The numbers of delete votes that are still required do show a description when hovered over. — Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog 31 secs ago

Hey, it looks like there are still two questions with the old tag. Are you planning to finish the job, or shall I? — Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog 19 secs ago

Another issue: there is no public history of when a tag was created in the past and subsequently removed. What often happens is that many of these tags are discussed on meta and removed, and then recreated by users who don't know of the discussion. While it's not prudent to block every tag that's removed, there should at least be a public history so that users can use that info to make tag block requests. — Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog 1 min ago

Can confirm those stats are only shown to moderators until the election has been completed or cancelled. They also appear in a different place (below the list of users elected) once the election is over. — animuson ♦ 10 secs ago

You ask in wrong site, you should ask in Mathematics Stack Exchange, but you need to type the question out using latex. (I mean use latex instead of using pictures, unless you need to send the geometry picture.) — user1176409 49 secs ago

It's not exactly the same question, but you can have a look at: Where do I ask questions about data explorer? and at the other questions linked there. There are also some chatrooms related to SEDE - they are linked in the corresponding tag-info. — Martin 37 secs ago

Sorry but unless this actually solved the problem it's not really helpful to anyone. Have you tried what they suggested? — Shadow Wizard Love Zelda 34 secs ago

I have now. It worked. — tripleee 6 secs ago

Once the account is created, I am able to log in with the VPN enabled. — tripleee 29 secs ago

"Reputation is half the score, which is not a good indicator of how useful a moderator will be." This has been discussed at pretty much every single moderator election. The argument in favour of the existing system is that we want moderators not only to be in touch with how site moderation works, but also with what they actual core purpose Q&A is about. Additionally, since user moderator privileges are unlocked gradually through earned reputation, it becomes impossible to have experience of certain moderator duties without the rep score to match. — Lundin 38 secs ago

That being said, I agree that reputation is otherwise a poor metric for moderator suitability. Reputation is mostly a measure of how active a user is. And at some extent also a measure of their domain knowledge at certain topics. None of which has anything to do with moderator suitability. — Lundin 20 secs ago

I agree with all of this except where you imply that all user feedback is equally valuable. This isn’t a democracy. It’s a for-profit business and no-one is forced to participate in it. I agree that the feedback from someone active in the Q&A part of the network is more useful in certain discussions than the feedback from someone who is primarily curating content or moderating. A fixed council of users for every product topic on every site seems unwise. — ColleenV 1 min ago

Without the nature or exact text of the error message, it’s hard to know if it is potentially an issue with SEDE or the captcha (in which case here is fine) or a more generic syntax issue (in which case probably Stack Overflow, because that problem would be happening against a database that isn’t SEDE, too). — Aaron Bertrand 34 secs ago

I have a question about billing that I cannot find answered anywhere. I assume this does not fit StackOverflow. — Parrotmaster 9 secs ago

(Here's one example of the query you're looking for, against Stack Overflow, in a couple of tags I follow, in the style I would write it. There are often many ways to get the same results in very different ways, and queries like this can also be better parameterized so they are more reusable (e.g. you could parameterize 1-n tags).) — Aaron Bertrand 12 secs ago

It is still lagging — Greenonline 12 secs ago

Yup. The lag still seems to exist on Wednesday, February 28th. New thing? — Giacomo1968 47 secs ago

What site did you intend to post this on? — Giacomo1968 58 secs ago

What do you mean — Mahim Tiwari 1 min ago

Your Question, which duplicates some that have been posted on Math.SE over the years, is off-topic for Meta StackExchange (the site here). Take the tour if you are interested in this Community. — hardmath 24 secs ago

Look at the down votes: This is Meta Stack Exchange; a place to discuss issues with all Stack Exchange sites. Your post seems to be an actual question for what? Stack Overflow? The Mathematics Stack Exchange? Or what? — Giacomo1968 42 secs ago

The site-recommendation tag meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/site-recommendation is used on the question. Such questions are asking which Stack Exchange site is suitable, not which sites on the internet are suitable. — cigien 19 secs ago

@ColleenV I didn't say that all feedback is equally valuable though, I said that "everyone has the right to say their part and we should listen to them based on the merit of what they are saying". That is, if someone has a strange opinion or peculiar idea, they are free to express it, but we (the communities as well as the the company) need not agree or implement it. — Lundin 1 min ago

@Joachim What’s up with that? — Giacomo1968 1 min ago

Post a link to your profile page. You seem to only belong to one community (MSE). It would be helpful if you posted a screenshot of what you se, — toolic 21 secs ago

I experienced that bad performance on Math SE today, but right now it seems to be OK again. — Martin R 16 secs ago

@MartinR Sounds good! Hopefully they cleared it up. — Giacomo1968 1 min ago

Late comment but: “Pets killed on the roads are being stored in freezers by councils in case their owners want to reclaim their dead animals. Worthing and Adur councils have stored more than 100 cats and dogs in chest freezers over the last two years.” Seems like it is out of respect for the pets. As for Bagders? No clue. — Giacomo1968 1 min ago

As volunteers we can determine for ourselves whether we are getting what we need out of the relationship. If I feel like my time is wasted here, or that my contributions aren't valued, I'll spend my time elsewhere. It's not in the company's interests to weigh the opinions of a user who contributes a lot of value the same as a user who, hypothetically, is very disruptive and causes more trouble than the value they create. — ColleenV 53 secs ago

All better as of about 9:00 CST in Minnesota. — isherwood 20 secs ago

@Richard Which sites are you moderating? Surely not SO. And since it is not difficult and tiresome, how about you clean up the review queues there until tomorrow morning? stackoverflow.com/review Just 8000 reviews or so - you can do it. — Lundin 32 secs ago

Things do indeed seem better now. Wait for final word from staff. — Giacomo1968 just now

@Greenonline Things seem better now. Wait for final word from staff. — Giacomo1968 35 secs ago

Respectfully, I don't agree with the premise. While it is true that moderators were originally selected on their ability to be patient and fair, respectful, and lead by example, moderators are the people a community will naturally turn to when they need to handle their most sensitive issues. They are, on some level, the trusted voice in the room. This makes modship a de facto community leadership position, if not outright a de jure leadership position. The action of a good moderator is to earn and keep trust, so that it can be used to keep a community in balance. What else is leadership? — Slate ♦ 37 secs ago

Regardless, we are fully aware that the purpose of moderators is not to represent the varied interests of individual users when it comes to issues like product design. They do perform this function from time to time, which gives me some trust that it can be successfully reified, but it's not by the current design. That's ultimately why PAC voting is not restricted to mods. It's for users. While it's true that the PAC may also be non-representative of users as a whole, it should be reasonably representative of users who have an active interest in the site. This, too, is important. — Slate ♦ 27 secs ago

Yes, it is true that moderators have some significantly more rote responsibilities than what I've just said. I don't mean to minimize the importance of the cultivation they can do for a better curation culture, using the abilities granted to them. Nor do I mean to minimize the importance of flags that are simple or otherwise routine. But these tasks happen side-by-side. Moderators handle these more routine issues, while leading the community towards a place where it can do as many of them on its own as possible. — Slate ♦ 35 secs ago

@Slate "moderators are the people a community will naturally turn to" Turn to how, exactly? If I don't like what you as SO staff is saying here, should I flag your statements for moderator attention? Surely not. Should I breathe down the neck of the moderators asking them for off-site contact information. Surely not. Should I create meta posts directed to individual moderators that I voted for last election? Surely not. I'm not following you here. — Lundin 33 secs ago

@Slate Either way, it doesn't matter what you think the moderators are doing, leading by example etc. If some policeman is doing a great job patrolling the assigned neighbourhood, keeping everyone safe and content, ensuring there is no littering or vandalism, that does still not make the local policeman the elected major to represent the community. Unless of course, they decide to run for office and explicitly get elected as major, under the premises that "if I vote for this person I want them to represent me and I explicitly place by trust in them to make decisions affecting me". — Lundin 48 secs ago

When you say CCLA are you talking about that? — Augusto Vasques just now

@Slate Similarly, if I did vote for someone to represent my local cooperate housing collective in keeping the area where I live tidy, I don't expect someone to step in retroactively long time after the election. "Ah by the way, the person you voted for 3 years ago is now also your president because you trusted them to keep your local neighborhood clean." Wth? No they are not, I did not vote for them in that context at all. — Lundin 15 secs ago

I had set the five to Hidden subsequently because I wanted to see them in the profile. I have now unhidden 2 of them so there should be 7 in my profile list as unhidden, but there is still only 5. — Lee-xp 23 secs ago

@Lundin I am not sure where the distinction matters. Moderators have no outsize influence in electing the PAC, which we hope will represent the community's interest in changes to the product. Moderators elect the LAB, which does represent the community's interest in how policies are developed and executed. This choice is not really because they are theoretically "the best representative," but simply because as moderators, they are the most directly impacted by these issues and are regularly the closest to them. Obviously, they should not be doing just whatever they feel like doing... — Slate ♦ 31 secs ago

@Lee-xp And now I see 7 in your network account that aren't hidden. Are you just saying that you see 5 with a "View all N accounts"/"See all" link in your site profiles? That's how it's supposed to work since some people have too many communities to fit elegantly on the page. — Laurel 19 secs ago

Before you know it, you've invented an American "democracy" system where the only true democratic principle of one adult person = one vote has been replaced with complex systems designed to favour a certain group or party. Or more likely in the context of private companies managing a community (as seen in MMO computer games) - put up a cooperative puppet council through some sketchy "voting" system just in order to keep the masses complacent. Take the various moderators of meta.stackexchange as the perfect example. Who voted for them? I did not. — Lundin just now

Or lets say that we have a small but tight-knit group active on multiple small communities and this group really likes Jane doe, a prominent member of that group. So they elect her in as moderator for 10 different small communities, in order to give her a vastly disproportional influence compared to the actual amount of unique users that voted for her. --> — Lundin 19 secs ago

OK that answers my question. Thank you. Is there a way I can modify the question so that the downvotes will stop? - please. Or maybe you could delete the question? — Lee-xp 27 secs ago

@Slate Even if we put the whole "I didn't vote for you in the context of leadership" debate aside, then moderators in the context of the whole SE network are still not elected to represent the whole network. (Or elected at all, I see a diamond next to your user name.) Is it reasonable that a moderator from a tiny, quite inactive community gets as much of say as moderators on the biggest sites who were elected by thousands? --> — Lundin 51 secs ago

Thanks for the latest update! (Update #3) — Giacomo1968 26 secs ago

Hi Pure Pro, welcome to the Stack Exchange Network Meta site! I'm not sure which search brought you here but the problem you describe will not be answered on this specific site. To get an expert's answer for the topic of your question you'll have to find and then re-post on the proper site. Check How do I ask a good question and What is on topic on the target site to make sure your post is in good shape. Your question is definitely off-topic on Meta and is better deleted here. — Spevacus 22 secs ago

What site do you want to post this question to? This is Meta Stack Exchange, a site to talk about issues with Stack Exchange sites. Also, this question is too broad; I doubt you can install Android on a website. — Giacomo1968 48 secs ago

@Lee-xp I think the edit you just made helped a lot. — Laurel 34 secs ago

Suggesting appropriate tags during question editing might be something actually useful AI could do given it can parse natural language. — ColleenV 32 secs ago

There is a contradiction in your question. First you say none are hidden. Then you say 3 are hidden. — toolic 32 secs ago

@toolic Thanks for that. The question was edited for clarity, and I have now edited the title to be consistent. — Lee-xp 36 secs ago

When I visit your profile page, I don't see anything like the top image in your question. I only see 1 community listed (MSE). — toolic just now

MIght it be possible to edit your answer to reflect the reworde question? — Lee-xp 55 secs ago

The the anonymous user who has twice tried to edit out the Cliff Clavin GIF image, do you realize that the images are hosted externally on Imgur and, as a result, don’t impact Stack Exchange server performance at all? Cliff Clavin stays! — Giacomo1968 57 secs ago

The anonymous user has now attempted to edit this post a third time! Good God, give it a rest! — Giacomo1968 22 secs ago

"Are you just saying that you see 5 with a "View all N accounts"/"See all" link in your site profiles?" - The View-all link only appears on other people's profiles, not my own. Is there a way to get links to all my communities - especially the ones that don't appear in the limited lists in in my profile? - I would ask this as a separate question, but all the downvotes have freaked me a little. — Lee-xp 38 secs ago

As one of the staff members who spent many hours helping diagnose and resolve this issue, I have no qualms telling you that I find the animated image - a reference half the audience probably doesn't get anyway - insulting, never mind simply unnecessary for anyone to have to pull from wherever it is served every time they check for an update. Imagine if every bug report or support request had some wisecrack animated gif at the end. And in the future, this kind of frivolous thing will impact these servers. — Aaron Bertrand 31 secs ago

Now there is a fourth edit attempt with this lovely message; last word edited for public consumption m: “ Edit summary: Delete that useless GIF, it adds absolutely zero positive value to the post, you pathetic jester ***hole.” — Giacomo1968 36 secs ago

Now, I am not going to force anything here, or uselessly try to force my own edit through but, since multiple people have said something about it (or at least two people, as I am not the anonymous editor), you might take something from that. — Aaron Bertrand just now

@AaronBertrand I respect your work and effort here. And I trust you are honest, but a flurry of edit attempts after a clear rejection is clear harassment. I am sure you and others have much better ways to spend your time. Please give it a rest. This goes double (triple and quadruple) to whoever this anonymous clown is. Call other users an ***hole because they don’t agree with an edit? To what benefit? — Giacomo1968 50 secs ago

Please don't lump me in with the editor(s) and imply that I am harassing you. But to be fair I also think airing that dirty laundry in the comments is also harassing in a way. — Aaron Bertrand 50 secs ago

@animuson interesting - in general should such information be kept private? if so, then perhaps a warning is warranted, similar to the warnings in other places. — Sam Onela 14 secs ago

@AaronBertrand Airing dirty laundry? Or sharing harassing comments made in edit notes? I am not lumping you in with anything. Other than you chose to jump into this mess and I am showing you exactly the foul language being used by those you seem to be defending. — Giacomo1968 20 secs ago

I can agree with someone even if I don't agree with their method. — Aaron Bertrand 11 secs ago

Okay. Foul edit reasons are a reason to use an "in need of moderator intervention" flag. I can handle those, trust me. Otherwise, the help center somewhere is quite clear on questions not having chitchat, so sadly, the gif still has to go. It's chitchattery. While MSE does allow fun, that should be limited to questions in the fun tag, not here. — Tinkeringbell ♦ 34 secs ago

@Lee-xp: Re "downvotes have freaked me a little": Yeah, that is unfortunate. It goes all the way back to Atwood not wanting to spend any more time than absolutely necessary on a meta site. — This_is_NOT_a_forum 58 secs ago

PS: @AaronBertrand What I have done to deserve this? Post a “heads up” issue with a jokey GIF when an issue showed up? Made edits when warranted? Patiently waited and commiserated with others while waiting for the issue to resolve? And then suddenly hours later, for no reason, I am subjected to abuse because of a basic jokey GIF? You might not be the cause of this but you stepped directly into the middle of this. I expect better from a staffer; a helpful staffer as well. — Giacomo1968 23 secs ago

This is clearly a bug, dev now said something about "a particular load balancer pair" with a problem. /cc @Sonic — Shadow Wizard Love Zelda 17 secs ago

Feel free to flag my comments as abusive. I don't see them that way at all. Not any more than "do you even know what you're talking about?" But I'm going to delete them anyway because they're no longer needed - they were just for you and are no longer relevant. — Aaron Bertrand 32 secs ago

Thanks. That's great. Still very odd that you only get shown five of your communities when you get the drop-down by clicking the far right icon on the title bar where it shows all 183 sites, but only five of your own! — Lee-xp 22 secs ago

As for the gif, at first I didn't pay much attention to it and found it just funny, but as @Aaron said turns out it's not innocent, and offensive to some, so I'd edit it out as well. (Without any insults.) — Shadow Wizard Love Zelda 11 secs ago

Yeah, the top bar list got even more requests to change it, and the same bad UX. (Of not telling you trivial detail which is how many you have, or at least that you have more) — Shadow Wizard Love Zelda 5 secs ago

It's worth pointing out, the acceptance of an answer likely has no impact on your ability or inability to ask new questions, that does not mean users will or will not answer your question based on a history of not accepting answers informally. Once question ban you must wait 6 months to ask a new question, by asking and then deleting a quesiton, you have left yourself in a position of those questions never being improved and answered. Asking a question then deleting it, is not a positive contribution to the community, and likely a huge calculation in your ability or inability. — Ramhound 10 secs ago

@AaronBertrand Might remove the GIF, but please don’t remove the text. It is jokey. It is not an insult. If you take that as such, might I suggest you are being very petty/thin-skinned? I genuinely appreciate your work and understand the stress; I work in a similar role. But please… Give me a break. “What’s up with that?” is a colloquialism. Nothing more and nothing less. Thank you! — Giacomo1968 1 min ago

@Tinkeringbell Just had another (Sixth? Lost count.) edit suggestion come in: “A *moderator* changed the text. I don't think that's a person you want to stomp your feet with.” What the hell? This “anonymous user” is sure as hell watching this post (maybe others?) like a hawk. — Giacomo1968 33 secs ago

@Tinkeringbell But thank you for encouraging and empowering a troll. Was it worth removing the GIF for to now deal with this “anonymous user” pest? Jeez Louise! — Giacomo1968 54 secs ago

I do not think I am being thin-skinned, and in fact I didn't really find it insulting until after the work. I'm also not the only person who sees it that way, and you don't get to dictate what everyone around you finds offensive or not. If you don't want to respect that, and think it's more important to keep your joke intact, that's fine too. — Aaron Bertrand 24 secs ago

Care to share with the room how this is offensive, so that we can learn from the situation and not be offensive in the future? — Kevin B 14 secs ago

@AaronBertrand Forgive me for saying this, but I feel there is some sock puppetry happening here. If not directly from you, and I genuinely hope not, but from Stack Exchange staff in general. Might want to do some weeding and pruning of rogue staff inhouse. Utterly amazing I gave spent about 4 hours dealing with this nontroversy… What’s up with that? — Giacomo1968 33 secs ago

@KevinB I have no idea what's offensive about it either. I am annoyed that this needs to be hashed out in public when moderators can make private rooms to work things out. — ColleenV 32 secs ago

@ColleenV The main reason this is in public is because an “anonymous user” decided the GIF and related phase had to go. One edit attempt… Then two… Now as many as five from an “anonymous user”. And then magically Aaron Bertrand chimes into say, “You know what! We don’t like that GIF! And I am unrelated too the anonymous user but I strongly imply you should get rid of it.” And more nonsense ensued and now here we are… Why! Good lord, why!!! And I am not insinuating that Aaron Bertrand has anything to do with the “anonymous user” but the timing is bit fishy. All because of a lousy GIF. — Giacomo1968 19 secs ago

There, that lock should get your anonymous user to stop. — Tinkeringbell ♦ 19 secs ago

Can someone give me a clue as to why I am getting the downvotes. This would be helpful so I can improve my question, or at least improve future questions. — Lee-xp 8 secs ago

Hi Daniel Ginghina, welcome to Meta! I'm not sure which search brought you here but the problem you describe will not be answered on this specific site. To get an answer from users that have the expertise about the topic of your question you'll have to find and then re-post on the proper site. Check How do I ask a good question and What is on topic on the target site to make sure your post is in good shape. Your question is definitely off-topic on Meta and is better deleted here. — Sam Onela 33 secs ago

Neat, now i have a list of questions to go flag — Kevin B 19 secs ago

@Bergi I made a post for the German localization bug: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/398110/… — Cornelius Roemer 8 secs ago

@KevinB The new process isn't new, it must have existed for a while already, for regulatory reasons. — Cornelius Roemer 9 secs ago

Good catch! It seems to have the same glitch in “Francais” and pretty much all headers for “German (Germany)” are in English as well. — Giacomo1968 32 secs ago