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29 questions linked to/from What is the SE version of Seven Dirty Words?
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What causes a "Rude or offensive" comment flag to sometimes cause instant deletion? [duplicate]
Sometimes a single "Rude or offensive" comment flag cause the comment to be instantly removed. What is causing this? This just happened to me, but I don't have the contents of the comment anymore. It ...
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Single Flag deletes comment with profanity [duplicate]
There is an existing question How is it possible that a single user who is not a moderator can delete a comment? 4 years old about a post a year prior, that focuses on a post containing the word(s) '...
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My answer got deleted without a trace? [duplicate]
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26296787/how-do-i-add-to-the-assembly-gettypes-array-of-an-assembly?noredirect=1#comment41262779_26296787
I found my own answer and I was very happy about it. I'm ...
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What phrases can lead to an instant comment deletion when flagged? [duplicate]
One not-so-well-known hidden feature of Stack Exchange is that, if a comment contains certain phrases, they may be instantly removed after a single flag.
For instance, any comment beginning with +1 ...
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Ban LMGTFY (let me google that for you) links
I've just asked a question on Stack Overflow which was a prime candidate for googling. I admit it was a poor question and with a little bit of research I would have found the answer. It annoyed me ...
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"What have you tried" epidemic
Statistics
The usage of "what you tried" (WHYT) is growing (v2)
In Q1 of 2012 - 0.0134 such comments per question (~1.33%)
In Q2 of 2012 - 0.0167 such comments per question (~1.66%)
In Q3 of ...
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It’s time to retire the term “rep-whore”
Going forward, “rep-whore” (and its derivatives) will be treated like any other term that’s inconsistent with the community’s “be nice” policy: it will be removed.
It’s totally okay if you’ve used ...
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Why is this community so well-behaved compared to other online forums?
I have seen online communities over the years, and the amount of foul language is really high. People are not polite to each other and flame wars are common.
Why is this community is so well-behaved? ...
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Allow new users to flag comments on their own posts
Something that has always bothered us about the new user experience was the amount of guidance we've got out there telling folks to flag rude or abusive comments, but not allowing new users to do it, ...
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How does comment voting and flagging work?
Comments can now be upvoted and flagged. How do those features work?
Do users get rep for their upvoted comments? Do upvoted comments have any effect on comment sorting? And can users see their own ...
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Should the number of helpful flags be public to anyone?
This discussion came up here, by a comment from Oded:
We are discussing internally whether there is a good reason to hide this value from everyone. If not, it might do a comeback.
I know it is a ...
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Who has the power to delete a comment?
I posted a comment on the following question. My comment was:
You will have to work on your accept rate. Currently it's catastrophic. Zero as in a singularity inside a black hole.
This comment was ...
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Should moderators be able to undelete any comment, including self-deletions?
Moderators were granted the ability to undelete comments, primarily to make cleaning up long comment threads more efficient. The idea was for the moderator to purge all comments, then selectively ...
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How could AI be used to augment curation tooling?
I've been doing a lot of things that keep making me think a machine could do it: Fixing typos, editing out noise, flagging obvious non-answers, flagging noisy comments, etc. I'm not of the position ...
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How is it possible that a single user who is not a moderator can delete a comment?
On Drupal Answers, while taking care of some comment flags, I noticed that a comment written on March, 2012 is reported to be deleted by a single user today.
Notice that:
The user who seems to have ...
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Are comments which respond to another comment deleted by single flag?
I am aware that sometimes comments are deleted as a result of single flag if they contains some blacklisted words/phrases,
as explained in several posts on this site. (For example: What is the SE ...
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Allow moderators to undelete the comments deleted after being flagged by a single user
See How is it possible that a single user who is not a moderator can delete a comment? for more details.
In short, two comments have been probably deleted after a single user flagged them as obsolete ...
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Who are the comments moderators?
I have heard that when a user has over 10k reputation the person will become a moderator automatically. That is true partly, but the user still may not be a comments moderator, who can review flagged ...
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Why did this comment disappear?
I posted a comment on this answer fairly soon after the answer was posted, then immediately edited the comment to provide a specific counterexample to the assumptions in the post. (There is a 5 minute ...
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Why did flagging a comment as obsolete quickly delete it? [duplicate]
On Stack Overflow, a new user forgot to add the language tag on this post. I asked him about it. After getting the reply, I edited the post to include language tag.
Then I forgot about it for three ...
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Weird duplicate comment bug
I am seeing the same issue with duplicated comments as in Bug? Duplicated comment (unresolved), in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7185857/how-to-what-added-in-sys-path-append but I have some more ...
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Can we let the system automatically remove comments that are short and contain "+1"?
I saw a comment on an answer on SO that was made by the answerer. The comment was "if useful +1". I flagged it for removal and it got removed about a minute later. Can we prevent such ...
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Obsolete flag handled automatically? [duplicate]
I just flagged a comment as "obsolete" in Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange. To my surprise, it was deleted immediately, just after pressing "Flag Comment".
Now I see it in my flag summary as ...
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What makes a comment substantive enough to deactivate "one-flag deletion" due to "certain keywords"?
Per How do comments work?
Comments containing certain keywords can be deleted with a single flag.
It is thought "thanks" is one of them.
Which for a second was alarming; a single flag can ...
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Allow moderators to undelete comments deleted by magic words [duplicate]
No, you can't hocus pocus a comment to be banished to the outer realms of the ether, but there is a short list of words that, if contained within a comment, cause the comment to be removed after a ...
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Policy on accepting answer after question is no longer relevant to original poster
Let's say I have a problem, and post a question on StackOverflow. I don't get any good answers, so I end up writing my own buggy implementation, or shelving the feature entirely.
Months later, ...
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If a comment is deleted while the author is editing it, the edited text will disappear into the void without warning; show a warning in such cases
When editing a comment, if it has been deleted while the comment author is editing it, the edited text will completely disappear into the void without any sort of warning as soon as the user clicks ...
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Does flagging a comment as "other..." count as a vote to delete it?
In the past, I'd always assumed that comment flags worked more or less like normal post flags. In particular, I assumed that choosing the "other..." option would always queue the comment for ...
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Make short "saved my <time>" comments single-flag-deletable
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The vast majority of short-length comments containing the substring "save" and certain units of time (hour, day, week, life) are useless (see "When shouldn't I comment" and ...
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