Linked Questions
29 questions linked to/from Employee profiles are now marked with a “Staff” indicator
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Keep "Employee" on the profile of SE employees on meta [duplicate]
Currently, SE employees are given diamonds wherever they need them. I agree with Jeff on this to some degree, employees shouldn't be treated any different.
But... on meta, employees are different. ...
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How can I verify an account as belonging to a Stack Exchange employee? [duplicate]
Recently on Meta SO, someone reported an animated ad. Someone using the name Will Westendorf responded, with the claim that they are an official Stack Exchange employee. However, their profile does ...
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Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange
This is an unofficial list/changelog of new features and various changes to Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network.
It is maintained by the community, while a Stack Exchange employee changes ...
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New post lock available on meta sites: Policy Lock
We have just released a new type of post lock on meta sites called the Policy Lock. This lock can only be used by our Community Team, and when applied to a question or answer it will prevent any edits ...
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Deprecating our mobile views
Update 2
On March 2, 2022 we removed the Mobile button from the footer. This means the mobile views are removed entirely from Stack Overflow. Last week, we also removed the Disable Responsiveness ...
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New Staff and Mod Labels on site metas and Meta Stack Exchange
Update: As can be seen on this post and elsewhere on the site, the styling for the mod/ staff labels has been modified, and hopefully will not pop out and be as overwhelming as the original colors:
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Allow ex-moderators to opt-in to having a mark on their profile indicating they were a moderator
As most of us know, Kev is retiring from being a moderator.
Kev has done an outstanding job in moderating Stack Overflow, and while he won't be a moderator anymore, it doesn't feel right that this ...
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Add an immediately visible indication that a user is a staff member or an employee of SE
With the recent change in the moderator privilege distribution among staff members, not everyone gets an immediately visible diamond symbol next to their name.
Hovering over a user card is not the ...
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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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We need a "former staff" account flag [duplicate]
Not too long ago a flag in user accounts was added to help denote SO staff
The catch here is that it doesn't indicate who was previously staff. This problem was originally limited to tertiary ...
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Can moderators from other sites be differentiated here?
I am active mainly on Programmers now, but keep an eye out on meta and stackoverflow for questions about Programmers. Several times I have seen questions/answers from our moderators, but the only ...
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Differentiate between employees and moderators [duplicate]
My understanding of who has diamonds:
All moderators have diamonds on the sites they moderate and their respective meta
Stack Exchange employees have diamonds everywhere they're needed
Right now, ...
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Can we have a square or triangle or heart or *something* after employees' names?
Given that not all employees have a diamond:
All Stack Overflow employees aren't given a moderator diamond; the Community team has tightened up internal policies regarding who gets one and who ...
ChrisFMod
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What privileges and tools do staff members without a diamond have access to?
I noticed that Teresa's recent announcement's first revision was posted with the featured tag.
As we know well, this tag is a moderator-only tag. Regular users cannot apply this tag to a question.
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SpevacusMod
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Text color on "Moderator" and "Staff" labels is hard to read
The "Moderator" and "Staff" labels on employee/moderator profiles have black colored text now:
Especially the "Moderator" label is pretty hard to read now, so this is ...
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