@KarlKnechtel Yeah, don't be surprised if a smaller site doesn't rigidly enforce the network rules. That's not an abuse of moderator power.

@ShadowWizardChasingStars Can you please close meta.stackexchange.com/questions/387553/… and add in the three duplicate targets I commented?

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog in this particular instance, a moderator was (in my view) breaking them.

or at least, consciously using the site software in a way antithetical to how it is intended to be used.

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@KarlKnechtel SO's got a lot more volume. And in general, while there's always a few 'letter of the rules' folks - the spirit of the rules, intent and especially in smaller communities overall community health matters more

a comment tangent is mostly harmless, and NLN flags once it has passed its course would likely be more productive than considering it an abuse of power

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flag-pls spam spam seed (spam answer deleted already) (MS) serverfault.com/questions/1126230

thanks (-:

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flag-pls spam still up, remaining spam from scaler.com campaign (MS) pt.stackoverflow.com/a/575771

flag-pls spam (MS) serverfault.com/questions/1126235

@JNat fair. Thanks, and thanks for nuking the others! :)

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog I see it's already closed, and better Roobma remove it can't see any reason to spend time on adding dupe targets.

@ShadowWizardChasingStars IIRC it was floating between 1 and 0 score at the time I made the ping.

@KarlKnechtel you directly confront a moderator and challenge their decisions in public. Moderators have the last say, and while you were not being rude, that's something that users simply should not do.

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog huh, weird. It has no value and showing 0 research effort.

@ShadowWizardChasingStars Yeah, most of the downvotes came after it got closed. I pinged when it was still open.

@ShadowWizardChasingStars I actually disagree there

If you can back it up calmly - to an extent questioning moderation actions with basis is a reasonable thing if you're flexible enough to try to see the broader point of view

@JourneymanGeek fair, feel free to upvote and reopen, I won't close again.

@ShadowWizardChasingStars lol I'm aware of the issue, not which post it is exactly

there's a lot I need to keep an eye on at the moment ._.

since SOCVR does not moderate MSO, is it okay to post flag-pls for MSO spam here?

@tripleee wait, there's spam on MSO?

@JourneymanGeek reported by Cody; at least it's a highly dubious post meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/423625/…

@tripleee uhhh

cody's a mod?

@JourneymanGeek yes chat.stackexchange.com/users/7959

So why do we need to flag? :D

presumably they wanted more eyeballs on it to decide on whether or not it's spam?

I dunno, feel free to ask them (-:

@tripleee umm.... no idea what Cody and SO mods were thinking, it's pure and raw spam, it's a spammer and should be nuked. Unclear why they don't nuke that spammer and be done with it. And how the heck spammer have 13 rep on SO?????

Sounds like something bigger, maybe voting ring.

So several spammers making voting ring, upvoting each other, and go spam MSO. The mods on SO really should not ask for any second eyes, they should destroy the ring, or ask for CM help if it's not possible.

@ShadowWizardChasingStars their SO posts all seem legitimate

@tripleee so the account was hacked or sold to spammers. Still need to be nuked.

This ancient question got bumped by an edit. meta.stackexchange.com/q/209280 It seems very specific to SO, but I assume it predates the existence of MSO. Should it be migrated to MSO?

@PM2Ring the answers seem general enough, though the specific question is on SO (and remarkably still exists, probably with hundreds of duplicates)

@tripleee I agree the answers have some general validity, but they also talk about code that's ready to copy & paste, which is pretty specific to SO, and the handful of other coding sites. OTOH, I guess it kind of also applies to any site where OPs hope to get their homework done for them.

flag-pls spam lingering spam from 2020 (MS) raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/112801

@tripleee still still up (MS) pt.stackoverflow.com/a/575771

flag-pls spam wealth management SHOUTING (MS) serverfault.com/questions/1126259

oh, that was handled quickly again -- thanks!

@PM2Ring the "problem" is that it needs CM/staff to migrate older than 60 days

flag-pls spam returning after 2 years (MS) travel.stackexchange.com/a/180080

@tripleee try to custom flag.

@Feeds false

@KevinB k

@Feeds Visible Oneboxes got broken, not fixed

@ShadowWizardChasingStars if they decline my pending spam flag I will; but it's still pending

review-pls possible spam (MS) magento.stackexchange.com/a/365372

flag-pls spam returning spammer (MS) money.stackexchange.com/a/155928

@tripleee well it might be pending for long time, that's really not obvious spam, at all.

I left a comment earlier; let's hope they see it

@tripleee rare case when your "possible" spam is indeed spam, kaboomed.

I love the smell of napalm in the evening

@tripleee -7, still up :/

the money one is gone too now, thanks!

*boom