Questions tagged [user-labels]
Use this for questions about the labels showing next to user names, indicating that they are moderators/staff/bot.
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Staff label is not shown beside the staff username in 'Recent Badges'
This is how the 'Recent Badges' section looks like in MSE home page: (you have to hide hot network questions in the profile settings in order to see it)
When I saw a particular user, whom I did not ...
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The Community user incorrectly has the staff label on all sites
I've noticed that the Community user has a staff label on all sites now:
It also shows on user links on meta sites:
However, this is incorrect: the Community user is not a staff member. It is not a ...
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Can we have a little whitespace between lines in user cards?
I just noticed the usercard of our Community Manager Salmon_of_Wisdom in this question, where they made an edit (which was superseded by another edit, yes one by me):
As their username is relatively ...
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The /help/staff page inconsistently uses "label", "marker", and "tag" to describe what denotes staff
In /help/staff, this is mentioned:
How can I identify a staff member?
Staff fall into one of two categories, with different indicators:
General staff - these staff members represent the bulk of our ...
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"Bot" label appears next to my username when I delete a comment posted by the Community bot
On this post:
A user asked an off-topic question
The community closed it
An irrelevant comment was posted by the Community Bot
I (a moderator) deleted the irrelevant comment
My username in the ...
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Labels have incorrect spacing in timeline
I found two posts where user labels apparently have incorrect spacing in some timeline events.
Example 1: The label overlaps a username.
Example 2: The label has zero spacing from the username in the ...
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User labels, such as the Community user's "Bot" label, are missing in the "Reviewer Stats" panel
Since Please use the new Mod/Staff label tech to identify Community as a bot, I expected the Community user to always show a trailing "Bot" label.
When looking at old suggested edit review ...
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Should Community’s profile page say "Hi, I'm not really a person.”?
The first few words in Community's profile page are
Hi, I'm not really a person.
Should these be removed?
Arguments I can think of for removing.
It’s redundant, the [bot] label is quite visible, and ...
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Please give Community its diamond back [duplicate]
Recently a long standing request has been fulfilled, identifying the Community user as a bot.
I'm highly in favour of this change, especially with regards to the new stream of comments posted by it ...
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Verify users like Instagram's blue tick [duplicate]
Stack Overflow is no more just a simple ask/answer website. For me as a consultant and manager in industry, when I want to hire an engineer, watching the profile and the score of that engineer is a ...
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Add a "Co-Founder (Former)" label
The blog is showing a clear label for authors who are former co-founders of Stack Exchange:
Why is Jeff Atwood's title "Co-Founder (Former)" on The Overflow?
Can the same be applied on ...
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Can other bots have an identifying label, too? Even user-run bots?
Now that the Community user is going to be explicitly labelled as a bot, how about adding the same label to other bot accounts, too?
There is an old request for essentially the same thing, but at the ...
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Can we please avoid calling this staff / bot / mod identifying label a "badge"?
Recently, indicators have been added to make explicit the fact that some accounts have a special status. Unfortunately, the term "badge" has been used to describe this feature; but calling ...
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Please use the new Mod/Staff label tech to identify Community as a bot
We now have some really fancy new staff and moderator labels. They've gotten good reception, and I genuinely like them—they work well.
Included in response to this feature was a request by Laurel ...
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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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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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Employee profiles are now marked with a “Staff” indicator
As of 31 July 2019, all staff member accounts have "Staff" next to their name on their user profile.
It looks like this:
(This is an updated image from the original one included in this ...
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