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Why I'm absent for a little while
Kit, we wish you all the very best of luck.
In this site you are a most essential part.
Take your time, and hang in there until you're well.
Zeal in modding must now wait - your health comes ...
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Why I'm absent for a little while
It's not right that Kit should miss the Hat Dash. I think this "hat" expresses how we all feel about you:
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I didn't know the yellow ax question had been locked. Did you?
My thoughts on this...
I had never crossed with a Historical Lock post before, so I firstly tried to understand what it is and what it means. I found this reference on meta. The relevant parts of it, ...
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Why I'm absent for a little while
I'm back. The cancer was fully resected with no follow-on care necessary.
Kit Z. FoxMod
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Accepted
One of our moderators has not logged in since Oct. 23, 2015
We have this question come up from time to time.
Moderators are sometimes inactive for extended periods of time. We have a mechanism of recording a 'leave of absence', which is helpful for marking ...
Kit Z. FoxMod
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2022 Community Moderator Election
One bit of information voters might find helpful that I don't see linked anywhere obvious in the election pages is how the candidate score is calculated:
The Candidate Score can range from 0 to 40, ...
Community wiki
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I would like to report an abuse of mod power
From this answer to the Meta post "What recourse do I have if I believe a moderator has abused their privileges?":
It's often best for you to try to work things out at as low a level as possible. ...
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I didn't know the yellow ax question had been locked. Did you?
Just my thoughts...
I'm a big fan of Dan Bron's answer — it's one of a kind, and I've never seen anything like it, and in fact, I think that's the major reason people were interested in the ...

NVZMod
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Could a mod have notified me that my post risked being “permanently” deleted?
Sorry for the delay to my answer. I wanted to give myself time to forget your post so I could take a fresh look at it.
Having reread it I have to agree with Andrew.
As to why I didn't inform you ...
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Could a mod have notified me that my post risked being “permanently” deleted?
It wasn't me who deleted it (for those who can see deleted posts, it's here) but it's not an answer to the question. It's a collection of comments in the answer box, and you have found the ...

Andrew LeachMod
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One of our moderators has not logged in since Oct. 23, 2015
A community call for moderator resignation or dismissal due to inactivity is based on a misunderstanding of the relationship between the community and the moderator.
Your view might be that people ...
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I didn't know the yellow ax question had been locked. Did you?
I didn't know the yellow ax question had been locked. Did you?
Not until I saw this hot meta post, no. Though I'm glad attention has been brought back to it, I've now re-read it and found a lot of ...
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Why I'm absent for a little while
You don't need to be absent to be present, because:
L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux
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Jaded user meets new contributor…
I'll just limit myself to being transparent about why I did what I did, and leave it to the community to either leave things as is, or reopen one or close the other.
We want to collect definitive ...
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2022 Community Moderator Election
Is it the case that we cannot nominate other people? Only ourselves?
Community wiki
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Who will take up the mantle?
Not an answer, but Matt, how much time on average per week did you have to spend moderating ELU? And is there a sort of KPI to monitor mod performance?
Asking for potential mods to take note.

NVZMod
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