Questions tagged [moderators]
Questions about diamond (♦) moderators, their powers, and actions they have taken.
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Mod using their powers to unilaterally reopen their own closed question
This is in reference to a moderator's handling of a question they had posted.
After the moderator asked the question, it was poorly received and closed by receiving 5 votes from the community. The ...
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2024 Election Results: Congratulations to our new moderator!
The 2024 elections are over. By analyzing the OpaSTV file with the voting data, I'd like to welcome to the moderators' team the winner of the 2024 moderator elections, who is:
Shaun
In the name of all ...
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2024 Community Moderator Election
The 2024 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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Upcoming Moderator Election
As a few people have noticed, we are down a moderator: quid has been inactive for a while, hence their moderator status has been suspended in accordance with the process outlined on the main Meta ...
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MSE's policy on restricting the use of downvotes for answers: Targeting a member or ANY non-scientific reasons? [closed]
I recently received the following public comments on how to use down-votes from a senior diamond moderator, Dr. Xander Henderson, who patiently explained me the policy of the site on how to use down-...
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Is it correct a member or moderator who wants to close a question uses Down Votes to force MSE members to not answer that question? [closed]
This post pertains to this question: Does convergence of measures, with respect to the KL-divergence, imply almost sure convergence of the RN-derivatives?
using down-votes by a member or moderator to ...
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I am requesting the moderators to delete that post
As I lack sufficient reputation to comment, I am creating a meta post.
I am requesting the moderators to delete that post because they are cheating
Solving $(a+1)^{\log_a(x-2)} - a^{\log_{a+1}(x-1)} = ...
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It is possible to add a banner indicating there is currently a moderation strike?
For "small" or "new" users we are now finding ourselfs as we are not receiving interactions in the website don't knowing why, I would like to proposed adding a Banner indicating ...
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Moderation strike update, and flags
For the last four weeks, there has been a moderator strike involving many moderators across the network. (See also the previous MathSE meta post). Although not all math mods signed the strike letter, ...
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Is flag handling backlogged? [duplicate]
I currently have 7 unhandled comment flags, including two I raised back in May. I also have one unhandled post flag from June 13.
Is there a technical issue here that is causing flags to get lost? Or ...
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General Moderation Strike: Mathematics StackExchange moderators are participating
As some of you may be aware, there is a general moderation strike in place as of Monday, June 5th, 2023.
Seven members of the Mathematics moderation team have signed the demand letter and are striking....
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Moderator Strike [duplicate]
With seven of MSE's mods participating, wouldn't it be appropriate to draft a meta post with links to what is going on (the meta-meta post starting this, the statement of the participants, maybe a ...
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Does the moderator violate the EoQS?
This recent question on the main site: If whenever $|x-a|<\delta$, $|y-a|<\delta$ then $|f(x)-f(y)|<\epsilon$, is this equiv. to $f$ cont. at $c$ then $f$ cont. on some interval around $c$?
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Mod removing questions out of HNQ
It has been observation as of late that moderator Asaf Karagila has been removing quite a bit of questions from HNQ. What is the basis for removal? and, under what circumstances is a moderator ...
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What does "low quality contributions" mean and who decides this?
Some time ago I had the unpleasant surprise to see that some valuable users like Bernard were suspended for 1 year for "low quality contributions".
What does (I mean "low quality ...
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Is there an appropriate stackexchange site related to speculative mathematics
I used to love the math.stackexchange web site. It was a great place for an amateur to get feedback and to learn about historical math papers and recent work. It was a great place to test out one's ...
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Why was a question proactively removed from Hot Network Questions even though it never appeared there in the first place?
I'm coming here following this question on Meta Stack Exchange.
In that post, a user highlighted this question on the main site, which shows a timeline entry for removing the question from Hot Network ...
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2021 Election Results: Congratulations to our new moderators!
The 2021 elections are over. By analyzing the OpaSTV file with the voting data, I'd like to welcome to the moderators' team the winners of the 2021 moderators elections::
Paramanand Singh
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How do moderators prove that they are at least 18 years old?
I've just noticed that moderators are required to be at least 18 years old (the very bottom of the page). How do they prove this? Do they have to send the image of a national identity document issued ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election
The 2021 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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Reason for Deletion of my Answer? [duplicate]
I have a question about my Mathematics Stack Exchange post: Derivative of a functional and taylor series
I would argue that the answer provides enough context to the question to resolve it. At the ...
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what is the maximum duration of moderator ? How many years they will remain in their positions as moderator?
I think MSE is like a democratic country. we cast vote and choosing our favourite USER
My question :
what is the maximum duration of moderator ? How many years they will remain in their positions as ...
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Standards of editing [duplicate]
A question posted to math.s.e. said
$$
X ~ \operatorname{Poi}(\lambda)
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and that was coded as X ~ \operatorname{Poi}(\lambda).
It is obvious that the poster ...
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A Private Communication Before Any Suspension
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I have experienced several suspensions in some community, in none of which I was warned by the moderators before being suspended although I received a useless mandatory moderator message ...
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Am I, as a comment flagger, a waster of the moderators' time?
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I am a novice SE user, a toddler. In this post I want to criticize some moderator actions, which seems risky and futile, regarding unwritten policies on the meta; however, just for the record,...
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Recently proposed problems in mathematical journals are subject to contest problem policy?
I'm wondering what was the reason for the moderator Asaf Karagila deleted this question: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4088822
I know the question is a problem in the last AMM issue for the ...
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Why my question was closed as "Not suitable for this site"
This question Is an ideal finitely generated if its radical is finitely generated? on commutative algebra was down-voted, "Removed from Network Questions" (not sure what it even means) and ...
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What is the Solution to CAREFUL Serial Down-voting? [closed]
I came to know that there is a script to detect serial down-voting but as it is the case always for any script, there is a set-threshold, and if a careful person somehow figures that out (for example, ...
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Is there a way to communicate with the moderators about concerns other than ONE PARTICULAR posting?
Is there some way to communicate with the moderators of math.stackexchange.com when it's not about some particular posting, but rather about their policies and their behavior that persist over a ...
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Positions of a moderator
On several occasions I wanted to include this question. For example, do the moderators of this site they are all active always 24 hours on 24?
Are the roles of moderators different between them (...
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2020 Election Results: Congratulations to our new moderator!
The 2020 elections are over. By analyzing the OpaSTV file with the voting data, I'd like to welcome to the moderators' team the winner of the 2020 moderator elections, who is:
You can see the results ...
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2020 Community Moderator Election
The 2020 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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Private information known to moderators
With the up-coming moderator election, I was wondering what sort of knowledge a moderator can obtain. Obviously we should aim to vote in a respectable and honest person, but in the event that we get a ...
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My username is forced to change because it is close to that of a well-known user
I received suddenly an email from the Moderation Team:
Hello,
We're writing in reference to your Mathematics Stack Exchange account:
https://math.stackexchange.com/users/798202/user798202
We reset ...
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Feature or Bug Request
Can we flag questions to be edited by users who understand the math level that the question was asked? Like if a question was asked in real analysis and they know the language, and syntax of the ...
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How to Better the Queue?
I have a question and maybe this for the moderators as well. How does one know that one is doing a good job when doing the Queue about Posts like Edits, and Low-Quality Posts and so on. My thoughts ...
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Need moderation
Does anyone knows how can I contact privately a moderator ? Many of my answers have been deleted for no reason. Even upvoted and accepted answers. Always by the same three members. I have flagged as ...
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Under what criteria should we remove questions from the HNQ list?
Since the Hot Network Questions list was revamped 6 months ago, moderators have had the power to remove questions from the list. As Catija, the community manager for the SE network says,
I ...
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Why are the user suspension criteria applied for unfair comments on the main site currently not applied for unfair use of public chat rooms?
After my first 7 days suspension on April 2018, I raised HERE some questions related to the proper use of chat rooms to avoid defamatory actions clearly not compatible with the fair harmony of the ...
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2018 Community Moderator Election
The 2018 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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Resigning from moderator duties
Sorry. At the moment I cannot handle the duties of a diamond bearer with the patience it requires.
This job forces one to encounter all the worst the site has to offer. My approach to the job (and ...
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Moderator powers prior to moderator status
I cast an undelete vote for this question but was auto-informed that the question could not be undeleted, since it was deleted by a moderator. Looking at the folks who deleted it, I did notice quid on ...
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How to get moderators' attention to an issue with some chat messages?
It is possible to flag a message in chat. However, chat flags are handled by users in chat, not by moderators.
But occasionally there might be issues with some chat messages in rooms associated with ...
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How to deal with defamations perpetrated through public chat rooms?
I must premise that the present OP, albeit motivated by a personal experience on Mathematical Stack Exchange, aims to solicit an open discussion about an important general issue concerning the common ...
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Can (why if not) moderators accept answers?
I am relatively new to the MSE community. I wanted to know that if a person asks a question and then doesn't care to accept any particular answer, can a moderator accept an appropriate answer?
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What exactly are the moderator privileges? Can they edit comments after 5 mins?
I recently passed the 10k reputation milestone to be granted moderator privileges. I'm enjoying reading deleted questions. But I'm curious what exactly else are my new moderator privileges? I saw the ...
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"Community" added swear word to answer 4 years after the answer was typed
In Brian M. Scott's answer to this question: Determine whether the relation $\ge$ is reflexive, symmetric, antisymmetric, transitive, and/or a partial order.
it seems as if the user "Community" edited ...
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How to get my answer accepted.
The question Let $ \ n_1 , \ n_2 , \ n_3 , \ ............., \ n_k \ $ be positive numbers. was posted a week ago. I answered it on the same day, i.e., a week ago. There are no other answers. There is ...
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2017 Election Results: Congratulations to the new moderators!
The 2017 elections are over. By analyzing the OpaSTV file with the voting data, the result of the 2017 moderator elections are as follows (with no particular order):
In the name of all the users on ...
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Which actions by moderators cannot be reversed by community?
There are some actions where a vote from moderator has immediate effect (i.e., there is no need for votes from other users). This is the case for closing and reopening posts. However, in these cases ...
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