You may have noticed that we have a bit of a backlog for bugs and feature requests related to moderator tools.

Our moderators do a lot of work to keep our sites running smoothly, and we recognize that sometimes the tools get in the way - through inefficiencies or bugs we aren't aware of or haven't had time to fix. That's not ideal.

We've made some room in our schedule for one developer to spend a couple of weeks improving tools available to mods. We're sorry that it can't be more; there are definitely aspects of the mod tools that we won't be able to fix in that time period, but we'd like to do what we can.

Here's where you all come in. We need current (and former) moderators – the people who are using these tools on a daily basis – to help us figure out what to fix. What's broken? What tools do you wish you had available in the mod interface? What are you currently finding workarounds for that we can incorporate directly into our system?

If you have ideas for how we can improve mod tools:

  • Post one bug/request per answer. (Please read through and see if someone else has already posted your suggestion; if yes, upvote the existing post rather than reiterating the same idea in a new answer.)
  • Vote for other people's suggestions that you support to help us determine which things we should prioritize.
  • Remember, please do not post screenshots or otherwise expose information that's available only to moderators.

Because we have a few hundred moderators, try to limit your suggestions to the one or two biggest wishes or annoyances you have.

Keep in mind that because we don't have a lot of resources to throw at this, we won't be able to implement all of your suggested changes, but we hope to make these tools a little more efficient and effective.

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@Doorknob - From context, I would say diamond mod tools, though, arguably, improvements to the 10k tools would help diamond mods too. – Oded Jul 19 at 13:40
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@Doorknob The goal is to focus primarily on removing obstacles for diamond moderators, but there's definitely overlap in what's useful for diamond mods and what's useful for 10k users. We're always open to suggestions, so go ahead and post both. – Laura Jul 19 at 13:46
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@ChrisF we'll be looking at the existing questions, but if there's something you care really strongly about, it won't hurt to post a link and a one-sentence summary here. – Laura Jul 19 at 13:47
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@Laura - well there's anything I've reported for a start :) – ChrisF Jul 19 at 13:50
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@juergend both! – Laura Jul 19 at 15:22
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Alright, I somehow missed that. There should be something like a network wide ping or notification feature available to SE employees. – AsheeshR Jul 19 at 15:43
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I thought the minimum time interval for any development effort was six to eight weeks. – Robert Harvey Jul 19 at 19:55
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Who would down-vote this? Someone who doesn't want moderators' jobs to be made easier? – Aaron Bertrand Jul 21 at 15:21
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Locks that lock only comments for questions and answers.

Locks that lock edits (and maybe comments) on a question but still allow answers.

Locks that generally aren't a nuclear option. Lockbox.

If implemented, it should be clear at a glance which features are locked; or optionally give checkboxes to select which features are locked (comments, edits, everything).

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That. Please PLEASE that. – Madara Uchiha Jul 19 at 14:21
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+1 for "Lockbox" alone, but also good requests – wax eagle Jul 19 at 14:30
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THIS. My third +1 on the List o' Features so far. This would be great. There are times when comment discussions get completely out of hand no matter how many times you warn people and delete them. But the question is still fine, and should still be answerable. People just need to stop commenting. [Would you mind clarifying on the first point that the lock could lock ALL comments for the post, or only comments on the question, or only comments on answer(s)? Usually I just want to stop comments being posted on the question; if people have things to say on the answers that's fine by me.) – WendiKidd Jul 20 at 2:40
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I've an old feature request on that. I find the current lock implementation far too strict to actually use, as it almost always punished and inconveniences more users than actually intended. – Mad Scientist Jul 20 at 8:30
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Comment locks make sense for short periods of time. Anything more severe should require the entire post to be locked. In particular locking edits while still allowing voting and commenting falls somewhere between idealistic and sadistic. – Shog9 2 days ago
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@Shog: Locking only edits is a good way to prevent rollback wars between a few users, whilst still allowing the question to continue as normal, no? – Matt 20 hours ago
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One of the top things I can think of would be one of our oldest and most venerated mod tool feature requests:

Streamline moderators contacting users through chat

Currently our options for contacting problem users are fairly limited, especially if the user is fairly low rep.

  • Comments are bulky and don't handle back and forth well
  • Mod messages are reserved for when children are in danger (or similarly dire circumstances)
  • Current steps to contact a user through chat are...kind of insane.

It would help those of us who have time and energy to hold our user's hands a bit to be able to save some time working the system and get right to helping our users.

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Being able to go into someone's profile and, with 1-3 clicks and without page loads, invite them to a private chat room where they have rights (and a chat account, if need be) would be great – Ben Brocka Jul 19 at 14:17
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I support this only if it takes the form of the "case of the mondays" support pop-up. However, a quicker way to get to a user's chat profile from their main-site profile would be extremely useful in general on SE 2.0 sites. – Shog9 2 days ago
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Have a "Snooze" button for flags. This button would function as follows:

  1. Will remove the flag from display temporarily.
  2. Will give the OP a period of time to address a comment provided. That time is subject to discussion, but I would say between 12-24 hours.
  3. If they edit the question, or the timer elapse, the flag is shown again, so that it can be re-evaluated with the edit suggested.

The purpose of this tool is to allow for the OP to correct a poor, but salvageable question. Ideally, a comment should be required to use the snooze button.

EDIT:

Per suggestions in the comments, I would suggest putting a flag on Snooze indicates that the flag is valid, and it should be marked as valid.

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@AndriyM This happens occasionally now when a post is flagged, then edited, then a moderator sees the flag. We normally catch this by looking at the timestamps and just mark the flag as helpful. It would be even more helpful if there was some kind of indicator that told us that the issue that led to the flag might have already been taken care of. – Bill the Lizard Jul 19 at 14:22
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I would imagine putting flags on snooze is the same as saying, at the very least, "these flags were helpful, now let's see if the OP can fix things". – Oli Jul 19 at 14:30
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Rejected flags are effectively meaningless anyway now that Flag Weight isn't used for anything and the badges just count helpful flags. (And frankly if the flagged post is fixable a flag was the wrong tool -- the flagger should have left a comment...) – voretaq7 Jul 19 at 16:06
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I'll admit to ignoring flags for up to 12/24 hours with the current system because I wanted to see if others would vote to close it, if it was going to be edited, how the community would accept it, etc. – Ben Brocka Jul 20 at 16:07
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I can see some utility in this for smaller sites where we really want the community to be working these things out before we start stepping in, but we don't know if this would really be practical on the larger sites. If someone snoozed their way through the queue, those flags come back, along with the 100 - 1000 + more that rolled in that day. It could really get difficult to handle. You can always leave the flags to soak a while, and even add your own flag indicating that you're doing so. I know that doesn't reduce the counter, but I'm kinda worried about flags coming back on a new pile up – Tim Post 2 days ago
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@TimPost This is something that would work much better for smaller sites with low flag volume anyway. Right now on BH we use a system of stared chat messages in the mod room with datestamps saying when they should be re-evaluated. It's a hack because flags aren't practical because they don't get you to check the situation in 24 hours. On C.SE use a different system and tend to leave certain flags in the queue and just ignore them by mutual agreement until they are actionable. In both cases we're hacking together a system that could be ready made. So find a way to limit for larger sites? – Caleb yesterday
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Allow moderators to reply to a flag

For that matter, a way to simply PM a user (without any reply option) would be good too. Mod messages are for Serious Business, this can be for a friendly "Hey, that's not how you flag stuff" or "Hey, here's a tip:" or something that will enhance their participation in community moderation.

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… so basically, "Helpful" with a message? – slhck Jul 19 at 20:46
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@slhck Yep. And an optional ping (applies to "Declined" too). Sometimes, we want users to read the decline message – Manishearth Jul 19 at 20:47
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Allow us to see if a user is post banned.

By far the question I see asked most in Blue Moon (and the question I ask the most) is, "Is this user [question/answer] banned?"

We get seemingly a few questions on meta each week, and it makes it easier to troubleshoot their issue (and give them pointers) if we know whether or not they're banned. I'm not asking for us to know the algorithm, but to have some visual confirmation that a user is post banned (on their profile page).

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I have to ask. Does this come up anywhere other than SO/MSO? – AsheeshR Jul 19 at 15:40
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@AsheeshR No; the other sites don't have Q bans enabled. But that's not a reason not to implement it. – George Stocker Jul 19 at 15:43
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Programmers, SF, SU and maybe Ask Ubuntu also have the post ban – random Jul 19 at 16:14
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Programmers will pick up SO users trying to circumvent their Q-ban on SO. But I think it may be problematic to show mod of Site A that a user has a Q-ban on Site B – GlenH7 Jul 19 at 16:56
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Answer bans are enabled everywhere. – Anna Lear Jul 19 at 16:56
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Blue Moon? Huh? – Undo Jul 19 at 19:58
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@ChrisF But you actually have to try and migrate first, and if they're banned on that site it's probably because their questions aren't very well written, so odds are you don't want to migrate the one from your site anyway. I find myself asking if users are banned on SO because they asked a programming question I just closed for being terrible, and I want to know if I should yell at them for posting on my site just because they're question-banned on SO – Michael Mrozek Jul 19 at 23:14
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@minitechη Now I have to think up what I would name the mod chatroom on space.SE if I'm chosen. – Undo Jul 20 at 19:08
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This is something we're going to do, we just need to make the indicator a little less strange than what we have. – Tim Post 2 days ago
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@TimPost in what way is it strange? Does it show a rating from :D to :'(? – nhinkle 2 days ago
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Separate the Spam/Offensive flags from the others so that they don't get marked as helpful/declined together.

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This is status-planned – AsheeshR Jul 20 at 6:05
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Give moderators watch lists so they don't need to junk up their favories

As a diamond mod on a lower volume site, I will sometimes try to keep an eye on a post (both questions and answers) instead of taking outright/immediate action (which makes sense on the high volume sites).

Right now I either have to favorite it and/or look at my comment history. This works to an extent, but mods can't share this with each other.

I suggest adding two new types of favorites:

  1. Shared moderator watch list
  2. Private moderator watch list

This way mods can track posts that need TLC and take appropriate action after some time has passed.

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Make all the moderator functionality available in the mobile template!

Situation: you're far-afk and checking the site on your phone. Sir Spamsalot appears and starts filling your site up with junk. You can delete the posts but in order to destroy the user, you have to get out of the mobile site and go through the whole procedure again.

Note: I'm not asking that all the admin functions get shiny mobile templates. I don't care if they carry on looking like the old ones... I just want feature parity between the mobile and standard templates for sites so that even when I'm lazing around, I can still be useful. This just translates to making the links show up in roughly the right places.

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It would be nice to have feature parity on mobile for review and most of the moderation tools, however it's not something we're going to be able to start in the near or possibly distant future as a general project. However, if you want specific functionality to be present (or fixed), you could submit a bug or feature quest to scope just that part, and we may be able to take care of it somewhat quickly. – Tim Post 2 days ago
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Allow removal of questions from the queue for the official Twitter feed before it gets tweeted.

Many times, weird and/or crappy questions get tweeted. These do not reflect well for the site, especially sites that are still expanding. Twitter has the ability to attract experts through retweets by users, and such content makes it less likely for them to become interested and join the community.

If Facebook and Google+ pages are created then this will be even more important.

My suggestion is that to show about 3-4 posts for review by moderators before being tweeted. These would be posts that are selected by the Twitter bot (since we dont want to circumvent it and make it angry).

Each post could show up as an independent flag or the whole bunch could show up as a notification.

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This is something we're thinking about, but we're not absolutely positive we can do. I don't know if we could implement a queue for this, which means you'd be catching these more opportunistically than anything else. – Tim Post 2 days ago
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When community flags a question as low quality answer score, there is no "Convert to comment" option. Sometimes it's just a crappy answer that shouldn't be there, but sometimes it is just a short answer that should be a comment. The current workflow is cumbersome without that option, so I'd like to ask for it to be added (essentially, I'd like to be able to convert any answer to a comment from within the flag handling UI, regardless of why the answer is there).

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@jmfsg I see a lot of link-only answers, for example, that I'd feel bad deleting, since the links often do contain useful info for the OP. And I very rarely find that those people posting those links as answers are doing so because they can't comment - they just don't know any better. You should trust that moderators can make non-dumb decisions about whether to keep content or not on their own site. – Aaron Bertrand Jul 19 at 15:21
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@jmfsg and if they add the button, you don't have to use it. – Aaron Bertrand Jul 19 at 15:24
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Allow us to choose whether to accept or decline flags on an individual basis. Sometimes a single post will get multiple flags where some of the flags are valid and some are not. Then you're stuck with deciding whether to let the bad flagger get away with it and continue thinking that type of flagging is OK, or you have to send the good flagger a declined flag when they haven't done anything wrong. Both situations are bad.

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@DanielBeck status planned != status going to happen anytime soon though, so I figure this might help raise the priority. – nhinkle Jul 20 at 16:30
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Better support for post notices.

I know this is a feature that is used on a small subset of sites, but it's the kind of thing that could be used more if there were better features to track which posts have a notice attached, and draw the attention of community to the posts.

Mad Scientist proposed a review queue option and I think that's the right call:

Add a review queue for posts with a "citation needed" notice

This would make the feature more useful on several sites, especially if it included the "insufficient explanation" post notice for extremely short/unexplained posts.

I'd also add that if we did this we should add a way for the community to attach post notices.

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The important part in my opinion is not tracking (which already exists, though somewhat hidden), but enabling the community to add and remove those without moderator intervention. – Mad Scientist Jul 19 at 13:54
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Instead of this:

Screenshot 1

This, please:

Screenshot 2

Note the number of other answers and comments, the green showing an accepted answer, and the blue showing that there was actually a sneaky inline link to something. (Helps with spam especially.) That would be nice.

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@ChrisF OK, then. minitech is quite creative in naming his fictional flaggers. I would have gone with something like 'bob, john, joe'. – Undo Jul 19 at 20:20
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@Manishearth: No worries, none of ’em are real. :) – minitech η Jul 19 at 21:20
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"Can we have an option to ban someone from using the offensive and/or spam flags for a few hours?"

I'll re-post my answer from that question:

What if we had a setting as moderators to present a custom-worded warning dialog to a user the next time they flagged, no matter the flag type? This may or may not have a temporary ban from flagging attached to it.

It's well known that most people don't read custom decline reasons we provide to them, or even know where they can find these. By putting such a warning right in front of them the next time they tried to flag, hopefully they wouldn't miss it this time.

For example, I had to decline 9 flags yesterday that read "plz help answer this question thx" or some variant. Three of those people had flagged multiple times for this. The only way to get them to stop is to send a direct moderator message, which takes time, leaves a permanent mark on their record, and is CC'd to every moderator on the site. If we had a lightweight way to halt their flags for a bit and to give them a direct message as to what they're doing wrong, that would be a much better way to handle this.

Misuse of spam and offensive flags is obviously worse, given the automatic downvotes and potential reputation penalties those carry, but I see no reason why a system like this should be limited to those flags. There are many other abuses of the flag system this could work to prevent.

The flag weight system has been tweaked lately to try to deemphasize streaks of poor flags from certain users, but I think we need something a little stronger to cut down on this and educate problematic flaggers. A direct warning that doesn't carry the stigma of a moderator message would seem to do this, particularly if coupled with temporary flag bans in the worst cases.

We need a better way of making decline reasons for flags visible to users, because most people don't even know they're there. Lately, I've been feeling like I'm wasting my time writing custom decline reasons because few people ever read them. The ability to tell a particularly bad flagger "Stop! Read this before you flag again." would be huge help.

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Soft delete for accounts we wish to keep info on

Currently, we are recommended to use deletions for users we don't want coming back and for socks. We've always destroyed spammers.

Unfortunately, this makes us lose some valuable information (IPs, etc) that could be useful later to suss out sockpuppets. It would be nice if we could soft delete a user, which keeps all the post association and IP/email data from the mod POV, but looks the same from the user POV.

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It would be nice if this could be expanded to mark a user as "spam", and have it appear to everybody that the account is deleted, but in fact the data is retained. Like an inverse hellban? – nhinkle 2 days ago
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Soft deletion isn't going to be possible for quite a while, and we're not sure we want to go there because of certain privacy implications, and other issues. However, we do have plans and work underway to seriously curtail this type of user without interfering with people that give us stuff that we actually want. And we do have plans to make some UI to see this working available to moderators. – Tim Post 2 days ago
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This may not affect a lot of people, but it makes a mod function completely unavailable to me and, from what I understand, the simple (non-redesign) fix is a two-character change:

Can we make the post-issue indicator more tolerant of window size?

Not being able to see, unless I take the positive action of going to a post's "mod" menu, that (a) there are deleted comments and (b) there's flag history means that anybody with window width < 1070px -- like most tablet users, and users of some other modern hardware -- is completely unaware of important history.

Some kind mods tried to help me out with a userscript to fix this locally, but they couldn't do it because of something about how the code for the indicator is written (waves hands here; I'm not clear on the details).

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Tim Post and I both went "oh, this is easy", then realized there's no named identifier for a media query to change the value of it. If you could make the minimum for the indicator 948px, the people who browse on 1920x1080 monitors with two windows side-by-side would adore you (as would the tablet users). – Hiroto Jul 19 at 14:44
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Confirming what @Hiroto said - we both looked into working around this with a userscript and it was just even more awful. – Tim Post Jul 19 at 16:12
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No promises here; while I sympathize (I moderate on mobile devices fairly often) this tool was explicitly designed for the sorts of high-volume work done by us internally and to some extent by mods on sites like SO - it's nice to have, but the same functionality should always be available in the mod menu as well for those using smaller screens (if something is missing, report that as a bug). – Shog9 2 days ago
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In the 10k tools, highlight or fade questions I've flagged already. Nothing's more frustrating1 than trying to flag something in the big list only to have the system say "Nope! You've flagged that already!" Well why didn't you tell me before?!

1: Well, almost nothing.

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I thought we already did that - I was under the impression that posts that you have flagged wouldn't show up in the list. – Oded Jul 19 at 14:37
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@Oded Well, they do :( – Doorknob Jul 19 at 14:38
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Make each post look more appealing (like the review queues).

Honestly, that drag to view the question thing is abysmal. I hated it in the old review queues and I hate it in the moderator tools.

I'd also enjoy seeing that extra statistic on the right side for how many other answers there are in addition to this one. As well, move that tiny number next to the title that represents the number of answers on a question to the right. The other statistics based on question/answer would also be helpful.

I can't think of a good way to make the flags panel work well with all this information without converting it to a full out review queue, and I don't think the flag panel would benefit from that. It is very convenient to be able to browse over the custom reasons.

Hopefully something nice can be thought up.

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@RobertHarvey: When an answer is expanded, you get that little bar that you click and drag down in order to see the question above it. – animuson Jul 19 at 17:31
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Oh, that thing. I seldom use it, so I forgot it was there. Maybe just another expand control that will pop the whole thing open? I agree that dragging is a drag. – Robert Harvey Jul 19 at 17:35
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In the 10K tools, under delete, don't show me stuff I have already voted to delete.

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I still want to see the stuff I've voted on (so I can track its progress, so I know if I need to rally the troops on something particularly deserving), but I'd like to be able to see that I've already voted so I don't waste time going there again. – Monica Cellio Jul 19 at 16:17
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Network-wide bans and destroys for really bad users

We've had a couple of bad users (and a lot of spammers) who have accounts on numerous SE sites. Even when we've banned them on our site, they can continue to hurt other SE sites.

I would suggest that once two or three sites take action against an account, the entire network either bans or destroy the linked accounts.

The immediate benefit from this is big spammers are going to get caught and dealt with really fast.

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A check? I'm talking about two moderators on two different sites coming to the same conclusion and then just mirroring that over the other sites. All the lookup stuff is already done (see network profile) and the actions could be carried out by the Community user on the other sites. – Oli Jul 20 at 9:24
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This is part of a much larger problem (network-wide handling of spam and abuse) that we're (slowly) working on solving. – Shog9 2 days ago
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Streamline handling of custom flags that have certain keywords in them.

If a custom flag has the keyword 'duplicate' plus a link, it should allow us to handle it in a more streamlined fashion. One of the buttons should be "close as duplicate", and list that linked question as a pre-selected option.

This won't get 100% of the cases, but anything we can do to pare down the time it takes to work on 'other' flags would be helpful.

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And if it contains the word "duplicate" without a link, don't allow the flag to be submitted. – BoltClock's a Unicorn Jul 19 at 14:19
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This is the one I'd most like to see. I don't know what the situation is like in the moderator queue on other sites, but this would be a great help on SO. – Bill the Lizard Jul 19 at 15:23
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@Boltclock: I've been flagging a fair number of duplicate comments lately. This would interfere, I think. – Al Everett Jul 19 at 17:10
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I think this would create too many false positives. – Al Everett Jul 20 at 0:23
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Give me the ability to see dismissed flags and declined posts easily / undo recently taken actions.

In the Mod queue, I sometimes goof and decline/dismiss something I shouldn't. It'd be nice to have the mod queue actually wait a few seconds before processing an action to give me time to 'undo' it, much like Gmail's "Undo Sending" functionality. The change to the existing workflow would be to collapse the flag as before, but have a little 'undo' button next to it that I can click for 5 seconds after that cancels the action.

A corollary to this is the ability to see declined / dismissed flags easily.

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An abridged history of past crimes on the Contact User Privately screen

You should probably know why you're contacting a user before you click the link but some users have a colourful administrative history that gets forgotten the nineteenth time they've been contacted.

It would be handy to get a breakdown of flags and annotations and past discussions levied against a user, a little list in the sidebar with links to everything.

This is all stuff that can be dug up through /users/history/\d+/ but it's a PITA to dig through that just to make sure you're on the right page when dealing with a user.

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Doesn't the "user annotations" list already do this? – Robert Harvey Jul 19 at 16:56
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The thing to do here is just vastly improve filtering, which takes care of this and fixes quite a few more issues with digging through all of the user's history entries. – Tim Post 2 days ago
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@TimPost A very easy and quick improvement would be to hide all the "moderator recalcs rep" entries. That alone would make the history much more readable. – Mad Scientist yesterday
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Can we get an option to view moderator flags on questions in a Review Queue, rather than the Big List that we get now?

I like the workflow for the review queues much better for working with questions. One-hundred percent of the time, I will right-click the link to open the question in a new window to moderate it, so you might as well throw the whole thing up on the screen anyway.

The current workflow requires me to maintain multiple browser windows, and creates cognitive dissonance by requiring me to think about where I should dismiss the flags without losing my place.

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Add number of registered users who logged in versus day, to analytics.

Having an idea of the number of regular users would allow for getting a better idea of engagement. It would make it easier to see how much moderation and site activities are being performed by how few or how many users (other option is to go the specific stats pages for reviews, suggested edits, votes and compare it to number of visits which is roundabout).

Also, when organizing community events, especially those related to community moderation, seeing how many users actually come to the site regularly would be helpful.

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Expose flag information in the API. You wouldn't believe the hoops I currently jump through to get flag info without going to the site manually. On some thread I can no longer find a dev mentioned that it was extremely unlikely we'd ever get flags into the API, but now that it has authentication I'm not sure what the problem would be with adding it

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I still can't view all-time flag handling stats on Stack Overflow.

I don't care that this is only relevant to little over a dozen of us out of all the moderators on the network. I want my all-time stats back.

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Are you sure that's not because of an integer overflow? – Kevin Jul 19 at 13:41
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It took about 15-20 seconds, but I did get the all-time stats page to load for SO. This might be working intermittently. I hadn't checked it in ages. – Bill the Lizard Jul 19 at 14:14
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@BoltClock'saUnicorn Yeah, sometimes it gives me an error page. But I got it trying to load the page again. Perhaps these stats could be cached better so it doesn't take as much effort to load them. – animuson Jul 19 at 15:07
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It did work for me yesterday, for the first time in months, so it isn't as busted as it used to be. – Brad Larson Jul 19 at 16:14
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This should work now; it's slow as hell, so it's possible your network is timing out or something. We could cache it heavily, but... Then it'll never be accurate and on SO (which is the only place heavy caching is needed) it could be significantly off. – Shog9 2 days ago
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The moderator tools are, unfortunately, not available in the mobile site template. As much of my site usage as a normal user is done through that interface, this creates a huge divorce between visiting my site(s) to do moderation tasks and to participate. There is one stop gap feature that would help ease the transition:

Moderator flag notifications should reach mobile

Right now the only way to figure out if there are outstanding moderator flags is to switch to the full template then reload at least once to see the flag indicator, then switch back to mobile to keep using the site.

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This is more of a goal than a specific improvement: Dealing with spammers should not require more than flagging one of their posts as spam.

When I flag a post by a 1 rep user as spam, this is an account that has no value at all. Further actions I might manually take are destruction of the user and all their posts, looking if they have accounts on other SE sites, flag their posts there or in larger cases ping a community team member in TL about this.

I'm moderating sites with low traffic and this is not a big problem for me, but some sites receive a lot more spam and cross-network spammers are getting more common in my observation.

So some things that could be done would be:

  • auto-destroy 1 rep accounts when their only spam post is nuked
  • if they have more than 1 post, display a dialog with the excerpt of all of them with a "destroy" button when a mod spam flags one post for convenient destruction
  • Some kind of automatic consequences to other linked accounts would be nice, but probably complicated.
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Somewhat linked in to Wax Eagle's suggestion but I'd love to see this request implemented:

Move position of post notices on answers

The post messages appear below all the comments that are made on both questions and answers, so if the post message is 'Insufficient Explanation' or 'Citation Needed' such posts usually generate a bunch of comments on it such as 'can you explain what you mean', 'where did you find these facts / statements'... The post notice will appear below these comments, separating the message from the post itself. In fact it could easily appear that the post notice belongs to the post below instead of the actual post it's referring to.

Can we move the position of this post notice on both questions and answers? Probably to just above the comments on that post, so it is clear to everyone reading it that there are some issues with the question / answer that need to be addressed.

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