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Tagged with moderator-tools moderators
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Why do mods have unrestricted access to users' followed posts but not saved posts and other private data?
I recently learned that moderators have unrestricted access to users’ followed posts simply by viewing their profiles. It's worrying and seems odd, especially considering that saved posts and voting ...
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What information about followed posts can moderators access?
When the "follow posts" feature was introduced, an SE staff member commented that "Post follows are private." Similarly, the "save posts" feature announcement stated that ...
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How did a non-moderator single-handedly delete an answer?
Seems fine. Except… Journeyman Geek is neither a moderator nor was one 3 days ago. (He was a mod in the past, maybe that's related?)
Furthermore, the answer in question had a score of 14, so he ...
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Unable to translate votes tooltip in moderator activity chart
Available translations not used for tooltips in moderator activity chart:
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How can I ask a question regarding moderator related issues if I don't have access to the Teachers' Lounge or the Stack Moderators team?
How can I ask a question regarding moderator related issues, if for some reason I don't have access to (but had before) the Teachers' Lounge (TL) or the Stack Moderators team? And I don't have access ...
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How often was the moderator conduct review process used and what were the outcomes?
There is a formal process to remove moderators called the moderator conduct review process. This is the main process that can remove moderators from their position.
It is pretty important for this ...
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What's the plan for keeping the moderator Teams instance visible enough to stay useful?
Teams moved. They're going to be completely separated from the actual SE sites. So that means there are no links to them on SE sites, and especially no inbox or notifications about stuff happening in ...
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Allow moderators to edit sections of privilege help center pages
This question is inspired by the recent public reveal of the Stack Overflow Question Close Reasons - Definitions and Guidance. Briefly, the Q&A provides really useful community-specific guidance ...
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Does Stack Exchange or its subsidiaries keep any records on how often a user has been banned or warned by a moderator?
About 5 years ago I was banned once from Stack Overflow for trolling in the comments of a question. I can remember that my ban was automatically lifted after some of my own questions had received some ...
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Rules which Meta Stack Exchange moderators need to follow regarding the [featured] tag
I am curious to know about the rules which Meta Stack Exchange moderators need to follow before featuring a post or removing the featured tag from a post.
For example, let's say that some maintenance ...
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Do moderators have access to more detailed site analytics than 25k+ users?
Users with 25k+ reputation have access to site analytics, which shows some information about traffic sources and also about number of posts, votes and traffic.
I found this older feature request which ...
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What is the procedure for notifying the moderator team when a moderator can't perform their responsibilities?
How does a moderator or their family inform the rest of the communities moderators or the community manager when they are unable to perform their duties or service their responsibilities?
While the ...
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Are diamond moderators exempted from the minimum duration of bounties (1 day)?
During the recent Winter Bash, Yaakov "solicited help on finding ways to prevent (or at least make it harder) for folks to cheat at Hat Dash" and awarded successful users with a bounty.
The ...
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How does the moderator vacation tool work?
I've heard about something named 'moderator vacation tool'. But there's very little information available about it in Meta Stack Exchange.
I want to know how the tool appears (a screenshot would be ...
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Could we get an opt-in feature to get notified when fellow mods record an absence?
I logged into one of the sites I moderate this morning and just happened to check the dashboard and noticed that one of the mods had recorded their absence. It got me thinking--if I hadn't happened to ...
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What does the "1" mean in the "moderator accepts moderator agreement" event in the user history?
Moderators have access to a list of events which happened to or because of an action by the user.
One of those is "moderator accepts moderator agreement", and it has a comment "1 by&...
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Clicking on an admin link for a site where I'm not a mod displays the mod agreement page instead of a 404
When I click on a link to an admin page on a site where I'm not a moderator I see a Moderator Agreement page instead of a 404 page.
Example (using my own UserID):
Clicking on https://stackoverflow....
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Exactly which users PII do moderators have access to? [duplicate]
This recent question here on meta has brought to my attention something I never realized before - non-employee moderators have access to some tools that can disclose an user EMail address.
Since I ...
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What do the moderator tools and pages look like?
I am a fan of Stack Overflow, and I think the moderator system is brilliant. Although I am not a moderator, I am still very curious about what a moderator's life looks like. In particular, could I ...
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What information about users does SE software enable site moderators to see? [duplicate]
How does the SE software protect community user privacy specifically wrt site moderators? For instance, are moderators provided user account information beyond what is posted in user network profiles? ...
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Give moderators the power to add tag warnings
Although I'm reasonably experienced on Stack Exchange (8+ years of activity, 40 sites with 500+ reputation, 247k total rep) and have been a diamond moderator on one site for some 5 years, today I saw ...
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Moderators can't reset a user's network profile [duplicate]
Moderators have the ability to clear a user's profile on our site, if it violates site policy. We also have the ability to copy these changes to the user's profiles on other sites.
However, doing ...
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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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Please give moderators better tools to understand the interactions between two users
With the recent Code of Conduct changes (see the blog post, the FAQ), and even before this round of changes, there has been an increased attention on users interacting respectfully with each other. ...
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Why was a moved question deleted? Moderator to whom deletion is attributed claims they didn't do it
A question on archive.is on Web Apps appears to have been deleted, and deletion is attributed to a moderator, deleted by Sathyajith Bhat♦ 12 hours ago , however, they claim that they didn't do it (...
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Allow voting on moderation of moderators [duplicate]
There have been multiple times that moderators have near instantly closed valid questions.
This authoritarian action is completely undemocratic.
I've found more than multiple times that questions ...
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Can mods see answer drafts from other users? [duplicate]
Yesterday I posted this answer, about 5 minutes after I clicked on the "Post Your Answer" button I got some comments from a mod.
In one of them he said I had edited my answer in the first 5 minutes ...
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Can moderators get access to Community user and perform moderation activities?
According to its profile description, the Community user can perform some actions like bumping old unanswered questions, deleting unwanted questions, tag tuning etc., but there are some unmentioned ...
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Can mods notify each other from the different posts in the form of flags?
Considering, that nobody can see flags except mods, a flag raised by a mod could serve as a mod-only, only mod-visible notification to a post.
I am thinking on notes like this:
"To avoid whining, I ...
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Do moderators have the authority to suspend *other* moderators? [duplicate]
Suppose a moderator has politically incorrect "inclinations" as observed (fairly often) in, say, a chat room. In the event that a couple of users take offence at this, can another moderator possibly "...
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Allow moderators to see failed audits that haven't led to an automated review ban [duplicate]
Moderators have access to a user's profile/history to look at things necessary to perform our role - one of those is reviewing stuff. The system currently now only records on a user's profile if they ...
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Does temporary suspension remove moderator powers?
It is only curiosity. I know, moderators aren't suspended; first they are de-modded. After de-modding, they can probably be suspended, but I've never heard of it happening.
Maybe it is possible if the ...
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Can I destroy SE employee accounts which are incorrectly listed as moderators on a meta site?
We have some employee accounts that are erroneously listed as "moderators" on our meta site. This has caused confusion multiple times.
These accounts have no contributions and only a handful of votes....
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As a moderator, how should I treat flags concerning my own activity? [duplicate]
So here's an example, a user disliked my comment.
Honestly I'd rather ignore this flag though marking it helpful, but I don't want to discuss here what it the best action in this particular case in ...
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My chat room has been deleted without informing me and without telling the reason?
My chat room has been deleted without a message of the moderators about the reason
But I think the reason is that, it was a duplicate of this chat room
In fact I wanted to move the latter chat room ...
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Moderator Notices should be more Flexible/Prominent
This question arises from the following Meta post on Code Review:
Should I cast a VLQ flag on an answer that has a moderator notice on it?
Two of the questions I posed there, were:
Should the "...
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What parts of the help center can site moderators edit?
I have found out that site moderators can edit certain parts of pages in the Help Center. In particular, "What topics can I ask about here?" or parts of it can be customized.
What pages or parts ...
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Should moderators be able to add to the weekly newsletter?
Right now, most of the newsletters that I've seen are pretty plain.
Should a moderator be given the power to add a few notes to the newsletter, such as motivations for the community, or just a ...
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Do moderators see the previous versions of edited comments?
I think it could be a useful feature. From an experienced usage of the site, I have the impression as if they didn't see that, but I am not sure.
I know about Moderators should be able to undelete ...
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Moderators need an ability to penalize users for seriously bad behavior short of deleting their accounts [duplicate]
There's a certain site I moderate where a very high rep user has become downright abusive to other users of the site and the mods are having to constantly delete content to avoid letting the site turn ...
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Could moderators see votes in the past?
I was playing with the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, and noticed this page. It's the nominate moderators item in the privilege page as of Oct 2010.
Here it is:
Moderators can see all data ...
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Allow Moderator Comments with the Prefix "Moderator Note" to show up in collapsed comments
There was a question recently that necessitated a comment being put into the parent post.
When I initally added the Moderator Note comment, there were 12 more comments there than there are now. This ...
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Moderators to delete duplicate questions
A moderator or trusted user should be given right to straight away delete duplicate questions with answers that won't change over time, as they would already have enough experience to understand which ...
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What's the Moderator Dashboard look like?
I, along with (probably) hundreds of thousands of other Stack Exchange users, really really want to know what the Stack Exchange Moderator Dashboard looks like.
Moderators are democratically elected, ...
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Allow diamond moderators to comment on deleted or locked items
Moderators should be able to comment on things after normal users are unable to, such as when a post is deleted or locked. As a moderator on Programmers, I try to leave a comment (if necessary) before ...
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Removing the last part of the site URLs from autocomplete
In the close-as-off-topic list, the migration autocomplete catches the URLs of the sites. This limits its usefulness for strings like "com" since almost all sites end in "stackexchange.com".
I think ...
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Annotate user accounts network-wide when they get rate-limited or banned
A while back, I proposed giving moderators limited moderation privileges on closely related sites, but it didn't get very much love.
However, this is something that still would be really helpful: ...
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Add a moderator status field
For the past two to three weeks my workload has been such that my moderation duties had to be curtailed temporarily. As a courtesy I emailed [email protected] to let them know in advance that I ...
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What's the official position about the multiple deletion of own posts?
This question is quite related to this one: How to best handle the "Possible vandalism of own posts" flag?, but I would not like to narrow it to the case discussed in that question. More ...
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How to best handle the "Possible vandalism of own posts" flag?
I got a moderator flag saying, "Possible vandalism of own posts; multiple deletions in a short time"; the user is one of my stronger users.
The deleted answers are all over a month old. The flag ...
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