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11 questions linked to/from Improving the System for Dealing with Poor Answers
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When does “Want to improve this post?” appear? [duplicate]
I just saw above an answer a banner I did not see before:
When is this banner triggered? Is this a specific flag placed on the answer (manually by someone)?
(It is certainly not automatic as plenty ...
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Beta Sites Data is Now Accessible Through the Data Explorer
NEWS FLASH: After 6-8 weeks of waiting, you can now write queries for beta sites using the data explorer
The data explorer uses TSQL which seems to be similar to regular SQL with a few variations. ...
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What criteria do we need for questions regarding the law/regulations to be allowed?
We have had multiple discussions on what constitutes legal advice here:
Are employment law questions off-topic?
Defining the on-topic / off-topic line on questions that could be answered by a lawyer
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Duplicate answers - What action should we take?
A lot of our questions (Especially HNQ questions) seem to get a lot of answers that repeat what others have said before, albeit with a different context. A good example is this question.
There are a ...
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Cleaning Up Bad Answers on Popular Questions
Due to graduation, privilege levels have dropped to the point where most of us can no longer delete answers making this less productive. We can revisit it in the future when we have more 20k+ users.
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Are we using NAA and VLQ flags correctly?
I've been noticing for a couple months that the 10k flag queue seems to have NAA and VLQ flags for things that I think wouldn't be flagged that way on other sites I'm active on. These are generally ...
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Testing proposal: automating review of answers that fail to meet site-specific guidelines
Posted on behalf of jmac.
The idea to test automating review of answers that fail to meet site-specific guidelines has been proposed by SE Community manager here:
let's test this first, see where ...
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Is our policy adequate to our quality standards?
I witnessed a common phenomenomn where an objectively poor quality answer gets widely upvoted because people believe it's funny or because they approve people being salty toward OP.
I identify poor ...
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When/how should I flag content as 'very low quality' or 'not an answer'?
I have over 15 reputation and have been given the flagging privilege.
I understand the guidelines for spam and offensive flags, but it seems The Workplace has different standards for 'very low ...
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Is it worth creating a meta.SO proposal for custom flags?
We use flags here in a way which is good given the nature of our site. However, these are different than what other less "subjective" sites use.
I would love to see a flag for the following:
Does ...
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Can we add a Flag reason for answers of: Provides Opinion Only
Currently I think many of the Not an Answer or Very Low quality flags we see should have been some other flag, but we do not have that flag. This flag would give us that other option.
This would ...