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Stepping down as moderator (Flimzy)

Thanks Flimzy! Wow, 7 years is quite a lot... Every now and then I have found myself looking for some ideas about the site, checking how some things should be handled or rules applied. Quite often, I ...
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Stepping down as moderator - Renunciando como moderador (Diego)

Allow me to answer in Spanish, for I am too much affected to think in English. Lamento que al final todo haya desembocado en esto. Hemos estado hablando en el chat de moderadores y no puedo decir que ...
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Pregunta para los mods actuales: ¿qué supone para vosotros ser moderador de Spanish.SE?

La lista de competencias de un moderador está bien explicada en: Who are the diamond moderators, and what is their role?, cuya traducción al castellano puede encontrarse en Meta SOes: ¿Quién son los ...
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Pregunta para los mods actuales: ¿qué supone para vosotros ser moderador de Spanish.SE?

Voy a describir un poco mi día a día como mod y unos cuantos pensamientos para ver si eso arroja un poco de luz sobre a qué se compromete un mod y en qué consiste para mí hacer de mod. A ver si con ...
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What effect does having three moderators have on our reviewing policy?

I am happy that you ask this question, because I myself (as an affected party) have wondered about this lately. Here is what I have been doing during my first few days as a moderator. I try to avoid ...
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2020 Moderator Elections — Community Interest Check / ¿Alguien interesado en presentarse?

Hola a todos - I'd like to declare my interest in running for moderator. I love this site, and while I sympathise completely with many of the old guard not wishing to donate their time and effort in ...
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Stepping down as moderator - Renunciando como moderador (Diego)

Ahora hace tres años y pico empezamos a moderar juntos, Diego. Te conocía del sitio, de haberte visto como se suele decir: te leía formulando preguntas curiosas, te veía responder de forma muy ...
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2020: a year in moderation

Comparemos los datos de los tres años en que tenemos: 2018: a year in moderation 2019: a year in moderation 2020: a year in moderation M20 y C20 corresponden, respectivamente, a moderadores el año ...
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What effect does having three moderators have on our reviewing policy?

Now that all three current moderators have indicated that they feel that the current policy is the same as before I think we should wait until after the system change to 3 votes to close being ...
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Proposing moderatorhood

I am the first one to think Charlie could be a very good mod. This comes first! It is also important to know what the procedure is. For this, comments like: Guidance regarding those hoops might be ...
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Would moderators please be as quick to reopen as they are to close

Unfortunately, moderators have binding votes (for better or worse). We cannot choose to use a binding vote or a "regular" vote. For that reason, we have tried to keep ourselves away of the "close" and ...
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¿Qué política tiene el sitio cuando un usuario se pone expresamente un nombre similar a otro?

No parece que haya una política muy definida para este caso concreto. He encontrado algún debate al respecto: Meta.SE How to handle people impersonating other people by choosing the same display name ...
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¿Qué podemos modificar los moderadores?

Documentación Centro de ayuda El texto en What topics can I ask about here?. Entero. El texto que encabeza el Centro de ayuda, que ahora mismo está vacío en este sitio. Hay sitios, como ...
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¿Quién son los moderadores ♦? ¿Cuál es su rol?

Esta es una traducción de la respuesta aceptada en Who are the diamond moderators, and what is their role? ¿Qué privilegios especiales tienen los moderadores diamantados? Los moderadores de ...
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Low Quality answers in the review queue that already got a moderator comment

TL;DR Delete: this is the option if time passes and the user does not acknowledge the community's comments and / or doesn't edit their answer. The long answer: There is no right or wrong answer. ...
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How can we encourage participants to assist with the "review" queue?

Paradoxically, what you just did should be the main thing: creating a post in Meta to bring the issue to the attention of the community. If more manpower is needed in the reviews, and if there's ...
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Removal of a link to an article and video from an answer by a moderator

I was the mod that did these changes. Let's see how your post looked before I changed it in order to focus the debate on the key aspect here: you need to reference content properly. 3.4.1 El ...
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Would moderators please be as quick to reopen as they are to close

Fedorqui gave the solution in a comment: flag. Apparently our fearless leaders have recently been trying to leave more of the housekeeping to the rest of us (which is a good thing, I think), so they ...
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Low Quality answers in the review queue that already got a moderator comment

To add to Diego's comprehensive and extremely useful answer... We mods tend to leave comments in such posts as a first step of our action. Trusted users are granted the vote to delete privilege. Once ...
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Stepping down as moderator - Renunciando como moderador (Diego)

Con todo lo que ha pasado en estas semanas, esta es la primera vez que llegué a llorar. Por favor, deja pasar un poco de tiempo, y date la oportunidad de reconsiderar. Aún no he perdido la esperanza ...
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