Questions tagged [moderator-tools]
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What are Community Badges?
I’ve heard that some badges can be manually awarded. I have some questions:
What are these badges?
How are they created?
How can they be awarded?
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404 error when clicking new "report user to Community Team" link on chat profiles on Stack Exchange chat
It seems like a new "report user to Community Team" link has been added to the "moderation tools" menu on all non-moderator chat profiles in the Stack Exchange chat server.
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Which flag should I raise for comments that were made into answers?
Suppose user X writes a comment that contains a (partial) answer to the question (against community guidelines on the usage of comments).
Later someone (either user X or another user Y) incorporates ...
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Allow moderators of all sites to flag and delete posts as plagiarism
Since March 2023, it's been possible for Stack Overflow users to flag posts as plagiarism. When a moderator handles such a flag, they can delete the post as plagiarism, which removes the reputation ...
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New spam dashboard can't count (there are five statuses, not four)
The recent auto-flagged spam dashboard has counting issues:
This info box pops up from the "i" icon next to "Status". There are very clearly five possible statuses. Please change &...
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Background color of "Community Events" mod page spilling into the footer on some sites with custom themes
The moderator page /admin/community-events has a nice little form to fill out which will create a community event. Problem is, that form's white background has ventured where no maintext background ...
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I'm seeing double"/> - how deleted users are displayed to moderators
On any site where I'm a moderator, on any post that was made by a user whose account has since been deleted (example), the deleted username appears twice, also with some codey-looking punctuation ...
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Description of tag synonym utility should end with a period
Moderators have access to a list of useful pages under /admin/links. All come with short descriptions, and all end with a period. Except "Tag Synonyms":
Lists existing and proposed tag ...
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Preserve chat history between user account deletion and recreations
On Stack Overflow Chat we've had a couple of repeat trolls in the lobby; this probably wasn't as much a problem historically when chat couldn't be accessed by 1-rep users. These users are often kicked ...
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Allow moderators to provide a reason for disputing spam or rude/abusive flags directly
Sometimes, a user casts a spam or rude/abusive (red) flag that's in good faith (e.g., a post matches a prior known spammer's post but is not spam). The general policy for borderline flags that were ...
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Regular moderators can undelete others' messages in moderated private rooms
Back in 2020, the team introduced "moderated private rooms", which are private rooms where moderators do not have the same moderator privileges they do in other rooms unless they are ...
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Could we have a way to distinguish chat flags on rooms we're in?
Effective chat moderation's done in real time - and it's easier/simpler to act in a chatroom where you're known and trusted. The current flag notification bubbles do not differentiate between a ...
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Again possible for users to vote to undelete posts deleted by moderators (in certain cases)
This came up last year and was fixed, but has come up again in certain cases.
Over on Android Enthusiasts, I deleted this answer. As the post was deleted by a moderator (me), it should not be possible ...
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Allow suspending users from participating in specific chat rooms instead of only server-wide
We recently had a situation where a user was troublesome in one room, and not so much in another. I can't really go into the specific situation (This is a result of a discussion in one of the mod ...
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Remove the 'pipe delimited' from a tag merge log message which isn't pipe delimited
I just did a tag rename which ♦ moderators can do by merging an existing tag into a non-existent one. There's some confusing output in the results page; this time I'm confused by the 'pipe delimited':
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