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Stack Exchange Moderator FAQ
As per the FAQ for Stack Exchange sites, this FAQ will serve the following purposes:
To be the canonical reference for moderators across the Stack Exchange sites for things that are beyond question (...
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Nailing it up on your Community Bulletin Board
Community Bulletin was redesigned on June 23, 2014
More info on Redesigned community bulletin.
As some of you may have noticed, there's a new feature on Stack Exchange:
The Community Bulletin box is ...
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Give mods/communities better tools for large retagging jobs
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This issue remains unresolved seven years later. Please enable communities to deprecate tags. I suggest that deprecated tags could no longer be added to question posts (but allowed to remain ...
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Custom comment flags should not auto-delete comments or be automatically marked helpful
Currently, if a user flags a comment with the "Something else" flag option, and that comment matches the regex to be deleted by a single flag, the comment is immediately deleted and the flag ...
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Show mods all network posts with pending migration votes to their site
Is it possible to add a tool that shows mods all posts on the network that have at least one vote to migrate to their site? For example, a page SO moderators can see that shows all posts on the ...
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A user should just be destroyed network-wide automatically if it has no upvoted content and is destroyed on two independent sites by mods already
We get the occasional network spammer who creates accounts on several sites to post their spam.
At the moment when a moderator on site A spots this they have to do one of the following:
Call the ...
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When flagging a post or comment, provide a freeform text entry field for all reasons, not just "other"
I'm an elected diamond moderator on one site, and a user of several others. I think it would be extremely helpful for our flagging process if users had the option to enter freeform text explaining ...
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Moderators should have easy access to a user's complete review history, including audits
We often get questions here on Meta or through other channels about why a particular user was banned from review by the system. Additionally, we frequently want to look into a user's review history ...
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Mark all flags against a post as helpful, when the post author’s account is destroyed
A spammer made several posts on Computer Science. I went straight to destroy the account. The posts had both spam flags and custom flags. After destroying the account, at least the custom flags ...
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Allow moderators to refresh a user's network profile
Currently, moderators have the ability to reset a user's username and/or profile text, and propagate that to the rest of the network, resetting it everywhere. However, often, if a profile needs to be ...
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Can we have a 'Last 24 Hours' tab in the moderator tools?
Since we hand the torch from time zone to time zone several times a day, a tab labeled 'Last 24 Hours' might be a good idea. Information on this tab might include:
A summary of and links to moderator ...
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Deleting or destroying an account should raise a flag on any other accounts on the network
I have previously asked for a CM message to be raised when a user is destroyed for spamming
Raise a Community Manager message when an account is destroyed for spamming
but I have thought of a ...
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Give mods a "flag for followup" flag ability
In several cases, it's become apparent that a diamond mod has rushed to take action on a particular question, answer, or comment thread, because they were afraid of "losing track" of it if ...
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Granting users access to a private room should create a message in chat
Any moderator or room owner can grant additional access to any user. Granting room owner privileges or removing them produces a message like the following in chat:
Mad Scientist has removed Mad ...
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Streamlining deletion of quality block evasion accounts
A quality block system is now in place across the network, where users who ask a series of poorly-received questions (or leave a string of inappropriate answers) are temporarily blocked from posting ...
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