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    Do you have the stats to indicate the volume of reading/time commitment required? It seems to me that there are more long-term issues which need to be resolved before equivocation about moderating chattiness becomes pressing.
    – W.O.
    Commented Oct 30, 2019 at 23:26
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    @Weare - I'm not sure what you mean. I don't see any reason why the time commitment would be different from a site moderator - up to the individual how much time they want to invest in it. As for more pressing issues.... so? Whether or not there are more pressing issues shouldn't matter to the validity of a suggestion itself.
    – Mithical
    Commented Oct 31, 2019 at 0:15
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    @PolyGeo - not necessarily. Someone should be able to become a chat moderator without also being a site moderator, because the skills needed differ greatly. However, one should not preclude the other.
    – Mithical
    Commented Oct 31, 2019 at 0:39
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    Perhaps not in the last month or so, but there was a time a few months ago when there might be half a dozen chat rooms created per day on worldbuilding.se (a minor site among the 173 sites on the network), the workload would hardly seem insignificant. As to validity - I agree, I've not voted yet.
    – W.O.
    Commented Oct 31, 2019 at 0:40
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    "And... basically? It doesn't" Don't generalize. For example, on ruSO we have mods and Room owners. And we don't have such issue.
    – Suvitruf - Andrei Apanasik
    Commented Oct 31, 2019 at 0:43
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    @SuvitrufsaysReinstateMonica Though chat flags still go out to all diamonds everywhere. This part of chat moderation, at the very least, is mechanically worse than useless IMHO. So even in the chats that do work well (I think RPG's is also a great one), there are still issues.
    – Rubiksmoose
    Commented Oct 31, 2019 at 1:05
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    If the chat moderators are to be super moderators then I could not vote for this. If you are proposing a separation of chat moderators and Q&A moderators with complementary powers then I might.
    – PolyGeo
    Commented Oct 31, 2019 at 1:08
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    "We need oversight for the diamond moderators in chat!" "But who will oversee the overseers?!"
    – Drew
    Commented Oct 31, 2019 at 2:09
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    @Drew - staff members, which I outlined in the post
    – Mithical
    Commented Oct 31, 2019 at 6:19
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    @PolyGeo - I think that site moderators should have some level of power in chat, especially the ones patented to their site. But I don't think we can depend on them to moderate chat in general, and recent events have proven that there does need to be some way to moderate the moderators.
    – Mithical
    Commented Oct 31, 2019 at 6:22
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    @SonictheReinstateMonica-hog - Yes, but someone who knows that can avoid it. I know of one user in particular who always leaves after two kicks in order to avoid that restriction being applied.
    – Mithical
    Commented Oct 31, 2019 at 7:37
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    @Rob - What? How is this a duplicate of that? This is a feature request for something that doesn't exist, how can it be a duplicate of an announcement saying that the CoC is going to be applied more in chat?
    – Mithical
    Commented Oct 31, 2019 at 15:03
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    Teachers’ Lounge will be overhauled: meta.stackexchange.com/a/337228
    – Emil Jeřábek
    Commented Oct 31, 2019 at 17:06
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    Sounds like a lot of work, and who is going to set the standards for chat, overall?
    – user316129
    Commented Nov 1, 2019 at 14:57
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    @Adám - No, these hypothetical mods would not have any power outside of chat. Their sphere of influence would be purely contained to chat.
    – Mithical
    Commented Sep 8, 2021 at 21:10