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Stepping down as moderator
Sorry to see you go. Although I respect your decision but I'll surely miss bothering you in room no. 201 every once in a while. Thank you for all the support you have given as a mod. Peace ☮️.
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Why is stack overflow asking me to vote for moderators?
You get an inbox notification for moderator elections on every site where you are able to vote for the candidates. According to the election page itself (yellow note on the right):
Any community ...
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Did Stefano Palazzo♦ use the moderator vacation tool to inform regarding Stefano Palazzo's inactivity?
Firstly, I'm going to focus on this as a general question because I'm not a huge fan of calling out specific people. I'm not quite sure what your specific concerns are here. The mods who are active ...
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What is required to become a moderator?
I think you're talking about these two recent posts:
2 year old user is a new contributor?
Is it correct that search on AskUbuntu ignores code blocks and inline codes?
These were edited by Shog9 and ...
ZannaMod
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Vote to close specifics
As I understand it, it is a moderator who does so.
Any user with at least 3000 reputation points may cast a close (or reopen) vote. On this site, diamond moderators rarely participate in close voting,...
ZannaMod
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Why is stack overflow asking me to vote for moderators?
You are a member of the Stack Overflow community. You currently have 227 reputation there and have contributed 5 answers. The fact that you are more active here doesn't change the fact that you are ...
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Stepping down as moderator
I have to admit I had a hard time up-voting your resignation message as I find it sad to see you go. But I guess I can not change your mind in this matter being a mod on Ask Ubuntu even tho you where ...
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Why did a moderator decline a bunch of flags on link only answers?
I'm so sorry about this. In my view most of the flags were raised rightfully. I had a look at a few of them before any were declined and I was really grateful for the flags on these old posts as we ...
ZannaMod
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My time is as a moderator drawing to a close
I fully understand you buddy. 100%. Same reason I stepped down and let someone else help out. Between life changes, family, work and more, it has become VERY hard to maintain the same level of ...
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What is required to become a moderator?
What you're referring to is probably editors and it takes 2000 rep to become an editor.
On the main site, if the user is a few 100 rep, he's just a user that has to go through a review process ...
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What happened to moderator meetings?
Personally, I love the idea of occasional mod meetings, but I'd want them to be less formal than the one mentioned in the post you linked to. Since I have been a mod, there haven't been any such ...
ZannaMod
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Why did a moderator decline a bunch of flags on link only answers?
👋 It was me.
I tried to explain in my decline messages, and I was on the cusp of writing a Meta post targeted at people bulk-flagging single issue. I don't think I'm dissenting against my fellow mod, ...
OliMod
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My time is as a moderator drawing to a close
Well sorry to see you go. I'm just a newbe here and I could never imagine myself having that level of expertise to be able to answer technical questions 'gratis'.
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What is required to become a moderator?
If you ask who can do direct edits, everyone with more than 2000 reputation.
Remember: AskUbuntu and any other Stackexchange site is moderated by its users mostly.
When it comes to be a moderator ...
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