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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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Could we get better ways to communicate and apply suspensions on chat?
Chat suspensions are... strange. There's two ways to boot someone off chat - using a suspension on the parent account that's associated with the chat account (And otherwise it's not global)
Suspending ...
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Can the chat message pop-up be inserted after 5 comment "back and forth" argument strategies?
When users complain about a iffy post, they start suggesting edits and then another user gives an explanation on how that edit suggestion is wrong.
The users go back and forth, and then suddenly, when ...
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Allow room owners to grant write access to new users
This discussion has been raised before, but it's always been about helping new users in chat rather than continuing in comments, which allows people to help new users out more instead of just denying ...
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Allow moderators to see the text of "flag for moderator" flags on chat messages after they are handled
Moderators have access to a page which shows recent chat flags from all the rooms on a particular chat server. This is a useful tool, however we cannot see the actual textual content of the flag on a ...
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Allow moderators to see who dismisses or handles chat flags
Moderators have access to a page which shows recent chat flags from all the rooms on a particular chat server. This is a useful tool, however we cannot see who dismissed any particular flag. With a ...
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Reconsider not inviting people into chat rooms when their messages are moved, or make it optional
In 2013, there was a feature request asking to disable the chat system's behavior to invite people into rooms when their messages are moved. That request was declined for the following reason:
The &...
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Appoint chat moderators exclusively responsible for moderating chat
Currently, the way that chat moderation is set up, it relies heavily on site moderators moderating chat in addition to their main Q&A site. Moderators have some pretty powerful tools (freezing ...
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Let's have a formal way for mods to contact the Community Team about suicidal users in chat
There was recently an incident where a user entered a chat room I was in and made remarks that indicated that they might be suicidal. Obviously, we moderators are usually not at all capable of ...
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Better advertising for the chat rooms
There are about three or four people regularly in the ASP.NET MVC chat room every weekday but few others seem to even know it exists. Can Stack Overflow advertise the chat rooms on specific tags?
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Show the site's moderator chatroom on the flag dashboard
As a moderator, on the flag dashboard (/admin/dashboard), I see a box with links to chat rooms. The box always seems to contain the same two rooms: the Teachers' Lounge and a room called MOBotics. I ...
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Implement a 5-minute edit window for annotations in main and chat
As of now, moderator annotations in main and chat (on user profiles) have no edit window. Sometimes I miss certain details or make some spelling or grammar errors at the first go. It would nice if a 5 ...
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Can we make it easier for moderators to notice chat flags when looking at a user's site profile?
A couple years ago SE implemented a user dashboard for moderators, making it much easier to see at a glance a bunch of relevant information, including recent flags raised against the user. This ...
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When moving comments to chat, can the default message be changed?
Moderators have the ability to move comments on questions and answers to a dedicated chat room. When they elect to do that an auto generated comment is created that says
Comments are not for ...
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Add a confirmation dialog before suspending people on chat
At the moment, suspending folks in chat is pretty easy: You press a button, and they can't chat for an hour.
The problem is, this button doesn't have any sort of confirmation. It just... goes ahead ...
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