Questions tagged [rules]
For questions about written and unwritten rules of the Stack Overflow network. The rules can be found in the help center, or sometimes in posts by ♦ moderators.
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What to do when a problem is solved in the Staging Ground?
As the Staging Ground is right around the corner, I think we should make it clear how some things should be reviewed.
The reviewer guidelines state:
Give guidance, but don’t give the answer
However, ...
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A proposal: Developing a standard code of conduct dealing with AI-generated content (AIGC)
In light of the recent events with VonC's AIGC violations and suspension, quite a few people have been discussing if a one week suspension (alongside content deletion) was sufficient or not. There ...
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Put question guidelines in sidebar for certain users
This link shows up only when a question is being drafted, after the user clicks "Ask Question."
New users may look to find questions rules before asking, and be
unable to find any links. By ...
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How are new users supposed to find out about the AI-content ban?
I'm a new user (I knew of SO but never used it until I started learning how to code).
I've almost violated the AI-policy already - I wanted to post something that was generated via ChatGPT (but tested ...
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AI policy text may be improved about machine translation tools
As we all know, since January 2024, Stack Overflow shows a banner warning against generative AI (which I perfectly support). The banner links to this page, which contains the AI policy text, ...
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Rule proposal: Duplicate closure to roll-up questions is no longer allowed
There is a long-festering problem in some tags where some questions are closed by dupehammers, using a single roll-up question as the duplicate target. A "roll-up" question is defined here ...
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Under what conditions is a non-mod allowed to vote to delete content for suspicion of violating the AI-generated-content policy?
There's a network-wide policy for mods in (Interim) Policy on AI-content detection reports that states:
[...] it is expected that if the CM team reaches out to contact a moderator to discuss an ...
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When is it acceptable to delete a post?
Question inspired by this post as well as this one.
This applies to users with privileges to cast delete votes. In some cases, a post may be off-topic. Here's some situations:
It's blatantly off-...
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Shouldn't users be citing ChatGPT?
I know this sounds counterintuitive, who would out themselves? We are all aware of the Temporary policy: ChatGPT is banned. However, this post has to do with the plagiarism aspect of using ChatGPT.
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Should we flag human-written questions that use code generated by ChatGPT?
To be more specific, I flagged a question recently as it was of the type "ChatGPT generated this but I need some more help fixing this". But I was told by a mod that asking a question about ...
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Are questions about ChatGPT code okay to ask?
If I want to verify if a script or code ChatGPT wrote would actually work and do as I want, can I ask a question about it or is it not allowed?
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How should I deal with a "trick question"?
Yesterday I saw this question: SELECT max value with each group without summing - SQL and after examining the code I voted to be closed as:
Not reproducible or was caused by a typo
and also left the ...
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Policy: Generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT) is banned
Moderator Note: This post has been locked to prevent comments because people have been using them for protracted debate and discussion (we've deleted over 300 comments on this post alone, not even ...
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Is someone offering to pay for rep-farming on an assigned account allowed?
I'm aware of this probably similar question, but I think this has a different flavour.
I came across this "freelance job" posted on Upwork (emphasis mine):
Answer several questions on Stack ...
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Rule proposal: comments asking for accepts and votes shall no longer be allowed
Moderator Note: We appreciate the community's feedback on this and are not moving forward with this rule as currently proposed. We still recommend not leaving these comments, and moderators will ...
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