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State of moderation prior to the 2025 mod election?
Just looking for some background info on the state of moderation.
Why was the election called? Did mods recently resign or become inactive, or has the site grown such that we need more hands?
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2025 Community Moderator Election
The 2025 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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ELL violates accepted accessibility standards with its lack of contrast in the color palette
Years ago when its design first came out, I commented that ELL's low-contrast color-palette violated accessibility standards. But the complaint fell on deaf ears. (joke)
Having just had some eye ...
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2025 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
English Language Learners Stack Exchange is scheduled for an ...
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Is it possible to find a specific answer using a word from the body of the answer and the username?
Is it possible to find a specific answer using a word from the body of the answer and the username?
Let's say I wanted to find an answer by StoneyB in which he used the word vitiated. Can that be ...
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Is it correct to express the opinion which limits another user, given the opinion was not asked?
I don't know what algorithm there is on SE when I need to find out the opinion of moderators.
Flags don't give any information except "approved / declined / pending" (i.e. "agree / ...
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Is there any difference between the tags "sequence-of-tenses" and "tense-agreement"?
the tag sequence-of-tenses:
for questions about the agreement between the tenses of verbs in related clauses or sentences
the tag tense-agreement:
without description
Are these tags used for the same ...
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Quit slagging off questions that mention AI
Is there a reason for not tolerating questions where AI (i.e. ChatGPT) is mentioned?
I sometimes read sneering and dismissive comments directed at questions, posted by non-native users, which cite AI, ...
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Users seemingly using and training AI on the site on masses of posts - how to stop it? [duplicate]
I flagged some of these and I believe others have done so as well, but how to stop the users (and one specifically, I don't want to name) doing the following:
Looks like as if these were AI-training Q&...
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Is the real-time spell check part of ELL or my browser?
I had this problem before and was told that it was my browser not ELL. ELL is completing words as I type them, and correcting things that are not errors, yet I have spell check turned off in my ...
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Alexa, AI, and Stackexchange
An AI FYI.
I sometimes ask Alexa what the weather will be, and I get the weather forecast. This morning I thought I'd ask whether it had rained last night, to see if "she" knows recent ...
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There used to be a flag for moderation attention but it's gone; what happened to it?
I don't see the "flag for moderator attention" link. Has it been removed?
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What did I get 100 reputation for?
One of my questions gave me 100 reputation and two badges. It is a great pleasure and also honor for me.
Why is zero plural?
By the way, I wonder why I got 100 reputation points. Is it directly ...
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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of ...
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Online platforms for improving English speaking and pronunciation
Where can I post audios of English speaking, for others to provide constructive comments for improving English speaking and pronunciation? Specific groups on social media, apps, ...? Prefer free ones, ...
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