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How can I deal with a helpful, but abrasive, answerer?

tl;dr: What is the suggested way to deal with a helpful, frequent contributor, whose answers are perceived to be phrased in dismissive, abrasive terms? I'm new to a particular topic, and using a ...
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Moderators need an ability to penalize users for seriously bad behavior short of deleting their accounts [duplicate]

There's a certain site I moderate where a very high rep user has become downright abusive to other users of the site and the mods are having to constantly delete content to avoid letting the site turn ...
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Could we please be a bit nicer to moderators?

TL;DR Moderators are human and make mistakes. If you feel a moderator screwed up, please be patient with us and try to communicate objectively to help us avoid a lot of unnecessary meta drama. All ...
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Is it okay to write answers that compete with moderators' or 10k+ users' answers?

I am afraid of posting answers to questions that have already been answered by moderators and/or 10k+ users. I've posted about ten or 12 such answers between SO and MSO. Whenever I have different ...
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Is there a system for voting against moderators/high rep users?

If you disagree with a moderator/high rep user is there any way to flag this for further review? Or to even keep track of moderators/high rep users who consistently are disagreed with by the ...
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