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2022: a year in moderation

As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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2021: a year in moderation

As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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2020: a year in moderation

As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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2019: a year in moderation

It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land... A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated: We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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2018: a year in moderation

It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land... A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated: We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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Flagging too chatty/not constructive comments

Recently, I've been going through exiting topics on the SQA site cleaning things up along the way - marking "thank you", "it works", "you are welcome" or "good ...
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Do we have hold elections for moderators here?

At Stackoverflow, they are holding moderator elections, how often do we do that here?
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Protecting Quality posts

Users of SO would be familiar with this. In order to protect good quality posts and answers, we have the moderators "protect" a question. A good example would be this question. I have come across ...
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How to suggest/recommend migrating a question to a different site?

This question is likely to be better served by physics.stackexchange.com. It is technically on topic for us, but the subject matter expertise required is more likely to be found in the physics group. ...
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Should we update the FAQ to indicate that interview questions are not acceptable?

This is what the FAQ has to say (https://sqa.stackexchange.com/faq#dontask) You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended ...
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Question about whether a question is appropriate

I'm not sure that this question is appropriate: it reads to me as though the person asking hasn't done their basic research - but I don't want to downvote or close since I'm pretty new to the whole ...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement

Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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