Questions tagged [moderators]
Questions about diamond (♦) moderators, their powers, and actions they have taken.
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Is it intentional that when a moderator asks a self-answered question and marks the answer as community wiki, the question is also a wiki?
I just posted a question and a simultaneous self-answer on a site where I'm a moderator (checking the "Answer your own question" box). I noticed that in addition to marking the answer as a ...
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What are the statistics on moderator decisions being overturned by staff?
"Stack Exchange moderators are not always correct and their actions
are subject to community oversight and appeal. Moderators are users
elected from the community and can make errors in judgment ...
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Where does an ex-moderator ask whether or not information is public?
I was a moderator on the Cryptography Stack Exchange until I left via inactivity due to family and health issues. If I have a question about whether or not a particular moderator ability is public ...
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Please welcome starball to the Meta Stack Exchange moderator team!
Meta Stack Exchange is different from most sites. It’s used by both the community and the company to coordinate across the entire network. Its moderators are commonly hand-picked by the Community ...
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Room Owners/mods should be able to click to reveal deleted messages in chat
When a message is deleted in chat, it gets replaced with a greyed-out (removed).
Room owners and mods can view the message by going to the history, but that’s kinda annoying (and also not possible on ...
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Give Room Owners and mods a Cancel Stars button on mobile chat
Currently, in mobile chat, there is no way to cancel stars on a message. Could ROs and mods have a button for that?
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Room Owners and Mods could be better signified in mobile chat
On desktop mode in chat, Room Owners have italic names. Mods have italic names and are also blue (they’ve also got a little diamond next to their name).
On mobile chat, however, neither Room Owners or ...
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There are too many sheriffs in town
The Sheriff badge says it's awarded to elected moderators but it's supposed to work slightly different here on Meta Stack Exchange, as the FAQ states:
Served as a moderator continuously for one year ...
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Should moderator elections be automatically held? (e.g. at least once every X years? when there are < Y mods? etc.)
6 sites have 1 mod (emacs is active), 41 (~23%) have 2 mods (solana+quant most active), and 51 (>28%) (some fairly active) haven't held elections since at least 2020:
none (12 sites): civicrm, hsm(...
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Could ROs and mods have the power to move messages on mobile?
Sometimes I want to move deleted disruptive messages because they clutter the screen. However, that’s not possible on the mobile chat UI, and there isn't a workaround using the full site UI - if I ...
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Can't access moderator chat rooms on sites where I'm still a moderator
Having recently stood down as moderator from here and SO I would expect to lose access to the moderator chat rooms for those sites.
However, I can't access the moderator chat rooms for the four sites ...
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Improve the wording about the election start date in the template for Question Collection questions
There are two elections coming up early July, and here are the Question Collection questions posted on their meta sites:
2025 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection (Astronomy.SE)
2025 ...
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Finally hanging up my diamond(s)
As you might have seen I'm stepping down as a moderator on Stack Overflow.
It's something I've been thinking about for a while, for various reasons, but the main reason is that I'm hoping to retire ...
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Can I ask a moderator to contact a serial downvoter and ask what the beef was?
I see a worrying amount of downvoting and reversal.
I would be interested in somehow - for example via a moderator - get to know why the user was so annoyed with me and perhaps the moderator could ...
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How can any users know if a mod is working in their interests in a system that by design hides moderator actions?
In the light of the moderator agreement, moderators get to know many userbase-breaking changes to the network BEFORE they are disclosed to the general public. Even in recent post about changes to the ...
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