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SE is breaking the reputation privilege system
Something worth considering is that if these 'new' users get to 200 rep without understanding the system, through 'lower standards' - we have a whole bunch of users without good mentorship, or an idea ...
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Please follow your own policies on making new policies
On the topic of "policies" on policies, answer posts to What is the network policy regarding AI Generated content? got deleted with a staff comment saying:
Deleting this because we don't ...
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SE is breaking the reputation privilege system
TL;DR: We are not going through with these changes unless the site's community specifically asks for it.
The question of the GenAI reputation thresholds for privileges has caused some confusion and ...
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SE is breaking the reputation privilege system
I don't think this is a bad idea for a new site - that's why we have lower thresholds for "private beta" sites after all. But lacking that particular bit of friction, other mitigation will ...
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How can I ask a question regarding moderator related issues if I don't have access to the Teachers' Lounge or the Stack Moderators team?
I must say that I am extremely disappointed in αλεχολυτ's behaviour. I am probably speaking out of school, and I expect that there may be consequences for me, but I do think that it is important for ...
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Why wasn't the guidance to moderators on how to moderate AI Generated content made publicly available?
I wouldn't say that the problem is that we didn't got the same level of detail the moderators got, the issue is that we got a DIFFERENT policy from what they got.
I expect and accept that not every ...
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SE is breaking the reputation privilege system
I think there are a few privileges that must be fixed
Close votes: 15 rep
I have the 100 rep association bonus, which means that I, someone who has zero posts on GenAI and limited experience with AI ...
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What about the introduction of a new feature which raises the requirement for moderators to close questions from experienced users?
You—or the people whom you quote—are confusing experience in software development (or perhaps life in general?) with experience in Stack Overflow's Q&A system. They are not the same thing. Stack ...
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What kind of percentages are reasonable for moderator consensus on the company violating the Mod Agreement?
We should turn to Robert's Rules of Order for some guidance.
The first step is to define a quorum. According to the Rules of Order, this offers "protection against totally unrepresentative action ...
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Give mods access to the draft count and pasted content of answer posts to help them detect ChatGPT answers
As a moderator, I'd be against having access to this information.
Numerous concerns have been raised in the comments (and other answers) already, but it boils down to two reasons why this is a bad ...
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Why is comment history a mod-only privilege?
I'm not answering the "why", but skipping directly to a possible solution
I think the sensible way to deal with this is:
Let mods see all history to check any violations, flags, complaints (...
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Give mods access to the draft count and pasted content of answer posts to help them detect ChatGPT answers
please give mods the following information for answer posts: [...] All content pasted into the post body input for each revision.
I'm against providing mods access to all content pasted into the post ...
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Give mods access to the draft count and pasted content of answer posts to help them detect ChatGPT answers
Draft contents: NO
As many others have described, there are multiple problems with providing access to this information, including very significant privacy issues. There are also technical issues with ...
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What kind of percentages are reasonable for moderator consensus on the company violating the Mod Agreement?
The denominator should not be "every single mod"
Not all moderators are active. To be blunt, it's actually surprising that some of them have managed to keep their diamonds for so long — I ...
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How can I ask a question regarding moderator related issues if I don't have access to the Teachers' Lounge or the Stack Moderators team?
Well - you fix the issue that resulted in you losing access to those spaces, and get in touch with the community team to regain such access.
I'd also point out there's no such list, it's generally ...
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What about the introduction of a new feature which raises the requirement for moderators to close questions from experienced users?
As an experienced user (more than 3k on multiple sites) and a moderator (on 3 sites), I've literally spent thousands of hours on the network in total and am probably something approaching a subject ...
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How often was the moderator conduct review process used and what were the outcomes?
Since 2020, this process has been initiated 36 times, with 32 different moderators (an average of slightly less than once per month). The aggregated outcomes are 17 violations being found and 19 cases ...
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How can I ask a question regarding moderator related issues if I don't have access to the Teachers' Lounge or the Stack Moderators team?
Access to moderator spaces, including your per-site mod room, the Teachers' Lounge, and the Stack Moderators Team is limited to active moderators who have signed the Moderator Agreement, because those ...
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Why is accounts merging only possible by staff?
I can answer this because it happened exactly at the time I was transitioning from a moderator to an employee, back in 2013.
Every effort was expended to allow moderators to keep this ability; the ...
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What is the meaning of the different diamond colors shown to moderators in the top bar?
What is the diamond for?
On the top bar, moderators have a diamond icon which functions as an inbox for certain events. Each site has its own diamond inbox, so as a moderator on three sites, I have ...
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Why do moderators need to delete accounts?
First, you need to realise that deleting accounts is the default. Moderators on most sites delete far more accounts than they suspend¹. The majority of these deleted accounts have only contributed ...
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Give mods access to the draft count and pasted content of answer posts to help them detect ChatGPT answers
I don't see much need for this feature. Seeing every draft would be worthless. Unless you love to see every spelling error I correct, every phrase I rewrite to feel less blunt, and every word I change ...
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Which sites have customized their help center homepage?
Here is a userscript (a simplified version of this one here) which you can run on the site list to see which sites have altered the Help Center homepage:
// ==UserScript==
// @name Help Center ...
GlorfindelMod
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Any script that automatically deletes unlinked imgur images?
It's worth remembering that images aren't only used in posts - we also use imgur for images uploaded to chat, so I don't think removing the images is as simple as checking whether they're currently in ...
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SE is breaking the reputation privilege system
I'm not sure why they are (wanting to) do(ing) this. Perhaps they got complaints from new users unable to comment and entering a rant.
I would think they are trying to include everybody in the site ...
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Attempt to change high contrast option for Community user leads to an empty popup notice
You may notice that the "Settings" tab has been removed from the Community user's profile, so you have to hit the URL directly to even get to that page.
I haven't locked down the specific ...
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Allow moderators to more easily undelete comments
This has been implemented. The undelete option now shows for moderators on deleted comments.
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The post block of redaction, which is waiting for an approvement, is out of the borders in the Mod control panel
Wow, only 3 years eh, there's an SLA for you ha. Should be all good now!
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Unsuspend link on meta is broken
This was a proper 'chuck it at the new guy' fix.
And as the new guy, I'm pleased to report that it's sorted - markdown does work in our templates, but this one had for some reason been set as a string....
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Paginating on Suspicious Voting Patterns Moderator Tools page drops percentVotes Query Parameter?
We've recently done a complete overhaul on this page which nullifies this request as these filter options are no longer available. While we're currently testing the page out with the mods (as of July ...
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