Questions tagged [moderators]
Questions about diamond (♦) moderators, their powers, and actions they have taken.
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Question with answer got deleted by users. Doesn't that go against SO Policy?
I have this question which asks How would we go about reacting once 2 seconds of N videos has been preloaded?.
And Goldman had provided a really good answer, that I'm sure would be of interest to ...
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Why was my answer deleted even though it fullfilled all the guidelines?
This answer to question Generate Java code given a diagram PlantUML (deleted) (both appended below) was deleted by a moderator as it provided a link and was considered self-promotional. This project ...
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How has moderator workload changed since 2023, given that new questions asked are down by a factor 10?
A SO stats query shows that the rate of newly asked questions is down by a factor of 10 compared to 3 years ago. A change by a factor of 10 is quite massive, it must produce noticeable changes. Note ...
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Appealing unjustified content removal and concerns about abuse of moderation powers
I have serious concerns regarding the recent moderation actions taken against my account. I have been a member of this community for a long time, and while I may not be a daily contributor, I have ...
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Finally hanging up my diamond(s)
As you might have seen I'm stepping down as a moderator on Stack Overflow.
It's something I've been thinking about for a while, for various reasons, but the main reason is that I'm hoping to retire ...
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2025 Community Moderator Election is underway
The 2025 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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We're having a moderator election soon—question collection starts May 20, 2025 [duplicate]
A Community Moderator Election has now officially been scheduled for Stack Overflow in 2025. This will be Stack Overflow's 16th moderator election.
As y'all surely know, moderator elections have four ...
Cody GrayMod
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Why were so many users suspended in 2024?
I was just looking at the 2024: A year in moderation post and noticed there were more than 95 times the amount of users suspended in 2024 compared to 2023; 566,371 users were suspended in 2024 and ...
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When did questions generated by AI become allowed?
I recently raised a flag on a Question that's generated by an LLM (quoted at the end). The signs are clear, including the fact that the "Copy" sections remained, there are sections for the ...
Thom AMod
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How does "a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no evidence to support it" even make sense here?
I recently flagged this post to ask if it could be marked [status-review].
Oddly enough, a moderator declined my flag with a reason saying "a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no evidence ...
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Can we ask for more discussion moderators to speed up the cleaning in discussions?
A moderator reminded me in SOCVR about the fact that they are not obligated to moderate content in Discussions, as quoted from here,
All Stack Overflow site moderators also have access to all ...
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Did Kurtis and Nick come back to Stack Overflow?
I'd love to hear Kurtis Beavers and Nick Craver are back on board, but I'm pretty sure they are still pretty happy at Microsoft. Why then do they appear as "Staff" (Kurtis) and "Mod&...
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Who watches the watchers? [duplicate]
If you feel you're being targeted and threatened by a mod, what are your courses of action to deal with this?
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Why were 2/4 of my mod flags declined despite all 4 answers being deleted?
A few hours ago, following guidance from Flag Duplicate Answers on the same Question, I raised moderator flags on 4 answers to How to remove time portion of date in C# in DateTime object only?.
As you ...
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Does the community have a right to know why a moderator was banned?
I was browsing the moderator elections and noticed one of the moderators from 2015 had a reputation of 1:
I can only assume that he was banned in August 2019 for 5 years, as I see his ban is expiring ...
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