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Canned Moderation Responses

I have a doc that I keep with some "canned" moderation responses. I add them as comments when going through the mod queue. Since a large portion of the community participates in moderation activities, ...
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Seeking consensus on closing problematic questions

It seems like there's been less voting to close since Pro-Tem moderators were appointed. Us moderators can only close a question, we can't vote to close, and we'd prefer to have the site run ...
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2023: a year in moderation

It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here might be ...
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2021: a year in moderation

As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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2020: a year in moderation

As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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2018: a year in moderation

It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land... A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated: We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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2019: a year in moderation

It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land... A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated: We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement

Early in this beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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How are moderators choosen for the site?

I am curious how mods are chosen for the site and if we can provide feedback/evaluate for them. I know that SO has had elections before.
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Series of trivial edits

This minor issue came up when one my posts was edited in a trivial way, and then approved. Essentially, the edit was to change the spelling of one word. I see Batman rejected it as too trivial. ...
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2022: a year in moderation

As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Why is Definition of a bunny hop on hold?

Yesterday, I asked Definition of a bunny hop and is was put on hold as primarily opinion-based by Gary.Ray♦ yesterday Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, ...
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Unusual Rep activity - Is there a way to track it for Moderators?

To our other Moderators: In the last 48 hours I've had a series of rather unusual upvotes. If they are legit, then obviously I don't mind, but it seems... unusual. Is there a way to track whether it ...
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How does one flag a user for potential abuse/moderation

This person is on a tear right now: https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/users/44484/embalm-you Pretty classic shitposting, IMO. But there's nothing in the UI of their profile for me to flag them. Am I ...
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Disappearing Questions

I've noticed a few questions disappear without a trace from the main site. Not that it's a big loss (I voted to close them) but there is no trace left of their existence. I have access to the ...
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