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Changing how community leadership works on Stack Exchange: a proposal and rough timeline
For nearly fifteen years, Stack Exchange community leadership has taken a very simple form: there is the community-at-large, and there are moderators elected by ranked-choice voting. This system is ...
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Testing three-vote close and reopen on 13 network sites
Test is live!
The 13 sites below have their votes to close set at 3. I've also reduced the votes needed for migrations to 2 (down from 3).
Almost two years ago I ran a test for single vote closure/...
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Should Community Moderators be "elected for life", or have terms?
While I applaud the excellent work of all our community moderators, the question has come up:
How long will be the elected moderator’s “mandate”? Is it for life, or are we going to have “moderator ...
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Help me opine about a new election system
I have been reflecting on some ideas around our current election system which were (originally) prompted by our pro tem appointment process. First, I think the Community Team needs to get out of the ...
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Can we allow 7.5K users to suggest tag synonyms without a score of 5 in the tag?
Feature Request: Could 7.5K users have the privilege of proposing synonyms without the 5 upvotes per tag requirement? (in other words unrestricted synonym suggestion)
Background: I would like to be ...
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Why does the suggested edit queue have a fixed size, and what is its size on each site?
Stack Exchange sites have a suggested edit queue, visible to the users who have the edit questions and answers privilege.
What is the suggested edit queue's size limit?
What happens when the queue is ...
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When do moderator elections take place?
When do elections begin?
Is there a set time each year?
Do elections take place each year?
Can I vote? Where?
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Why so few moderators?
Moderators are busy.
They try to handle a lot of work on Stack Overflow. I see that the flag queue is pretty full most of the time and I for instance have 2 mod-only flags being active for a week now. ...
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What do I do if I think an entire site is in the wrong?
To get in front of it, there is no Stack Exchange site that I'm vaguing here, and I recognize that the answer is, to zeroth-order, "deal with it, don't visit that site".
But for instance, ...
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What's wrong with Ask Patents' moderation? [closed]
Related:
What is “Ask Patents” and why is it secret?
Ask Patents needs a cleanup
There's a moderation problem on Ask Patents.
Nobody is reviewing.
There are no community moderators.
I'm... not sure ...
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Who were the last moderators directly appointed without an election?
When the moderator pro-tempore system was first implemented, mods would be hand-picked from the community by CMs, often after a nomination thread on Meta - the votes on the nominations would influence ...
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