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2025: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of ...
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Virtual fridge good, Virtual library bad
OK so neither of these questions are the best in the world. But they are both essentially the same. "here is my idea, what do you think?" one gets upvotes and answers one gets deleted ...
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Since "what is the best practice/industry standard"-style questions are poorly received, when is it acceptable to edit that part out?
We've seen and discussed this a lot over the years. Most recently, Ewan posted another meta question tangentially related to this where a string of questions were down-voted. The answer to the meta ...
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Downvoting/closing tusharRawat's recent questions reflects badly on the community
tusharRawat has posted 3/4 similar questions about his ecommerce product. They all have lots of detail and describe specific problems but they are all getting close votes and the usual -1 downvote.
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Should comments be edited out from answers?
I'm worried I'm overreaching in my edit in First Answers queue.
In particular, it removes paragraphs:
i don't know why this old question popped up, but i do have a few comments on the ideas you bring ...
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Hidden history entry by Community Bot
Why was Efficiency of C# dictionaries bumped on 2025-12-03?
The history contains no entry for this date, but the home page says:
Community Bot modified 19 hours ago
Is it caused by a spam deletion? ...
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I've stepped down as a moderator
You may have noticed that I've stepped down as a moderator on Software Engineering. It actually went a couple of months ago, but I completely forgot to post this then, so I'm doing it now - better ...
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What's wrong with the Curious badge? [duplicate]
According to the hint on the Curious badge, I need a positive question record.
I have 16 non-deleted questions, 9 of them have a positive score, 1 has a zero score and 6 have a negative score.
The ...
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What is required to be in a question on Software Engineering?
I'm very active on the Code Review site and I know what is required of a question there (the code must be included in the question). I've looked through the help/asking section and I've searched the ...
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Possible improvement to user experience on help page
While I've been a member for a long time, I have only asked 1 question and that was a long time ago. I decided to review the guidelines in the help pages before I ask a new question.
I was looking at ...
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How long does a suggested edit typically linger in the review queue?
A couple of weeks back I posted (as a guest) an edit to an answer on What is the difference between Times and Dup in Assembly Language?. The edit is about correcting an error in the answer that was ...
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Please don't make or approve tiny little edits to old questions
A question posted 12 years ago ended up today on the home page. I thought, originally, that it probably received a spam answer—which happens occasionally—but it appeared that it all has to do with two ...
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"move this discussion to chat?" link is broken
When I click prompt:
"Please avoid extended discussions in comments. Would you like to automatically move this discussion to chat?" a small error box without text appears and no chat is ...
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You might be able to help me: Pre-post question review
I have a question in mind for the main site. The question has several parts that ultimately culminate in a single document: An Explainer.
I would prefer to not go through all of the work to post the ...
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Are there any plans for delivering a dark mode version for this stack?
Since this is mostly visited by programmers, I think it would be a great improvement to follow StackOverflow and add that functionality here.