A check-box should be available to mods to allow them to do useful manual retagging (the type that is not possible to do automatically, like separate the volume tag into logical-drive and audio tags on SU) without flooding the front page.  The check-box should be associated with a text field or something that would hold the meta post that the mod is acting in accord with. This would generate a list on that post with all the posts that have been edited in accordance with the meta post.  This would accomplish three objectives:   Not flood the front page when doing these types of edits Create an easy way for the edits relating to a meta post to be tracked Allow for some review over the process should a user want to look it over for some reason (I.e. a mod cannot do anything they want, and not have it show up anywhere. I don't anticipate this being a problem, but it can't hurt either)   Thoughts?
CHAOS members have (had?) :     Because they are doing so many edits at once, CHAOS operates in a special mode where editing a title does not bump it to the home page.    I moderate at Writers.SE, and I can attest that this ability would be extremely beneficial to mods as well, and for the same reasons. On beta sites, wide-ranging changes are not infrequent. An established tag might be ruled problematic; a certain class of questions might need cleanup; etc. etc.. When this happens, the ensuing edits flood the front page with old content (frequently the somewhat problematic content the new change has come to address...). Furthermore, since beta sites are much less active than established ones, this flood can drown out recent activity, and then wallow around on the front page for some time.  I propose, then, the implementation of a moderator tool for editing without bumping. The value to beta sites is clear; the danger of abuse, as a mod tool, is nonexistent.
Individual community preferences vs. SE network policy: who wins? In the recent question , the OP asks where the following question would be appropriate:     What would be the best way to approach someone that works for me about bad odor?   CHAOS team member Abby Miller  by suggesting the proposal  &#8212; which is in commitment as I'm writing this &#8212; because     One of the up voted example questions there is about dealing with an irritating coworker. This question will be perfectly on topic for that site.   In my opinion,  qualifies for the not constructive close reason*, which applies to all sites in the network, and therefore, the question shouldn't be allowed, no matter how much it has to do with workplaces.  I know Abby isn't the only one who disagrees with me about this. I once had a talk with a mod of some beta about the presence of poll/GTKY questions on his site. 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Does the verb got add more to the context or is it there just for emphasis? Is it even grammatical?  Using Google-Ngrams I found a few similar versions as follow: . For example;   For many from the North, however, it has seemed difficult and there has seemed to be a problem. There has come to be a convolution between this become enmeshed concept of marriage as it exists in the sacred and how it exists in the secular. Most of the time since I have been here, there has appeared to be considerable feeling in the minds of a few. There has had to be some negotiation, obviously, but I think we provided what our soldiers need and what our country needs.   In general, I wanna know if 'have/has'+past-participle+'to be' is grammatical. How to count the number of set bits in a 32-bit integer? 8 bits representing the number 7 look like this:  00000111   Three bits are set.     What are algorithms to determine the number of set bits in a 32-bit integer? 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