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Non notable claims, made only on hate and or conspiracy sites, should be deleted
There is a broad question here which has been touched on by meta-questions before, including another recent meta-question:
What is the best way to treat spurious claims from sources that regularly ...
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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 ...
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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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Non notable claims, made only on hate and or conspiracy sites, should be deleted
Skeptics.SE, like a number of Stack Exchange websites, has roomba, which will automatically delete many low quality questions.
If the question is more than 30 days old, and ...
has −1 or lower ...
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Is this question suitable for the site? "Did Gaza have the potential to become a 'Singapore' in the Middle East?"
A question I sometimes ask people who post questions is "What would you expect an answer might look like, for and against the proposition?"
I can't imagine what a "No" answer would ...
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What should I do about a huge compiled list of claims?
Please don't put them all in one question. That makes it nigh impossible to answer, even when you have great evidence for or against one of the claims. Multiple questions are preferred.
Please ...
OddthinkingMod
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Non notable claims, made only on hate and or conspiracy sites, should be deleted
In general I agree with you.
I'd like to point out that this should not be a unilateral moderator action, but a community action. we have 25+ users that can vote to delete questions. They should be ...
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Do history questions belong on skeptics?
I am not sure where you see a conflict of interest, maybe you mean bias?
The short answer is that, yes, this community has a bias -- we are absolutely biased towards anything which is provable by ...
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Can survey results be notable claims?
Let's go back to first principles.
We want claims to be notable so we know the large effort of producing a quality answer (and editing the question into shape) is worthwhile - that it affects a ...
OddthinkingMod
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How to deal with re-surfaced old questions that don't meet today's standards?
This same question came up on puzzling.se a while back, and my answer there is site-agnostic, so I'll just reproduce it here.
Guidance from meta.se says close them.
I refer you to this question:
I ...
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How to deal with re-surfaced old questions that don't meet today's standards?
There is a method of dealing with some of these types of question used by other SE sites such as English Language & Usage.
Such questions—if of any interest—are locked with the following message
&...
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Are we ignoring quality problems blissfully if we see a chance to fight some strawmen from 'the other camp'?
This question includes a number a premises (which shifted after several edits making it hard to write an answer). Let's start with the agreed facts.
Aug 5 at 3:53Z: A question was asked.
Aug 5 at 6:...
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Are we ignoring quality problems blissfully if we see a chance to fight some strawmen from 'the other camp'?
Frankly I find you long rant quite a bit off the mark. It would have been better if the Q quoted more of the source instead of just the graph, but here's a quote:
A clear, direct, one-to-one ...
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What should we do when the accepted answer is incorrect?
This has been covered extensively in the past, and I don't think, in this case, we're any different from other network sites.
As is stated in this question your options as a user (and assuming you ...
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Should we limit [quote] questions?
I've skimmed the other anwers, but I didn't seen this point being made salient, so...
Generally speaking, I'd like to see some effort put in such questions as to why the asker thinks the quote is ...
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Handling current events
The question should be closed until it can be answered
There is now a dedicated close-reason, discussed here:
Questions about unresolved current events and issues currently under investigation by a ...
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