Timeline for The serial voting guidance in the Help Center should be consistent with Meta
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| Feb 25, 2021 at 19:24 | vote | accept | cigien | ||
| Feb 23, 2021 at 22:00 | comment | added | cigien | Ah, I see. That makes sense. While my preference would be to add a line about flagging for mods before contacting the CM team, I guess the simplest option would probably be to simply remove that part of the text from all the Help pages. I trust your observations about the inefficacy; that users don't actually read that text, though that's where I looked for it :) I assume this question will be tagged with [status-whatever] when you decide what to do? | |
| Feb 23, 2021 at 21:54 | comment | added | animuson StaffMod | We would not change the help page for Stack Overflow only. Creating per-site overrides is something that is reserved for extreme circumstances due to the additional overhead that it adds to maintaining help articles. | |
| Feb 23, 2021 at 21:50 | comment | added | cigien | Assuming you read the comment I deleted, the mod's comments in the thread that I linked to suggests to me that there is disagreement over whether it's equivalent to raise a flag, or contact the CM team. Given that, it might make sense to have a discussion about whether the Help page should be edited for SO specifically. If so, that discussion should be had on MSO to get more feedback from the SO community, including the SO mods. Do you think that's reasonable? | |
| Feb 23, 2021 at 20:56 | comment | added | animuson StaffMod | But you seem to be misunderstanding their comments. Moderators cannot handle serial voting flags. All they can do is look at them and either decline them or forward them on to us. They have no tools to invalidate votes on their own. Regardless of whether a user flags for moderator attention or just goes to us directly, a valid request ends up in our backlog to be handled. | |
| Feb 23, 2021 at 20:55 | comment | added | animuson StaffMod | No it is not. The default is that moderators cannpt edit the help center. I know they can edits parts of the tour page and I think one other page but don't know which one off the top of my head. | |
| Feb 23, 2021 at 20:52 | comment | added | cigien | This is very interesting. I recently had a conversation with a SO mod, who claimed that not only is flagging for mods preferred, but that the CM team quite simply doesn't have the bandwidth to handle all the serial voting issues currently handled by mods. So perhaps the guidance is much more an issue on SO than other SE sites, in which case it might make sense to just edit the SO help pages. Given that, could you let me know if this particular help page is editable by site mods? If so, I could bring it up on MSO, and see if there's consensus that it should be changed. | |
| Feb 23, 2021 at 17:04 | history | answered | animusonStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |