Questions tagged [tag-abuse]
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A user seems to be trolling many SE sites with AI-generated answers; what should I do?
This user has had an account on a number of Stack Exchange sites for many years, and wrote a small number of questions and answers in that time. In the last few days, they've started posting dozens of ...
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I need help dealing with a problem user
As a user who takes it upon himself to moderate and improve my active communities, I have a situation where I need advice. Let's say that the problematic user is example123. Now, let's say example123 ...
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How are persistently disruptive users who continually create new accounts dealt with?
A certain user has been repeatedly evading site quality controls by creating many new accounts to avoid question bans and suspensions. For more background, see the following Meta posts that have been ...
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Informing/dealing with invalid-edit'ers
User in question is that one
When I was checking SO meta, I come across with that Question As I check the user history, I see many (many) 1 character edits, a single whitespace character somewhere in ...
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What do we do with "update: fixed it" questions?
My post was spurred by this recent question: How to create a database for images/audio in phpmyadmin
The question has since been deleted, but for those without mod powers, here's a recreation of the ...
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Is the 'non-app-store' tag valid? [closed]
I just came across the non-app-store tag. It has 4 questions. According to it's tag wiki, it indicates that the
OP is aware that solution to his programming problem will probably
make his application ...
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Downvote feast on my profile [duplicate]
I just got downvoted on alot of my questions and answers in a very short period of time on SO. I suspect someone hold a grudge on me.
Is there any way of identifying that person?
Do I have to go to ...
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What can I do if someone downvote all my questions and my answers? [duplicate]
Bad surprise this afternoon, all my questions and a part of my answers have been downvoted...
Someone takes 10 minutes to downvote all my question on by one and I don't understand why
I don't care ...
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tag abuse and tag editing
I saw this and this and this. To quote the Death of Meta Tags article:
If the tag can’t work as the only tag on a question, it’s probably a
meta-tag. Every tag you use should be able to work, more or ...
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Add a moderator ability to watch troublemakers
Community moderators already have an ability to mark potential users as troublemakers via annotations, but that ability isn't very useful in itself.
It would be nice if mods could mark users as ...
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Poisoning of API-related tags on Stack Overflow [closed]
This might have been asked before, but I want to highlight my specific issue. Feel free to move this question as appropriate.
Problem
I see an increasing trend of tag-abuse on Stack Overflow, ...
Mads Elvheim
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How to deal with a user who keeps asking the same question over and over?
There's a new user on Stack Overflow who keeps asking more or less the same exact question about Drupal user permissions:
How to give access to users at page level in drupal?
page created to be ...
user149432
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How to deal with disruptive people on Area51
How can we deal with disruptive people on Area51. It seems that one person, if determined (or simply incompetent) can derail a community.
For example see these two questions on the Firearms ...
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Why don't people like my tags? :(
I've been recently using the [and-then-i-began-to-cry](which GMan created) tag and Jeff recently has been untagging my questions. What's wrong Jeff? Do you have no feelings?
It's ok. You can cry on ...
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Problem User Spamming Personal Library
I've flagged one of the posts of the following user as needing moderator attention, but I'm expanding here to explain the reason for my flag a little more in depth.
User:
https://stackoverflow.com/...
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What to do about tag-abuse? [duplicate]
I'm starting to see more and more abuse of the tagging system. Not always intentional, but prevalent none-the-less. I think this started when people began adding the not-programming-related tag, which ...
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