Timeline for Do we need a post notice for possibly controversial questions?
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| Mar 6, 2018 at 21:27 | comment | added | aparente001 | @user21820 Parenting Beta. | |
| Mar 6, 2018 at 5:22 | comment | added | user21820 | @aparente001: Does that site to which you refer to happen to start with an "I"? | |
| Dec 7, 2017 at 2:47 | comment | added | aparente001 | ... pounce on the slightest infraction in order to ban you for another year. | |
| Dec 7, 2017 at 2:46 | comment | added | aparente001 | @AndreaLazzarotto - I agree there is a serious problem with SE. The moderation style varies so much from one site to another. I have participated on a site where moderators delete comments without warning because they should have been posted as an answer, deletes answers because they should have been a comment, edits answers until they are unrecognizable because ... well, I have no idea why. And if you contact SE with an objection, lo and behold, you are banished for a year fro mthat site. When your year is up, you try again to try to understand their "rules," but they ... | |
| Nov 7, 2017 at 22:15 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | @xLeitix "for usually not very clear rules" partially yes, but what I dislike the most is that I could even start to recognize some specific mods in some communities who I know would delete a lot more comments than others. It looks like these few people don't care if comments are being left to add a contribution (whether it's an edit suggestion or a clarification request) but they just want to pick what stays. | |
| Nov 7, 2017 at 12:41 | comment | added | Feathercrown | @xLeitix Usually yes, but sometimes you know an answer is wrong but can't find the correct answer yourself. | |
| Nov 5, 2017 at 21:12 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano | The main issue is that, afaik, mod tools don't allow much flexibility in handling comments. | |
| Nov 5, 2017 at 21:10 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano | @xLeitix If there is already a correct answer, there's no need to post another one, but technically certain answers can be subtly (very) wrong and non-experts might not be able to catch the error, especially if the answer comes from a high-rep user. Comments can have an important function, and regardless of their original temporary status, I think they should be deleted with care. | |
| Nov 5, 2017 at 20:52 | comment | added | xLeitix | @MassimoOrtolano I feel the spirit of Stack Exchange is that you should post your own competing answer rather than post meta-info about an existing answer in a comment. Personally, I feel more aggressive deleting of comments, maybe even automatically after some time, would actually help in the way that it would train us all that comments are indeed not meant to be permanent. At the moment comments are in a weird state where they usually stick around but sometimes get deleted (for usually not very clear rules), and then people like Andrea seem to get mad. | |
| Nov 5, 2017 at 12:43 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | @MassimoOrtolano indeed. Not to mention mods who prune all the comments and then bash at you if you ask for clarification that was "already asked" (according to them). Then they go on pruning your comment but leaving their rant against you. | |
| Nov 5, 2017 at 11:52 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano | @xLeitix Hot Network Question. About comment deletion, it depends on the context: for instance, on Electronics.SE, I once wrote a comment pointing out that a certain answer was technically wrong and the discussion was later moved to chat. I think that comments that point out potential mistakes should not be moved because most of the readers don't check the chats. Usually, this kind of moderation reduces my interest in a community. | |
| Nov 5, 2017 at 9:24 | comment | added | xLeitix | @AndreaLazzarotto What's HNQ? Anyway, personally I have never really understood why people get so hung up on deleted comments - y'know, them being defined as volatile and so on ... | |
| Nov 4, 2017 at 20:24 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | @MassimoOrtolano I am also quite happy of the mod team here. Saying that they delete comments does not necessarily mean there is something wrong with it. Of course the situation is quite worse on Travel or Interpersonal, but Academia doesn't rank so bad wrt HNQs as was originally mentioned. | |
| Nov 4, 2017 at 16:36 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano | @AndreaLazzarotto Here moderation is fairly unaggressive with respect to other communities, and our mods tend to remove comments only exceptionally when there are flags (see this chat discussion). And the last sentence is definitely unwarranted for this community (yes, I'm quite happy of the mod team here ;-) ). | |
| Nov 4, 2017 at 16:13 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | “in my opinion this has not really been the case in the past”. It actually is... and not only comments that are argumentative, but any comments that are not liked by them. If you look at HNQ on Academia.SE, Travel.SE or Interpersonal.SE you can see a constant show of mods deleting whatever comment they stumble across. Except theirs, of course. | |
| Nov 2, 2017 at 20:43 | history | answered | xLeitix | CC BY-SA 3.0 |