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New UI for modifying community-specific close reasons (for moderators) – bugs, feature requests, etc
With recent changes to the closing system, there is also a new interface for moderators to change and create site-specific close reasons. This is generally great, since it allows us to set different ...
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Distinguish comment flag from comment being flagged
I once handled a flag on a post as such:
I first thought they were two separate flags, but after looking at the flag dashboard, only the first thing was a comment flag and the other was the actual ...
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Add a way to hide vote history rows on timelines
On some timelines, mostly on highly-voted, older posts, the vote history rows get in the way of events I'm actually interested in.
Could we have a way to toggle these rows from being displayed?
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Switch edit pencil direction for comments edited by other-than-attributed-author
In this discussion, the issue was raised that moderators' ability to edit comments sometimes results in a situation where a mod is putting words in a user's mouth or having them say something ...
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Mod message lost to network glitch
The timeline:
I started composing a moderator message on French Language.
At 20:53:23Z my router detected that it lost Internet connectivity. I wasn't aware of this yet.
A few minutes later, I hit ...
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Keep moderator post links next to vote buttons
I'm utterly conditioned to expect the moderator post links (flags, deleted comments, timeline) to be right next to the vote buttons and post score bits of the UI.
Now that the vote buttons remain ...
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Merge the “Merge Tags” tool with the synonymous “Create Tag Synonym” tool
There are two moderator tools to create tag synonyms in one go.
There's a “Merge Tags” tool (/admin/merge-tags) which is linked from the list of moderator tools (/admin/links). I can also click the “...
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Make the thread flag footer resizable
When I visit a thread with a pending flag as a moderator, a footer appears with information about the flags.
When there are multiple flags, the footer expands to a fairly large height. I can dismiss (...
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Provide direct links to information pages in the mod menu on posts
There are several moderator tools accessed from the mod menu on a post that open a page containing information about the post:
show N deleted comments
show flag history
show review history
Often I'd ...
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Inconsistencies in the moderator tag synonym and merge tools
There are several inconsistencies in the moderator tools to create and merge tag synonyms. (Note: the tools described in this page are only accessible to ♦ moderators.)
Clicking the “merge” button on ...
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Improve discoverability of comment undeletion for moderators
(Note: this post concerns a moderator-only ability.)
Moderators can undelete comments. I mostly find this useful when there are a lot of obsolete comments on a post: I use the “purge all comments” ...
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Smoother UI for “purge all comments” from the moderator dashboard [duplicate]
From the moderator dashboard, using the “mod → purge all comments” tool refreshes the page. When there are many flagged posts and I'm processing a flag from the middle of the list, this makes it hard ...
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Do not prompt for confirmation to delete a comment in the moderator dashboard [duplicate]
As a moderator, I can delete any comment by clicking on the little cross that appears when hovering on the comment. There is no confirmation, but an undelete button appears, which is a nice user ...
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Fixing the sucktastic merge UI (for tags)
(Split off from my answer to Merging / synonimising tags should warn of tag wiki loss...)
The whole interface for this feature is terrible! It has almost no useful information for the poor moderator.
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Merging / synonimising tags should warn of tag wiki loss
On Travel.SE I recently merged two tags, where tag A is 'main' tag and tag B is a synonym tag. In this case, tag B was an older tag which had tag wiki content filled out. So when the merge was done, ...
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