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I'm resigning as a moderator
I don't want to write a eulogy for a friend I hope to still see around the traps, but I do want to thank you for:
setting the stage here for a successful community,
training me up as a moderator,
for ...
OddthinkingMod
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Permanently banning user/question?
Further to @Sklivvz's response:
Please do flag the post as rude or abusive or spam (as appropriate).
Six votes from the community will nuke the question (delete and lock) and ban the IP ...
OddthinkingMod
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Does ten year network wide bans involve consultation with other moderators?
The network-wide suspension was not performed by the moderators of this site. We do not have the power to inflict network-wide suspensions. It was performed by Community Managers working for Stack ...
OddthinkingMod
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Accepted
Permanently banning user/question?
We are aware of the situation. I can not, for reasons you can imagine, discuss what steps we are taking about this person. Rest assured that we hear you and we listened to you.
Thanks for reporting.
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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, ...
OddthinkingMod
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Skeptics Stack Exchange, and its relationship with "Poisoning the Well"
I don't want to waste too much time on this question.
I should just say `If you have a complaint about a moderator, use the "Contact" link at the bottom of the page.', and walk away.
What ...
OddthinkingMod
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My answer deleted for downvotes... better answer deleted on a misunderstanding
Your answer wasn't deleted for having downvotes. Your answer was deleted because it didn't answer the question. After edits, it still appeared that you were not going to answer the question. It ...
OddthinkingMod
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Accepted
Limited in what I can do to investigate a suspicious question
What else can I do?
Nothing. You did what was needed. It was investigated and no evidence of bad-faith has been found so far. If this changes, it will be dealt with.
In addition a comment was posted:...
JamiecMod
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What exactly does "Essentially unreferenced" mean when references were provided?
Let me introduce some other Stack Exchanges:
https://mathoverflow.net/
https://stats.stackexchange.com/
https://physics.stackexchange.com/
https://law.stackexchange.com/
https://philosophy....
OddthinkingMod
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What exactly does "Essentially unreferenced" mean when references were provided?
If you think a moderator is abusing their powers you need to use the contact button at the bottom of the page to contact stack exchange themselves. When you do this you need to explain what you think ...
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Skeptics Stack Exchange, and its relationship with "Poisoning the Well"
I have deleted your answer now because it is essentially unreferenced. A YouTube video by Stefan Molyneux is not a reliable reference.
As Oddthinking explained in his first comment on your answer, if ...
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Incorrectly and arbitrarily deleted answer for being alleged as "theoretical"
I didn't delete the answer, but likely would have had I seen it first.
The question was: Were 1 in 6 protesters at the 1968 DNC FBI agents?
The only sourced part of your answer was that the FBI ...
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Why would pointing out that there is no evidence offered in a claim considered "opinion"?
There are two parts to this question.
Why was the answer considered opinion?
Much of the original answer wasn't merely saying there was no evidence. It was sharing your take on the claim.
"I'm ...
OddthinkingMod
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Accepted
Can moderators unaccept answers that don't actually address the question?
Short of deleting the answer, mods do not have this power.
Acceptance of an answer doesn't mean it is factually correct - it means this is the answer that the questioner found most useful. The ...
OddthinkingMod
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Why was my comment deleted? (And questions about policy.)
I deleted that comment because it was a pseudo answer. I cleaned up a few other comments as well on the same question for other reasons.
Pseudo answers in comments are inherently problematic on our ...
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Accepted
Should my answer, which addresses implications in the framing of a question, have been deleted?
Should my answer, which addresses implications in the framing of a question, have been deleted?
No, neither your answer nor my answer should have been deleted. Both answers offered additional context ...
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Accepted
Why has my comment that a claim is apparently not serious been deleted?
Which deleted comment are you talking about?
Was it this one?
TBH most of the Reddit contents are one-line quips that you've read 100 times before. AI is quite capable of that.
That one was an ...
OddthinkingMod
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Why was my comment deleted? (And questions about policy.)
1) I'm not the deleter but your first comment read as a clear pseudo answer and it wasn't that nice towards the OP either - the second comment was a rant. I'll let the original mod answer fully.
2) ...
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The question is incorrectly flagged as duplicate despite valid clarifications in my comments
Welcome to Skeptics.SE. I'd recommend having a read of our Welcome to New Users.
In particular, this section:
Generally, a high-quality Skeptics question will:
Point to a statement that someone ...
OddthinkingMod
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Deletion of an answer without good reason
This question has quickly spiralled into discussions of tone, how people reacted, how other questions were answers, etc., which I want to avoid if I can, and come back to basics.
The question is not "...
OddthinkingMod
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Deletion of an answer without good reason
Your answer starts with:
It all depends on how you measure "profit per customer".
and then proceeds to explain the difference between "calculating it based on total profit vs total passengers" ...
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Answer moved to comment by mod
Welcome to the Skeptics.SE, Syzygy. I am sorry your first experience was so confusing.
I recommend having a read of our Welcome to New Users. It explains some of the ways in which we are different to ...
OddthinkingMod
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Answer moved to comment by mod
I realize why I can't write comments with low reputation, however I don't understand why I can't use my reputation from other communities to do it.
As Catija mentioned, you actually can use your rep ...
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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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Accepted
How can I change an erroneously cast vote?
As I see it you have a few options:
Do nothing, like Oddthinking suggests. You could just decide to not care, as we all make mistakes from time to time. A single question upvote is only 10 reputation ...
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