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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Does AskUbuntu encourage deleting old comments?
Anyone can delete their comments, and comments may be removed if flagged. The "why" is mostly a personal matter, although moderators should refrain from removing comments that provide some value to th …
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Applications, application and software tags must die!
These tags have been removed from all questions and blacklisted.
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Line breaks in markdown
It is by-design - the Markdown syntax specifies a blank line between paragraphs.
Code should be indicated as such - indented four spaces. There's a button on the toolbar and a shortcut key to accompl …
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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.