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Q&A How should staff deal with posts critical of themselves that they want deleted?

Follow normal procedures. If there's a post attacking a particular user or group of users, the appropriate thing to do is to flag and let one of the mods/staff deal with it. If someone disagrees w...

posted 3y ago by Moshi‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Moshi‭ · 2020-10-03T22:15:31Z (over 3 years ago)
## Follow normal procedures.

> If there's a post attacking a particular user or group of users, the appropriate thing to do is to flag and let one of the mods/staff deal with it. If someone disagrees with the mod(s)/staff's actions, they can take it up with the Arbitration & Review Panel or ask a question on meta.

There is no exception to be made for posts attacking the staff; the post should be dealt with. However, I would suggest trying the least extreme option first. If the post is generally on topic but there are some problematic sections, point them out to the poster in a comment and let them edit. If the entirety of the post is problematic, delete.

> How do we deal with our intrinsic bias in dealing with questions critical of staff that we feel should be edited or deleted?

You deal with it the same way as you deal with any other act of moderation - you make a judgement call.

If someone disagrees with the decision, then they can bring it up with the Panel or Meta and resolve it there, as was done with the post mentioned.