Introduction
This guide demonstrates how to moderate questions on the Answers Forum.
Who Can Moderate Questions?
Answers is a community-based feature that invites all community members with 100+ reputation to take part in the voting process for moderating questions.
Each option for moderation requires a specific number of votes from individual users in the community before action is taken.
If necessary, site users with Moderator or Administrator privileges can always override pending votes and make an immediate moderation decision.
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Navigate to the question that needs moderation and click the Options link in the top-right corner.
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Select Moderate from the drop-down menu.
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To remove a question as "spam/offensive," click on the Remove as spam/offensive button.
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To remove a question as "not related," click on the Remove as not related button.
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It is best to get these out of the way of relevant questions as quickly as possible.
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To remove a question as "not answerable," click on the Remove as not answerable button.
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To lock a post, click on the Lock post button.
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To merge a question as a duplicate, click on the Merge as duplicate button.
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Often two questions are very similar, but the person asking the second question has not searched for or found the first question.
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The second person has a valid question, so we don't want to attack them for not understanding the system.
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To force a vote to pass, click the Force vote to pass? checkbox.
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