Questions about diamond (♦) moderators, their powers, and actions they have taken.
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What would be “recommended experience” for a person who wants to run for moderator?
I believe that if someone decides to run for moderator, he should have at least approximate idea what will be expected from them.
We can learn something about work of moderators here: MSE and ...
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When do network moderators delete questions?
I have been going over the list of recently deleted posts, to see what new there since my last visit, and I have noticed something strange.
One of the network-wide moderator has deleted a question. ...
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Community wiki: really?
The 'community wiki' tag on the sister question doesn't seem to be appropiate by its definition, since neither the questions nor given answers are suitable for multiple editors - not at all.
Is this ...
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My comment was removed and I don't know why
I don't remember the exact words and perhaps the moderator who removed my comment would care to explain why he did so and paste my comment somewhere on the thread.
In this answer I left a comment ...
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Could maths.SE use an appeals committee?
I spent several years as the arbiter for the Croydon Chess Club. In the event that an arbiter's decision was disputed, the decision could be appealed. If a decision were to be appealed:
The ...
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Only 300 reputation points needed to nominate as moderator?
In the nomination phase, any community member in good standing with
more than 300 reputation may nominate themselves to be a community
moderator.
300 reputations points seems ridiculously low ...
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Re-evaluation of actions when a moderator resigns?
I just found that there were an unusual lot of suggested flags in the review queue. Only after going through it, I noticed that especially one case was weird: The question, answer and initial flagging ...
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2013 Community Moderator Election
The 2013 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 ...
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MSE and meta.MSE as seen by moderators
There have been a lot of statements by moderators and others about aspects of the site (not necessarily visible to ordinary users) as seen by moderators. This thread is for accumulation of any data ...
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Change of moderators - I resign as well [closed]
As mentioned in Zev's post, an election will be coming up for Math Stack Exchange, so I will take the opportunity to resign as well.
The answers on the main site can be fascinating and enlightening, ...
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How to ensure candidates pre-commit for next election
This is a follow up to How can we best judge who has the skills to be a moderator? . Two moderators have recently resigned, and they say there will be another election soon. Some recent elections had ...
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I am also resigning as a moderator
An election is a big process for the community (and for SE team to set up), and now that Qiaochu's resignation will set one in motion, I am going to take the opportunity to resign as well.
To be ...
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I am resigning as moderator
I don't want to give a big speech about this. In short, moderating is draining my emotional energy and I'm much less convinced of its value than I used to be.
Edit: Thanks for the warm comments! ...
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Why is my Flag Declined?
The Equation and Number of units
Question was flagged by me and declined. But now this question is closed.What's wrong?
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Closing process for +138 voted question “proofs every mathematician should know”
The question
Proofs that every mathematician should know?
has 142 upvotes (4 down) and was favorited 150 times. The revision history shows that the question was closed by a moderator but with no ...
