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2017 Election Results: Congratulations to the new moderators!
I am very happy to have succeeded in joining the current team of moderators. I am very grateful towards anyone that has supported me and I wish to carry on a good job as a moderator.
Love you all!
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2017 Election Results: Congratulations to the new moderators!
I want to use this opportunity to give my personal thanks to @arjafi.
He leaves a huge void in the moderator team. Filling it up will take a long while and requires growth and learning from both the ...
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2021 Election Results: Congratulations to our new moderators!
Thanks to everyone for participating in the elections irrespective of their votes.
I am humbled by your support and I think your trust will be a key asset in my role as a moderator.
Congratulations to ...
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2021 Election Results: Congratulations to our new moderators!
I guess I'll also write an answer :P
Thank you to the community, especially those who have contributed to asking questions and voting during the election process! Very looking forward to join the ...
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2020 Election Results: Congratulations to our new moderator!
Well... this is a surprise. I am humbled and honored. Many thanks to the community—I shall endeavor to do my job well. Also profound thanks to the to the current set of moderators, who made this ...
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How do moderators prove that they are at least 18 years old?
We don't.
The 18+ rule is likely mostly to cover legal bases for SE itself, due to laws surrounding Personally Identifiable Information (PII) access. We are not required to submit any formal proof ...
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When a moderator closes a question, do they consult with the other moderators first?
Consulting others for every decision we make would not scale, so if we are sufficiently sure of our judgement, we act without consultation. The level of certainty that is considered sufficient depends ...
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Why was a question proactively removed from Hot Network Questions even though it never appeared there in the first place?
Let me answer quickly.
It was removed in part because I answered this question. I find it extremely hypocritical on my side if I take out many HNQs and let my stuff remain. I also think that this was ...
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What does "low quality contributions" mean and who decides this?
I think this is a good question. There is definitely a capriciousness to EoQS, that does not seem to be acknowledged by Moderation:
EoQS: The goal is to have a repository of high-quality answers to ...
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Is there an appropriate stackexchange site related to speculative mathematics
Questions about papers in arxiv.org which represent learning opportunities are now discouraged and flagged as improper and closed.
As one of the close voters of the question you linked to as an ...
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Unilaterally closing a question that is not even 10 minutes old
Your question is too broad. Not only could there be enough answers to write a book on, such actually exists. (You essentially admit as much in your question.)
In clear-cut cases I fail to see the ...
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Have there been no moderator elections since December 2014?
As of today (22 June 2017) the last election was held in December 2014. A list of all moderator elections can be seen here.
On all Stack Exchange sites, elected moderators serve until
they resign, ...
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What are the reasons for organizing the October 2017 moderator election?
The Community Managers, most notably Grace Note and Shog9, discussed the matter with the currently active moderators. And we jointly decided (on CMs initiative) that it is a good time to recruit new ...
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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?
For my part I will say the following.
I don't really regret making those chat comments. I mean, I am not willing to apologize for them at the moment.
But I do concede that I'm not at all proud of ...
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Positions of a moderator
The organization of the moderators team is informal. There is no hierarchy and there are no assigned roles. Of course, a less experienced moderators might ask more experienced ones for advice at times....
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What to do if I disagree with a moderator decision?
There is a contact us link at the bottom of every page that will allow you to contact SE directly. Moderators do not have access to messages sent this way, although SE staff may reveal certain details ...
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Appropriate use of moderator power with respect to question closure
"The community" in this case means "five users including the OP". If five users disagree with a moderator, it does not mean the community as a whole disagree with the moderator. It means five users do....
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A Private Communication Before Any Suspension
For the most part we agree with this and this is how we operate, warning then suspension. (I note that you talk about "some" community, not this one.)
There can be exceptions to this:
One is ...
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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?
It is absolutely not the position of the moderators to condone abusive behavior in chat. Chat is less formal than the main site, so there is, in practice, a bit more room for heated discussion there (...
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Useless crankpot answers
In addition to Pedro's answer, I would like to point out that moderators should be very circumspect with their delete votes. This is because, unlike deletions by regular users, when a moderator ...
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Under what criteria should we remove questions from the HNQ list?
Thank you for replying Asaf. This is my response to your post. There's plenty of stuff here that I agree with to some extent. I do have some concerns though.
Firstly, I would have liked it if the ...
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Useless crankpot answers
It is not clear to me what your question is. At any rate, the team of moderators is comprised of various people from very different parts of the world with different views on how moderation is to be ...
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Under what criteria should we remove questions from the HNQ list?
Okay. I have a few minutes to spare. So I can write an answer to explain my approach to this, which is mainly on the table, seeing how I account for the majority of uses of this feature across the ...
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Why does meta have two additional moderators?
There are some oddities when accounts are merged and/or privileges removed for SE staff. Especially for metas it can take quite some time for this to get ironed out.
In more detail:
One of the two ...
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2017 Moderator Election: Nominating another user to consider running for a moderation slot.
It is a pleasure to propose Martin Sleziak (please take a look at his self-description and at his MSE participation statistics). 3 years ago, he declined the nomination citing lack of time, but he ...
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Is there a way to communicate with the moderators about concerns other than ONE PARTICULAR posting?
If it is a private matter, which is essentially equivalent to it being reporting what you perceive as problematic behaviour of someone, then flag.
If it is not a private matter, use the Math's mod ...
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