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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, …
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in …
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Flags shouldn't be "declined" as if they were always invalid if they were valid when they we...
So you have a situation where someone (you don't specify if it's the original author or some passing editor) takes the time to follow the link, suss out whatever is relevant on the other side, and wri …
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Exchange votes or favours
I do object however strongly to a structural exchange of favours. Probably just inside the limits of what the system allows and detects.
A big issue here is that the system for detecting this has …
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2014 Community Moderator Election Results
Ask Ubuntu's 4th moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 2 new moderators are:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteerin …
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2014 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as the sp …
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Quality blocks enabled for questions
Questions are the lifeblood of any Stack Exchange site. But asking good questions can be difficult, for some people entirely too difficult to bother with. When the Trilogy sites reached traffic levels …
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Summer cleanup, feedback wanted, etc
Crash is also done. Given the volume and current wiki excerpt for freeze, I'm gonna let y'all work that out; ping me when you're done cleaning it up.
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What to do with black-screen tag?
Burned and blacklisted - both black and black-screen.
Please care for the widows and orphans.
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Can we *please* blacklist the error tag?
No tags ending in error or errors are allowed now. Those that existed have been removed.
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2013 Community Moderator Election Results
Ask Ubuntu's third moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the three new moderators are:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volu …
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Could we get a better example question for the new /about?
There are certain requirements for the question there, due to the space available and the need for at least two answers that will fit (one which must have a comment on it).
Here are some eligible qu …
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Desktop tag must go!
I could kinda see this working specifically for questions on "desktop environments" - but obviously those are the minority.
I've removed the tag - if it re-appears, we can blacklist it.
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Can we merge distro, distribution, distributions and linux-distro tags?
These tags have been destroyed.
Please care for the widows and orphans.
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Applications, application and software tags must die!
These tags have been removed from all questions and blacklisted.