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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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Why was my comment of helpful resources removed?

I was going to answer this question but it was closed by PieBie for being off topic. That's fine, but I commented some resources that would be helpful to the OP regardless. The comment was along the ...
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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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Area51 Proposal: Beginner Graphic Design Stack Exchange (working title)

How do we reduce tutorial-on-demand and basic/beginner questions? Answer: We push them to Beginner Graphic Design SE (working title) Our Motto: We teach them how to fish instead of giving them a ...
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Retina tag is totally useless? Burnination?

Related: Help me make a reference answer for DPI/PPI/LPI/Pixel/resolution Why do we have a retina tag? It's a marketing gimmick not a unit of measurement It's a made up trademark by Apple. Apple does ...
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How should the process for mods reopening a question differ?

Recently "When to use photos or illustrations in design?" (image of closed question here for historical reference) was closed by 5 high rep (for GD.SE) users including myself for being too opinion ...
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Submit a question for locking

This question about a certain font gets a lot of views (5K at the moment), and answers, although it is essentially unaswerable - because the original font is not a digital font. Which leads to people ...
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Why was I removed from being a chat room owner?

In the chat, we were talking about filling the chat with images. I commented that so long as they aren't GIFs (content-appropriate implied too of course) that remain showing in the chat they are fine. ...
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Can a migrated question be, uh, repatriated?

I think the question » https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/25954/set-indesign-pdf-export-resolution-for-vector-graphics?noredirect=1 « was migrated to Superuser too early as it is, at ...
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Should I call attention to rude users and comments? If so, how?

Recently, I answered a question and, apparently partly misunderstood the OP. I say 'apparently' because the OP proceeded to bite my head off in a comment and ask for a downvote. They were even more ...
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A Leadership Vacuum: Please Step Up [closed]

For the last two months, I have been seeking more moderators for this site. Currently, there are only two active moderators: Alan and Pearsonartphoto, and Alan has been on board for about a month. He'...
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Moderator Pro-tem

we are looking in to getting at least one additional moderator at this site, to serve as a moderator pro-tem. What do the duties of a moderator include? To quote from the blog post, they: A ...
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Should/can we list SuperUser as a migration target when voting to close off-topic questions?

Dori's response to a recent Area51 proposal indicates that we should do less closing of Photoshop questions and more migrating to SuperUser. This sounds like a reasonable response to these questions, ...
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Is moderation different on this site?

I am working on a new web-project again, and this time i'm getting a bit into the graphics, that why I spend a little more time on GD. Now I have observed the moderation a few days, after my post got ...
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Just how much self-promotion is allowed?

We have a user who apparently logged in to answer this question as though it were a Craigslist ad. I'm thinking this is a no-no. Am I correct? Can we just delete the answer?
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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 ...