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11:18 AM
Hey Glorfindel!
 
Hi! I'm really busy today, so I might respond late.
 
It's ok if you respond late. No issues.
"[![Screenshot of vacation tool. The text reads "Inactive Moderators (vacation, work, personal, etc)" with a button underneath that reads "Record myself as present / active" and a checkbox with label 'on all sites I moderate'][3]][2]"
why are there numbers 2 and 3 for a single image?
 
11:52 AM
@technastic_tc oh, that's simple, but many people could have told you that. [3] is a smaller image (50% of the original, [2]). Just try to edit the post and use [2]][2] and you'll see how it looks like in the preview.
 
12:14 PM
oh.. ok..
 
 
2 hours later…
2:10 PM
I wanted to clarify one small thing regarding the moderator vacation tool..
You're an elected moderator of Ask Different and English Language Learners.
So if you want to take a vacation on one of the sites you moderate, let's say Ask Different, how do you do it?
You go to the admin/dashboard page and go to the vacation tool and record yourself as absent/inactive?
There is a check box on all sites I moderate.
But isn't there any option to choose one particular site you moderate?
Or did I misunderstand the entire situation. Are there different admin/dashboard pages for different SE sites?
 
 
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4:37 PM
@Glorfindel
 
5:02 PM
@technastic_tc that's correct.
Even a site's own meta has its own dashboard.
 
5:31 PM
that point isn't explixitly mentioned in Catja's answer..
It would be great if you could edit the post once again..
and make things clearer..
by mentioning that there are separate dashboards for each SE site.. separate dashboards for main site and it's meta site
and define the word "on all sites I moderate".
*explicitly
Now let's say you're in the Ask Different (main site, not meta) dashboard.
What does clicking the checkbox "on all sites I moderate" in your case mean?
Does "all sites" refer to Ask Different main site and Ask Different meta site?
or does "all sites" mean Ask Different, English Language Learners and Chess and all the respective meta sites?
@Glorfindel
 
6:00 PM
@technastic_tc (almost) all pages/tools are site-specific (for regular users as well as moderators). It makes sense to only mention that when it's different (such as the checkbox for 'on all sites I moderate').
'All sites' means all sites in the network. I'm not even sure what happens when you uncheck that box, if the vacation will carry over to the meta site. It doesn't matter, since moderators rarely visit the dashboard there.
I think the answer is fine as it is right now. Regular users don't profit from the tool, and most moderators (at least on my sites) don't use it either. I completely understand you're curious, but there are a lot more interesting things to discover on Stack Exchange.
 

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