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For questions about (potentially) abusive behaviour by users, e.g. posts containing abusive language, or robo-reviewing (fast and blindly clicking through the review queue).

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Does Stack Overflow explicitly withhold election voting privileges for sock puppet (alternate) accounts? Does Stack Overflow store some form of flag/signal on sock puppet accounts which relate that ...
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I came across answers by the same user which were initially good answers (at least most of them), but were recently edited in bulk by the author to convert them into nonsense (putting abusive text in ...
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If you feel you're being targeted and threatened by a mod, what are your courses of action to deal with this?
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A particularly stark example here: https://stackoverflow.com/staging-ground/78609624 I and another user pointed out that the formatting is broken and that the question is currently unsuitable because ...
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Backstory (NOT ENTIRELY RELEVANT TO THE REAL QUESTION) I believe my question isn't a duplicate, but a moderator does (note: I do not care whether you believe it was a duplicate or not). I created ...
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Recently one of the users on SO community started reviewing, closing and mark my questions for dispute (these questions are forbidden to answer) in my opinion without any reason. This question is the ...
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The comments I'm asking about are no longer visible to normal users, but the question is here: How to Implement UDP Client Server File transfer in QT GUI in cpp? I was the first to comment on this ...
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I recently came across this answer in the Reopen Queue. A gold badge holder answered the question (which went on to be accepted and gain a lot of upvotes), then exactly one minute later dupe-hammered ...
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Here are the posts: https://stackoverflow.com/a/74637625/ https://stackoverflow.com/a/74615350/ https://stackoverflow.com/a/74490727/ https://stackoverflow.com/a/74450165/ https://stackoverflow.com/a/...
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Sometimes very aggressive users keep posting offending comments for quite a long time before they are suspended or banned. IMO if the system receives a series of abuse flags - it should automatically ...
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I was one of the users who closed this question. If you look at the revisions you will see the user keeps editing the question without effort and putting it into reopen review queue. The edits are ...
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I have an enormous issue with something that is going on in the tag I watch. It's been a few months now that a certain user creates new accounts continually to ask poor questions. As someone who ...
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In a probably unprecedented (and definitely antidemocratic) move one of the moderator candidates of the current (2021 Fall-on-the-Northern-Hemisphere) election posted their nomination 53 seconds ...
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I was writing an answer to a question today, and by the time I got to the submit button, the question had already been closed. I usually write my answers up outside of the browser editor, so I ...
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Does the voting rights of a person get revoked if they close vote on every question that they encounter? What do we do if we know such persons which the system can verify?
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