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So many deleted answers on uh... that post...

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@Spevacus eh, only 4, one by the OP, 2 didn't even address the topic, one more was by the community and meh, I'm not going to overrule it

Comments - there's been multiple reminders about it. If it matters it needs to be in a answer, and I'm going to need to roll in my clarifications to my answer myself

user400654

it's normal for discussion to be shut down on mse

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@user400654 eh, really?

2:01 PM

I expected that post to be a larger fire than it turned out to be, honestly, but people should definitely post more answers and less comments, yeah.

I'd also point out staff can read the deleted stuff

@JourneymanGeek In fact I posted an answer and it was zapped within minutes.

With or without a diamond, yeah.

@Mari-LouA yes it was.

And it didn't actually have anything to do with the letter by those folks, and .... that would be noise.

and it was deleted because?

2:02 PM

Which is literally the only reason something got deleted there.

@Mari-LouA see the line above yours

And all the comments beneath one answer? Were al those comments "noise" too? What about all the others?

@Mari-LouA Least on my part, I read through every comment that I delete

You have one answer with nothing, not a word, while every other post has a strong of comments.

Can review ban be imposed by moderators

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@QueenieGoldstein Yes.

2:04 PM

How long? any length?

@Mari-LouA so - that particular comment thread was getting heated...

It can be manually specified. The longest I've seen is getting into the multiple year range.

@JourneymanGeek and you decided single handedly that each comment was pointless. each one. I'm not speaking only for myself. There were dozens of comments, the exchange was not heated.

a string of comments... typo

@Mari-LouA If you're talking about the one that has a very large quote block in it, that comment section got very... hot, yeah. All comments are gone on it now, along with the answer itself.

if a person rejects edits and copied the exact same edits, do they qualify for vandalising existing content

2:05 PM

@Mari-LouA You're of course assuming there were no flags, or any oversiight at all or...

@QueenieGoldstein Not sure I followed that. Could you explain exactly what you mean?

Suppose you have 101 rep

@Spevacus and recall asking folks to cool down...

you edited a post and made it look better using mathJax and with correct grammar

your edit gets rejected. And the "rejector" copied the exact same edit

@QueenieGoldstein I'm really sorry but there's another, pretty serious conversation going on... could we table this a bit until @Mari-LouA has her answer please?

2:07 PM

Sure

@QueenieGoldstein Let's head over to the Den :)

thanks you two

Ollie

Yay!

Internet's back.

@Spevacus no I'm specifically referring to voight's answer meta.stackexchange.com/a/355081/223820 The last time I looked the comments were fine, there was disagreements on both sides but I didn't feel anyone was getting emotional or aggressive

@Mari-LouA Yeah, that one was heated

2:11 PM

There was one word "asshole" but it wasn't directed at any one user. It was used as an example of a term that exists in the dictionary but would be disallowed by Stack Exchange. Which... was a strange example, could have been avoided but I understood the sense. It wasn't attached to any user. Was it that word?

also, there's other posts with significant numbers of comments deleted

@Mari-LouA more that it was a long, circular arguement

@JourneymanGeek I do not see any post where every comment has been deleted.

@Mari-LouA Well, not yet.

But you can either have no moderation, or just ploughing over all the comments, or trying to put out trouble spots

I like the last. And sometimes it does end up that the comments make no sense when you prune, or they just all need to go

@JourneymanGeek like all discussions on meta. They're all circular with very few exceptions but I'll note that I and two other users did stop interacting. As far as I was concerned, I said what I felt was important to point out. These mass deletions are counterproductive, comments and posts. You're shooting yourself in your own foot here.

@Mari-LouA Damned if I do, damned if I don't. You're essentially telling me not to moderate at all.

Which isn't happening

2:17 PM

I'm saying you're going overboard.

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@Mari-LouA I'm for the most part getting my expected results - and I've made sure any major action I've taken is documented, in case I did go overboard

On the other hand, I'm sure a few folks feel we're not going far enough. Can't win em all

I think your intentions are noble, and I think you want everyone to get on well with each other. I understand that you feel that meta has a purpose and you don't want the company to one day shove it to one side. You're protective, I get it, I do. But it's too much. Just relax a little, wait until a spent match actually produces smoke before hosing the entire forest.

I think we've both seen it on fire. Do we need to get that far?

Or for the wolves to be feasting on the sheep before one starts barking I guess. They could be really shaggy dogs.

@JourneymanGeek I said "smoke". A lot has changed since September 2019. The same mistake, I hope, will never be repeated. But you can't expect everyone to be on the same page at the same time. Like anything new, people need time to adjust and pne way of achieving that is by being truthful and inviting dialogue on both sides. Kill the dialogue and the suspicion and the mistrust will continue. If that's your aim, then continue deleting.

@Mari-LouA actually we had 3 burnt out mods, and no real help from the company.

I'd rather have no mods burnt out, and no need for help from the company, unless they figure they want to handle this.

Not enough has changed - and not all good.

2:31 PM

Gotta go. Lessons. Bye

Ollie

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@rene is there any query to find total number of rejected edits by a specific user with the respective links. Maybe the top 500

I am also looking forward to find highest number of community rejects in the pool of all users but results of the top 500. I found a code
[here](https://data.stackexchange.com/meta.stackexchange/query/160233/) but it is for a specific user. It must be modified to look for everyone. Thanks

`SELECT UserId, SuggestedEditId AS [Suggested Edit Link]
FROM SuggestedEditVotes
WHERE UserId = -1 AND TargetUserId = ##UserId## AND VoteTypeId = 0
--GROUP BY UserId
ORDER BY UserId DESC`

Rob

3:00 PM

Do you want 'OP rejections' to be excluded from the count? For example, this rejection seems wrong / unfair, but it's an ability of the OP to reject unilaterally any edits on their posts; and usually they're not as wrong, as in that instance.