Over the last 4 years we’ve built up quite a bevy of moderation tools here at Stack Exchange. We’ve got closing, editing, deleting, flags of all sorts, voting, commenting, review queues, and more.
Plus our super secret mod tools.
These all work great, but all of them require action after a post is made. In a perfect world, we’d catch every post that ends up closed and deleted or voted down to a negative score before they ever showed up on the site. Less work for the community, less work for the moderators, and more consistent help for those unfortunate bad under-educated posters. …