Questions about diamond (♦) moderators, their powers, and actions they have taken.
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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
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 ...
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Two flairs for Qiaochu Yuan
Heads up: on the $2010$ moderator election page and the main elections page, there are two flairs for Qiaochu Yuan present.
Am I the only seeing this or is it intentional?
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Why was Bill even a moderator? [closed]
Disclaimer: I should begin by apologising for starting another thread about the moderator brouhaha, but this has been bugging me for a while. I do not like petty politics, but I am procrastinating ...
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Feedback on answer
On my answer here to this question: is $0.\overline{99}$ the same as $\lim_{x \to 1} x$? (yes it is a bit old) I was downvoted by a moderator. I am trying to understand what is wrong with my answer. ...
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Announcement: A change of moderators
There has been a lot of inquiry about recent events. This post is meant to clear that up and avoid speculation. In particular, I am posting this as a follow-up to a comment I had made previously.
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How can we best judge who has the skills to be a moderator?
Some recent events have raised the question as to who is best equipped to be a moderator. It has become clear to me that some hugely valuable contributions are being lost to the site over concerns ...
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Do mods of stackexchange sites get paid?
Do they get paid? Or is it a volunteer position? Thank you very much for your help. Also please move this to meta since I can't do that.
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A House Divided?
I notice that one moderator has locked a question (from an ongoing contest), and another moderator has unlocked it and edited out part of the notice posted by the first moderator. I don't think this ...
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Please welcome two additional moderators
It's only been a few months since the last election and the moderators elected there hit the ground running, helping keep this site going strong.
Willie and Zev recently told us that they'd like to ...
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Number of votes needed to close a question
I know it takes 5 votes all of which are from non-moderators to close a question. However, I have noticed that it only takes one vote from a moderator to close a question. I don't understand why a ...
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What is within a moderator's power regarding posts?
In the past, I've been told (via the 'declined' message of a flag) that a certain action was not within a moderator's power; I had flagged the post (and indicated in the flag report) in the hope that ...
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Wrongfully declined flag?
Incident Report:
Two days ago I checked the mod tools and saw a flagged post appearing. The post was a common happening that a person posts an answer to a rather old question, and in the answer they ...
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Why are there only 2 moderators?
In the Math.SE 2012 Community Moderator Election there are only 2 moderator positions.
To me this seems to be too few - considering the amount of questions (51,252).
If I understand correctly the ...
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2012 Community Moderator Election
The 2012 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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Is it time to expand the moderator team?
It's been a year and a half (or so) since we moved out of the beta phase, I think that most people will agree that our community is quite a successful one. I think we can also say that it is a ...
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Administrative Note on Moderator Rolls
We are in the process of implementing a policy for "absentee moderators" — Any moderator who is not active on the site for a period of six months is subject to removal of their moderator ...
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Where are the new moderators?
Didn't we have this moderator election during the previous weeks, which should be finished by now?
None of the four candidates has become a moderator until now, and I do not know how to check the ...
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Why does math.stackexchange use single transferable vote?
Isn't the Schulze method superior to single transferable vote? It takes preferences, and it's Condorcet (i.e., if everyone prefers A to B for all B in hypothetical two person elections, then A wins.) ...
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Moderator election: who should nominate themselves?
As anybody can see, (nomination for) moderator election is running, but there are only 2 candidates so far. And (with all due respect) it doesn't look too... great, so far. Only self-nominations are ...
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2011 Community Moderator Election
With the growth of the Math Stack Exchange, it is time once again to hold Community Moderator Elections. The winners of this election will be joining our current group of moderators.
The 2011 ...
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Suspicious voting patterns
The software has identified four users as having suspicious voting patterns. Three of these users share an IP address with the user they're voting for. However, as far as I can tell, none of them are ...
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Is Robin Chapman a moderator? [closed]
While looking at the about section of the site, math.se, I noted that @Robin Chapman is listed as a moderator. However he has not been on the site since Jan 10th. (and not been on meta for much ...
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My letter of resignation
I have just submitted my resignation as a moderator on this website
to Jeff Atwood. I would like to use this thread to explain my reasons.
When I make a significant time commitment to a given ...
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Why are comments sometimes removed?
Moving this discussion about comment moderation from an unrelated question to here:
@all: the two comments I posted earlier this evening have been removed, but not by me. I have asked the ...
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Migration from cstheory to Math.SE
Hi,
There was a discussion on cstheory meta about adding Math.SE to the list of target sites in the off-topic flagging wizard.
When a non-research-level theory question is closed as off-topic, we ...
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User needs accounts merged
I had rejected some substantial edits done by an "anonymous user" on Daniel Moskovich's answer here.
I made a comment suggesting that if it was Daniel making the edits, he should log in to make the ...
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Strange sequence of upvotes
About 10 minutes into the "day", I started receiving a long sequence of single votes on questions There are 28 upvotes over a period of 2-3 minutes. Moreover, they occurred on my answers in almost ...
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Single user, multiple names
What is the policy on having more than one "account"? Maybe it is an accident, but it appears that Eero and Guero might be the same person.
Embedded Surfaces and Homology; Fundamental Group
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Continuity of Moderation
It has long been established that moderation is a volunteer activity; they can come and go as they please. Life happens and sometimes work and family take precedence. But there are a limited number of ...
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Who is Jason Punyon and why is he a moderator?
Link. I was under the impression that after we held the moderator elections, all previous moderators would lose their moderator status.
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What to do with a user who is editing existing questions and replacing with entirely new ones?
The user Arash has made some rather strange edits as of this afternoon.
Three questions that had been asked before and answered were edited:
A question about a characterization of local rings that ...
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Feature requests being declined on ground of two summers old threads on other websites.
I made a feature request in this thread for including newlines in comments, and it was promptly declined. The reason was that it was discussed in May 2009 in some other website. It was the equivalent ...
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“Your votes are too old to be changed”
Now that the election phase has begun. attempts to click on the "nth choice" buttons beside each candidate result in the titular error message.
What, exactly, is going on?
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Does a moderator candidate need to divulge the real name?
There are high reputation users like T.., Moron and others, who have a good track record and thus can be viable moderator candidates.
It would be nice if the requirement of divulging the real name ...
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List of questions for candidates in 2010 moderator election
This thread is opened for questions addressed to (all) the candidates in the December 2010 moderator election.
If questions are kept simple enough they can be answered fully in the comments, and ...
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Please help construct moderation policies for our newcoming moderators
I think it would be wise before the upcoming moderator election to reflect a bit on the prior moderation history so that we can benefit from our prior experience. Some of the prior problems with ...
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Community Moderator Election Format and Design
Thanks for all your feedback on this format and design document. The 2010 Mathematics Community Moderator Election is now underway.
We're preparing the election page now. Here is how we think it ...
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Some questions on moderator appointments and moderator actions
There was some confusion recently in meta discussions about moderators, their selection, user interaction and interventions. So I would like to get a better understanding of what is going to happen in ...
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I quit. Here's why.
I have offered my resignation as a moderator to the SE team and I think it's important that I provide some explanation here. Principally, I decided over the past weekend to pull the advertising for ...
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