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24 questions linked to/from What is the process for a moderator to request reinstatement or appeal a removal?
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Can a fired moderator be elected as a moderator? [duplicate]
While this question is inspired by recent events, it is an independent question and not tied down to any specific moderator or situation.
There's precedent for a moderator who resigned their diamond ...
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Publish a procedure for reinstating a removed moderator [duplicate]
As part of the follow-up to their hurried removal of Monica Cellio from her moderator position at six different Stack Exchange communities, Stack Overflow, Inc. has committed to "releas[ing] an ...
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What are the rules for moderator re-appointment after suspension? [duplicate]
It seems to be Stack Exchange's policy, that moderators are elected for life and can also be reinstated when they wish to continue their duties after stepping down. (example).
I have now heard of/...
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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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Checking in with moderators that suspended their activity
As of December 24th, 2019, there seem to be maybe 24 moderators who suspended activity and are still in that state as a result of the ongoing fiasco centered around SE's firing of Monica Cellio. ...
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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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Introducing the Moderator Council - and its first, pro-tempore, representatives
When I was a moderator, I often referred to moderation on Stack Exchange as being a janitor: cleaning up spam, deleting non-answers, removing rudeness, and eradicating a seemingly-endless stream of ...
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How can we move forward if SE will not admit to wrongdoing for legal reasons?
As I understand, one of the major grievances of the community recently over the situation with Monica is that the Stack Exchange team has not apologized for or admitted to any wrongdoing over making ...
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The new moderator agreement is now live for moderators to accept across the network
Today, we’re announcing that the new moderator agreement is live and the existing moderators are being asked to accept it. This has been a great collaboration to get from a draft in November 2019 to ...
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Feedback post: New moderator reinstatement and appeal process revisions
We have not made any significant changes to the current moderator reinstatement policy since it was released. Though it has functioned well for the cases to which it was applied, we acknowledge that ...
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Questions about the new minimum age for diamond moderators
Today we've released a policy that moderators must be 18 years old or older to be diamond moderators on our sites. Since the policy post isn't well-suited to address questions about the policy, that's ...
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Why was this flag on alleged Code of Conduct violations declined?
Monica recently posted a question making her case to the community, she argued:
My patience is not infinite; the company has already dragged this out for nearly a month while harm continues to ...
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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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Why is the Moderator Council's role in the new reinstatement process such weak sauce?
The setting
Two months ago, the "Moderator Council" was introduced, with a simple charter:
a small group to escalate urgent or important issues or review our work before we make it public
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Has the October 2019 moderator reinstatement process actually been used?
In October 2019, a new process for the reinstatement of former moderators was released.
Has any former moderator gone through this process far enough to receive a determination? If so, what do we ...
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Shouldn't users who are unfairly banned be compensated somehow?
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User gets banned on a site for a week for the first time.
User responds to the moderator message appealing the ban.
Seeing no response from the mods, user writes to SE staff using ...
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How can a site without moderators start the process to get elected and/or appointed moderators?
In a chatroom, someone mentioned having trouble with an aged away spam flag on Ask Patents (the spam is still there as of the posting of this question, weeks after it was posted), and another user ...
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Let's provide a way to expunge old suspensions
All the changes happening in the world have made me think about how "records" affect people even years after they have arguably "served their time". Stack Exchange has followed the ...
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Are existing moderators allowed to stand in elections for reconfirmation?
A while ago, I noticed that existing moderators were re-nominating themselves for elections. In other words, the system allows existing moderators to nominate in elections (even though they are ...
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What if Monica runs for Moderator in an open election?
There is an agreement between Monica Cellio and SE about the slander issues.
And an offer to consider using the moderator reinstatement process? which everyone knew before the offer was made she ...
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An apology to our community, and next steps
I’m David Fullerton, Stack Overflow’s CTO, responsible for the product, engineering, and community teams.
I joined Stack Overflow in 2010 because I believed in the vision and mission of Stack ...
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Feedback post: Moderator review and reinstatement processes
Update (2020-06): A new revision to the reinstatement process linked below has been posted. Please go to Feedback post: New moderator reinstatement and appeals process revisions for an intro and ...
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Update: an agreement with Monica Cellio
Stack Overflow and Monica Cellio have come to an agreement. We believe that Ms. Cellio was not acting with malicious intent. We believe she did not understand all of the nuances and full intent and ...
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