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What is Stack Exchange doing to fundamentally fix the recent and ongoing chat disruption through serial starring of messages?
Many chatrooms right now have someone or something methodically starring every single recent message, disrupting the starboard messages and making stars effectively useless because they're on every ...
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Why is starring a post still allowed for read-only users in gallery mode chat rooms?
The recent mass star-trolling incident made me realize that any registered user can star any message in read-only gallery chat rooms they don't have any write permission on.
This doesn't really seem ...
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Please clear chat message notifications out of my inbox if the message was deleted as rude/abusive
I was pinged earlier in a chat room with an abusive message. Because I wasn't around at the time it went right to my inbox.
Chat moderation removed the message before I even knew it existed, which I'm ...
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Mass-cancel stars in chat room
In the Root Access chat room, we are having a little issue with some people starring every message, even though none make sense on their own, and they aren't interesting.
I spent a few minutes ...
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Moderator problems
Earlier today on chat, a certain mod kept banning me from Charcoal HQ, seemingly for fun. This is yet another example of a mod misusing their powers, and what can be done about it?
Some quotes from ...
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Provide a way to determine which user is spamming stars in chat
As a compliment or alternative* to not refunding cancelled stars, it'd be nice if chat would auto-raise a flag identifying someone starring n items in x minutes, or at least provide a list of ...
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Prevent repeated starring and unstarring of messages
It appears that you get to blink stars on any message as frequently as you want, as long as you want. Some child on The Bridge has just found out about this and the only approach I can think of - ...
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Disruptive 10k+ user in chat
Would it be possible to disable the ability to see the flags of a specific user? This particular user counter-flags every flag that gets raised. He/she also thinks that it is appropriate to go ...
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How is this user still around?
Just flagged a drive by abuse from this guy which I was surprised didn't get acted on, so I checked his chat history which is mostly troll - let alone the deleted messaged.
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When stars are cancelled on a chat message, the stars should not be refunded [duplicate]
We in the C# chat room are having an issue with people abusing stars. When someone starts spam-starring messages, we cancel the stars, but this gives the user their stars back, enabling them to spam ...
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Bandwagoning in chat, suspended account [closed]
I recently went into a SO C++ chat and was needlessly suspended. My chat transcript starts from this message. (Note that some messages were flagged and have since been removed.)
Upon entering the room,...
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