Questions tagged [moderation]
You have a question about the moderation on the site. Use the "moderators" tag if your question is directed at the moderators specifically.
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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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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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Please Mods, use your powers moderately!
Our mods are doing a great job keeping this site as good as it is. Most of the work they do is behind the scenes and goes unnoticed to most of us.
However, in the last 24 hours or so, I've noticed two ...
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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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Should this question about cockpit painting colors be reopened as not a duplicate?
So, I saw that this question was closed as a duplicate of this question, but I don't think it should be. The second question is "why are the cockpits of Soviet aircraft painted blue-green", ...
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Can votes to close a question as a duplicate ever be over-ruled by moderators?
Can votes to close a question as a duplicate ever be over-ruled by moderators, if a sufficient argument is provided that the question is not a duplicate?
This appears to be a related question -- ...
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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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Why was my flag declined?
I flagged this answer as “not an answer” because it was short, link-only, and the poster explicitly said that they did not have enough reputation to leave a comment. The flag was declined because “a ...
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Answer deleted without cause, should it be flagged for modderator attention?
I was just digging through my old stuff and noticed I had one of my answers deleted(three votes by non-moderators). However it does not come close to violating any of the rules for deletion listed on ...
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What is going on with this cross post?
How do I figure out the effects of wind on flight?
I don't remember cross posting this and this is completely outside of my interests.
It is more on topic here and if I did post this is there a ...
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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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Declined comment flag for obsolete comment
This answer:
https://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/57925/874
gathered an excellent comment by @Mackk, which included a link to a video. I thought that the video would enhance the answer greatly, so ...
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Should moderators step in when there is a disagreement over leaving open / closing posts?
Should moderators step in when there is a disagreement over leaving open / closing posts? A tale of two posts:
Are German, Japanese, and Chinese companies not able to build aircraft jet engines on ...
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What should our policy be on plagiarism?
According to Meta.SE: What to do when plagiarism is discovered
If your flag [for plagiarism] gets declined, flag again and/or raise the issue on Meta.
The flag is still pending (now retracted; see ...
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Appealling for question ban to be lifted
I've had a couple of bad questions but overall I have a positive reputation and offended no one that I know of? How can I earn the privilege to ask again? Can I have a time when it will be lifted?
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I want to ask questions. A better reputation scoring is needed
This is a duplicate, but answers may vary do to each individual SE policy.
I have a positive reputation in science and math there are negatives. I thought I was OK but now I cannot ask questions or ...
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Should we retain posts that are not answers?
Recently there has been a post that has been recommended for deletion by 6 reviewers out of 6.
The thing is that while being reviewed, it accumulated a few upvotes, meaning that the system has ...
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How do I get my question privileges back?
I have reached my question limit is there a way to get it lifted?
It has now been 1.5 years since I've been banned to 1 question every 6 months. There is something wrong with the system parameters. ...
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What's with the aggressive comment deletion?
I'm going back through a few questions I've answered, and I'm finding that in many cases the comment/discussion has been edited down or in some cases almost entirely wiped out.
It's definitely not ...
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Can 'aircrafts' be automagically changed to 'aircraft'?
From time to time someone's blood pressure spikes when the plural 'aircrafts' is used in the Aviation forum. Would it be possible to implement a simple script in the system to delete the superfluous s'...
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Deleting a wrong-but-informatively-so answer?
On a recent thread about condensation forming over the wing on landing, one of the (now deleted) answers was entirely believable, was grounded in an accurate observation of physics, but happened to be ...
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Suggested edit review: rejected by community?
I reviewed a suggested edit to a post today that made valuable changes to a post. I decided to accepted the suggest edit.
https://aviation.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/4831
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Moderators Pro Tempore 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 ...
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Should mods be deleting answers that address the question? [closed]
As expected in a stack exchange site, there are always those "this is off topic" purists that discourage new users.
Even worse when the mods are going as far as deleting answers.
In my case I asked ...
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