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As far as I know, this is still accurate. Moderators can take action for other situations.

You say there is discussion elsewhere about this question, but even if you had linked to it, it wouldn't be relevant. …

Further to the other answer, when multiple close reasons are selected by close-voters, only one (whatever gets the most votes) is shown. There was a close-vote for the reason mentioned in the other a …

I think the question is arguably off-topic since it's more about hardware design than system administration. But I would guess that the question is locked because it was getting low-quality answers a …

You can get an overview of the current issues many SE moderators are having with the company by reading the recent posts here on meta.SF That will lead you, if you're interested, to many more posts o …

As per this post: What is the network policy regarding AI Generated content? Although the guidance given in this public post is somewhat different from what was discussed a day earlier in a private mo …

It was closed as being a "shopping question": Requests for product, service, or learning material recommendations are off-topic because they attract low quality, opinionated and spam answers, and the …

As pointed out in a comment, questions written by ChatGPT also need to be considered. So far, the only ChatGPT question I've seen is the one that's pointed out in the comment: serverfault.com/questio …

The edit wasn't accepted, it was made by the post author so there was no review needed. If you want to know why they made the edit, you can ask them in a comment, and if you want to give feedback on …

It is a starting point for a policy, I fully expect it to evolve based on discussion here. … Discussion on meta.SE about this. Master list of policies on various SE sites. …

There's no way to know who downvoted and why, but the general reason for a downvote (seen when hovering over the down arrow) is "This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not u …

I don't agree with your premise that the way people vote here vs. other SE sites is different (worse) than other sites. First of all, downvoting without a comment is totally fine on all SE sites. It' …

On-topic for SF used to be defined as: related to managing computer systems in a professional capacity. It was always hard and somewhat contentious to define what a "professional capacity" was, and …

When it comes to merging the topic into SF, it seems like an OK fit, but how SF feels about DevOps questions is not the main issue. As was implied by a comment, this is probably something that would h …

I'm putting this in as another answer even though it's already mentioned: The most important - most helpful - thing to do when you see spam is to flag it. FLAG SPAM AS SPAM! Downvoting isn't wrong, …