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Anonymous Penguin
  • Member for 10 years, 4 months
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30 votes
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How to handle moderation of users known personally?

15 votes
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On Stack Exchange, how do I motivate users to prioritize the needs of the community over personal gain?

12 votes
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Automated word filter - Block or Edit the content?

10 votes
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How to attract experts of the field to my community?

9 votes
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How should one handle a foreign user with a desire to be constructive, but a severe inability to communicate?

9 votes

Community Leader is not productive and hurts site growth

8 votes

How to save our community from being turned into an anarchist crackpot forum by an evil administrator?

8 votes

How to prevent new users from asking off-topic questions

8 votes

How to deal with useless comments on popular posts?

8 votes
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How can I tell if I should step down as a moderator?

7 votes

Detecting and preventing hostility to women?

7 votes

What should be done about threats of physical violence?

7 votes

I broke the Christmas tradition!

7 votes
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How do you onboard new community members?

7 votes
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Effective way to manage a film production community

5 votes

How can I encourage users to use the system rather than directly addressing a CM or Moderator?

5 votes

How do I help members of a community focus on work when they want to be social?

5 votes
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As a Wikisource admin, should I close copyright violations discussions that I started?

5 votes
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Pros and cons of advertising vs donations as a funding source?

4 votes
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Made changes based on feedback from users, later found that a larger silent majority didn't like these changes

4 votes

How to appeal to a higher power?

4 votes

How many complaints is enough to consider a post/comment as improper on an online press site

4 votes

How did you successfully introduce Slack and on-board your community?

3 votes

My co-workers don't understand what moderation means

3 votes

How to make users cut down on profanity in a community, where profanity is allowed?

3 votes

How to deal with being away from moderating for extended periods of time?

3 votes

How can you estimate the number of moderators needed in a community?

2 votes

How to handle a user reposting a deleted message?

1 vote

Permanent bans vs account deletion

1 vote

Handling user that's offended by a joke about a disability