As far as I can tell, moderator elections happen only when there is a need for (more) moderators: either a new Stack Exchange site comes into being, a moderator resigns or the team needs additional hands. Thus moderators are elected for life. Is there a mechanism to hold an election if moderator...

Whenever a site graduates from beta, elections are (eventually) held, and the current ♦ moderators have to stand in the election in order to be reelected. This happens even though they might have been elected already in a pro-tempore election; this is a remnant from a time where moderators on bet...

When making posts on Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange, you can see on the right side "Draft Your Question" and "Helpful Links." While the latter contains links for asking good questions and the help center, neither shows the rules for questions. It would be more helpful if it showed all the rules...

I noticed that some of the MO questions that get closed are clear-cut going against the MO-guidelines eg. "here is the link to my new result" or "here is the jpg file of my homework question". In https://mathoverflow.net/questions/ask, on the right, there is a pane with a link to https://mathover...