Answer by Cerbrus for 2016 Stack Overflow Moderator Election Q&A - Question...
You come across a typical question that's asked on a daily basis, one that you know has a good duplicate target on SO.You see the question has been answered by a high rep user with a gold badge in the...
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A considerably active and useful (high-rep) user gets banned for voting irregularities, not only for the first time. The behavior is also noticed to be repetitive and the particular use does not seem...
View ArticleAnswer by Conduit for 2016 Stack Overflow Moderator Election Q&A - Question...
The opportunity to interact with your fellow SO users in a greater capacity is undeniably attractive, but it doesn't come without cost. As a moderator you would have an incredibly high level of...
View ArticleAnswer by Rana Talha Tariq for 2016 Stack Overflow Moderator Election Q&A -...
I would like to ask an important question, taken from Fall 2015 Moderator Elections which I really like a lot. Things have changed a lot with some new rules and new features as well as a lot of new...
View ArticleAnswer by fresher for 2016 Stack Overflow Moderator Election Q&A - Question...
For which you will give more preference - 1) Keeping Site clean by following strict policies of stack overflow like putting downvotes for small mistakes and deleting questions 2)Main focus on helping...
View ArticleAnswer by S.L. Barth is on codidact.com for 2016 Stack Overflow Moderator...
Robo-reviewing is a major problem on Stack Overflow, because it actively encourages bad content. As a moderator, you will be able to temporarily suspend users from review. You will also be able to...
View ArticleAnswer by Cody Gray - on strike for 2016 Stack Overflow Moderator Election...
What is your definition of "spam"? What would it take to convince you to mark a post as "spam", with all of its associated penalties?More generally, under what circumstances would you use your...
View ArticleAnswer by canon for 2016 Stack Overflow Moderator Election Q&A - Question...
An answer is brought to your attention by a meta post. The answer is ancient, accepted, and has hundreds of upvotes. It works. It's also inefficient, ill-advised, and demonstrably dangerous...The meta...
View ArticleAnswer by James for 2016 Stack Overflow Moderator Election Q&A - Question...
What do you think is the moderator's role in the task of engaging novices in the SO community?Consider that this type of user usually makes mistakes in the daily use of the site and that the...
View ArticleAnswer by user3956566 for 2016 Stack Overflow Moderator Election Q&A -...
What's your view on code only answers? Do these warrant flags? If so, what flag and should they be deleted?
View ArticleAnswer by user3956566 for 2016 Stack Overflow Moderator Election Q&A -...
Taken from the last election, but still relevant:A user flags a post or comment as rude or offensive to a minority group, or as a member of a minority group. You know little about the issues facing...
View ArticleAnswer by Flexo for 2016 Stack Overflow Moderator Election Q&A - Question...
A user vandalises their post and enters a "rollback war", trying to change it to simply read "QUESTION REMUVED FOR PRIVACY". They had also submitted (rejected) suggested edits to do likewise to the...
View ArticleAnswer by Machavity for 2016 Stack Overflow Moderator Election Q&A - Question...
There's a sudden glut of chat flags and, upon investigation, you discover several people apparently arguing and flagging messages in a private room. To top it all off, they're not arguing in English...
View ArticleAnswer by Brad Larson for 2016 Stack Overflow Moderator Election Q&A -...
A 10k+ user regularly has their comments flagged as "rude or offensive" or "not constructive", to the tune of 4-5 flags a day. No comment by itself is particularly offensive, but their general tone...
View ArticleAnswer by Bohemian for 2016 Stack Overflow Moderator Election Q&A - Question...
You impose a temporary ban (say 1 week) on a user for what you judged as reasonable and valid reasons (the user gets notified by email of your action and the reason).The user replies to your email...
View ArticleAnswer by nvoigt for 2016 Stack Overflow Moderator Election Q&A - Question...
I would want to ask the same question as last year:I'm mostly interested in close votes that could be seen as opinion themselves. One person's "unclear" might be another persons "good enough"....
View ArticleAnswer by Andy for 2016 Stack Overflow Moderator Election Q&A - Question...
My favorite question from last election:Do you have any Meta posts that you're particularly proud of, or that you feel best demonstrate your moderation style?
View ArticleAnswer by Dom for 2016 Stack Overflow Moderator Election Q&A - Question...
How will you handle questions flagged for migration on sites you are not active on?
View ArticleAnswer by ssube for 2016 Stack Overflow Moderator Election Q&A - Question...
If you have run for moderator in a previous election, what do you think kept you from winning and how have you improved since?Regardless of whether you've run before, how would you like to grow in the...
View ArticleAnswer by Braiam for 2016 Stack Overflow Moderator Election Q&A - Question...
As moderator, you are put into a hard place deciding between deleting or locking "popular content", that may or not adhere to current content policy. Do you believe in this dichotomy? How would you be...
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