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Room moderators should be able to edit the room description and manage lower levels of access
Some private chatrooms, most notably the Teachers' Lounge (the network-wide moderator chatroom), are a special type of private room — a staff-moderated room with appointed "room moderators".
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Could we get better ways to communicate and apply suspensions on chat?
Chat suspensions are... strange. There's two ways to boot someone off chat - using a suspension on the parent account that's associated with the chat account (And otherwise it's not global)
Suspending ...
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Regular moderators can still purge the history of messages in moderated private rooms
The Teachers' Lounge is a "moderated private room", in which regular moderators like me have limited powers:
They won't be able to
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purge the history of messages
I can see that the ...
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Sitename is missing for Scheduled Events for Meta.SE
As a moderator, one of the 'powers' I have is to create and feature a chat event, which is something I distinctly remember using to 'advertise' a sitewide cleanup years ago.
While an RO can create ...
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Can the chat message pop-up be inserted after 5 comment "back and forth" argument strategies?
When users complain about a iffy post, they start suggesting edits and then another user gives an explanation on how that edit suggestion is wrong.
The users go back and forth, and then suddenly, when ...
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Allow room owners to grant write access to new users
This discussion has been raised before, but it's always been about helping new users in chat rather than continuing in comments, which allows people to help new users out more instead of just denying ...
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A moderator accidentally created a chat event, then deleted it, but it still shows in the upcoming events list. How can they remove it? [duplicate]
For context:
https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/57011728#57011728
A moderator in a chatroom created a joke event, then deleted the event once they realized it sent out a site-wide ...
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Allow moderators to see the text of "flag for moderator" flags on chat messages after they are handled
Moderators have access to a page which shows recent chat flags from all the rooms on a particular chat server. This is a useful tool, however we cannot see the actual textual content of the flag on a ...
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Allow moderators to see who dismisses or handles chat flags
Moderators have access to a page which shows recent chat flags from all the rooms on a particular chat server. This is a useful tool, however we cannot see who dismissed any particular flag. With a ...
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Correct link to the Teachers' Lounge
It's not a big bug, but can we fix the UI error to no longer show the recent activities from the old Teachers' Lounge chat room please, which is a lot quieter than the new room too, and point to the ...
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Reconsider not inviting people into chat rooms when their messages are moved, or make it optional
In 2013, there was a feature request asking to disable the chat system's behavior to invite people into rooms when their messages are moved. That request was declined for the following reason:
The &...
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Started receiving notifications about new comments on the questions after moving comment into the chat
In this question I've moved all comments into the chat. And now I'm receiving notifications about all new comments, even though I wasn't mentioned.
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Appoint chat moderators exclusively responsible for moderating chat
Currently, the way that chat moderation is set up, it relies heavily on site moderators moderating chat in addition to their main Q&A site. Moderators have some pretty powerful tools (freezing ...
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Moderator moves comments to chat - can low-rep user participate?
Something that isn't clear to me in the other discussions on this topic:
Low-rep users can't write comments on anything other than their own posts (questions or answers) or answers to their own ...
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Chat's "Ignores" moderator page is broken
On all the chat domains, the moderator page has a link to the path /admin/users, and the tab "Ignores" on that page is broken, which simply throws and display a HTTP 500 server error page.
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Let's have a formal way for mods to contact the Community Team about suicidal users in chat
There was recently an incident where a user entered a chat room I was in and made remarks that indicated that they might be suicidal. Obviously, we moderators are usually not at all capable of ...
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Flag notification showing continuously in chat when there's no chat flags
The flag notification has been sitting in all the Stack Overflow chat rooms for some hours and there's been no chat flags in that time. The other moderators can also see this.
I went into a chatroom ...
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Better advertising for the chat rooms
There are about three or four people regularly in the ASP.NET MVC chat room every weekday but few others seem to even know it exists. Can Stack Overflow advertise the chat rooms on specific tags?
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Show the site's moderator chatroom on the flag dashboard
As a moderator, on the flag dashboard (/admin/dashboard), I see a box with links to chat rooms. The box always seems to contain the same two rooms: the Teachers' Lounge and a room called MOBotics. I ...
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User's name not being picked up by @@ superping suggestion in chat
I have a user, whose name is 2012User. When I try to superping them (@@) in the public 3DPrinting chatroom, with @@2012, their name does not appear in the auto-complete user search suggestions box ...
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What happened to this chat message that it is so thoroughly deleted?
Warning: Transcript links may contain spoilers for Avengers: Endgame and Game of Thrones.
Today, @Jenayah brought my attention to this case when she asked what happened to a message she had posted in ...
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"Move Comments to Chat" Mod button is broken
I'm trying to move a conversation to chat on a site I moderate. When I click the big button from the flag dialog, I get this:
It links to a chatroom that is most definitely empty.
I have also tried ...
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Implement a 5-minute edit window for annotations in main and chat
As of now, moderator annotations in main and chat (on user profiles) have no edit window. Sometimes I miss certain details or make some spelling or grammar errors at the first go. It would nice if a 5 ...
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Can we make it easier for moderators to notice chat flags when looking at a user's site profile?
A couple years ago SE implemented a user dashboard for moderators, making it much easier to see at a glance a bunch of relevant information, including recent flags raised against the user. This ...
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How to not keep alive a chat room?
One year ago, I was helped by one of the Stack Overflow users to solve a technical issue and he opened a chat room to better understand my problem. Just today by serendipity, I found out in Google ...
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What's the Statute of Limitations on chat bans?
So I've been chat banned twice AFAIK:
When I was quite new to chat, I once asked a mod to chat ban me for a few minutes for science to see what it was like to be banned from chat.
(For anyone wanting ...
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Cannot move a deleted chat user's messages to trash due to a server 500 error
I have some messages I'd like to move to the chat moderation Trashcan. Some of them were left by a chat user who is now deleted. However I cannot move those messages: I can select them to go through ...
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When moving comments to chat, can the default message be changed?
Moderators have the ability to move comments on questions and answers to a dedicated chat room. When they elect to do that an auto generated comment is created that says
Comments are not for ...
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Add a confirmation dialog before suspending people on chat
At the moment, suspending folks in chat is pretty easy: You press a button, and they can't chat for an hour.
The problem is, this button doesn't have any sort of confirmation. It just... goes ahead ...
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Adding a user to a chat's explicit write access list using their mainsite profile URL is broken
As recently as April 22nd 2018, I could grant users with sub-20 reputation write access to a chat room via their mainsite profile link (this is a diamond moderation feature):
In the above screenshot, ...
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"Trustworthiness rating" of chat flags in review bubble in form of prior flag acceptance stats
Disallowing users to flag chat messages might not be the best idea if someone is found frequently making bad flags. We usually give people second chances and hope they'll learn and improve. But to ...
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Proposed change to how chat room flags are seen by users who can take care of them
So you know how currently a flag is immediately seen by the entire 10k+ rep users community and all the mods in every room. That's not right.
What I'm proposing:
When a flag is raised, at first only ...
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Automatic comments for moderator and user created chat rooms are still referring to rooms as http rather than https
I became aware today that when a chat room is created by a moderator or user moving comments to chat, the link to the chat room is http:// instead of https://, which means that some attempts to visit ...
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Move comments to chat failed
I moved all comments to chat on this answer, but while the comments were copied in to chat, the exiting comments were not deleted. I'm not at all sure why this happened. After posting this, I'm going ...
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How are private rooms frozen?
Private rooms work so that if there's no moderator activity in them for seven days, they're automatically frozen. This doesn't prevent the moderators from using them, as mods can still chat in a ...
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Add list of recent chat flags to /admin
Chat has a list of moderator links on /admin.
Unfortunately, this page doesn't have a link to /admin/recent-flags, the list of recent chat flags. Every time I want to find this list, I always have to ...
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Will I be negatively treated based on fake kicks?
A few months ago I and HyperNeutrino decided to bug test kicking and moving messages. In the end we figured out that if you are kicked from a room YOU cannot move your own messages to that room but ...
user345817
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Chat flag button has wrong hover text
The flag hover text on the chat is wrong. It says
Moderator flags are seen only by the site-moderators, and should be used to indicate serious issues with a message, and other administrative issues....
user345817
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Chat moderation tools are insufficient for combating star spam
Lately in The Nineteenth Byte (I know, it's always us), we've been dealing with an issue where one or more users have decided that spamming stars on every recent message is funny. While moderators and ...
user307833
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Translate: tool isn't working [duplicate]
The translate: tool available to mods in chat seems to be broken. It refuses to translate things for me:
(this was in the sandbox)
This has been confirmed to not work very often for other mods in the ...
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The Feeds bot’s translate command is no longer working for moderators
Up till a few days ago, moderators in a chatroom were able to get the Feeds chatbot to translate things for us using the translate: blah or translate xx: unblah commands. This was disabled for regular ...
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Bug report: account manually unsuspended
Background: After a flag is carried out, chat users are barred from chatting for 30 minutes. However, a moderator can manually end such an automatic suspension.
Issue: Some time in the last few ...
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Main site suspensions to refresh chat profiles
Currently, for actively chatting users, if a moderator suspends on main, they have to manually refresh the chat profile of the offending user. Until they do, said user still has chat privileges.
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Allow new comments to be moved into an existing "move to chat" chatroom [duplicate]
Note: this is an alternative proposal to Make "Move to Chat" automatic, moving all comments. Direct all further comments to the chat room and enable OP notifications
The manner in which ...
user102937
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I broke the gagging machine [duplicate]
Some users were being annoying in chat, and they had already been kicked enough to trigger moderation flags. In an attempt to stop them being annoying without annoying the other moderators by proxy, I ...
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As a moderator, when should I delete a chatroom as requested by a user?
There was a moderator flag in chat a while back asking a mod to delete a chatroom. The room in question only had messages from one user; evidently the matter had been worked out somewhere else. I know ...
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A moderation dashboard for chat
Chat Moderation has recently been a topic in the MSE Town Hall Chat #2. This is not only due to the fact that chat moderation is percieved as inconsistent by chat users, chat flags being broken and ...
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Can we streamline handling the "too many comments" flag by adding the purge option?
When comment threads get long, the system raises an automatic flag. One of the options from the moderator UI is a button, "move comments to chat". This creates the chat room and copies the comments ...
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How do moderators permanently add Site Chat Room to main page sidebar?
I noticed in some StackExchange sites that the Chatroom regularly appears in the sidebar.. but in others it does not and though it is on the help menu many users are not even aware it exists as the ...
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Allow room owners to find a desired trash room by ID
Currently, the only way to search for a room to move messages to is by name. This is great if your room's preferred trash room has a consistent name, but occasionally people like to be hilarious.
That'...
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