Questions tagged [moderator-abilities]
a subset of privileges available to moderators and users with high reputation
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Are the logs that record moderators' access to users' personally identifiable information (PII) monitored and/or independently reviewed?
This 11+ year old answer states that per-site moderator access to the following information about individual users is logged:
real name
email
IP address
Notwithstanding the need to keep certain ...
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How should I handle a valid chat flag when a suspension isn't warranted?
I've already read through A guide to moderating chat, and this isn't covered there.
For example, a user might post something slightly over the line that ought to go, but has now returned to productive ...
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Do moderators have the ability to add/remove badges from user accounts?
Do moderators have the ability to add badges (in the case of bugs, edge cases, etc.) or remove badges (in the case of vote abuse, etc.)?
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Allow mods more freedom in editing the tour
Context:
Some sites prohibit 'personal advice' questions:
Mathematics:
Questions about choosing a course, academic program, career path, etc. are off-topic. Such questions should be directed to ...
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What is the authority of moderators in defining the scope of a site?
Please read this as a neutral question. I'm asking and not trying to make a point.
Though I'll start with a rant (for context)...
I recently ran into a situation that I found quite disheartening on ...
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Allow moderators to edit sections of privilege help center pages
This question is inspired by the recent public reveal of the Stack Overflow Question Close Reasons - Definitions and Guidance. Briefly, the Q&A provides really useful community-specific guidance ...
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Suggested feature - simplify migration process
I am suggesting to add a new feature that simplifies the question migration process.
Requested feature: Adding a "Migrate" option next to the "Close" option.
The migration ...
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Moderator activity limits (voting, reviewing, etc.) [duplicate]
I'm curious about something. Do moderators have limits for various actions like normal users? In particular
Voting (normal users have 40 votes)
Reviews (20/40 per queue for normal users)
Asking ...
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Should moderators be able to undelete any comment, including self-deletions?
Moderators were granted the ability to undelete comments, primarily to make cleaning up long comment threads more efficient. The idea was for the moderator to purge all comments, then selectively ...
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Can bots which require moderator privileges operate on SE?
Recently, a discussion came up in our internal Charcoal team (requires access) as to autoflags and pinging users whose accounts are used to cast automatic flags that are later deemed to have been ...
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How to know when a moderator action is binding?
I just had an exchange with a moderator and now I am confused.
Said moderator had edited my post in the past. I claimed they used mod powers. They said they didn't, it could have been anybody, editing ...
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Reconsider allowing moderators to cast normal close/reopen votes as well as binding close/reopen votes
On Stack Exchanges, all users with 3,000 reputation or more can cast votes to close questions that they see as off-topic, or to reopen questions that they feel were wrongly closed. Ordinary users get ...
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Could we make the migration search function for moderators be made available to regular users? [duplicate]
This question was originally asked on Writing Meta but I decided to make it a feature request and ask it here after some advice from a Writers mod.
I was wondering if we could make the migration ...
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Moderator bias and stifling of discussion on Stack Exchange [duplicate]
Recently I have come across instances of moderators being biased and trying to stifle the discussion through their special privileges on Stack Exchange sites (especially if the point of view or ...
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Can Community Moderators and Stack Overflow employees post answers on closed questions?
Since this doesn't appear to have been asked before:
Can elected moderators (and Community Managers, and other Stack Overflow employees) post answers on Questions that have been closed? This would ...
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