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I have to echo something a couple of the other moderators have said: I VTCed a lot more things than I hammer now. That's because a VTC is a one-in-five vote of no-confidence where a hammer is a summar …

There are two issues here. The problem is highly unlikely to be linked to your hypothesized problem. You're failing to connect the dots between what we've been telling you and the probabilities surr …

In the past, it was dead easy: Flag for moderator attention The Moderator will check to see if the two really are likely belonging to the same person. If it looks like it, the moderator will merge t …

The answer was locked temporarily while I cleaned up some flammable comments. That comment thread was looking to get outright acrimonious so I dropped a temp-lock on it to keep the combatants separate …

Looking at stats, both before and after Chopper3 retired, Mark, Splattne and I have been handling more flags. Mark & splattne more than me, since their overlap with Chopper3's historic schedule is lar …

I have to admit, cries of "Read the FAQ!" are a hallmark of USENET. I used to rail at length at newbs who clearly did not do their due-diligence in newsgroups of yore, and even daily postings of it di …

That one is borderline and in my opinion falls within the benefit of the doubt. Sysadmins do quite a bit of scripting, and date-tagging files is something that happens frequently. A question like that …

That kind of thing can be done with the right query over on data-explorer, but my SQL-fu is too weak to come up with it myself. Once such a query has been identified, it should be easy to slap it into …

Quite a bit, actually. I've seen both sides so can tell you. A selection of differences. When a Mod votes to close a question, it gets closed immediately. 10K users have to vote the same as 3K users …