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Is Beta Site Self-Evaluation Still Relevant? [duplicate]

Now that the graduation process for beta sites has been changed, will there be any more self-evaluation reviews? It appears that they are no longer necessary. A similar question: Where have the site ...
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Let's disallow moderator nominations from people who've been suspended in the past year

Well, it's election season again. On sites all over the network, moderators are being selected from among the good folk willing to volunteer their time to help guide and support their communities. I'm ...
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Should introspection be encouraged in light of the new standards for graduation?

Summary With the introduction of new, simplified graduation requirements, we're preparing to shut down the venerable Community Eval review process. Years of waning participation, combined with a ...
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What is the Goal of "Hot Network Questions"?

There has been a tug-of-war in the hot-questions list. Community members like JonW seem to be unhappy with the traffic that it brings to their site: 'But we want to encourage people to post, that's ...
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Design-Independent Graduation is on for early September!

This is a follow-up to an earlier discussion Feedback Requested: Design-Independent Graduation. Like the title says, design-independent graduation will go into effect and become our new regular ...
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What are the review queues, and how do they work?

I see a "review" link on the top of the page, which takes me to a few "review queues". What is a "review queue"? What are the various queues for? What can I do in each queue? Return to FAQ index
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Should we create a Year in Review?

After being inspired to gather some stats for Salesforce.SE, we were discussing it internally and we're wondering if other sites would want to see something similar. If so, then we would look to ...
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Let's break up with "Graduation" and remove a bunch of "Beta" labels

Over two years ago now, we made a big shift in how we handle "graduation" - nearly severing the connection between "graduation" and site design. We also talked about removing the &...
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New Review Suspensions Mod UX

This post details the second in a series of releases related to the ongoing work on Review Queues. It focuses on big upgrades to the tools provided for moderators to track and apply review suspensions ...
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Site health dashboard (for graduated and beta sites alike)

Related: How were the guidelines for a healthy site determined Shutting down recurring community self-evaluations Executive summary Could the devs please make a weekly updatable dashboard with ...
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Search for question with positive score where all answers have zero score

I'd like to search for questions that have a positive score (score > 0) and have no accepted answer and have at least one answer and where all answers have score zero. Is there a way to do this? ...
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Admin > Site Self-Eval Stats claims that there will be more site self-evals in the future

The Admin > Site Self-Eval Stats screen (/admin/review/site-eval-stats - diamond-only) claims that a new site self-eval will be spawned six months after the previous one ended. For example, on Anime....
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Could we offer a gentle inbox reminder that self-evaluations are happening? [closed]

Notifications of elections on sites on which we are members are broadcast via the inbox. I think adding a gentle reminder of a self-evaluation in the inbox would be a worthwhile pursuit. Elections ...
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