First, a quick update on the Stack Exchange moderator election schedule.
Ending today, so get those votes in!
Ending soon:
Just started:
Coming soon, in this order, at 3 per week:
As you can see, we have a lot of community moderators! That’s why we’ve been working so hard lately on improving our moderator tooling, to make sure our new class of incoming moderators have a pleasant, polished, and smooth experience.
One thing we haven’t helped much with, historically, is when a moderator needs to contact a user directly to resolve serious issues. We always encourage direct one-on-one communication to resolve user behavior issues before they become a problem. Unfortunately, the only way for a community moderator to contact a user was to email the user from his or her personal email account. Ew, right? Far from an ideal solution, but it was the only one we had… until today! …