Linked Questions
40 questions linked to/from Handling Calls to Remove a Moderator
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What processes exist to issue formal warnings or remove moderators?
Feedback and questions about these processes are on this other post.
This post lists two process by which formal complaints against moderators are handled by the Community Management Team.
The ...
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Do moderators have the authority to suspend *other* moderators? [duplicate]
Suppose a moderator has politically incorrect "inclinations" as observed (fairly often) in, say, a chat room. In the event that a couple of users take offence at this, can another moderator possibly "...
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Firing mods and forced relicensing: is Stack Exchange still interested in cooperating with the community?
The last weeks and days have seen some erratic behaviour by Stack Exchange Inc., such as likely illegal changes to the content license and the firing of an upstanding community moderator with no ...
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The company’s commitment to rebuilding the relationship with you, our community
My name is Teresa Dietrich. About a month ago, I joined Stack Overflow as Head of Product and Community, reporting directly to the CEO. During my years as an engineer and technology leader, I saw the ...
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Why were the Code of Conduct changes received so negatively, and what can / could have been done to change that?
The announcement of the Code of Conduct changes had a score of -1922 (with 2371 downvotes). I can't remember a change announcement being received so negatively; it's an order of magnitude higher than (...
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Graduation, site closure, and a clearer outlook on the health of SE sites
Back in April of 2010, Joel shared our assumptions about the role of small sites in the newly minted Stack Exchange network:
If a site does not have enough activity at the end of 90 days, it will be ...
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A new search engine for Stack Exchange
After the performance problems we have run into with Lucene.NET we've decided to make a change, we're moving the network on to elasticsearch.
Here's where to get started: https://stackoverflow.com/...
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Summing up the main issues (The Story So Far)
Could we have a neutral summing up of the issues (without any editorializing)? I will attempt to do so in an answer, big picture style. Or you could think of this as "The Story So Far" for ...
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Should Community Moderators be "elected for life", or have terms?
While I applaud the excellent work of all our community moderators, the question has come up:
How long will be the elected moderator’s “mandate”? Is it for life, or are we going to have “moderator ...
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Help me opine about a new election system
I have been reflecting on some ideas around our current election system which were (originally) prompted by our pro tem appointment process. First, I think the Community Team needs to get out of the ...
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Could we please be a bit nicer to moderators?
TL;DR
Moderators are human and make mistakes. If you feel a moderator screwed up, please be patient with us and try to communicate objectively to help us avoid a lot of unnecessary meta drama. All ...
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What recourse do I have if I believe a moderator has abused their privileges?
One or more of the following things happened to me on a Stack Exchange site:
My post(s) were wrongly deleted or locked by a moderator
A moderator posted a wrong comment on one of my posts
I was ...
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Introduce a better way to identify trusted users
Stack Overflow depends heavily on moderation by a body of reliable users dedicated to the site rather than merely gaining points and badges any way possible. It's vital to be able to tell these groups ...
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A storm in a teacup, please calm down [duplicate]
EDIT 2020-01-14:
With the firing of community managers, I no longer believe this is a storm in a teacup.
Dear friends across the Stack Exchange network.
Can we please calm down a bit about the Code ...
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A call for increased moderator transparency
It's the general policy of Stack Exchange to conduct moderator activities as transparently and openly as possible. Right now, a lot of the communication between moderators is conducted in a private ...