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Is there any way to take legal action on the inflammatory answers?
A lot of those chaps are trolls. Don't respond. Flag em, don't give them a response. They'll go away eventually.
Practically Its probably a lot of trouble, money and multiple jurisdictions. SE isn't ...
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Can a suspended user gain or loose reputation during the period of suspension?
During suspension period, account will be locked temporarily at "1 reputation ". After completion of suspension period, reputation will be recalculated.
Quoting from official blog post:
Depending ...
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User was removed
I'm not going to give any details in this particular case, but the three main reasons for a user to be removed are:
An automated process removed an abandoned account; this process was discontinued in ...
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How does this site deal with aliases?
According to Why are people allowed to have multiple user accounts?,
People are allowed to have multiple accounts as long as they don't use them to vote for themselves.
If those accounts are ...
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Allow account "deactivation", instead of irreversible "deletion"
Good feature.
I support it.
One strong use case is that an "Inactive user" will not cause reputation loss to anyone. It happened recently in our site to several users.
Additionally the username ...
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Why was user12262 a.k.a shanu deleted?
The reason why the user accounts were deleted is a matter of privacy. These matters are put anonymous.
This is between the moderators and the users and revealing them is against the privacy of the ...
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