Questions tagged [room-owner]
For questions about room owners of chat rooms, who get certain moderation privileges over a chat room without being a full moderator. Consider adding the tag [chat] as well.
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Follow chat room feature (for everyone or just ROs, depending on which is better)
Can we have an option to follow a chat room? This may seem like overkill if you are only familiar with highly active chat rooms, but there have been times where I (or another user replying to my ...
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When being made a room owner automatically or by another room owner, notify me or ask for my confirmation
Stack Exchange should be inclusive.
Owning a chat room implies association with that room. A user might object to such association if it conflicts with how they see themselves. This recently happened ...
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How do I add a feed for a chatroom?
Suppose I want every starred message in a specified chatroom to be posted in my chatroom. How should I add the feed in my chatroom?
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Push whois to all chat rooms, identifying room owners and local elected moderators
The Teacher's Lounge--the Network-wide chat room for elected moderators--used to have a whois bot. Its functionality was pretty simple:
nitsua60> whois meta mods
Feed> I am aware of 3 ...
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Reconsider not inviting people into chat rooms when their messages are moved, or make it optional
In 2013, there was a feature request asking to disable the chat system's behavior to invite people into rooms when their messages are moved. That request was declined for the following reason:
The &...
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Proposed change to how chat room flags are seen by users who can take care of them
So you know how currently a flag is immediately seen by the entire 10k+ rep users community and all the mods in every room. That's not right.
What I'm proposing:
When a flag is raised, at first only ...
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Can room owners see their deleted rooms?
Basically I just want to ask whether a room owner can see deleted room, transcript, messages in that room.
This came up in a recent conversation in chat with another user who mentioned that they ...
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Creating a chat event as a room owner of a site's main chat - should it show up on Community Events?
I created a chat event for space.stackexchange in its main chat room. It happens tomorrow so it should show up in the sidebar of the main site already, but it doesn't. It's been an hour now so I'm ...
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Make search box preselected when initiating message move
As a room owner, you can move messages to another chat room. When you do that, a box where you can search for a suitable target room is displayed.
(In more detail, when you select "move messages" ...
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Unpinned messages stay starred [duplicate]
I just ran across a bug in chat. If you are the room owner, you have the ability to pin/unpin messages. However, recently I ran a test (in my own private chat-room, don't worry! :) ) to see how many ...
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Chat owner's name not in italics
I recently noticed in The Pitstop that the room owner, @Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2, doesn't have his name in italics, like most room owners do. Is this a bug?
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Apostrophes show up as ''' in chat room timeout reason
I was playing with the new room owner power on chat, timeouts, and passed I'm testing this as timeout reason. However, this showed up as:
This room was placed in timeout for 30 seconds; I'm ...
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Synchronize mod status with chatroom ownership
As far as I can tell, changes in mod status -- becoming a mod, or ceasing to be -- does not immediately affect which rooms that user owns.
When a site enters beta and gets a chatroom, the pro-tem ...
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I removed myself from being a room owner by mistake. Can I undo it?
I have changed my access, I was owner of chat room and I gave myself explicit read access so I was automatically removed as the owner.
Is there any rule that you can be a part of only one thing in ...
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Simplify Room Owner moderatorship and allow consistency
I haven't been a Room Owner all that long, but I am already beginning to miss some features that would enable me to allow for more consistent moderation of rooms I am involved in.
As Room Owner of 2 ...
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Starring or Pinning a message that got cleared by a room owner gives off a wrong error message
Imagine the following situation:
Message gets posted in room
User A (room owner) pins the message (or for that matter, user a which is not a room owner, stars it).
User B (another room owner) clears ...
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What powers do chat room owners have? [duplicate]
The FAQ says:
Each room has owners, who can change various room settings and transfer ownership to other users.
And:
There are not a lot of responsibilites connected to room ownership, just a ...
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May I be a chat owner/administrator for the MySQL chat room? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Chat clean up & owner rules
The current owner of The MySQL chat room (info) hasn't showed up for as long as I've been frequenting the room. I'm the most active member of the (...
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