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News for modrats


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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement

Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community …

3 hours ago
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The Google Crawler is picking up the “It's 100% free, no registration required” phrase in its summary descriptions

Have a look at this search: https://www.google.com/search?q=android+increase+volume+100%25 You will see entries like this: I see why it's happening... It's part of the market-speak that appears …

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Tag synonym request for [tfs-api] and [tfs-sdk]

These tags (tfs-api and tfs-sdk) are very similar and they should be synonyms of each other. Excerpt from the tfs-sdk wiki: This tag is used to identify questions about the use of the TFS API, in …

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Network wide padding issues in the sidebar

I've just noticed a padding issue in the Linked posts sidebar at WordPress Answers: I was about to report it in our Meta, but it has already been (regarding the Related sidebar): Related Box …

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Why don't I have the “Mortarboard” badge?

May be my question is duplicate but i have confusion. On March 22 I got 200 reputation: But I didn't get the Mortarboard badge. (Link to my badges list) I know it takes time to get badge but …

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The Tag Wiki dropdown should display the entire tag wiki excerpt

Tag Wiki Excerpts support ~ 450 characters, but Tag Wiki dropdowns only display ~ 300 characters. The remaining characters are truncated. This would not be a problem if the tag excerpt was used ...

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Could we have two types of account deletion?

Relevant TL thread: http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/9390241#9390241 Related dupe: Delete softly when using the big stick. You may want to read that first, Andrew's given a ...

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Why `San Bruno, CA` != `San Bruno, CA`?

For some reason, San Bruno, CA means Sheridan, MT on Careers 2.0. WTF? http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/applyonly?location=san+bruno%2C+california — San Bruno, CA. ...

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Tooltip for Anonymous feedback shows “click again to undo” but can't really be undone

If you hover over the upvote/downvote buttons on any website on which you don't have an account, the tooltip will explain the action but with the text (click again to undo) Which is very ...

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My very mundane request was deemed suspicious, but processed anyway

I started here: Do not cover this hole? On this computer, I was logged into the network on Meta and SO, but not yet on SU. I wanted to cast an upvote, so I clicked "Log in", which led me to the ...

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Revision history & community wiki links show the same page

On community wiki posts both the revision history link & community wiki links lead to the same page. Shouldn't the username in the community wiki post point to the user profile page? Revision …

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Undone edits disappear from revision history

I'm reporting the following bug per Shog9's request. Consider the following scenario: You edit any post on a SE site where you have edit privileges. In a second edit within the grace period of the …

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The time of automatic review bans should be increased with every new ban

The way the current auto-bans for reviews work is rather suboptimal. Somebody who's really after the badges and doesn't care whether they're banned for two days can just continue clicking through, ...

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Can we have drafts for moderator messages?

Most of the time, messages that we have to send privately to users are quite cut and dry. We're either explaining an action that we took, or describing an action that we'll need to take. Many of the …

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“Abusing” bounties for unlimited profit

Six days ago I put a +50 bounty on Why doesn't jQuery work in Chrome user scripts (Greasemonkey)? which wasn't asked by me, but to which I'd previously posted a pretty decent answer. Since then …

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How do moderator elections work?

Are moderation elections held on a regular basis, or just when the need of more people arises? And, related to this, the moderator status is held for a set limited timeframe or forever? Just for ...

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Can we get an additional moderator for Stack Apps?

Currently, Stack Apps has only one moderator, Nathan Osman. He's good when he's around, but he's sometimes gone from Stack Apps for days at a time. For example, it's been 2 days since he last ...

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User names on community wiki posts should link to profile pages (like they do everywhere else)

There are a lot of valid questions about the basic usefulness of CW posts. There are a lot of equally valid questions about whether the "user" selected for display on a CW post is generally the right …

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Spaces getting past minimum character limit

It appears that now you can no longer just put spaces at the end of text to get past the character limit. You can still put them in the middle, where they get truncated to a single space. I always …

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Remove user validation of chat flags

Back in the heady days of 2010 when the chat system was being refined, it definitely made sense to have user validation of chat flags. At that point I'm guessing we had a dozen or so moderators ...

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Why do we have a red dialog for a success action?

Since the orange dialog are gone, we now have red dialog instead for (almost) everything (except the blue one I guess). I was wondering why the dialog is red when we just perform a valid action? Why …

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Tag scores have not updated; script did not run

The tag scores script has not ran at the scheduled time of 03:00 UTC for a number of days. Here are some other reports of this: Is there a problem with tag score calculation? Tag counts …

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Hi-res pic found its way into Careers sidebar ad

I just noticed a sidebar advert in Careers loading super-slowly - suspect it is because it's a 3508 x 2480 px JPEG! Can a techie fix please? :-)

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How do we thank the diamond moderators?

Is there a way to do this? I made a delete request yesterday and it was granted. Wanted to express my appreciation. I kind of just did what I wanted to do, but I fully understand that this is a ...

May 17 at 8:35
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Global list of all SE sites

Why isn't there a list of all the SE sites? I need to ask a question about cars (where my total knowledge is about zero) but I can't find a cars SE site - tried guessing all the obvious (and pun ...

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How come it is showing Diamond to my account in moderator private message?

I just got a Moderator Private Message from Super User's Moderator Team. http://superuser.com/users/message/629?noredirect=1#629 (For Super User moderators only) Because I failed last few reviews I …

May 16 at 23:21
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Allow diamond moderators to comment on deleted or locked items

Moderators should be able to comment on things after normal users are unable to, such as when a post is deleted or locked. As a moderator on Programmers, I try to leave a comment (if necessary) before …

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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement

Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community …

May 16 at 20:00
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Welcome to Dr Mayhem as Pro Tem moderator

In the absence of an official post from SE, I'd like to announce that a new moderator is taking over for Ben Alpert: Dr Mayhem is already a moderator on Security and Personal Productivity and has …

May 16 at 19:40
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Mark questions 'answered by comments'

There are questions around that cannot get marked answered ... ... because there is no 'answer' ... ... because the answer is given in the comments ! I find this annoying, since I occasionally ...

May 16 at 17:46
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