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Martin Sleziak

03:39

The status of MO is somewhat special among Stack Exchange sites. Still, I assume that the moderator agreement is the same for all sites. I suppose the MO moderators keep an eye on this: The new moderator agreement is now live for moderators to accept across the network

Q: The new moderator agreement is now live for moderators to accept across the network

Today, we’re announcing that the new moderator agreement is live and the existing moderators are being asked to accept it. This has been a great collaboration to get from a draft in November 2019 to the final agreement in July 2020. It’s gone through several phases of review internally, including...

> Once the sixty days have passed, any moderator who has either declined the new agreement or hasn’t responded to the notifications to accept the new agreement but who still has their diamond will lose access to PII and some moderator tools. The CMs will contact any moderators who haven't accepted the agreement along with their teams before removing a diamond.

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Martin Sleziak

04:52

There are there feature requests on Meta Stack Exchange: Anonymize or hash the user ID part of a shared link so that users can earn badges for sharing links without having to leak their account on the site and Privacy leak in permalink?

Q: Anonymize or hash the user ID part of a shared link so that users can earn badges for sharing links without having to leak their account on the site

The "share" link underneath a post includes the sharing user's ID for the purposes of awarding the user with Announcer, Booster, and Publicist badges in case enough users from different IP addresses click on the link. However, this has the side effect of publicly disclosing what the sharing user'...

feature-request hyperlinks privacy publicity-badges

Q: Privacy leak in permalink?

Update (Jan 8, 2019) This is now 8 years old, but still getting occasional upvotes/attention, so I thought it's worth giving a summary of the current state. Despite originally being status-declined, over the last decade some changes have made the privacy implications much clearer. You now clic...

feature-request status-declined privacy permalink

I am mentioning them because this issue was discussed on MathOverflow Meta - so the MO users who care about this can upvote the feature requests on Meta Stack Exchange. Here is the local discussion: Privacy of software-generated links to questions and answers.

Q: Privacy of software-generated links to questions and answers

Recently I noticed that the software inserts the id of the currently logged in user in the “share” link of any MathOverflow question or answer. When one is logged out, the “share” link comes out normal, without any private information. For example, the same link appears as https://mathoverflow.ne...