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Add "is from fake news site" to list of close flags (distinct from "no notable claim")
First, you should clarify what you mean by "Fake News" sites.
The "original" definition did not include The Onion, and certainly did not include CNN, however, people have recently co-opted the term ...
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Require questions about the Holocaust to receive moderator approval before publishing
This is a feature-request. It is worth understanding the status quo.
First, we should understand that genuine, good faith, questions about the Holocaust are not taboo here. We have many examples, ...
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Ban Fact Checking Websites in Answers
No, we should not ban any website based on what type of website it is. It doesn't matter if it is a fact checking, left leaning, right leaning or any other type of site. All that matters is that it is ...
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users down vote with bad faith
We have a Code of Conduct that talks of kindness and mutual respect. What it is missing is a line from the old version that I sorely miss. It basically said "Assume good faith".
Accusing ...
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Should extensive edits reset vote counts?
A solution: Add feature 'reset votes'. Maybe this could be voted upon? Similarly as closing/opening.
This happens — manually. The downvotes are still there, of course, but they are canceled out by ...
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Ban Fact Checking Websites in Answers
This question contains a number of false premises.
Scientific Skepticism does not require an adversarial system, although one may be used.
More specifically, Scientific Skepticism does not require ...
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Require questions about the Holocaust to receive moderator approval before publishing
Seems to me that questions on that topic are the lesser problem, often being 'just' a tedious nuisance if well-intended, and really quickly shot down if on that level of easy recognisability that ...
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Add a review queue for posts with a "citation needed" notice
While I agree with this proposal, the problem is it's been over five years and nothing's changed. That's why I'm going to give an answer for what you can do right now to help review posts with post ...
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Entirely remove the tags from the HTML title
I think this might be mostly resolved or at least much improved thanks to Google:
More examples from mobile:
medical science - Is thyme antiviral? - Skeptics Stack Exchange
Do “Soupeurs” exist? - ...
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Enabling mods to really act as users: make "different hats" more visible?
I was acting as a moderator on that comment, but I screwed up and I apologize to David for that.
Here's what happened:
David Hammen posted an answer which received a ton of upvotes.
Its core point ...
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Please configure display texts for custom close reasons
Given what I just learnt from @F1Krazy's answer, let me offer this as a barely satisfactory work-around:
I already try to comment on answers I close with more information about the reasons.
This is ...
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Please configure display texts for custom close reasons
The reason the closed banner appears so uninformative to you is because, as part of changes made to the close banners network-wide, the full close reason is now only visible to the OP, and to users ...
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Can we add to tagging instructions not to tag on claimant?
This text isn't under the control of mods, so it is not something I can action.
It would require special "per-site" coding or configuration from the SE team - they should see this request here.
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