or anything.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/79536122
Apr 6 at 19:30 deleted Dalija Prasnikar♦ ...
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Question answered by the OP containing a ChatGPT snippet
As I see it, LLMs are banned for both generating questions as well as answers and I am not here to dispute that, but the following case popped up:
How do we handle users who ask a question, it did not ...
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Why was my link-only answer flag declined? [duplicate]
I recently flagged this link-only answer with the "In need of moderator intervention" flag with the note: "Link-only answer". But it was declined with the note:
Declined - Using ...
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Is critiquing other answers spam/rude/abusive?
An answer post here was marked as rude/spam/abusive. The content of the post is:
The answers found here are incomplete or unreliable.
First, the answers based on the exact locations for Linux, ...
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The moderation culture of the site needs to change or it will finish killing it [closed]
SO has been steadily loosing user traffic over time in recent years:
https://observablehq.com/@ayhanfuat/the-fall-of-stack-overflow
There is a combination of factors, such as more competition arising ...
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Why were so many users suspended in 2024?
I was just looking at the 2024: A year in moderation post and noticed there were more than 95 times the amount of users suspended in 2024 compared to 2023; 566,371 users were suspended in 2024 and ...
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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.
As most of ...
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Should moderators delete AI-generated questions in Staging Ground?
As per the current policy (MSO, Help Center), it is not allowed to use AI tools to create content for Stack Overflow. This notably does not exclude questions.
Normally, moderators delete posts that ...
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Moderator engaging in Abusive behavior
What do you all think?
While posting Python change double slash to single , the user https://stackoverflow.com/users/476/deceze
Made no change or suggestion other to answer/assist with the question ...
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What is unclear about this question? It was closed without comment or down votes and the moderator keeps referring me to Meta
I have a question about my Stack Overflow post: How can I determine the type of a tuple's elements directly from its type name in Swift?
What is unclear about this question? It was closed without ...
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