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2025 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection

Emacs Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, 2025-08-05. In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the ...
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2024: a year in moderation

It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of ...
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10th Anniversary of Emacs SE!

This week Emacs SE turned 10 years old. Congratulations on asking, answering, voting, and building this community for a whole decade! Whenever a Stack Exchange site turns 10 we like to celebrate by ...
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Is Emacs SE still the best place to ask questions related to Emacs/elisp?

I want to emphasize that my intention is not to criticize in any way. I am deeply grateful to the Emacs SE community for all the help I have received over the years. However, lately, I have the ...
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Edit privileges vs approving edits

I have enough rep to directly edit other users posts. But if someone else makes an edit that requires approval, my approval isn't enough to get the edit accepted. Not a big deal at all, but this seems ...
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Why is the site Read-Only for me?

There was a maintenance window today apparently and AFAICT the maintenance was finished much earlier today. But I cannot e.g. post comments: it complains that the site is in read-only state - in many (...
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"Intentionally awkward" Usage Guidance text for some tags

I'm not sure how many tags follow this pattern, but I just noticed these two: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/org-mode https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/org-agenda ...
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2023: a year in moderation

It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here might be ...
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Should a greater percentage of questions be closed?

It seems that emacs.SE has one of the lowest percentages of closed questions, among all SE sites. 2022: a year in closing Does that mean a greater number of questions aren't bad enough to be closed? ...
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how to redirect questions to other SE sites?

Every so often I come across question that I want to flag as "more appropriate at another SE site", but the only option is our "meta". What can we do to get things changed so that ...
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if something described in the question turned out to be a bug and was fixed later

I am browsing through some of my old questions, some of which have already been resolved. After I asked such a question and didn't get an answer for a long time, I reported the case described in the ...
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The site description should indicate what Emacs actually is

Although What THE heck are emacs? may not have been a genuine question, it did make me realise that newcomers to the site aren't told what Emacs is. As StackExchange sites like to show people ...
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2023 Community Moderator Election Results

Moderator election #4 on Emacs has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is: They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering and ...
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2023 Community Moderator Election

The 2023 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, ...

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