Questions tagged [moderation]
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Is this site dying?
OK so the title is obviously way too serious, but hear me out.
I've joined Phil.SE about 2 years ago, and had a whole lot of fun learning philosophy through it, with some very well-educated and fun ...
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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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Reason comment was removed
I added a comment to the question on Why is a lion not evil?. There was already a "Comments are not for extended discussion;" link there when I added my comment.
My comment was a direct question to ...
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Sin-and-guilt preaching…
Newbie (on Philosophy) here.
I’ve been reading questions to get a feel for how this site works. I notice there’s at least one user who seems to take every opportunity to strongly preach a Christian ...
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Isn't deleting answers too fast equal to censorship?
We have a system of upvote/downvote. How long an answer should remain on the site to be analyzed by the maximum number of users, before being finally deleted (preferably after a certain amount of ...
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What is the basis behind the removal of answers which are well-formed, yet concise and reference-free?
The last few answers I have posted have been systematically targeted with deletion by a particular moderator, Keelan, after, I presume, his feelings were hurt.
Attempting to discern from him the ...
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Updating Philosophy.SE practices to allow for Rebuttals and edits
I would like to offer a suggestion to improve the Standard Practices for administration of the Philosophy.SE.
I see that it is not irregular for hasty down-votes and closes, and that this is causing ...
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On removing offensive and aggressive speech in comments
Is it possible to mark comments as spam, aggressive or offensive; in the same way that posts can be?
There's one I've just noticed that is a good candidate simply by the use of language ie words ...
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Closing questions deemed “Polling”
This question was closed for alleged "polling":
What are the reasons for human conflict?
Yet the questions listed below, and numerous others along similar lines, are allowed to stand. I sense some ...
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Who are the moderators, and what if they run amok?
I've noticed that some of the users on this site have a diamond (♦) after their user name.
Apparently the diamond means they're a moderator, but what does that mean?
Who are the diamond moderators? ...
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Why are some questions closed by only one or two users?
On most other SE sites, particularly Stack Overflow, at least 5 people are required in order to close a question.
How come I see so many questions on Philosophy.SE that have been closed by only one ...
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Where did community wiki go?
'Back in my day', so to speak, questions like this one used to be community wiki.
Now the option to make a post community wiki seems to have vanished from the SE platform. If this is for the reasons ...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
