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Is it right to close questions based on lack of effort?

Note: There is an extensive discussion on SO Meta on this topic. Downvote it Tooltip from Downvote Button: This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful Note that I am ...
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Accept Late Answers

To answer your question, we must ask: what is the point of the "accepted" answer? You are asking for more reasons to allow somebody (who that someone is exactly, is to be determined) to anoint an ...
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Hands-on Moderation is essential for this community to continue

It all makes sense. In practice, it's odd that we're apparently short of moderator activity, had at least one user (Dawny33) with clear willingness and track record to become a moderator, but can't ...
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2019 Potential Moderator Election Community Interest Check

I would be willing to run for a moderator position
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We need more moderators

This post does not adhere to SO's standards. However, I don't see this as offensive or rude. So, I have converted this to a community wiki, as there is no one answer to this post, and all the answers ...
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Hands-on Moderation is essential for this community to continue

Two such statements were put forth, and it concerns me more because these are relatively high rep users. One noted that there's too much overlap with Cross Validated, while the other finds the ...
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5 votes

2019 Potential Moderator Election Community Interest Check

Count me in. I was waiting for the elections to step up :)
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On AI-generated answers

ACL has recently published their take on the topic which I find well thought-through and sufficiently nuanced (in contrast to an undifferentiated strict ban, for example). While ACL is certainly a ...
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On AI-generated answers

My humble opinion: on DSSE we already struggle with having enough people checking other users' answers and voting. This is partly due to the topics on DSSE being so diverse that people often don't ...
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Rejected Tag Wiki

Thanks for bringing this concern to meta, and thanks for giving your time to make the site better. Attribution is needed: You state: I look on other Stack Exchange sites if they have a decent Tag ...
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Rejected Tag Wiki

The rejection reasons sound like valid criticisms to me. In particular, since this tag seems more relevant for StackOverflow, a description for this site should ideally point out when this tag should ...
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2019 Potential Moderator Election Community Interest Check

I would be willing to nominate myself as well
oW_'s user avatar
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Why does it take so long to attend flags?

There are 3 active mods, and looks like each of us checks in maybe a couple times per week. I don't know if it's reasonable to expect flags to be answered within a day, and don't see that this is ...
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Hands-on Moderation is essential for this community to continue

I understand the comments about low quality questions on this site. They increase the effort to moderate the site and make it seem to people browsing the site for the first time that there is not a ...
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We need more moderators

The post is off-topic, to me. However, this is a community too, where moderators try to implement what people want this SE to be (which is usually: on-topic and free of poor content). If a bunch of ...
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Criteria for Sheriff Badge?

Hm, I don't quite recall, but didn't we have an election? or, at least we needed to add more mods. I recall there only being a few volunteers. I would certainly favor another election, or really, ...
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Should posts to DataScience contain only one question?

Does the same standard apply to DataScience? Yes.
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