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Community Moderator Strike
Man, what a mess.
I wasn't sure if making this public was necessary, but yesterday and today (of all times?) a relatively high amount of spam seems to have been introduced to the main site, so I want ...
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We are getting rid of our Beta status!
Upcoming Thursday the 16th of December we will lose our Beta label, and Arts & Crafts will enter its 'mature' stage! So ..
This means, among other things, that we will join the list of 'Launched' ...
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Please help the Arts & Crafts site by voting
On any site, voting is how the value of posts is identified and sorted. That's part of what makes the knowledge base valuable to the vast majority of readers.
But voting also plays a vital role in ...
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An alert on tag creation
This is a heads-up for people who create new tags, or have in the past. Most users are unaware that Stack Exchange has an automated tag cleanup system that deletes little-used tags.
On a main site (...
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2020 Community Moderator Election
The 2020 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, ...
JoachimMod
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Announcing the first full election for Arts & Crafts!
Arts & Crafts Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for an election on 7 March 2022, as your first full election as a result of having lost your beta label in December 2021.
The timeline:
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Experiment: More aggressive review queue indicator
Over on Meta Stack Exchange, I announced an experiment that would:
Turn on the review queue indicator whenever there's a task available in any queue.
All queues with at least one task will be marked ...
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Please use custom (fill-in-the-blank) off-topic close reasons!
If you have sufficient reputation to see the tools (2000 rep), I invite you to check out this page. This is the close statistics page and it's really helpful to moderators and high-reputation users to ...
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Disable the "s" restriction temporarily in the closed beta?
In general, most sites that are similar to ours prefer the plural or collective forms of nouns for tags rather than singular... e.g., on cooking, the tags are "doughnuts", "vegetables", "measurements",...
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Have arts.stackexchange.com redirect to Arts & Crafts
A question on the Movies & TV meta site, 'film.stackexchange.com should redirect to the site', reminded me of this:
Should we let arts.stackexchange.com redirect to our site? It currently leads to ...
JoachimMod
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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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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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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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Need a generic term for desktop crafting assistance machines
We've had a few questions on desktop cutting machines like the Cricut and Silhouette. The Silhouette question was tagged with Cameo4 (the model), and that tag apparently got deleted after six months ...
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Scope reconsideration: allow questions about art theory
I think what has gone wrong since our last attempts to improve our site's traffic by reevaluating the scope of our site is that it has too many aspects to consider. Instead of reassessing our scope as ...
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