@Catija Yes, it does differentiate.

> If the moderator was appointed as a "pro-tem" moderator on a beta site, or was elected during an election while the site was still in beta, their moderator status ends when the site graduates and the new moderators are elected. To retain their moderator status after graduation, they must nominate themselves as a candidate and be elected.

No clue.

I suspect this is all subject to the common sense rule

i.E as long as it makes sense for the goals of SE and the goals of the individual mods they'll remain so

pre-defining everything in exhausting specificity is unnecessary when you're dealing with reasoned and calm adults as the vast majority of mods are

NameError: name 'common_sense_rule' is not defined

I think the only actual difference between pro-tem mods and elected mods is whether or not you get a t-shirt upon becoming a mod.

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog your terminology is confusing and somewhat convoluted. If you're only talking about MSE mods, say that rather than saying something longer with a link that is only clear when you follow it. That link only relates to MSE but you use a plural that implies there are many different sites with those sorts of appointments.

@Catija I don't know whether the terms for Stack Apps and Ask Patents mods are for life or not, so I assumed they'd be like MSE's. For instance, there's a mod on Stack Apps who hasn't moderated in a while, but still gets to retain their status.

I think the only difference on whether or not the MSE mods would be considered pro-tem or not would be for stepping down. Pro-tem mods who step down can't reclaim the diamond, whereas elected mods can.

@Magisch The tag wiki for faq says it's about the what, how, where, and when across the SE network.

Are you guys seriously debating whether the exact term of mods should be defined with legal precision in a tag wiki and how?

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog it's a FAQ. You need to be clear and not make assumptions. A list of the sites is much clearer than a term you made up that is not well explained and shared a name with another.

oh, it's a FAQ post

What's wrong with "unless otherwise specified on the relevant local meta..."

@Catija Edited. Now please explain or link me to how the appointment process works on Ask Patents and Stack Apps.

On the latter, when Brock Adams was appointed as a mod, there was no announcement post.

@Sonic it usually seems to me that you find it hard to notice these things, so I'm letting you know that your insistent badgering is starting to come across as annoying, and I'm not even the one you're talking to.

a little politeness goes a long way

Guys, can we all be a bit more polite to @SonictheAnonymousHedgehog please?

We are polite enough.

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog I don't know. I think I said that already. I'm not even sure there's an official answer. They're special sites.

I mean, let us not confuse being polite and walking on eggshells.

you can't expect someone to realize they're doing something wrong if you don't tell them

Alright

@user1271772 I've actually asked users to point out to me if something like this happens.

And Sonic has specifically asked to be told when he's doing something wrong.

How do I get back the comment I deleted? I wanted to click "edit" but clicked "delete"

you post it again

you can still see its history here I think

Yea I was trying to type SonIC, but accidentally hit enter before I got to the "ic"

@user1271772 It still worked though

Only the first three letters are necessary to ping.

Yes Shadow Wizard experimented that with me this morning

Tested @use and @us. The first pinged me, the second did not.

Morning

o/

But I think you'd agree that what I typed was not a full sentence

6:30am in Singapore. Early riser!

@JourneymanGeek blue morning to you ;)

Does he know that he's a mod ?

he doesn't, sssh (he can speak English you know)

Ironically? I just found out

hehehe

becoming a mod like a boss

@AndrasDeak Oops. Well he can probably speak Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil too soooooo

Story of my life. I am on reservist this week

is that a military thing?

I won my su mod elections when on Vacation

:D

It's like the universe is like 'here's the keys. But no driving till next week'

You can just nuke a few random users to get a feeling for it. You know, take it out for a quick spin.

@JourneymanGeek lies! You were tweeting about it. 😉

@Catija I knew it was happening, but not when ;p

Journeyman, what's your twitter account?

Guys you were joking about that blog post not actually being Monica right? The picture is the same as the one she has on Meta Stack ExChange

no

So it's actually her?

Had to beat the holiday rush. If there's one time it's better to make big changes than on a Friday, it's the day before a four day weekend.

I would think so.

Thanksgiving is a 4-day weekend?

I thought it was just the Monday

Thanksgiving is a Thursday and we get Friday off, too.

it's Texan Thanksgiving

@AndrasDeak, is it only in Texas, or other states too?

You know that my brother's wife is from Sugar Land, Texas ?

Why on earth would I know that?

U know everything?

oh, I forgot that

cv-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/318656/…

@user1271772 Throughout the entire U.S.

@user1271772 Yes; the post was published on a personal blog that has been linked as her website for a very long time.

🐦

'BIRD'. How unimaginative of unicode.

to all of our American Brethren/sistern before I go to sleep:

Happy Thanksgiving!

cistern?

@Ash "modern era" meaning after the whole Twitter/HNQ debacle occurred

@AndrasDeak Ye Olde Englishe for "sisters".

cistern :P

I thought that one should be "sistren"

but I'm not a native, especially not a native Olde Englishe e

@AndrasDeak Crap, it is...

Typo...

anyway: Good night!

night

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog so, the last month?

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog That wasn't so long ago

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog I don't think it affected the decision to appoint moderators. More likely it's something they planned to do for long time.

@JourneymanGeek did you enter the Forbidden Rooms already? ;)

But they could have appointed ShadowWizard, I'm just saying.

They could also appoint @Bart. :)

As long as he as not been suspended within the last 365 days (or 366 in the case of leap years)

Honestly I'd probably refuse though. It will turn my experience on MSE into something I'll probably not really like.

Too much time commitment right?

I'd rather be free to rant sometimes and do silly things in Den. With diamond it's not really possible.

And a lot of complaints will get directed at you

sure it is, you can just mod-delete the evidence and suspend the witnesses

@user1271772 Nah that won't bother me.

I see

Having to deal with people who you know well and suddenly "going rogue" is another risk I prefer to avoid.

@AndrasDeak If that is abused, too much, then you can get de-modded actually

@ShadowWizard That doesn't happen ever. Unless something bad happens.

@user1271772 no way!

@AndrasDeak hehe. Well punned.

@AndrasDeak Well I don't know but there was this guy last week named Shog09 that came here

And he was saying that people have been de-modded in the past

Or maybe it was Jon Ericson I don't remember, but someone suggested that it's possible

@user1271772 aha! Nobody types Shog's name wrong twice even after explicitly being told of the correct name

cough @Andras he doesn't get you're joking sometimes... cough

You mean the capital S?

Who are you? Show yourself, fiend! :P

Shog 009 is better.

double-oh-come-on

It's like 007+2

Two versions above Bond!

@AndrasDeak you really think our dear @user is actually @someone else whom we know well?

But that guy Shog09 was pretty cool. He froze the room for 7 minutes and he we all had to listen to what he said

brrrr

Freezing a room is cool.

Yea all these numbers started popping up, I'd never seen it before

It was like a count-down or something

Come to Den I can do it in there. :D

@ShadowWizard I don't have a specific name in mind, not even really sure.

but when you can't tell trolling from confusion it's a good sign that you shouldn't care too much anyway

@ShadowWizard : With the count-down numbers popping up?

Okay

When I click "all rooms" it says there's 9 rooms, but only 2 of them show up for me

@ShadowWizard no :p

I can't find Shadow's Den

I know I've been there before, that room was pretty cool. There was even bots in there

@user1271772 7 private rooms, used by SE staff (and now new mods too :))

Where's Shadow's Den ?

@user1271772 not here

Den is frozen in timeout. :P

@user you see the countdown?

I see it!

See? I couldn't do such a silly thing as a mod. ;)

Yea I thought the numbers come up more in-your-face

I'm like a kid not wanting to grow up.

These numbers are just in the bottom-left corner, but maybe I'm just remembering it wrong

There's only 2 of us there, so I think it's fine.

But the thing is, when Shog09 did it, he was explaining all this stuff during that time. It wasn't just a room freeze

@user1271772 Walls are bugged

Eyes, eyes everywhere.

He was like "I can explain this all to you but I'm going to need everyone to stop talking for a few minutes"

@user1271772 sure, any mod and RO can post during a timeout or even in frozen room.

He went into details about what happened

There was some controversy about a Meta post, and he made everyone stop talking and he went through the timeline

Funny thing, posting in a room frozen for inactivity doesn't unfreeze the room. I had to tell this to someone here a while ago. :)

He said "(1) Tuesday, 4:52pm, userXYZ posted a question on Meta" , "(2) Tuesday, 4:56pm, rene closed the question" "(3) Tuesday, 4:57pm, userXYZ got angry and wrote the following comments..."

He had access to information that I didn't know people had. Such as deleted comments.

@AndrasDeak if that's really the case, he's a real master. :)

@user1271772 sure, that's what diamond gives.

I see

You want to be a mod? @user

So it's not only Shog09?

I hadn't ever seen it before

@ShadowWizard Not really.... I heard it's a huge time commitment.

@user1271772 hadn't seen what, exactly?

@user1271772 yes, among other things.

@ShadowWizard He froze us all for 7 minutes and explained some timeline with exact timings of when comments were made. He had access to "warning messages" that were sent to the user on a completely different SE.

@user1271772 true. He has diamond on all SE sites.

@ShadowWizard Why?

In all aspects, @Shog009 is an all powerful entity in Stack Exchange.

Some diamond guys said it was a headache being a mod on 1 site.

@user1271772 because that's his job.

No worry, he's not alone.

@ShadowWizard I think someone here said that he was just one of 3 people that replaced Jeff Artwood.. so this Jeff guy must have been huge

I never saw him here though

@user ^

All those listed there have same powers as Shog.

I did see Robert Garisto before, he was very active in Area51

Even closed one of my proposals

you can't be serious

Okay Tim Post is there, he's the one that didn't like the half-baked cake analogy

Jon Ericson was involved in the election I remember him

I don't know the rest

@AndrasDeak you mean he can't be series, for sure.

perhaps they're the sock of Jon Ericson; that's the only name they've nailed so far

Just enjoy the show, @Andras. :)

@AndrasDeak Ericson is one of the most common Swedish names man

I never enjoyed cringe

Very Scandinavian isn't it?

I bet none of the Swedish Erikssons write their name as Ericson

Well, Jon ain't Sweddish.

@AndrasDeak oh so I forgot the second s, sorry

that explains why you're spelling his name right: by mistake

LOL

@AndrasDeak You're making fun of me for forgetting to put two s ?