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This tag is for questions concerning actions leading to bad behaviors or bad purposes, considered or suspected to be against Stack Exchange policies or the collaboratively philosophy of any Stack Exchange site.

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Of late, there has been a surge of new users who venture to various communities and answer at a pretty staggering rate with apparently good looking posts, majority of which would be long and heavy ...
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To get in front of it, there is no Stack Exchange site that I'm vaguing here, and I recognize that the answer is, to zeroth-order, "deal with it, don't visit that site". But for instance, ...
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I've asked my first question on Stack Overflow and someone answered my question within just a few minutes. However, the answer is most definitely AI generated. I know this is against the community ...
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While I believe the original revision of the question below provides sufficient details to distinguish itself from the duplicates, I'd like to tldr it: What recourse do I have if I believe a ...
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Many chatrooms right now have someone or something methodically starring every single recent message, disrupting the starboard messages and making stars effectively useless because they're on every ...
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The recent mass star-trolling incident made me realize that any registered user can star any message in read-only gallery chat rooms they don't have any write permission on. This doesn't really seem ...
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First, please read Pt. I of this story: This guy tried to recruit me as a stooge for manipulating SE I've decided to counter-fish our friend Mr. Thomas, and have sent him the following reply: Hello ...
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A few days back, I got this email: Dear Ein, I see that you are an active member of multiple Stack Exchange communities. We are looking for content creators. The task is very simple and pays well. We ...
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I noticed this question had been bumped recently, and when looking at the edit history it appears that a single user edits the title repeatedly. Presumably in an effort to gain exposure for their ...
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I received an email from someone telling me they noticed I was a backer on a Stack Exchange site, and asking if I would be willing to back a proposal for a related technology. The email did not go ...
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I was pinged earlier in a chat room with an abusive message. Because I wasn't around at the time it went right to my inbox. Chat moderation removed the message before I even knew it existed, which I'm ...
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There is a genuine requirement to block certain users who are not just unhelpful but hostile and who downvote your questions which makes them less attractive or visible to other users. I know the ...
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(Motivated by this, now falsely dupe-closed question.) Mods can not cast non-decisive votes. Sometimes they would like to. Sometimes they would like to talk with users so that the diamond does not ...
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I just received this email from [email protected] (XYZ and SOMECRYPTO are not the real names): I’m XYZ, a community member of SOMECRYPTO, a high-throughput and high-security blockchain platform. Our ...
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Currently, SE accepts HTML comments (e.g. <!-- this is an HTML comment -->) as valid input for posts but they don't appear (since they are comments) this allows some users to get around the 30 ...
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