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Tagged with per-site-meta moderation
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When is it OK for site moderators to go against the consensus established by their community? And when should such a decision be overturned?
Last year in particular I made a few gambles as a moderator by establishing new policies on the local meta without first gathering community consensus. However, every time I found my policies ...
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Use of strong words, modifiers, and hyperbole in per-site meta post titles disputing something
This is a follow-up of How should mods of per-site-meta with low / slow participation handle posts that if posted here will be negatively received?. The answer to that question said "there is a ...
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How should mods of per-site-meta with low / slow participation handle posts that if posted here will be negatively received?
TL;DR: I'm a moderator in Web Applications, and I was elected in 2020.
When I have considered to take a tough decision, like suspend a user, I have discussed it privately. One of my major concerns is ...
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Will we get moderation statistics published on all sites for 2021?
Since 2018, at the beginning of every new year, the team has posted annual moderation statistics on all meta sites on the network. These included a full table of how many of which moderation actions ...
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Will yearly moderation statistics be published on all sites this year, and future years?
For the last couple years, at the beginning of every new year, Stack Exchange has posted annual moderation statistics on all meta sites in the network. These posts include a full table on how many of ...
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Did this question require editing?
This question is already asked on local meta.
I want answers based on experience of other sites.
I could've asked in moderators team, but I prefer public sites whenever possible.
Yes, I'm a moderator ...
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Are there different rules for comments in meta?
Some moderators on some sites are very... religious in purging any comment on any post that isn't asking for clarification or directly suggesting an improvement. These very same moderators are also ...
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Should any Meta post that calls out a user by name be deleted, not just downvoted?
How can I report a specific bad user? suggests that calling out by name is, at the very least, discouraged.
The context is when the Meta post reports "bad behavior" and suggest a ban for the user. I'...
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Moderators recording themselves as absent/inactive should work for main site and Meta simultaneously
A moderator on a Stack Exchange site can record themselves as absent or inactive. Currently the status changes independently for each main site and the corresponding Meta.
I, myself, had taken a ...
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Should comment moderation work differently on meta sites? [duplicate]
The guidelines on moderating comments on main sites are well-established: comments are transient Post-it notes, they are second-class citizens, they can be deleted at any time for a number of reasons, ...
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When should comments be flagged/deleted on per-site metas?
We all know what comments are for -- and aren't, but that guidance is, naturally, geared toward main sites, where we want to keep things clean and focused. Meta, on the other hand, is a site's "...
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How to best implement a "sources are required" policy?
In a Stack Exchange site I am active in (Mythology), we've discussed requiring reputable sources in all answers (for obvious quality reasons).
Right now, the consensus we've reached seems to be:
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