Linked Questions
18 questions linked to/from The new moderator agreement is now live for moderators to accept across the network
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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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Moderation Strike update: Data dumps, choosing representatives, GPT data, and where we’re holding
Update
On August 2nd, 2023, negotiations between community representatives and representatives of the company concluded with an agreement being reached. The details of the agreement can be found at ...
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Changing how community leadership works on Stack Exchange: a proposal and rough timeline
For nearly fifteen years, Stack Exchange community leadership has taken a very simple form: there is the community-at-large, and there are moderators elected by ranked-choice voting. This system is ...
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Under what circumstances will Stack Exchange, Inc. share private/sensitive information with the press?
What are Stack Exchange, Inc.'s policies regarding whether and when private or sensitive information will be shared by the company with the public, and particularly with the press?
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What would you like to change about the moderator election process?
Update – February 13th, 2024
Thank you to everyone who provided feedback and expressed their interest in joining the working group. The selection has been made, and those individuals have been invited....
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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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What's the reasoning behind the vote button tooltips having changed?
I recently noticed that the vote button tooltips have changed. They now say:
Downvote this <post-type> if you find it unclear or not useful
Upvote this <post-type> if you find it clear ...
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Stack Overflow 2020 Q1&2 Company Commitments Report Card
Five months ago, Teresa Dietrich posted an introduction and a mission statement of sorts, laying out some admissions of past failures, and intentions for the new year. This was followed by two ...
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Does Stack Exchange have a responsibility to protect the rights of their volunteers?
The question is focused on the company's responsibility for taking action without just cause against an appointed moderator on Meta Stack Exchange (herein called SE).
There is a moderator contract ...
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What is Meta Stack Exchange, and how does it work?
Meta Stack Exchange seems to have different rules and user behavior than the "regular" Stack Exchange sites. How is it different?
Individual questions answered below:
What do votes mean ...
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The Community Teams @ Stack Exchange and how we work together
I wanted to share with you about who the people that work on our Community are, and how we are organized. For context, I (Teresa Dietrich) am the head of Product, Community, Design and Engineering, a ...
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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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What is the process for a moderator to request reinstatement or appeal a removal?
Please leave any feedback or questions about this process on this other post.
From time to time, moderators will step down or be removed from their positions — they may have expressed their wish to ...
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Can usage of the mod-agreement-policy tag trigger a moderator notification?
When a new question is tagged mod-agreement-policy I'd like it to trigger a moderator notification.
I ask because the new moderator agreement requires:
I will abide by all other officially announced ...
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Will a draft of the new moderator agreement be published on Meta to solicit feedback before it's implemented?
Will a draft of the new moderator agreement (see The Q1 2020 Community Roadmap is on the Blog) be published on SE Meta to solicit feedback before it's implemented? After all, non-moderator users have ...
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