Questions tagged [code-of-conduct]
Questions about the site's code of conduct (CoC), formerly known as the be nice policy.
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Suspended for posting a comment disparaging of Discussions
I posted this comment on one of the many Meta questions asked about Discussions:
It's discussions. Nobody cares. Please stop posting questions about it, so that it can die faster.
and shortly later ...
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Should questions about GeoPandas regarding controversial borders be flagged?
Say someone might ask about GeoPandas regarding the borders of China, Israel, Tibet or other borders that are subjects of controversial political discussions. Should a hypothetical question about this ...
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Is it appropriate to include # of expert hours required to answer a question?
Is it appropriate to let a questioner know when an answer required excessive hours of expert work?
I enjoy solving complex SQL tasks. It is possible for me to do this because of decades of work with ...
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How can I flag an editor's defaming edit message? [duplicate]
I came across this suggested edit linked below. The edit itself is ok*. However, the edit message itself is defaming.
Rejecting an edit could be bad for the post, and furthermore a reject would only ...
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Update of the code of conduct should contain a diff of the changes [duplicate]
It makes it easier to understand the change when you are not a lawyer.
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Where is the May 31, 2023 update to the Code of Conduct?
The Stack Overflow website is full of notices about a May 31, 2023 update to the Code of Conduct. However, it does not seem to have a link to this document.
The notice in the header: links a blogpost,...
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What is the time limit for reporting CoC violations? Can past violations be reported?
A few years back I got attacked by someone with privileges that first vandalized (i.e. changed content to something quite different) one reply I wrote and then apparently with the help of a few ...
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What changes were made to the Code of Conduct on May 31, 2023?
There is no clear delineation of what is new/changed and what is the same among the "updated" code of conduct announced on May 31, 2023. What was changed/added?
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Do posts/comments with the word "fakedemic" need to be flagged?
I recently came across a comment on this answer and I was unsure on what to do, if anything. Here's what the comment says:
Thank you for the answer. Quick info: I was deeply interested in and ...
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Is there an objective moderation standard regarding political messaging in user profiles?
As already discussed here or here on bringing up politics on Stack Overflow profiles, I noted @Brad-Larson's remark on the difference between what's acceptable on profiles vs. what's acceptable in ...
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Is this comment asking for code fine?
I'm wondering if this comment is fine:
post code/Code's you have tried...
It was the first comment on the question, IIRC, but many more better comments were posted later. Context: this is the ...
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How are "botted (i.e. using bots)" inappropriate conducts handled by moderators?
First of all, this is a hypothetical situation, which I thought of the other day.
We now have chat rooms (one, in which I chat frequently) that use some sort of bots to relay messages between the room ...
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Is it fair to close a question based on off-site interactions?
Background:
For over a year, I was a member of the Julia Discourse site. After some time my relationship with the forum deteriorated and I decided to leave, in not the best way. I was verbally abusive ...
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A user said they awarded my answer by mistake, and asked me to award a bounty on the other answer
Okay, so weird situation:
A user said they accidentally awarded me a 100 rep bounty, that they intended to give it to the other answerer. They asked me to give a 50 bounty to the other answerer, and I ...
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Is it okay to give one's under-rep chatbot special access to their chatroom for typical chatbot testing & such?
I've been told in Stack Overflow chat that it's not okay to give one's chatbots without enough rep special access to their room just so that it could chat. I took that advice and kept it at Meta Stack ...