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FAQ for Stack Exchange sites
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Why is SE staff violating SE policy by un-featuring posts about the strike on per-site Metas?
There have been several cases where SE staff has removed the featured tag from per-site Meta posts in relation to the strike, despite no (public) statement from SE regarding that.
Unless there is a ...
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Stack Exchange Moderator FAQ
As per the FAQ for Stack Exchange sites, this FAQ will serve the following purposes:
To be the canonical reference for moderators across the Stack Exchange sites for things that are beyond question (...
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Moderation strike: Conclusion and the way forward
Negotiations between strike representatives and Stack Exchange, Inc. have come to a close, with a mutually acceptable agreement being reached and announced. With that agreement being reached, we'd ...
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Can we have *.stackexchange.com aliases for sites that have their own domain names?
I have a Chrome search engine of the form https://%s.stackexchange.com/ that I use to quickly move between various SE sites (I find this more efficient than bumbling my way through the multicollider).
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Update the "new contributor" indicator on meta to say "new contributor to meta"
Earlier today I saw the New Contributor indicator attached to a user who had 2,700 reputation and had been a member of the site for over 2 years. When I went to leave a comment, I saw a banner of “(...
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Posts destroyed as spam should trigger a retroactive audit failure for previous "No Action Needed" votes
As a moderator on Stack Overflow, I regularly look through the review history of obvious spam that has lasted more than an hour or so on the site. I often find one or two reviewers who voted "No ...
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Markdown change: Intra-word emphasis now works
There are tons of questions I could maybe post this as an answer to, but before choosing the best one, I'll just post this as an announcement question that can be linked elsewhere.
The short story
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Can we please get the full count of new hats now?
If you have earned more than 99 hats since you last checked the hat inbox, the counter gets limited to 99:
There should have been around 300 new hats there, by my count.
The 2-digit restriction is ...
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Give users a way to see their "Positive Question Record" score
I recently got awarded some new badges for different SE sites, however I was a bit surprised at which sites gave me which badges.
The badges are :
Asked a well-received question on 5 separate days, ...
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Bump a deleted answer when it's undeleted, not when it's edited
When a deleted answer is edited, that bumps the thread to the front page and to the active questions list. When a deleted answer is undeleted, that does not bump the thread.
That edits on a deleted ...
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We're regenerating all Gravatar identicons
We've recently discovered a vulnerability in our identicon generation process. To remedy it, we have changed how we approach generating them and regenerated all identicons. We do not have any ...
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Make it clear what exactly we flagged
In the flag summary page, we see now all kinds of flags we submitted including comment flags that until recently were not visible in the summary except for raw number on the side. That's all good.
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How can we improve the Stack Exchange API?
The Stack Exchange API allows users to programmatically query and connect to the Stack Exchange Network of sites.
The API is currently in version 2.3. We’re collecting feedback from users of the API, ...
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Give mods/communities better tools for large retagging jobs
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This issue remains unresolved seven years later. Please enable communities to deprecate tags. I suggest that deprecated tags could no longer be added to question posts (but allowed to remain ...
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Nailing it up on your Community Bulletin Board
Community Bulletin was redesigned on June 23, 2014
More info on Redesigned community bulletin.
As some of you may have noticed, there's a new feature on Stack Exchange:
The Community Bulletin box is ...
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How is question quality measured in A/B tests?
As sites grow, there's a noticeable increase in community unhappiness with question quality. Quite a bit of the problem is simply a matter of scale, but sites sometimes optimize for extremes. Bad ...
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Moderator legal liability
I've scanned the privacy policy, terms of service, and moderator agreement and, so far as I can tell, moderators are fully and completely liable for any and every action they take in the process of ...
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List of communities with base css updates completed
By January 2016, All communities have been updated
The design team has been rolling out design updates to sites as part of network-wide update to a new base css framework. The updates allow us to:
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Flag window redux: proposed syntax
There's been some consternation about the new flagging, but I wanted to focus on the syntax for a moment. I think the current shift doesn't really fix anything and it seems to fall into the same trap ...
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2017: a year in spam
Last year, I posted 2016: a year in spam. Since that was pretty well-received, here’s the 2017 version. Ladies, gentlemen, aliens, and everyone in between: more statistics about spam that you never ...
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Add the ability to cite questions and answers on all Stack Exchange sites
The Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science Stack Exchange sites have a great feature that allows a user to quickly create a citation to answers and questions. This is accomplished by clicking ...
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On downvotes, or more precisely, why people downvote things
After seeing the downvotes survey and, honestly, being very surprised that downvotes are targeted again, I took the initiative to sign up as a completely new user on SO, to understand, in my own way, ...
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Please moderate Facebook comments on the SO page
Not a complaint or a whine, but a polite request because Facebook won't do it.
I reported the comment above, which was posted from a fake account using your name to entice people to send them crypto ...
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Can we get a flair image with a transparent background?
Following up from Can we get flair as an image?, none of the available flair images are a good match for my blog’s theme. “Clean” comes closest, but the white background is wrong for me.
Can we ...
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Display bounty expire time in the bounty tab
When I go to the question details page it shows the expire time form (picture one)... I am requesting it should also show in the bounty tab like (picture two).
I think it will be helpful for question ...
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Send custom flag responses to messages inbox
Long story short: since custom flag responses are messages to users like any other (answer, comment, suggested edit, chat message etc.), users should be notified about them!!
A problem I have with ...
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"Posts by deleted user" page should allow sorting by last activity
One common use of the "Posts by deleted user" page is investigating vandalism by a deleted user (generally part of a rage-quit), either edits or deletions. If the user doesn't have a lot of ...
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Deleted duplicates should show the duplicate target(s)
Some questions on Stack Exchange sites get deleted, but they are still linked from various other places on the internet. I will use this deleted question from Mathematics Stack Exchange as an example....
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Editing bounty messages, is it finally time for a little "Love"? (anti-Doh! feature request)
I start a lot of bounties and when I add a bounty remark I often get it right the first time. Once when a mistake in my message was problematic a moderator was kind enough to take the time to help me ...
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Plans for Updates to Review Queues
Update 2021-08-26: With the release of our Final Workflow Changes, we have finished our work on this project.
We are planning a series of releases over the coming months relating to the work being ...
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Adding a link with a space in front causes the link to not work
When you paste a link into the "Insert Hyperlink" box, it adds it automatically as a citation link:
[Example 1][1]
[1]: http://example.com
But when you paste a link starting with a space , it ...
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Electrical Engineering needs a Markdown solution for overline
The introduction of tables was a great addition to the Electrical Engineering substack, since I often want to quote tables from electronic component datasheets. An actual table is far more functional ...
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When reviewing chat flags, please show two lines of context and underline the message timestamp
Not all communities and rooms are created equal. Some have higher standards than others. Thus, what can be considered offensive in one room may be very well acceptable in another. What makes them ...
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Let's make it easier to get a room
Let's make it easier for people discussing a post in comments to retire to chat, without waiting for comments to pile up until the system prompts them or a moderator acts. There are two main use ...
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When implementing a major design / workflow change, offer an opt-in beta testing option before release
As we've seen recently with both the updated user profile and homepage designs, it's difficult sometimes to gauge the impact that this will have on users' experience just from screenshots or a video ...
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Can we support oEmbed?
From the oEmbed site:
oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on
third party sites. The simple API allows a website to display embedded
content (such as photos or ...
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Steward badge can now be awarded multiple times -- backfill details
As we announced in our post on visual design changes to the Review Queues, the Steward badge can now be earned more than once per queue.
The purpose of this post is not to debate the merits of this ...
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Add accessible skip links
Skip links are a fairly common accessibility design pattern that help screen reader users navigate a page. Stack Exchange pages are large and complex enough that they should probably have skip links ...
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Show mods all network posts with pending migration votes to their site
Is it possible to add a tool that shows mods all posts on the network that have at least one vote to migrate to their site? For example, a page SO moderators can see that shows all posts on the ...
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Winter Bash encourages bad behavior
Besides bringing some fun at the end of the year, some hat awards are meant to incite good behavior and also serve as more relaxed introduction to the Stack Exchange sites and their policies. While ...
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What is the status of the changes to the moderator agreement agreed to during the negotiations in August?
As part of the strike negotiation results, several changes to the Moderator Agreement were agreed upon. These include:
A mandatory review period for binding policies
Stack Exchange, Inc. staff cannot ...
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Stack Overflow and CVE-2021-44228 vulnerability (in Log4J)
Update 2021-12-21:
Mitigation for all Log4j-related 3 CVEs is complete on the following products:
Stackoverflow.com and related (public) websites
Stack Overflow Teams: Free, Basic and Business
Stack ...
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Add links to official status pages in the read-only mode status message
When the site is in read-only mode, I get a message like this:
This site is currently in read-only mode.
Would it be possible to update that message to provide links to these resources on SE's ...
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Accessing extended tag info is almost impossible
The new tag popup makes it easy to watch or ignore particular tags and shows the tag info excerpt. Here's one on EL&U:
However, the full tag info contains a lot more information which helps users....
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Brief maintenances planned for Sat, July 22, 2017 at 00:01 UTC (Fri July 21, 8pm US/Eastern)
Update: The July 21st maintenance is complete. All systems are back to normal now.
There will be a service degradation for up to 20 minutes shortly after Sat, July 22, 2017 at 00:00 UTC (which is Fri,...
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I should be able to review suggested edits to my own posts even if I've hit the review cap
I believe that I should be able to review suggested edits to my own posts even if my suggested edit limit is hit. Furthermore, I believe that reviewing suggested edits to my own post (when I have not ...
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Alpha test for short survey in banner ad slots starting on week of September 25th on SO
TL;DR: Starting on the week of September 25th, we will be showing a short survey in the banner ad slots on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange tech sites.
[EDIT: Since this post was created, some ...
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A user should just be destroyed network-wide automatically if it has no upvoted content and is destroyed on two independent sites by mods already
We get the occasional network spammer who creates accounts on several sites to post their spam.
At the moment when a moderator on site A spots this they have to do one of the following:
Call the ...
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Add quote markup to comments
Comments have a very restricted markup ability. Currently supported text markups available are
Italic text
Bold text
code
One of the very common things people do in comments that is not supported ...
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