Linked Questions
49 questions linked to/from What features did the Community Team discuss, have implemented, or have denied last month?
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How can we improve the mod tools?
You may have noticed that we have a bit of a backlog for bugs and feature requests related to moderator tools.
Our moderators do a lot of work to keep our sites running smoothly, and we recognize ...
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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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Make moderator messages anonymous
Currently, when a moderator messages a user, the user sees which moderator is messaging them. This includes when a moderator issues a timed suspension.
Generally, I have no problem with this. ...
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2018 monthly product team updates
Mid-2017 TeamDAG started publishing monthly updates. This post will continue that effort into 2018. (See 2017's updates here.)
Updates are posted at the beginning of the month. They cover what was ...
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Drop "not constructive", combine "noisy", reword "rude" and "other" comment flags
The problem
Comments are terrible; no one agrees on what they're for, or how long they should be kept. Comment flags are equally terrible, because if no one's on the same page as far as what should be ...
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Can we get a comments only lock?
Currently moderators have the ability to lock posts, for any of the following reasons:
Content dispute (~ edit wars),
Historical significance (to prevent great but off topic questions from being ...
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Could authors overturn recent community review decisions?
When new users edit a post, the review is posted to a review queue and other reputable users can review the edit and choose to approve or reject it. However, I feel that a lot of people do it pretty ...
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Who is on the Community Management Team, and what does it do?
The members of the Community Management Team (sometimes referred to as the Community Team or CMs) are employees of Stack Exchange the company, but not all SE employees are Community Management Team ...
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Change "comment" to "critique or request clarification"
Got around to talking about comment flags with Robert Cartaino this morning... We're working on rejiggering the flagging options to make it a bit more obvious when stuff should be flagged, with the ...
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Streamline moderators contacting users through chat
If a moderator needs to contact a user (and it's not severe enough to warrant a moderator message), it's common to make a private room and ping them. The procedure is:
Create a new chatroom (named "...
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Close the loop on "Too Broad"; make the close reason's actual intent reflected in its message
As inspired by this particular answer by Shog9, I'm calling for a change in wording to the "Too Broad" close reason.
Presently, the close reason reads as thus:
There are either too many ...
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2017 TeamDAG project updates
Who is TeamDAG?
What is the TeamDAG working on?
Why are you working on that and not [insert favorite feature request here].
These are some of the questions that we hear regularly on meta.so and ...
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Don't mark migrations as "rejected" if they were closed long after migration
A question was asked on Site A, where it collected answers before being migrated to Site B. On Site B it collected more answers and lived happily for a time. More than two years later, it was closed....
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Make it possible to retract comment flags
I misread the content of a comment, and flagged it. Then I realized that the comment wasn't what I had initially thought. Would it be possible to have the ability to retract comment flags, just like ...
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User experience of overriding community's decision on suggested edit
While reading this post I noticed that there seems to be an issue with the user experience when reviewing an already approved/rejected suggested edit on OP's own post.
It shows only one explicit ...
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Community should not autodownvote "low quality" autoflags cleared by edits
Consider:
User posts an answer.
Community autoflags it as "low quality (auto)." (This is frequently a false positive.)
User edits answer after 5-minute grace period. (Or perhaps someone else edits ...
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A more efficient way to contact community managers
We moderators regularly need to contact a CM, for example because we have a question about a particular issue or we need someone with more abilities and tools at their disposal.
The most common way ...
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Does the 'not constructive' flag have a strongly negative connotation? If so, can we have more detailed clarity on its use?
I've been happily comment-flagging away on the sites with what I thought was a good understanding of the comment flag system.
There are some posts on non-constructive flags, but none that I can see ...
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Allow retracting flags from the API
For a project I'm working on, it'd be nice to be able to retract flags through the API.
We allow people to retract flags from the web. Could this functionality be extended to the API? It could work ...
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The same user should not be able to re-flag a comment multiple times for the same reason
On standard posts, if you have flagged something for one reason, you cannot re-flag the post for the same reason. This prevents people from spamming flags on specific posts if they didn't get the ...
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Automatically generate comment with link to a "what does downvoting mean?" post when a user with <50 rep has a question downvoted
Problem
People post a bad question, for any of the following reasons:
Not researched
Off topic
Poorly written/formatted
No sign of any attempt to solve problem
Classic help vampire question
etc
This ...
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29 "User was removed" events, in two batches. What's going on?
Today tens of upvotes where removed from the reputation list at top of the website. First I saw 12 "-10 User was removed" lines. In about an hour I saw more of these lines.
I know there are similar ...
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Make “how to tag” actually helpful for new users
When you ask a new question (or edit one whithout having the edit privilege) and edit the tag field, a help box with the following appears on the right:
How to Tag
A tag is a keyword or label that ...
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Add downvote option to Low Quality Review Queue list of potential actions
VLQ flagged posts are now being shown in the Low Quality review, which allows:
Looks Good
Edit
Delete
Skip
but no option to vote on the post. My suggestion is to add downvoting as options:
Downvote
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Show previously review-banned users in Review Ban List
There's a link from the Mod Links section where Mods can ban users from reviewing. There's also a section which shows currently banned users.
Unfortunately, currently there's no place which lists ...
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Share annotations and suspension information network-wide for repeat offenders
One guiding principle in the moderation of SE sites is that users deserve a second chance. This means we avoid shaming them if they were suspended once, in the ideal case the user learns from the ...
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Reliable count of votes that I've cast today
I often want to know how many votes (upvotes and downvotes) I've cast today, so as to know how far I am from the 40 vote limit.
In the old days, this information was easily accessible on each page by ...
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Separate and visually indicate reversed events from the day's reputation changes
We've been getting a lot of questions like this ever since the feature to see event reversals such as deleted posts and serial voting was added into the reputation history; and their confusion is ...
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Allow Trusted Users to modify Closed As Duplicate link
There is a problem with duplicates not being handled well on the site over time as outlined here. Sometimes the chain leading to the best canonical question is too long, sometimes it doesn't even ...
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How should I deal with a good suggested edit to my answer which was incorrectly rejected? [duplicate]
The edit was in source code due to an API that changed. It's actually an awesome edit because I would have never have noticed the error in an old answer.
I'm not sure why the edit was rejected, by ...
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Unaccept answers when votes are invalidated
When a Stack Exchange employee invalidates votes in cases of voting fraud any reputation earned from acceptance of answers is removed, but the actual acceptance stays. This results in a the answer ...
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What's going to replace the moderator newsletter when Blog Overflow is shut down?
I realize I might be jumping the gun a bit in asking this question, but I'm very curious to know what Stack Exchange is going to be replacing the moderator newsletter with, given that it's hosted on ...
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Please make the moderator post widget more usable (small UI changes only)
Moderators have access to a widget on posts -- if the browser window is wide enough (I think 1250px is the minimum?), and if your vision is good (it's small and light gray). The widget provides ...
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Is there a way to see the history of questions protected by me or another user?
Having a record of all actions taken on a site, as is provided by the "activity" and "votes" tabs of our profile, comes in handy very often. Perhaps the most common case is being ...
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Change UX and guidance when trying to self delete question with answers
If you attempt to delete a question which has answers, you first see:
Clicking "Delete Question" pops up the following error banner:
This is problematic for two reasons. First, the "you can'...
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What happened to Community Requests?
Note that I'm not referring to general feature requests, but specifically to Community Requests, i.e. What features did the Community Team discuss, have implemented, or have denied last month?.
In the ...
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Which bug tracking and project management tool does Stack Exchange use?
Which bug tracking and project management tool does Stack Exchange use?
Does it uses any of the existing open source tools or a premium paid one? Or better, have they created a tool themselves to ...
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Add Link to questions in the revision note for duplicate question changes
When the duplicate list is edited currently the revision history just lists the post IDs of the duplicate list before and after the change:
Can those post IDs be actual links to those questions?
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Tag warning only shown for a second when I post directly after adding tags
When I do the following:
write the title and body of a question;
go to the tag field;
add a tag that triggers a tag warning;
do not defocus the tag window;
hit Post your question;
then I only see ...
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Will there be any product updates?
Back in 2017 and the earlier quarters of 2018, the team published monthly updates as to which features were discussed, denied or implemented. This was done at 2018 monthly product team updates and ...
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Please add the list of questions (un-)protected to the profile page [duplicate]
Currently, the profile page does not show which questions one (un-)protected.
One can get a list from SEDE (at most one week old, not containing deleted questions), but that's somewhat cumbersome.
I ...
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Show when edits are pending to avoid "why can't I edit this"
I understand when edits are pending the "edit" button is grayed out. See here for other situations.
My suggestion is to make it more obvious if there is a pending edit - consider the two questions ...
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Can progress data for feature requests be made publicly available to the community?
I understand that requesting features towards Stack Exchange Inc. works like this:
you write a question-request here on MSE
the community votes, and adds more thoughts, concerns, enhancements, ...
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Show destarring in chat message history
Moderators and room owners have the ability to remove stars from chat messages. Currently this leaves no trace on the chat message that it was ever starred or who destarred it. Compare that to pinned ...
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Mismatch of the community specific badge icons in next badge tracker and activity tab
The graduated Stack Exchange sites except SOFU, MSE and Stack Apps (may be I missed few other sites) are have their community specific design for the badge icons.
After the recent UI changes for the ...
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Let's add the link to "question close stats" in all the sections of the "/tools" page
The /tools page available to 10K users contains a section links with the following ones:
information about moderation tools
new answers to old questions
suggested edit stats
site analytics
protected ...
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Cannot roll back invalid tag wiki edit
This suggested edit was just approved by three (of 5) voters, which saddens me greatly. Not only is it poorly formatted (abuse of code formatting, inappropriate spacing between letters, lack of ...
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Wasn't there a "not constructive" flag for comments? [duplicate]
I thought there was such a thing - and yes, I see that a handful of my comment flags are about "not constructive".
I wanted to use it just now - but the list of available flags only shows "rude", "...
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Are suggested edits ever deleted?
I have recently made an edit that probably was only rejected, because the reviewer was afraid to check if the added content was correct or not (not much was added, see https://math.stackexchange.com/...