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What to do when a post contains a "suspicious" link (possibly with copyrighted material)?
This is an answer as a private member of MO, without my moderator hat on.
I'll admit I've never understood the argument that there could be something wrong with linking; the internet is a big scary ...
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What to do when a post contains a "suspicious" link (possibly with copyrighted material)?
The OCILLA (part of DMCA) already specifies a process (notice and takedown)
that takes care of these issues.
This process also removes from us the burden of determining
whether a particular link is ...
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Flagging spam user
There are now lots of similarly named accounts (having to do with car insurance) showing up in Recent Badges. I think they are effectively spamming in the Recent Badges space.
Going back further, ...
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Should we flag suspected ChatGPT posts?
The question was answered in the comments, but just to underscore: the answer is yes. If you see a post you suspect is AI-written nonsense, flag it and describe your suspicion in the flag comment.
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What should I do when I see a spam post on MO?
Any user with at least 15 reputation points should flag the post as spam. After 6 spam flags, the post is deleted. In addition to being deleted, even for users who can see the deleted posts, the ...
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Flagging spam user
I'm happy to hear what the community thinks, but my instinctual reaction would be to destroy it. The account has no business here and the page is meanwhile free billboard space: not something I think ...
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Why was my spam flag declined on an answer that does nothing but promote the answerer's book?
The answer under consideration is not spam, because it is a valid answer to the question that was asked (and the question was more or less on-topic for this site).
Ideally, we would like some kind of ...
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On flagging: what is "research level" *or* does it make sense to flag a question with positive vote ratings?
Just relax. There are so many people who are able (and often very eager) to vote for closure, deletion, reopening, etc. directly that adding new "active flaggers" to them will do more harm than good, ...
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Why did flagging a comment for deletion made it disappear immediately?
The related question on Meta.SE popped up today and I looked into this to see if I could figure it out. Looks like the misspelling of "Lipschitz" lead to a word that triggers single-flag ...
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Can I see my flaggings?
You can simply go to your profile, go to the activity tab and click on "n helpful flags". (On the right side, grouped together with the stats such as "people reached", "votes ...
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Flagging Low Quality Questions
Speaking as a pretty active moderator: the amount of this type of flag raising that I see hasn't been a problem, not for me. In some ways I think it helps, to see how others are gauging the quality of ...
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To contact moderator who responded for flag
As pointed out in comments, one can always write [email protected]. From my own point of view, that would be the preferred option.
If it's something quick, a user can raise a second flag. ...
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Ability to flag user accounts as spam
I brought this up in the Charcoal HQ chat (about Charcoal). They pointed out a few technical hurdles, and also pointed me to evidence that SE has simply decided this issue is not important enough to ...
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Flagging Low Quality Questions
It seems that we are mostly talking here about close flags and very low quality flags - since these are the two types of flags which seem reasonable in the case of low quality questions (whichever ...
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Why was my spam flag declined on an answer that does nothing but promote the answerer's book?
I did not process that flag, but I agree with whoever did. I think "spamming" is often construed overly broadly anyway. In my mind, the first criterion for judgment should be relevancy, with ...
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Why did flagging a comment for deletion made it disappear immediately?
I don't have a full understanding of the specific process which was at work here, but the action was performed by the Community User which runs automatically in the background. When it saw your flag ...
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How to report intrisically spammy user accounts?
I've tried destroying a few accounts with spammy profiles, and it takes less than 30 seconds to do each one. However, looking through the list of "autobiographer" badge recipients, I would ...
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Question visibility and reputation
It depends on where you're looking, but in general, the visibility is only determined by the timestamp (either of the last activity, or of the moment the question was created). However, on the ...
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Problem with posts and comments relying on macros defined elsewhere
This is a community wiki answer intended as a place to collect examples of posts and comments which are examples of the described problem. Feel free to add further examples if you find some more. (But ...
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What to do when a post contains a "suspicious" link (possibly with copyrighted material)?
It seems that the answer can be found on the legal page of MO; for your convenience, let me quote the relevant paragraph concerning copyrighted material:
"Using copyrighted material does not ...
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Flagging spam user
There is no clearly defined networkwide policy on this topic, because the rules on self-promotion only apply to posts, not user profiles. Your ‘About me’ is your own space, and as long as it’s not ...
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Flagging old questions for closure
First, let me stress that I am not trying to suggest any specific course of action here, just argue why those flags make some sense.
The whole point of this answer is trying to explain a phenomenon, ...
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