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Question flags, queues, edits, roomba, community♦, how does this actually work?

Phew, this was a really long request. It took a long time to work through all of this, but I'm going to try. As you've mentioned a lot of this has been documented in multiple places - MSE, MSO, help ...
Taryn's user avatar
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Why are self-deleted posts not shown in the 10k Tools?

I agree. Moderators can access a list of self-deleted posts, but as a moderator I want the community to be watching over deletions, not just mods. 10k users would be able to see those posts if they ...
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Show 10kers a larger list of recently protected questions

As of this morning, there is a new 10k tool under /tools that provides a list of protected questions. The page is found under links at the bottom of the page, and it is similar to some of the other ...
Taryn's user avatar
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21 votes
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What exactly does a VLQ flag do?

The answer to this question has changed since this other answer was posted. Here's how things look in 2017: Yes (mostly because as explained in point 3, there's no guarantee that the flag will do ...
ais523's user avatar
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20 votes

How do you view deleted questions?

Use deleted:1 in your search to see your own deleted posts, assuming you have over 10k rep. From the 10k rep privilege: Viewing deleted posts You now have privileged access to posts that have ...
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19 votes
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What was the "invalid flag" flag? What was the "10k flag queue"?

In an older version of the flagging system, flags were handled by two main queues. The diamond moderators, obviously, could see and act on flags at will; that's one of the main jobs of being a diamond ...
ais523's user avatar
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17 votes
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Post Feedback link is broken

It only took a little over 5 years for me to get around to fixing this, but this link has been put back under /tools and the page should be loading again. I spent a bit of time yesterday looking at ...
Taryn's user avatar
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16 votes

Custom close reason stats should link to the question(s)

Why this matters These stats are a great way to spot bad close reasons. Here's a sampling: I’m voting to close this question because. I’m voting to close this question because it should be closed I’m ...
Ryan M's user avatar
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15 votes

Please lower rep threshold to get automatic notifications about new user activity

That's an old question and that report doesn't exist anymore, not even for ♦ moderators. The privilege page doesn't mention it anymore, and neither does the FAQ. It might have been replaced by ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
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Make the 10k-tools page more visible

Thinking about it, I would like to have the link directly in the top bar: This will give the highest possible exposure to the 10k tools.
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Which deletions are not shown in 10k-tools? Are posts deleted by roomba shown there?

Auto-deleted questions are shown. These are all from the “Recently Deleted” list: We can see posts deleted from spam flags are shown and roomba deleted RemoveAbandonedClosed and RemoveMigrationStubs ...
Cai's user avatar
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10 votes
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No link to the 10k moderation tools when my account has a review suspension

The link to Tools in the Reviews topbar dropdown will now show for users who have enough rep to see it, regardless of review suspension status. did something not good on review queues…it's ok you can ...
Yaakov Ellis's user avatar
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8 votes
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Make review link a drop down

Now that the new top bar is live, the review icon is a drop-down that shows individual queues (color codes, not numbers). From there, you can click on "all queues" or "tools" to get to the familiar ...
Monica Cellio's user avatar
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Who rejected this suggested edit to an orphan tag wiki?

Nobody rejected it. It's not a rejected edit. It became unreviewable because the tag no longer existed while the edit was still pending, and thus there was nothing to connect it to anymore. There is a ...
animuson's user avatar
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Do some types of deleted posts not show up in the Recently Deleted section in the "deleted posts" 10k tool?

Yes, this seems related to the deletion of the account. I've just checked the list of recently deleted posts on Ask Different; one of them was a spam post posted 2 hours ago. I proceeded to destroy ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
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Hide deleted answers with certain characteristics

Simple answer, AdBlock Plus can block this element: stackoverflow.com##.answer.deleted-answer. That's a bit of brute force and removes them all. You can also use this TamperMonkey script with some ...
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Moderator (10k) Tools API?

No, and don't expect that to happen. SE wants to prevent misuse of the data and the system by making available the most used general accessible information (posts, users, comments, etc.). There are a ...
Patrick Hofman's user avatar
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Moderators on Area51 sites

Let me try to clear up your confusion a bit. I know that Stack Exchange sites need moderators. Well, actually they need moderation. This comes in multiple forms: regular users, even with only 15 ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
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What exactly is meant by "flagged and deleted" in the 10k tools help center article?

I have no idea. It's been like that since the initial version in 2013, which may have been copied from somewhere else when the new help center was being filled. So who knows how old that text actually ...
animuson's user avatar
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6 votes

Is it OK to post as new an improved version of a question that was already deleted for being low quality?

If you think that you really can improve the question to the point where it becomes viable (and perhaps even interesting), then I don't see a problem with re-posting an improved version. The issue ...
Bob's user avatar
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6 votes
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Make the "new answers to old questions" view available for people with <10000 reputation

There's now the "Late Answers" review queue that fulfills the "more eyes" request.
ivan_pozdeev's user avatar
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6 votes
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Can question timeline be available for deleted questions for 10k+ users?

This just kinda happened when we released the new timeline. Kind of. What happened is we didn't have any permissions on it at all when it was initially released. That's been corrected so it only shows ...
animuson's user avatar
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6 votes

Let me filter just questions in the mod tools for deletion and undeletion

You can differentiate questions from answers in that list. Answer hyperlinks are body-text sized, while question hyperlinks are larger. I also have a userscript to toggle display of questions and ...
Samuel Liew's user avatar
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6 votes
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The responsive mobile site's top-bar dropdowns are missing related links in each one's header

Sorry for removing those links! It was a bug introduced in our march toward deprecating mobile views. We have a fix on the way!
Dan Cormier's user avatar
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5 votes

How do you view deleted questions?

Data Explorer (SEDE) has PostsWithDeleted table which contains some information on deleted questions. (You can see details here: Database schema documentation for the public data dump and SEDE.) This ...
Martin's user avatar
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5 votes
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Is the /tools/post-feedback page removed?

Not yet since I can still see it: The link is probably gone since they are probably like halfway through the removal process. Of course, this page will be completely removed but in some time in the ...
Anthony Pham's user avatar
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5 votes

Why are self-deleted posts not shown in the 10k Tools?

I assume Stack Exchange does not want to "shame" users. Suppose one wrote a REALLY dumb question or answer, then realised it's bad seconds after posting, and deleted it. While it will always ...
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