My thought was that I saw someone who was commenting so to protect from downvotes. I see it rather often that someone keeps commenting until the OP says they're correct, at which point, the commentor then makes it an answer. I felt I was doing a service by moving it to an answer, and as many questions on here have proved, comments are temporary and mean nothing.
Other users have been leaving me angry and hostile comments accusing me of plagiarism and saying that I'm a liar and I should stop stealing answers. But I have only been copying content from other sites, not taking answers from other users.
I don't understand what is wrong here. Shouldn't we be...
"If you want to reference an existing answer on a Stack Exchange site as part of your own answer, link to the answer and possibly even the author's profile. The attribution goes before the copied content so it's obvious to everyone who it's from. Copied content should be quoted in blockquotes."
How should I act if I discover a user plagiarizing fellow users' posts? What if I find someone plagiarizing external resources without attribution?
See also: Users are calling me a plagiarist. What do I do?
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This room has been way out of hand today. I endorse the actions of my fellow mods from across SE in dealing with it in my absence.
To reiterate: if you cannot abide by the SE "be nice" policy, do not be surprised if you lose the ability to participate here. If somebody is misbehaving, flag and disengage. Throwing oil on the fire, or rounding up matches and kindling to start your very own fire, is Not OK. If the "rudeness" you see is only "that person disagrees with me" do not waste moderators' time with flags.
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Respectful disagreement and discourse is fine; what was happening in here is not.
Even though I've had some back and forth with him, I don't think he's intentionally combative. Let's just say he's....passionate about his opinions. :)
Being that we live in a post-binary-gender society, the oxford dictionary states that it is grammatically correct to use non-gender specific pronouns, such as "they", as stated in the oxford dictionary post https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/usage/he-or-she-versus-they.
However, some users get as...
Yeah the downvotes don't really make sense to me "I think your idea/qualm is stupid, therefore -1, and here's an essay of an answer as to why it's stupid"
I guess someone is peeved at me, but doesn't have the courage to reveal themselves.
-2 17:36 downvote My boss gave me everyone's pay by mistake and mine is lower, how can I increase it?
-2 17:36 downvote Should I tell my co-workers that branch manager uses drugs (crack) at the offi...
@RichardU I personally have nothing against singular ''they''. It's certainly not a linguistic abomination and really just something language came up with, no matter the origin, to remedy a lack of genderless pronouns in the age where people have too few things to worry about and hence get upset over someone assuming their gender.
@M.A.R. It is annoying, but if someone else is going to use it, fine. I just don't like it when one feels the need to edit my posts. (see the use of "one" instead of they/them)
@M.A.R. Only in the extremes, such as in the case of Faust
I would draw the line at losing my soul, but not before
But one can disagree without being disagreeable, and it is the sign of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. My apologies to Aristotle
The unfortunate side effect of me learning what just happened in some state in some country with a lot of wars going on is a feeling of anxiety that further toxicifies this already toxic atmosphere.
@M.A.R. or it could inspire you to do good. Knowledge is a tool, and while like any other tool, it can be misused, it has been far more beneficial than baleful.
The flag should always be marked helpful... though not actually taken into the count of helpful flags. Any questions on the flags get the standard response of "We have escalated the issue to SE staff they will be looking into it and taking appropriate action"
Not only that the flag should preclude you from raising other flags on the question, but should do so silently so you do not realize your flag was not actually raised
Slightly on that note, I'm officially confused about chat flags.
Earlier, I believe a 10k user mentioned a distinction between a spam/offensive flag and a flag for mod, but which is more heavy-duty? I get the impression that both are to be seldom used (of course), but what's the threshold?
Is this worth a meta post? (most of what I see on the topic is geared at mods)
Seems like we have a Dragonball Z inflation issue there, maybe when chat flags were implemented there weren't many users with a reputation level over 9000.
I think I found what I was looking for, hope this helps:
What tools are available to regular chat users?
You, as a member of the community, have the ability help keep chat a place that is welcoming for everyone. There might be a variety of other users, including moderators and room owners, in chat with you. Users can be distinguished by the way thei...
There's an answer about "What tools are available to regular chat users?"
Not much concrete advice beyond what could be assumed, but the whole post is a bit enlightening
I guess someone is peeved at me, but doesn't have the courage to reveal themselves.
-2 17:36 downvote My boss gave me everyone's pay by mistake and mine is lower, how can I increase it?
-2 17:36 downvote Should I tell my co-workers that branch manager uses drugs (crack) at the offi...
I asked a question about The Six Sigma Illuminati and it's been deleted without trace, and I didn't even get a notification it was being removed.
What tools are available to regular chat users?
You, as a member of the community, have the ability help keep chat a place that is welcoming for everyone. There might be a variety of other users, including moderators and room owners, in chat with you. Users can be distinguished by the way thei...
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