16 votes

We have a new moderator!

Thank you for an amazing time! These four years have been absolutely awesome, but it's time to move on and let some new blood in. I can't believe that small beta is now a buzzing site and a reference ...
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13 votes

Area51 Proposal: Beginner Graphic Design Stack Exchange (working title)

I hate this idea and downvoted it. Sorry. To try and elaborate I did go back through Ink Spot and read the conversation about this starting roughly https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/...
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8 votes

We have a new moderator!

Yisela will always be the queen of GD.SE in my book!! Glad everything is working out for her and she will be missed.
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5 votes
Accepted

How should the process for mods reopening a question differ?

I'm the one who reopened it and I make no apologies for it. To make things clear I didn't discuss it with fellow mods or anyone else. None were on at the time or maybe I would have, but I wasn't going ...
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5 votes

We have a new moderator!

Congrats @Ryan! Who says there's no reward for second place :) You'll need to hurry to 10k rep now :)
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4 votes

We have a new moderator!

Congratulations @Ryan! I'm very pleased to hear of your promotion.
3 votes

Area51 Proposal: Beginner Graphic Design Stack Exchange (working title)

You seem to be focussing on splitting the questions, which indeed is technically easy, but Stack Exchange sites are about communities, not just about types of questions. More specifically: Who is ...
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3 votes

How should the process for mods reopening a question differ?

We mods understand that it's no fun to overturn y'all's decisions. Especially if five high-rep users gave their opinions, it kind of defeats the point of the 'self-moderation' of this community. That'...
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3 votes

2015 Community Moderator Election

Best of luck to all nominees! I might add that I have recently finished both House of Cards and all seasons of The West Wing, so if anyone is looking for a campaign manager I'm sure we can work out ...
2 votes

Area51 Proposal: Beginner Graphic Design Stack Exchange (working title)

For what it's worth, I think it's a good idea. I especially like the ethos "teach them to fish, instead of giving them a fish" Edit: The following section was in response to the previous suggested ...
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2 votes

How should the process for mods reopening a question differ?

When should this power of single-handedly reopening be used and should there be any procedure along with using it? Just a few points that come to mind: You can't know if the action was really single-...
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