Questions tagged [moderators]
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I'm resigning as a moderator from all Stack Exchange sites
I'm resigning as a moderator from all Stack Exchange sites, effective today.
I didn't make this decision lightly, frivolously or suddenly. A persistent pattern of corporate missteps, and a ...
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Congratulations Yannis Rizos and Thomas Owens: Our Newest Community Moderators!
Congrats to Yannis Rizos and Thomas Owens! They are our newest members to the P.SE Moderator Team. I have a feeling this site is only going to get better.
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Introduction to new community moderator [closed]
you may be familiar with me, but in case you aren't I am maple_shaft and I was asked to be the new community moderator. I am very excited to take this responsibility and I hope that I do not let ...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
Throughout the 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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Perform automatic checks for cross-posting and question block at SO when post enters close queue, not only at attempt to migrate [duplicate]
Suggest to perform automatic checks for cross-posting (including deleted SO cross-posts, like this one for example) and question block / warning at Stack Overflow when post enters close queue, not ...
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How Should We Select More Moderators for Programmers SE?
In this question, we've established that this Q&A site has grown to the point where adding more moderator coverage will help maintain the standards of a Q&A site.
Would the results of the ...
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2012 Community Moderator Election [closed]
The 2012 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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Rep Recalc for All Moderator Nominees [duplicate]
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Should moderator nominees have their reputations recalculated?
Well, I just recalced and lost a few hundred points, it might not be a bad idea for everyone else to do the same ...
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Do any of the moderator candidates intend to moderate differently?
Moderating is a very subjective activity. Some candidates may feel that they can uphold the programmers.se charter, but do it in a way that differs from the way that the incumbents do it today.
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I don't think people (or me) understand programmers.se
I trully understand when a question is unproper for a site, but this is ridiculous.
My question was 'Do you have a phone on your desk?'. Obviously my intent was to share experiences from fellow ...
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2019 Community Moderator Election
The 2019 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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Who should the moderators be? [duplicate]
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
In about two weeks, this community will receive some provisional moderators to help get this site started prior to the elections at the end of ...
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2013 Community Moderator Election
The 2013 Community Moderator Election is now underway! completed!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and ...
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No more "Chairman Mao reincarnate" :(
@MarkTrapp I just heard you're stepping down from your position as moderator and have to say, I'm sorry to see you go.
We may not always see eye-to-eye, and I hated the fact you used your ability to ...
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2011 Community Moderator Election [closed]
The 2011 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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Should P.SE Moderators have to "defend their seat"?
Building off of @Mark Trapp's answer here, should P.SE moderators have to defend their seat?
In other words, should we keep a limited number of moderators and force them to run for re-election ...
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Does the community think we should have another Moderator Election this year?
Are we going to have another Community Moderator Election for 2013? It seems like we have one around this time every year.
Does the community/mods think we need another mod? I, personally, think ...
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How does one deal with trolling, when more than a single comment is involved?
A user has been going around on this question and trolling -- posting anti-C++ answers -- to a question whose activity ended ~3 months ago, with no technical basis, to every possible comment box. ...
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Is it possible for moderators to move answers from one question to another?
I've just been reading this question: How can a single developer make use of Agile Methods?. And after refreshing, I saw it was closed for being a duplicate to Agile for the Solo Developer. I don't ...
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Have the mods started censoring close votes?
For the question, Best way to deal with non-developers in a scrum team, I voted to close the question as it's nothing to do with software engineering and belongs (if it belongs anywhere) on the ...
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Can a Mod disassociate my old questions?
I have been on programmers.SE for about four months now, and I love it. Currently, I can't ask any questions, however; due to some bad questions that I asked. They have been since deleted and removed ...
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We are no longer accepting questions from this account
When I try to post a question in software engineering site of SO, it gives me below message and I cannot post any.
Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account. See the
Help ...
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Should reputation requirement for moderator be increased?
Currently the reputation requirement for using moderator tools set at 2,000 points. Seeing as many members are reaching that limit, should it be increased?
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When can we have mod elections - or - a vote of no confidence
So, weren't we supposed to choose our mods near the end of the beta?
What's the status of this first class Stack Exchange feature?
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My question was simultaneously answered, put on hold, and finally deleted. Why, and how can I improve my question?
Regarding this question:
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/393863/how-to-intelligently-discover-and-track-meaningful-changes-in-html-with-a-c-qt
I laughed, because the answers/...
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Please unblock me [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why am I getting “Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account”?
Well I dont know whether to ask this in programmers meta is good or not, but please please ...
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Why this Question was Closed/Locked, and a Question on a Mod's Comments
This is in regards to this question:
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/82519/why-command-line-is-faster-than-gui-closed
Please read the previous version of my question also, as ...
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Moderator powers are unchecked. Closing 7/10 programmers-related questions.
Why are you closing so many questions? Clearly they're drawn to questions FOR or ABOUT programmers, and are general enough to be related to 'programmers'. Why is time management not allowed to be ...
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How to impeach a moderator?
As per: Moderator powers are unchecked. Closing 7/10 programmers-related questions.
I agree whole heartedly. There are a couple moderators of programmers.SE who have gone power mad, deleting ...
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Issues of possible innovation via new programming languages, removal=censorship? [closed]
If someone raises new ideas of innovation , to improve usability or productivity, especially in a category of programming languages where it is pretty badly needed (and problems haven't been solved ...
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What moderators should do?
I was reading the answer to this question and I find it very useful, agreeable and constructive: How can I get my question reopened as someone answered in the comments?
ChrisF states very clearly ...
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Do moderators discretely neglect the FAQ when they close certain question and not others?
My question was close because it was off topic. Here it is
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/132878/how-to-sell-yourself-to-the-manager
It was asked in the context as developer. ...
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Should moderators be programmers?
Funny that the first question I asked in 4 months was closed, even though it garnered good responses, a few positive votes and is objectively a good question pertaining only to programmers and the ...
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