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Changes to Tor moderator team, and scheduling a moderator election
You may have noticed that some moderators on your site have lost their moderator access today. On July 8th, 2024, we released a new version of the moderator agreement. Moderators network-wide had 30 ...
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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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10th anniversary of Tor.SE
The first day of October in 2013 was a big day. Back then, https://tor.stackexchange.com was launched as a new beta site. This means that we can celebrate our 10th birthday. Hooray!
You can find more ...
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Middle Sidebar Advertising
As you all know, advertising is an important source of revenue for Stack Overflow and it helps us support all the sites across the Stack Exchange Network and the resources that go into maintaining and ...
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Insufficient nominees for graduation election: What happens next
Stack Exchange’s position is that every site has a team of moderators to operate in our network. Currently, this community is being moderated by Jens Kubieziel and Alexey Vesnin, who have been doing ...
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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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2023 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Tor Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, 2023-03-...
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Announcing a “Graduation” election for 2023
Tor Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for an election on March 28, as your “graduation” election — in fact, as a second attempt at it.
The timeline:
On March 21, we'll post a question ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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2022 Election ended - insufficient candidates - What are your thoughts about moderation and Tor SE?
The recent election for moderators here on Tor ended early due to there being insufficient candidates for the election to continue to the voting phase. While we needed at least four candidates, we had ...
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2022 Community Moderator Election
The 2022 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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2022 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Tor Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, 2022-05-...
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Announcing a “Graduation” election for 2022
Summary: Tor Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for an election on 23 May 2022, as your “graduation” election as a result of having lost your beta label a while back).
The timeline:
On 16 ...
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Community bot bumping dead, answered posts
The Community bot seems to be bumping random questions that are quite dead and actually answered.
I think this behavior should be stopped, or we're risking to look like a spam junkyard.
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2022 Potential Moderator Election: Community Interest Check
It's time for us to consider holding an election for moderators for Tor.
The last election we held was back in 2021, where we elected two moderators, and since then, one moderator resigned (Swangie), ...
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2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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dot-onion address for our community
Well, it's a question that was around for a long while but it was not risen so far, so let me be the first :) Why don't we have an onion address for our StackExchange community? It's ridiculous, but ...
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Looks like my answer just disappeared, not even shown as a deleted one
I do remember answering this particular question recently - and just saw it in a list as the one that has no answers - and I can not see my answer even as a deleted one. The link is Security question ...
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Moderator Resignation
I just want to let you all know that I am resigning from my position as a Tor Stack Exchange Moderator, immediately. I've emailed the Community Team about this already and hopefully everything with go ...
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I found a question that is a mix of two different questions. Is it a duplicate?
The question How to change country in Mac OS X? is asking how to find the Torrc for MacOS X and how to change the Torrc file to only have exit nodes from a specific country.
However, there are answers ...
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Many duplicates of the exact same question, is there anything that should be done?
I've found so many questions that say something along the lines of:
"Why is the first node of my Tor circuit always the same?"
For reference, here are 8 duplicate questions all asking about ...
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Was it right to convert this answer to a comment?
Today, I was reviewing a first post by the user paveloom. Paveloom had answered this question, by stating:
You should follow Christian's solution above, but I would like to point out that, as of 2021,...
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2021 Community Moderator Election Results
Tor's second election has come to a close. We are delighted to appoint your new moderators:
They'll be joining the existing crew. Please thank them for volunteering, and share your assistance and ...
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What should we do about the "Torcheck" tag?
The tag, "torcheck" is defined as:
TorCheck is a website hosted by the Tor Project for determining if a visitor is using Tor or not. It is usually a user's first step in identifying if ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election
The 2021 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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Announcing a Pro Tempore election for 2021
Summary: Tor Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on May 17 to bring in two more moderators.
For full details of the process, see the announcement on Meta Stack ...
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Can you ask questions about darknets other than Tor?
Does the Tor Stack Exchange site accept questions about other darknets such as I2P, Freenet, etc. What is the site's policy on questions about other darknets? For reference, the site says:
Tor Stack ...
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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From Stackexchange to FAQ
Is there a way to get an easy extract of all of the questions on the FAQ so that the best ones can be added to the official Tor FAQ for example in CSV or some other basic format?
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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Ethically iffy questions
What should be the standard response for people asking questions that seem like they could be for nefarious purposes? Should these be flagged, responded to, or just ignored.
For example, there is one ...
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2019 Community Moderator Election Results
Tor's first moderator election has come to a close and the new moderator is:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly—please thank them for volunteering, and share your assistance and ...
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2019 Moderator Election - We need more candidates!
The nomination period for the 2019 election was scheduled to end in 30 minutes. However, in order for the election to proceed, we need to have at least as many candidates as there are slots (so, 2) — ...
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2019 Community Moderator Election
The 2019 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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Announcing a Pro Tempore Moderator election
Summary: Tor Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on August 12 to bring in two more moderators.
For full details of the process, see the announcement on Meta Stack ...
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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Tag : tor-messenger
Can anyone make a tor-messenger tag. Due to absence of it I have to tag my question to tor-bundle and some other random tags which make them irrelevant.
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Peer review requeset
I am looking for someone to peer review this answer on bitcoin.SE question How can I setup Bitcoin to be anonymous with Tor?. And, to suggest edits.
note: I was looking for a tor.SE chat actually but ...
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Is it right to question the basic architecture of Tor?
On Tor beta I just posted a question about whether it is possible to avoid the final plaintext link beyond the exit nodes.
Install something on the server that provides the hidden service
or
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New moderator wanted on Tor SE
A couple years ago, we on the Community Team made our guidelines for graduation and site closure a bit more concrete than they had been in the past. Here's the most relevant bit:
If there's enough ...
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Helping with review tasks
I just saw that most of the reviewing is done by moderators. However the idea of StackExchange is that the moderation is done by you. While we as moderators should have some final opinion, the idea is ...
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I'd like to step down as a mod
I would like to step down as a mod.
I was not entirely sure how to proceed, so I posted here.
So if this is the wrong way - let me know and I'll go about it another way.
The reason why I do want to ...
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Question repoening
Good time of the day! In this question it seems to be a fake Tor/TorBrowser distribution - I used to help one person before with the same problem. The question is put on hold, but I think I'll be able ...
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Why is a question duplicated when the other question has nothing to do with the first? Does that mean that no answer is wanted to be given?
I typed a question, and it was added as a duplicate, but there is no reference to the issues in the answer which is what is assigned as duplicate, as it doesn't address the issue at all. It is about ...
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Moderator vandalized the answer
The person in the question stated clearly that it's a russian-speaking one and asked the whole question in russian. The question was about the old site bug with localized downloads for Tor browser. I ...
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Should the question regarding PHP on Tor be closed because it is off-topic?
The main site has a question with the title "can php be used on Tor". In my opinion this question is not about Tor itself, but more about a misconfiguration of PHP or the webserver. So I would tend to ...
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Answering and upvoting old questions
Currently we have quite a bunch of unanswered and old questions. It would be nice if they could receive an answer and if the person who answers them receives some reputation. Thatswhy I would suggest ...
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Should this answer be deleted/moved to comments?
Tor.SE has a question about guard nodes. user8289 refers in their answer to an answer I gave before and was marked as accepted answer. However I see this answer only as comment and currently it is ...
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Vandalism: moderator attention required
Two of my answers were vandalized by @canonizingironize user, here are the links: this and this. Both times a very important remark from me has been removed - I'm placing an explicit statement that "...
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How to deal with accepted but obsolete answers?
As an example take this great question and answer by Dr. Steven Murdoch. It's without doubt true for its time, but it now appears to be obsolete. It says,
At the moment, it is not advisable to ...
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