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Why is blocked tags list only allowed to edit by the staff, but not on site moderators level? [duplicate]
Modify the list of blocked tags is only possible by the staff as mentioned here.
What the problem we can face if we allow to make it on site's moderators level?
Is there something other than technical ...
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Room moderators should be able to edit the room description and manage lower levels of access
Some private chatrooms, most notably the Teachers' Lounge (the network-wide moderator chatroom), are a special type of private room — a staff-moderated room with appointed "room moderators".
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Move tag info from source tag to the destination in case when destination tag exists, but doesn't have info yet
In tag merging process (available for moderators) when the resulting tag name doesn't exist yet the process will behave like a tag renaming. I.e. all tag info (short and detailed) will be "moved&...
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Can new users not be bait-and-switched?
As a new user on SE, I shared the common new-user experience of questions downvoted, and closed, and the feeling of being kicked around by (well-meaning) moderators, and perhaps worse, the suspicion ...
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What is the purpose of limiting access to edit help center pages?
As far as I know the number of help center pages available to edit by moderators is very limited: What parts of the help center can site moderators edit?
Moreover, I (as a moderator of ruSO) can't ...
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What's the purpose of inactive "apply to answers too" checkbox on mod menu if the item text already refers to answers only?
If there are answers with wiki status, the mod menu for a question contains the following item (Remove wiki from answers):
* text autotranslated from Russian to English
What's the purpose of inactive ...
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Moderator tool to convert an answer into an edit to the question should take labeling for links into account [duplicate]
I (as a mod) added that answer (you need 10k to see) as a complementary edit to the question. The content of question was simply added to the question. Since they both - the question and the deleted ...
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"Posts by deleted user" page should allow sorting by last activity
One common use of the "Posts by deleted user" page is investigating vandalism by a deleted user (generally part of a rage-quit), either edits or deletions. If the user doesn't have a lot of ...
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Blocklist is missing the effect of the listed patterns (warn vs. block type)
The following picture is a redacted example of what <site>.stackexchange.com/admin/blocklist looks like:
While this page is called the blocklist, not all of the patterns are blocked. Some of ...
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For moderators, please add the "undelete" button to all deleted comments
Well, we're not exactly on the same page as a team on undeletions.
In dealing with the comments on this post — I noticed that a comment (with broader context) containing some trigger keyword was ...
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Don't count automatic review comments posted by the Community user as the "previous moderator action" on a post, as they are triggered by normal users
On moderator dashboard each item can contain a last moderator's reaction. That helps a lot prior handling that item by another moderator. But sometimes it's confusing (image taken from SO in Russian):
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Add the ability to switch the interface on international sites to English
Many of you know that I have already made a lot of bug reports on MSE since my "home" site is Stack Overflow in Russian. But, there are still many images there that need to be supplemented ...
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Give mods access to the draft count and pasted content of answer posts to help them detect ChatGPT answers
It's been pointed out to me by several people now that giving moderators access to the content of what people paste is bad for privacy. I initially disagreed (and still hold some thoughts of ...
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Split translatable strings related to review suspension tool
There're many string related to review suspension tool that contain exact substrings. E.g:
Being suspended can be a frustrating experience, but correct reviews help us maintain quality content on the ...
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Please provide communities with custom post-delete-reasons as a moderation tool
Communities (or rather their moderators as representatives of us) can currently set three custom post-close-reasons — in the same manner, I would welcome custom post-delete-reasons as a moderation ...
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Remove the flag counter from admin panel if there're no flags
On the site admin panel there's a flag count icon displayed as a part of "flags" tab:
Could we please remove that icon in the case there're no active flags? i.e. don't show an orange "...
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Move "Mod" link to the right side
I've recently been elected as a moderator to ruSO and my regular-user's muscle memory gives me some fails. In particular since the "Mod" link was added on the left part of the block of links ...
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Add confirmation for saving a tag's syntax highlighting change
♦ moderators have the ability to assign to every tag a default language for syntax highlighting (see the FAQ):
When clicking the Save button, all that happens is that the button gets disabled, which ...
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Should we lower the flag count for spam/rude-abusive for brand new users and chat flags?
While we do love our new users - oftentimes spammers are 1 reputation users, simply cause they (clearly) don't get any votes.
While I do realise there's potential for abuse - it feels like a lower ...
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What about the introduction of a new feature which raises the requirement for moderators to close questions from experienced users? [closed]
There were already similar questions back here in 2011 here in 2009 respectively. However, this issue must be raised again in slightly different manner because the SO platform functionality has ...
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Reduce whitespace between short posts and their comment section [duplicate]
For ♦ moderators, the vote section contains some additional links (to the flag history, and to show deleted comments). For short answers like this one, this causes unnecessary whitespace between the ...
GlorfindelMod
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What's the plan for keeping the moderator Teams instance visible enough to stay useful?
Teams moved. They're going to be completely separated from the actual SE sites. So that means there are no links to them on SE sites, and especially no inbox or notifications about stuff happening in ...
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Close/NAA/VLQ flags: Helpful/Disputed/Declined outcome change
This is a follow-up to: (Flags) Leave Open ~ Declined, Looks OK ~ Disputed?
A long time ago, both types of flags had the same type of behavior. Both would place the post into the respective community ...
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Remove minimum length restriction when moderators edit a revision comment (a.k.a. edit summary)
A moderator can edit a post's revision comment (a.k.a. edit summary). However, when the text is too short, they get an error message that says:
Your edit summary must be at least 10 characters.
On ...
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We need a dedicated plagiarism flag
On Stack Overflow, we've suspected the plagiarism rabbit hole was deep... but we've had some users who are plumbing the depths of that pit and finding out that it's far deeper than anyone realized.
Up ...
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Remove "Wiki Answer" lock option on answers because it's misleading
Currently, moderators can put a "Wiki Answer" lock on both questions and answers. Its description is:
Lock this post to encourage users to edit existing answers. Remember to remove ...
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Custom comment flags should not auto-delete comments or be automatically marked helpful
Currently, if a user flags a comment with the "Something else" flag option, and that comment matches the regex to be deleted by a single flag, the comment is immediately deleted and the flag ...
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Let moderators delete comments while reviewing
Moderators can delete comments from Q&A pages by hovering over them; a red link appears, similar to how deleting one's own comments works:
However, this functionality is not available in the ...
GlorfindelMod
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Delete half of a comment [duplicate]
Often I'll be reading an old post and the comments below it. Sometimes the comments will have lost relevance (such as one about a necessary edit that has since been made), so I flag these for ...
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Allow moderators to view close and delete vote history
Currently, moderators cannot view anything in the "Votes" tab of the profile of other users.
Quite sensibly, we can't view individual up/down votes at all. However, the other four tabs (...
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