## How to contact moderators

 1. Contact them in a chat room. Many moderators are active in one or more chat rooms, and pinging them (with a simple @[whatever-their-name-is]) can notify them, and then you can discuss whatever you want to discuss. A user must have posted a message in the chatroom in the past week for a normal user to be able to ping them. Also, I noticed your main site is Super User, so [this](https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/114/ask-a-super-user-moderator) might help you.
 2. Email link in profile. Some people put an email link in their profile, to make themselves available for contact. However, some people might not want to be contacted for in-site matters.
 3. Bring it up on the per-site meta. For some things that you think are very important (e.g. a deleted your answer which you think was a good answer) you can bring it up on the per-site meta of your site. The per-site meta can be found by clicking the SE logo in the top right, which should open a menu with the option to take you to the per-site meta. Note: this site (meta SE) does not have a per site meta.
 4. Flag a post for moderator attention. I would **highly** recommend against doing this in most situations, but it is an option.

## Response to your first example
Editing the post should have placed it into the re-open queue, so maybe it hasn’t been reviewed yet (as the queue has a massive backlog on some sites), or maybe your question still has problems. I would recommend bringing it up in chat, or maybe the per-site meta if chat doesn’t work.

## Response to your second example
As mentioned in the comments, that suggested edit was approved by community members, not a moderator. If you don’t like the edit, you can [roll it back](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17038/what-is-a-rollback), and you can leave a comment saying something like “hi @[editors-username], I rolled back your edit because of [reason], if you think it was a good edit I would be happy to discuss it in the comments”.


## Answer to specific questions

 1. No.
 2. See above.
 3. Chat is a real time messaging system, and yes, only some users use chat, not all of them. Looking at some posts on your sites per-site meta that have the keyword “chat” on them or checking out [the chat site](https://chat.stackexchange.com/?tab=all&sort=active) (note that [meta chat](https://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/?tab=all&sort=active) and [stack overflow chat](https://chat.stackoverflow.com/?tab=all&sort=active) have different links).
 4. You can create a chatroom if you have enough reputation, but the only way to bring it to a users notice is by pinging them, and if you can ping somebody you already have a way to talk to them most of the time (exception: diamond moderators can ping a user who isn’t active in a chatroom).
 5. They may have a link in their profile, or be active in chat. Also, commenting *is* appropriate in that situation.
 6. Moderator flags (though for more important stuff than a disagreed edit, unless an edit war starts), the per-site meta, and the contact us link for Stack Exchange (Note that this should only be used for **very important** stuff, and a disagreement about an edit doesn’t even come close).