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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement

Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election Results

Joomla Stack Exchange's third moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the two new moderators are: They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them ...
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Well, it's been a year

...and 1 day. Joomla Stack Exchange has come quite far and is getting much more popular. Questions per day There was a period where we were on 11 per day, which I was hoping would continue to stay as ...
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Announcing a Pro Tempore election (retry)

We recently held an election for moderator and nobody stepped up to nominate themselves. So we're going to try again in July. Summary: Joomla Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a ...
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Joomla 3.5 Feedback Survey

Maybe off-topic, but wanted to share with everyone. I guess feedback from users will help Joomla improve. The JUX team has a new survey specifically for Joomla 3.5. You can take the survey here: ...
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Joomla Stackoverflow Team

I've created a new Team (new beta feature on SO) for us Joomla users: https://stackoverflow.com/teams/128/joomla/join?auth=749c5b06-f018-4e96-baa0-b06b0bf79dbf
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Completely off-topic...but

Merry Christmas everyone. Hope you all had a great day.
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Announcement: Monthly Joomla User Group Zoom Meetings

Every 3rd Tuesday of every month from 6pm to 8pm Australian Eastern Standard Time (0800 - 1000 UTC), Joomla Australia hosts a virtual Joomla users group meetup online. If you plan to attend, please ...
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Can JoomlaDay events offer "Not a Robot" badges to JSE users?

I want to do something cool at JoomlaDay Australia 2019 in Brisbane! StackOverflow has this tag: not-a-robot Can JSE have it too? Resources: https://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/6381/not-a-robot ...
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It's that time of year again

Merry Christmas everyone! Been a good year on JSE :)
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2020 Pro-Tem Moderator Election: Community Interest Check

Joomla Stack Exchange had an election last year, and it's time to start thinking about scheduling a new one. After discussing it with the current moderator team, and to bring the total number of ...
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Congratulations Aníbal Sánchez

Congratulations on your appointment to the Joomla! Community Leadership Team https://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/3071-new-members-for-community-leadership-team-2016.html
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Pull request for Joomla

Just though I'd mention that my request was accepted and will be put into Joomla 3.4.2 for JSE: https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/6868 Yay
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Announcing a “Graduation” election for 2023

Summary: Joomla Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for an election on February 21, 2023, as your “graduation” election. The timeline: On February 14, someone from the Community Management ...
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Announcing a Pro Tempore election for 2021

Summary: Joomla Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on April 26 to bring in two more moderators. For full details of the process, see the announcement on Meta Stack ...
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Announcing a Pro Tempore election

Summary: Joomla Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on May 13 to bring in one more moderator. For full details of the process, see the announcement on Meta Stack ...
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What do we do with....?

I've noticed the last couple of days, some seriously broad (holding back from the actual word I want to use) questions have been asked. These question are ones that will most likely never get an ...
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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. Joomla Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, 2023-...
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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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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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Do we need both the joomla-4.x and joomla-4 tags?

The joomla-4.x tag was created first (by me if that is relevant), following the format of the previous joomla-3.x tag. There is no joomla-3 tag. Currently there are 73 answers with the joomla-4.x tag. ...
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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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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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2023 Community Moderator Election Results

Joomla's 4th moderator election has come to a close. Since there were not enough candidates for a competitive election, we simply appointed the candidates who nominated themselves: They will be ...
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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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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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Site Awards for Joomlers in Oceania

2020 Joomla Australia Site Awards The 2020 Joomla Australia Site Awards is a competition where individuals and agencies, within Oceania*, can submit their Joomla-powered website for judging by a panel ...
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Auto comments on questions/answers

I was having a look at the StackApps and found an Auto Comment script which also comes as a Chrome and Firefox extension. I've installed this myself and used the pre-defined responses that were put ...
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Preparing for K2 questions

Just a little heads up. I've been sent the following: If anyone has a K2 site with user profiles enabled and user registration enabled, watch out epic spam bombs coming nearly 5,000 user profiels ...
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Announcing a new attempt at a “Graduation” election for 2023

Summary: Joomla Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for an election on October 17, 2023, as your “graduation” election — after the last attempt ended up resulting in a non-competitive pro-...
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Winter Summer Bash 2022 is almost here!

The most entertaining time to engage with Stack Exchange communities is during the annual "Bash" -- now being referred to as "Winter Summer Bash 2022". See this Meta SE post which ...
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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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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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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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What's with all the language switcher module questions?

There have been 3 of basically the same questions regarding Joomla's language switcher module. Each question is being asked by a different user, however is it the same person? Can the IP addresses ...
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What is the protocol around educating a JSE userss about accepting answers and replying to answers?

Is there a particular protocol or etiquette with SE around giving users, particularly new users, a prompt, a nudge or an understanding the benefits of accepting answers, engaging with and following ...
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Why disallow some review queues when daily vote max is reached?

So I discovered, after a premeditated session of voting (I've been stocking up a bunch of up|down vote-worthy posts to earn my Vox Populi badge while voting ethically), that once a user's daily vote ...
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