Search Results

Note: If you're looking for a simple explanation as to why comments aren't required on downvotes, see Why isn't providing feedback mandatory on downvotes, and why are ideas suggesting such negative …

There are times when moderators come across things that only Stack Exchange employees can deal with. These include things like deleting sensitive information permanently from posts disassociating user …

Given that not all employees have a diamond: All Stack Overflow employees aren't given a moderator diamond; the Community team has tightened up internal policies regarding who gets one and who doe …

I've just noticed that the full text you get on the First Posts review queue includes: When in doubt, upvote the question and leave a comment to help the user out, or click Skip if you are not sur …

When we get the following flag: possible vandalism: edits (auto) We see a set of links to the posts that have been edited. This means that to check that edit is valid we have to click the link …

When winterba.sh is blocked by over zealous network administrators the sites are unusable. Pages time out or take a very long time to load. You can't even opt out of the hats as that requires openin …

I have reverted the profile image to be an identicon and sent a message to the user about the inappropriateness of using that particular image.

I follow the Twitter accounts of the sites where I moderate. Over the weekend I noticed that they were Tweeting meta questions. These questions were really esoteric questions that only someone very in …

Check the footer of each page. There you'll find links to all* the other sites in the network. UPDATE Yes, some form of indication of what the site was about would be useful - perhaps as a tooltip w …

You could mark the question as a "favourite" - the star underneath the vote count. You can then access it from the "favorites" tab of your profile. I know the terminology isn't quite right, but it wi …

It has been implemented. It takes a few seconds to appear, but when it does just click it and the whole question disappears.

I had a similar issue in June & I e-mailed team@stackoverflow. This is their response: It's definitely being awarded, I see awards on 6-24, 6-22 x2, 6-21 x2, 6-20 x2.. etc. Oh wait, we d …

On Software Engineering I've been adding a message along these lines to old(ish) questions that have enough answers to be CW if they start getting new answers. Please read all of the existing answ …

While processing the reopen queue on Super User I was presented with this: https://superuser.com/review/reopen/88150 I was immediately suspicious as a) the question was quite detailed and b) the onl …

On StackApps I'm getting: member for 37 days seen 13 secs ago visited 47 days, 19 consecutive Which is most weird as if I've only been a member for 37 days how can I have visited on 47 day …