Questions tagged [community-user]
For questions about the user named Community present on Stack Exchange sites.
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Who is the Community user?
I see the Community user on the user page. It seems to edit posts sometimes. What is it?
And why has it downvoted over 1800 times?
See also:
What are “Community Wiki” posts?
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Why does the Community user sometimes review suggested edits?
Why does the Community bot sometimes approve or reject edits?
How does a machine know if my edit is valid?
What does it mean if my edit was "canceled" by Community?
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Who is the ...
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Community ♦ seems to be bumping new questions more frequently than usual
On Chemistry.SE:
These are all Community ♦ bumps, separated by exactly one hour (They occur on hour:38:16 UTC). Could the bot be sedated please? We're a 4-questions-per-day site; a bump an hour is ...
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Why does the Community User reject / approve edits? [duplicate]
I am sure this must have been asked quite a lot of times, but I am unable to find something about the guidelines the Community uses when approving / rejecting edits.
I just fixed a first question to ...
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Community ♦ should discriminate more when bumping unanswered questions
I'm getting a lot of old questions on the front page that were bumped by the Community user. I understand that this is usually a Good Thing, to get some attention for buried questions, but should ...
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Eeeek! "Community" user got sudden rep boost.. how come?
Until recently Mr. Community had one single reputation point, you can see it in this old screenshot:
Now it has over 2K reputation all of a sudden.. what has caused this? Has it affected "real" ...
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Community♦ user edit: How does it know what to edit? [duplicate]
I just noticed that the Community♦ user edited a ~1 year old answer of mine. As you can see, the method call was changed from getSfGuardUser to getGuardUser:
Now I checked the documentation and it ...
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Please use the new Mod/Staff label tech to identify Community as a bot
We now have some really fancy new staff and moderator labels. They've gotten good reception, and I genuinely like them—they work well.
Included in response to this feature was a request by Laurel ...
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Should questions removed automatically for inactivity really be non-undeletable?
The question Why was my question removed? is about a question that was deleted due to inactivity. There was discussion in the comments about community members casting undelete votes, and the post in ...
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Improved edit suggestions approved by Community
When an edit suggestion is "improved" instead of flat-out approved, the suggestion is still marked as approved, but the approver is listed as Community instead of the user who improved it (example). ...
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Why does a question appear as modified by the Community user [duplicate]
Why does a question appear as modified by the Community user, but when you click on it there's nothing in the question or its answers done by him/it ?
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Resolving Community user and "share feedback" issues in review queues
On our announcement for our updates to review queue workflows, we got a ton of feedback on the Community user being the one posting comments for users. Here's a quick summary of some of the major ...
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How Does the Community User Set Bounties?
I decided on poking around some profiles and I hit the Community user. I knew that Community was a background process but then I noticed that it had set some bounties. What criteria does Community ...
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Who runs "Community♦" on the review queue? [duplicate]
Take a look at this edit suggestion. There were two "Approve" marks, but then Community rejected it, and that was it. The suggestion was rejected with a 1-2 reject-approve ratio.
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Give Community ♦ a review ban
Terrible review record
One of our moderators (Community ♦) has been approving terrible edits all over the place; for example, this edit, in which random words were code formatted. Clearly as a ...
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On Meta, have Community ignore posts with a [status-*] tag when bumping
Just ran across this post, which was bumped by Community for having been unanswered. However, it was answered by Jeff (no upvotes), along with a status-declined tag. I gave an upvote so that it wouldn'...
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Why was suggested edit rejected by Community? [duplicate]
The suggested edit corrected formatting issues in the code posted by the OP. In the initial post you can see line breaks in the code posted.
Most of the time when someone rejects a suggested edit, a ...
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How many questions escape community protection because of reputation gained within checked question?
Community's auto-protection of questions is implemented such that quick upvotes to answers from new users make those answers cease to trigger the checks for automatically making a question protected.
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Is there any way to see which posts Community has bumped?
This question holds for the entire network of main and meta sites.
Looking through the activity tab for the Community user, I don't see any edit history for posts that have been randomly bumped (...
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Closed as a duplicate, but the duplicate list is empty?
Obligatory: This is not a duplicate of this question, which is concerning the much older duplicate closure process.
Have a gander at this closed question. Notice anything weird?
The Community♦ user ...
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Present and future of bots on Stack Exchange
There are discussions on Meta already for some time now about the potential usage of bots on Stack Exchange (SE). The earliest I could find goes back to
2009, but there have been others [link],
[link]...
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Why are "consecutive closed questions" flags exposed to non-moderators?
The new flagged posts page is great, but I do wonder about the "Consecutive closed questions" comment that comes up, for example for this question:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6316669/how-to-...
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Please do not "lie" that the Community user "modified" the question
If the Community user bumps a question, It says It has modified it:
However, It did not really modify the question, It rather just visited it. The word "modified" is a bit unfortunate IMHO because it ...
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Community downvotes posts that were just fixed
If a post has a low quality score flag on it, it's automatically dismissed as helpful if a user edits it, which results in an automatic Community downvote. I understand (kind of) adding a downvote if ...
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What causes a question to be protected by the Community ♦ user [duplicate]
I noticed this question in particular, which has 5 deleted answers on it. The most recently deleted answer was deleted by a diamond mod 3 minutes prior to the time it was protected by Community ♦
Is ...
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Why was this bounty awarded by the Community user? [duplicate]
I accepted an answer to this question:
How to develop a web application compatible with multiple database management systems
but the bounty was awarded by Community ♦ to another answer. Why ...
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Community user "stealing" tags?
On September 29th, I created the ebean tag for How mature is Ebean or Siena?
Today, while checking the tag description, I saw that the creator seems to be Community user.
Why is that? Why has the ...
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Community ♦ bot doesn't like markdown?
Recently the Community ♦ bot was ran on Ask Ubuntu Meta to migrate all the MSO links to MSE links. But in the process, the bot converted all the posts written in markdown to HTML. An example preview:
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Why are there automatic moderator flags (autoflags) from the Community User, and what are they for?
Occasionally as a moderator I've noticed flags from the Community user. I've got a few questions:
Why do they exist?
What events trigger them?
How might moderators act on them?
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What can cause the Community user to have favorite questions?
On most sites including the main Stack Overflow site, Community user has no favorites. So far so good.
However today I noticed that on the SharePoint site it got 26 questions marked as favorite.
If ...
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Why has Community's profile picture changed?
Why has the Community bot's profile pic changed from the beloved MSE logo to this:
A common Identicon? Accident, or conspiracy?
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Community ♦ flagging freeform closed posts for comment
On beta sites, when a post gets closed without comment, Community ♦ flags it for moderator attention.
Apparently, a comment entered through the freeform close reason doesn't count:
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What caused Community ♦ to reject this particular edit suggestion? [duplicate]
When does the Community♦ "user" reject suggested edits? What was bad about this particular suggested edit, please?
https://stackoverflow.com/suggested-edits/258612
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Anomalous community user activity
On the meta home page I noticed the community user is listed as doing something, but cannot figure out what it is. There is nothing on the question or its timeline, but the recent activity is listed ...
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Why did this edit get attributed to the community user?
It seems that an edit by the OP of this post was attributed to the community user.
I'm assuming that the edit was by the OP from the edit summary:
updated my question
and from the actual update. ...
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How to stop the Community user from dredging up old questions over and over?
So here is an example of a question that Community has reposted to the DSP SE.
This question has been clearly answered, but no check mark perhaps because the OP has moved on. But the Community user ...
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Questions auto bumped by the Community User even though they are locked
https://serverfault.com/questions/159509/printer-on-different-networkip-range-can-i-print-to-it
This question on Server Fault was just bumped to the front page like any other question that has no ...
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When and why is the [featured] tag removed by the Community user?
I've found that the Meta (moderator only) tag featured is automatically removed by the Community ♦ user. So, I want to know when and why is the tag featured is removed by this user?
Is there any ...
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CommonMark migration is causing license changes when it should not
CommonMark migration has begun!
Sites across the network have been scheduled for formatting migration, and some of them (Meta Stack Exchange included) have already finished their migration.
It was ...
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Why are my suggested edits here approved by Community♦? [duplicate]
I just noticed that my suggested edits on meta are quickly approved by Community♦, sometimes almost instantaneously.
As a guess: does this have anything to do with the fact that I have edit ...
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The "dupe link" edit by Community interferes with suggested edits [closed]
(Or maybe the suggested edits interfere with the dupe link, I guess that also works.)
This is something I've seen happening a couple times, such as here.
When an edit is suggested before, and ...
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Would it be feasible to have Community only poke questions of active users?
I am no longer actually requesting this feature, but I guess leaving feature-request rather than discussion allows Jeff to eventually mark as status-declined, which might help when duplicates show up? ...
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What happened with Community♦'s network profile
Top questions gone (used to show two posts from MSE)
No accounts shown except Area 51 (there used to be a list of the accounts)
Activity gone (it was there) seems to be fixed
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How do I hide questions that are bumped by the Community user?
I am not interested in questions bumped by the Community user. Often times, they are too old to be answered, or already have correct but unaccepted answers.
How do I hide questions bumped by this ...
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why does community user delete answers on close of question?
As part of Project Management SE's cleanup efforts, I closed a question as not constructive. Afterwards, I went to leave a comment explaining why and noticed the post was locked by the Community user. ...
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How can a question deleted by community be undeleted?
On Dec 23, 2013 I edited two of my questions on Physics.SE:
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/82673/aether-isnt-connected-to-earth
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/82453/are-...
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Why is the Community user accepting answers?
The activity page on the SO Community user's profile shows that he/she/it accepted several answers in mid-June. Why is Community accepting answers at all? At first I thought it might have something ...
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Is there a correlation between opposing the use of AI-generated content on Stack Exchange and rating AI low in general?
Intro
I have seen people whose critique of ChatGPT rests on citing examples of unskillful use.
Can resistance to permitting ChatGPT on Stack Exchange be in part attributed to an inaccurate appraisal ...
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Community♦ has gone crazy on Code Review meta
The Community♦ user on Code Review meta has had a strange behaviour recently:
First of all, it has 5 reputation instead of 1.
Thirty minutes ago, it felt that it was a good idea to update 91 ...
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How can we make the purpose of Community "bumping" more obvious?
There's been a lot of confusion over the years regarding the automatic "bumping" of questions...
Community ♦ should discriminate more when bumping unanswered questions
Community ♦ seems to be bumping ...
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