Timeline for Let's talk about (community) health
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| Nov 25, 2023 at 23:28 | comment | added | blackgreen | 1) the points you raise sound like something that you, as a moderator, should address by warning and suspending folks, when they go too far. we even have a stock mod message for excessive discussion in comments, if you don't have it on your sites, you can ask in TL for a template; 2) especially your point #2 is why I stopped contributing to Chinese.SE. "Anything goes" is a nice recipe to drive people out. | |
| Nov 20, 2023 at 7:22 | comment | added | Tinkeringbell Mod | @RebeccaJ.Stones Well, the sites I moderate, for example. How else is a user going to know the site has a citation-expectations policy and that is why their post is down- and delete-voted? Or that their post is blatantly off-topic? No comments going with down-/close-/deletevotes is one of the biggest complaints around. | |
| Nov 20, 2023 at 0:39 | comment | added | Augusto Vasques | The point is, are these "mass comments" technically relevant to the respective posts? If not, these comments are spam and should be treated as such. First, warn the user, and in case of recurrence, suspend them. If they are technically relevant, they are just an expression of freedom of speech, a manifestation of individual contribution to the collective. However, obsolete comments can and should be removed as they are no longer necessary. | |
| Nov 19, 2023 at 22:40 | comment | added | Rebecca J. Stones | @Tinkeringbell Can you give an example of a small site where it is necessary to comment en masse in order to moderate effectively? (Are you thinking Skeptics?) Why would commenting en masse be necessary for moderation (when we can already downvote, close vote, flag)? Nij Excuse me. My job? I contribute plenty to Stack Exchange as it is, thanks. Blocking them would absolutely make them go away instantly (freeing users to do more productive things), and if it were implemented properly, it would provide actionable data for moderation (e.g. a single user blocked by multiple other users). | |
| Nov 19, 2023 at 12:05 | comment | added | galacticninja | Bullet points 1 and 2 are especially frustrating if that user is also a moderator on the site. | |
| Nov 19, 2023 at 10:14 | comment | added | Nij | These are all issues of a lack of actual moderation. Blocking them doesn't make them go away, your choice to not flag, to not make meta posts, and to not moderate the content or manage the user is what makes this continue. Do your job as a user, as a curator, and as a moderator, and the problem will go away. | |
| Nov 19, 2023 at 8:53 | comment | added | Tinkeringbell Mod | Any proposals in this answer would basically result in a free-for-all-crap on smaller sites as the most active users there will become unable to moderate posts effectively. | |
| Nov 19, 2023 at 7:35 | comment | added | Richard | Point number 2 is occurring on several sites I visit, Movies:SE in particular seems to suffer from an excess of downvoting and snarky comments. It's almost as if users don't want questions to be asked on their sites. | |
| Nov 19, 2023 at 5:23 | comment | added | philipxy | Your bullets claim commenter feelings, thoughts, attitudes & motivations that are very hard to justify given the small bandwidth of comments & do not allow that it is the repeated appearance of questions with the same poor qualities that merit the same (neutral helpful) comments. | |
| Nov 19, 2023 at 5:11 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | +1, most of this answer resonates with my experience with SE. Browser extension to hide all the activities of a given user on Stack Exchange | |
| Nov 19, 2023 at 0:29 | history | answered | Rebecca J. Stones | CC BY-SA 4.0 |