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Goodbye Mod team, I'm a mere mortal again
First, the tl;dr: Starting today, I am no longer a community moderator on Super User.
Over the past weeks, I've made the decision to step down as a moderator. I was elected on July 24, 2012, and it's ...
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Ending my tenure as a superuser moderator
To the superuser community,
I have officially submitted my resignation as a superuser moderator to the community team. I would like to thank everyone who I have collaborated with over the years &...
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General moderators' strike
Open letter here: https://openletter.mousetail.nl
I haven't decided what I think about this yet.
It seemed fairly apparent months ago that technical support was a prime target for ChatGPT et al., and ...
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Should Random be elected a moderator on Super User?
Random is very, very helpful on Super User (and of course Meta Stack Overflow).
Not that other users aren't, but Random goes the extra mile, and then some. He is often so far in the distance that I ...
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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 weeks,...
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Q&A with the candidates in 2011 moderator election
After the example of the Math.SE site I have some questions that I would love to see each nominee respond to in their nomination (if they choose to do so):
Is there anything you would want to change ...
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Idle moderator position
quack quixote has left Super User for good (here is the related post), and he still seems to have the moderator position (obviously idle). I think this position should be granted (by election) to an ...
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Vote for Super User Moderator [poll]
As the Super User semi-private beta comes to an end this coming Tuesday, we need to elect a final community moderator for the site.
Remember, we’re looking for a good moderator; someone who is above ...
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2011 Community Moderator Election
The 2011 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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2017 Community Moderator Election
The 2017 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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2014 Community Moderator Election
The 2014 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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Too liberal use of the "off topic" button
I've seen a small handful of questions here marked as off topic that just baffle me. Here is the latest:
https://superuser.com/questions/197939/best-host-for-vmware-workstation/197942
How is that ...
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Very frustrating user experience
I had a very difficult question that I urgently needed an answer to. It got buried very quickly.
Is there anyway to bump a question higher in the questions list?
(possible answer)
How do I ask ...
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Congratulations to the elected moderators of 2011!
According to the election page, the new moderators have been picked:
Congratulations!
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Should we elect more than 3 additional moderators?
Looking at the current nominations, I am struggling to decide who to vote for, since at least 5 of the candidates in my honest opinion deserve to become moderators.
Considering that we have to ...
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How to get 'noticed' to possibly become a moderator?
I'm a pretty avid user of SU. However, I spend most of my time there rather than here in the meta discussions.
I would be very willing and happy to become a moderator there to help even more, but I ...
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Why am I getting a refusal to help answer a question of mine?
I asked a question about getting the intimate details (well network type, what cert was used to connect to a network connection) on Windows 10. Question for context: Replicating a wireless connection ...
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Why are changes applied without any reasoning or community agreement?
Please align the Excel tags isn't agreed upon, while Can we please standardize the Microsoft tags? has been there for ages and has been a consensus which we pretty much agreed up.
Why does a ...
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What to do when a user asks the same question on two SO Family sites and the original gets migrated
This question here was migrated to SU after the OP, listening to a comment left for him, asked the same question there already.
I don't have the rep to vote to close on SU, and I flag for moderator ...
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Random is closing questions as duplicates that should not be closed.
I have run in to this twice today. As I was typing a answer Random closed this and this question.
For the first one, I understand that that one is truly a duplicate (even the poster said so in the ...
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Why does it mean when a flag is rejected with "aware of content that requires intervention"?
In a similar approach of slhck's problem I thought that being very descriptive instead of just clicking not an answer would help, but instead I got a new flag reason returned:
I don't feel like the ...
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