Timeline for Moderation Review Request - Apache Question
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:14 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Nov 16, 2015 at 17:03 | comment | added | MadHatter | @AndrewB as they say in security: be careful what behaviour you incentivise, for you will most likely get it. | |
| Nov 16, 2015 at 14:52 | comment | added | Andrew B | Unfortunately, the badge system encourages people to flag everything before they have VTC privileges. I should know: it's a trap I fell into as a newbie. Achievement systems are terribly flawed if they are not encouraging people into the right behaviors, but the topic of badges is a dead horse. | |
| Nov 11, 2015 at 16:47 | comment | added | MadHatter | As far as we're concerned, they are the same thing - off-topic, duplicates, wrong site, unclear, overbroad, web-control-panel related, all these are standard reasons for closure, and a question that accumulates enough such votes is put on hold / migrated / closed as duplicate accordingly. If you want to consider them differently, then adjust my previous comment so that it reads "don't flag for migration unless it's egregiously off-topic (say, a question about video game cheat codes, or best methods for dealing with land drainage)". | |
| Nov 11, 2015 at 16:34 | comment | added | Colyn1337 | I'm confused by your response because I didn't flag for closure. I flagged for migration. | |
| Nov 11, 2015 at 16:27 | comment | added | MadHatter | The way to prevent another flag in the future is not to flag! I think the advice you've been given is simple: don't flag a question for closure unless it's egregiously off-topic (say, a question about video game cheat codes, or best methods for dealing with land drainage). Questions which are in more of a grey area will get dealt with by the regulars with VTC privileges. If you focus on writing more great answers, your rep will zoom to 3k very quickly, and then you will need to start worrying about this stuff - but by then, you should also have developed a feel for it. | |
| Nov 11, 2015 at 16:16 | comment | added | Colyn1337 | My intent is not to ignore their guidance but to understand HOW and WHY. Without those two, there's no way to prevent another flag in the future. As I've said before, these are sincere questions, I want to know why this is so....... I'm not trying to buck authority. However, without being able to see that there are other options (for higher rep users) than flagging, and noone to explain, there's no way to know different. | |
| Nov 11, 2015 at 16:09 | comment | added | MadHatter | @Colyn1337 the document you link to talks about when to VTC. It only mentions flagging as an alternative while linking to a post from SuperUser. SF is known to do things differently from many other SE sites, by virtue of our professional focus. You have two moderators here telling you that you shouldn't be using flagging as a kind of low-rep VTC. You don't have to listen to me - I'm just another user, albeit with a fairly high rep - but I really, strongly suggest that you listen to them. | |
| Nov 11, 2015 at 16:05 | comment | added | MadHatter | @Colyn1337 exactly so. One of the pre-supplied reasons for voting to close is "off-topic, because it belongs on another site", with meta.SF, SO, SU, dba.SE and unix.SE being offered as alternatives. If one of those attracts more of the five needed close votes than any other reason, the question is migrated. Write some more great answers for us to upvote and you can find this all out soon enough. | |
| Nov 11, 2015 at 16:00 | comment | added | Colyn1337 | @MadHatter Could you elaborate on what vote to close by migration is? Is that the effect of moving the question to the appropriate SE site? Additionally, reading the FAQ here serverfault.com/help/privileges/close-questions indicates that for someone without the 3k rep to VTC, flagging IS the appropriate measure. | |
| Nov 11, 2015 at 14:18 | comment | added | MadHatter | No. You're getting the detail, but missing the main point: this question wasn't appropriate for flagging at all, because it's not egregiously bad. It's arguably a candidate for vote-to-close-by-migration or vote-to-close-as-off-topic, depending on the presence of the existing answer, but if you don't have the rep to VTC, don't try to participate in the process via moderator flags. Sven's comment above makes this point much more pithily. | |
| Nov 11, 2015 at 13:58 | comment | added | Colyn1337 | When the question was originally flagged, there was no answer. So at that point it would have been appropriate to flag for migration...... However, since then its been answered with a link back to StackOverflow which would make it VTC worthy......... Ok, I think I got it. | |
| Nov 11, 2015 at 13:55 | comment | added | MadHatter | That one of the options available under Vote-To-Close, so I might well have done that. In this case, someone's already pointed out that it's been answered on SO, so they'd only have to close it as a duplicate after migration; I think it's rude for one admin action to give another set of admins work to do, so in this particular case I'd probably just VTC as off-topic. Your suggestion's a good one in other circumstances, though. | |
| Nov 11, 2015 at 13:52 | comment | added | Colyn1337 | The question is valid on StackOverflow, why not migrate it? I thought the purpose of migration was to move questions that could be answered on other SE sites to those sites. I would presume VTC is for questions which aren't appropriate anywhere, no? | |
| Nov 11, 2015 at 13:08 | comment | added | MadHatter | Yes, I know that, which is why I mentioned increasing your rep first. This isn't entirely elitism; it's also often true that by the time people have worked up to 3k rep, they've got a clearer idea of what does and doesn't fit on SF, and the methods for handling those cases. I don't want to sound like a dick, but I can't find a gentler way of saying this, for which I apologise, so: moderators are not a Vote-To-Close substitute for users without 3k rep. | |
| Nov 11, 2015 at 12:50 | comment | added | Colyn1337 | @MadHatter I'd only point out that you need 3k rep to vote-to-close. The only option available to me is to flag. Beyond that, I certainly appreciate your comments. | |
| Nov 11, 2015 at 12:29 | comment | added | Sven Mod | Amen to that. I wish the flag mechanism would make it clearer that flags should only be used for cases where mod intervention is required. Everything that can be handled by votes doesn't fit that description. | |
| Nov 11, 2015 at 12:28 | comment | added | EEAA Mod | Great answer. I agree 100%. | |
| Nov 11, 2015 at 10:20 | history | edited | MadHatter | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 11, 2015 at 8:38 | history | answered | MadHatter | CC BY-SA 3.0 |