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Tools available to ♦ moderators. If your question is about the "access to moderator tools" privilege (granted at 10k rep on graduated sites, 2k on beta sites), use [10k-tools] instead. PLEASE REDACT SENSITIVE INFORMATION from screenshots before you post.

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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 posts, th …
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Hot Meta Posts: Allow for removal by moderators, and thoughts about future improvements

It might be interesting/useful if meta posts could "become hot" even when they're not new. For instance, the system could perhaps detect "bursts" of upvotes after a sufficiently long period of more-o …
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53 votes
0 answers
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Allow moderators to issue warnings to reviewers using the review suspension system

This would basically function as a zero-day suspension: the reviewer would get the message in exactly the same way they would for a review suspension, except that they can keep reviewing afterward. Ba …
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60 votes
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Custom comment flags should not auto-delete comments or be automatically marked helpful

Currently, if a user flags a comment with the "Something else" flag option, and that comment matches the regex to be deleted by a single flag, the comment is immediately deleted and the flag marked he …
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58 votes
2 answers
640 views

Allow moderators to view close and delete vote history

Currently, moderators cannot view anything in the "Votes" tab of the profile of other users. Quite sensibly, we can't view individual up/down votes at all. However, the other four tabs (Deletion, Und …
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29 votes
1 answer
210 views

Red-flagged question titles are no longer shown to moderators

Instead of the title, I just see "This question was marked as spam or rude or abusive and is therefore not shown": While this is the correct behavior for non-moderators, moderators are supposed to se …
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14 votes

Timeline is lacking an entry if a post is made community wiki again after the community wiki...

It looks like the bug is that after the first instance of adding and removing Community Wiki status, additional Timeline entries aren't generated. In order to reproduce the bug, this (now deleted) pos …
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23 votes
1 answer
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Moderators trying to delete or undelete comments are now prompted to confirm (and canceling ...

As a moderator on a site that I moderate, upon clicking the "delete" link on a comment, I am shown a "Really delete this comment?" browser confirmation prompt; regardless of how I respond, the comment …
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7 votes
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Delete half of a comment

This is already possible. If you want a moderator to edit a comment, you'll want to explain that in a "Something else" comment flag. It's unlikely that a moderator will figure out that you actually o …
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17 votes
0 answers
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Don't use answers with a "Very low quality" flag on them as review audits

"Very low quality" flags are quite ambiguous as to their purpose, without a whole lot of agreement. More relevantly, they're marked helpful by an edit—any edit, even correcting a typo‐often before a …
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21 votes
1 answer
265 views

How can a moderator clear a tag wiki or excerpt?

From time to time, we come across plagiarized content in tag wikis or excerpts that we want to delete. Ideally, we'd rewrite it to something non-plagiarized, but we're not subject-matter experts on e …
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Does the SE network have an effective process in place to deal with aggressively toxic users?

There's a pretty consistent fact about dealing with trolls...almost all trolls eventually get bored and leave. The amount of effort required to continually evade bans only for their posts to be summar …
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12 votes

Are moderators allowed to delete questions and answers without (giving) reasons?

is this even allowed by the ToS because the moderators don't own the questions and answers they didn't write Yes, this is allowed. You still own the content of your posts, but that doesn’t give you …
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