Mrthfx

There is a high rep user who is very active on the site. However they frequently use strong language in their comments. When you warned them, they replied stating that the questions are of low quality which is why they left those comments, and also they threaten to quit the site. After the warning, you realize that they still haven't stopped leaving similar comments. What steps will you take in order to bring the user on track? What if the comments were on meta instead of main?

A new, low-rep user on meta asks a non-duplicate non-trivial on-topic question. For unclear reasons the question is met with down votes and a pile-on of comments from several commenters. The question gets closed, some comments get flagged.

You have a pretty good idea of what an answer to said question would look like.

What are your steps to turn this situation around while making sure all involved parties can walk away from this encounter unharmed?

Here is a set of general questions, gathered as very common questions asked every election. As mentioned in the instructions, the first two questions are guaranteed to show up in the Q&A, while the others are if there aren't enough questions (or, if you like one enough, you may split it off as a separate answer for review within the community's 8).

• How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?


• How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?

• In your opinion, what do moderators do?


• A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that?


• In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep?

Write a Haiku poem that catches the essence of why you think it will be fun to handle 400 flags every day.

An established user (>6 years tenure, >10k reputation) has a tendency to ask mediocre, at best, questions as of late. Their old questions/answers keeps their reputation up by a few upvotes a week; what would you do with their newest, not up to standard questions? The question ban won't kick in, what'd be your warning message, if any?

A chat room has taken to an undesirable topic. It's not clear that ban-hammers need to fly, but the conversation cannot continue as it is (it's just not something Stack Overflow chat was meant to discuss). A new user has entered the room and begins mass-flagging anything they consider bad and demanding the conversation stop by threatening more flags. Regulars in the room counter-flag the new user's threats. How would you handle this?

Moderators are not selected because they are domain experts in certain tags, but it so happens that you are an expert in one such tag. You see that several members of the community have elected to close a question as a duplicate, but you see that the duplicates don't actually answer the question as stated, nor do they provide a useful signpost for the asker. How do you proceed?

If you're active on Meta, can you point to some of your questions or answers which have been received poorly, and what information you've gleaned as a result of those discussions?

How effective are you with the tools you have at your disposal right now?

Please tell us: how many close votes and delete votes did you cast in the first two months of 2019? How many helpful flags did you raise, and how many reviews did you complete in each queue? What is your median for all of the above?

In your own words, what role do diamond moderators play with the Welcoming drive, and what can be done to make that role more valuable for beginners and veterans alike?

Consider the case,
where a user flags an answer that appears to be spam,
because the post doesn't disclose the author's affiliation with a recommended non-free product.

The answer is a few years old and the author hasn't posted any similar answers (i.e. spam) since then.

The answered question itself appears to be off-topic (asking for an off-site resource).

How do you act on the flag, the answer, and the question?