Questions tagged [moderation]
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Why is it "rude or abusive" to ask if Kamala Harris engaged in prosecutorial misconduct?
Could DaleM please help us understand what was "rude or abusive" about a question asking whether Kamala Harris had concealed evidence of a defendant's innocence?
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Editing a question which has been edited by a moderator and then locked
I have posted the following question on the law exchange: For copyright determination purposes, how can AI-generated content (eg.lyrics) be proven as such rather than human generated?
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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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Do we have a problem with sexist, and generally overly zealous moderators?
I’m sick of what I have noticed as overly zealous moderation when it comes to opposing, however gently, mildly, and courteously, the remake of apparently female users. The moderators appear especially ...
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How educational is too educational?
After almost six months being live, on 2023‑07‑28 Pat W. deleted my answer (for reference repeated below).
It is in style a full legal opinion as to be handed in at the end of a typical 120-minute ...
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How To Deal wIth AI Postings At Law.SE
user @SergZ has a modus operandi of making lots of AI posts with minimal editing in other forums and appears to be doing so in this forum, but, of course, it is hard to tell sometimes.
I deleted one ...
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Do the recent and upcoming policy changes and subsequent moderators' strike affect how LawSE moderates AI content?
TL;DR Can we have some clarity1, please? i.e. To flag or not to flag AI?
The most recent announcement from LawSE's per-site moderators is our temporary policy stating that ChatGPT is banned, which is ...
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How will LawSE remedy mods' recurrent abuse of privileges? or will it ever do so?
Barely four days ago we witnessed what was then the latest instance of mods' abuse of privileges. Now another instance arises. Given the site's low activity, the recurrence of these incidents shows ...
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Deletions on Law Meta
At least two related questions (this and this) a user posted on LawMeta have been deleted by the same moderator, who also heavily edited the underlying post. Both deletions seem unwarranted, and the ...
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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.
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When will the next moderator election be held?
When, and how frequently are moderator elections held on law.SE?
Can users nominate anyone for moderator other than themselves?
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Does anonymous and opaque moderation invite abuse of power?
Meet Bob. Bob posted 4 comments that were deleted without a notice or trace. There is no record of these deletions, for viewing by Bob or anyone else, nor apparently any way to know which moderators ...
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What can be done about the "const *iption" spam?
Is there anything that can be done about the const *iption troll? Maybe an automated filter that rejects all questions with the string "const *ipt"? All but one of the questions I've seen ...
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Why was my comment on this answer removed?
I left a comment on this answer that is now gone and I am not sure why. My understanding was that comments are an appropriate place to offer points of view that differ from an answer so that future ...
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Why was my answer deleted?
Why was my answer deleted? I don't really mind, and I certainly don't think it was a good answer: it was based on nothing but anecdotal evidence, my own experience, with no legal reference to back it ...
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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.
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Why was this question about future damages deleted?
This wasn't mine but I found it interesting and on-topic. Deleted by Cesar M. Quoting the question in full for those who can't see it:
Can you sue over future damages?
Specifically climate change.
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Is this personal or legitimate?
Some time ago I left a comment next to this question explaining why I didn't think it was appropriate for this site.
The question had a bounty so it could not be voted to close. I voted to close as ...
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Why was this answer deleted?
https://law.stackexchange.com/a/63647/12871
It seems that advising someone to get a lawyer is the correct course when a user asks for specific advice on how to handle their taxes.
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Can The Moderators Automatically Close Any Question Asking About International Sexting Between Minors?
I don't know why, but it seems like every day I log on here to see if there are any interesting questions to ponder, and another new user is frantically asking a question about what the exposure is ...
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Are we really going to allow this?
This question is disgusting. It is an afront to any attempts at civility. The idea of comparing a President of the United States, speaking to a crowd of his supporters in the open daylight, to a ...
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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.
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What happens when posts report sexual crimes involving minors? What should users do?
I was just profoundly disturbed by the content of the following question: Is it consider rape if the girl doesn't understand what is happening? It was posted more than two years before this Meta ...
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Why was this answer deleted? Why do answers get deleted without notifying why?
The answer screenshot below was deleted without saying why.
Why delete this answer?
Why delete without saying why?
On the face of it, looks like plain abuse of power. Please prove me wrong.
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Post was improperly closed
A moderator closed this question under pretext that it is "off-topic". No one else had VTC so far, and the post is neither spam nor "egregious" so as to warrant mod intervention.
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Producing several focused questions with duplicate content
My question was closed:
Closed. This question needs to be more focused. It is not currently accepting answers.
Update the question so it focuses on one problem only. This will help others answer the ...
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What are the standards and procedures for banning posters?
I've searched the help, but I can't find anything about the standards or procedures for suggesting/requesting that a user be banned. Am I missing something?
I'm asking because I noticed that a user ...
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Drawing the line on Impeachment
Questions about Impeachment have been popping up left and right and rightfully so, Impeachment can be a confusing process to understand because rules that govern Impeachment are changed by the House ...
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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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Can we remove DaleM's moderation privileges?
I could be on my own here, but there seem to be quite a few people in agreement that conferring moderator privileges on DaleM was a mistake. He is rather aggressive -- too aggressive, I'd argue -- in ...
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Current flagging policy
In my opinion, it would be useful for general users to know how moderators feel about comment-flags. I am specifically interested in moderator's view of what constitutes helpful versus counter-...
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How to deal with comments?
Without rehashing How long is an "Extended discussion" or Should Moderators be able to use their privileges to benefit their own posts, I am polling the community to establish a norm on this ...
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Should Moderators be able to use their privileges for self-promotion?
Recently useful comments on questions are being moved to chat because they were marked as "extend conversation" More information here, even comments that contain open questions, are still ...
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Improper removal of an OP's contract-law question
This question was removed by one of our new moderators. It indicates being "marked as spam or rude or abusive", which by itself sounds ambiguous. The revision history is here.
Besides the reason for ...
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What to do about answers that advocate breaking the law
Recently I've come across a couple of answers that acknowledge what the law is, but then advocate the user to openly break the law (without outlining the repercussions of doing so). For these types of ...
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Why was this question about jury nullification deleted by a moderator?
Moderator feetwet has deleted Are jurors ever told about jury nullification in the US? If not, why not?. This is puzzling. Why was it deleted?
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Should personal opinions posted as answers be flagged, or just downvoted?
If someone posts an answer that is essentially "In my opinion,...", should I flag the answer, or just downvote it and move on? And if I do flag it, should it be "not an answer", "very low quality", ...
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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:
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Please welcome your new moderators!
First off, thanks to everyone who participated at the moderator nomination meta post!
I may eventually be contacting additional users to fill more moderator slots, but I wanted to get the folks below ...
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Who should moderate this site?
Ideally Moderators are elected by the community, but until this site reaches a critical mass to hold an election, we will be appointing some provisional Moderators to fill that role.
We need your help....
