Stack Overflow Moderation Userscripts

by Samuel Liew

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Recommended

These are highly recommended for moderators. Minor changes to the UI/defaults makes your mod life easier by a huge amount (saving clicks, or having to hunt for a particular link/mod feature, or displaying more info upfront). Click these to jump to their descriptions:

• Mod User Quicklinks Everywhere ♦
• User Info Sidebar ♦
• User Review Ban Helper ♦
• Comment Flags Helper ♦
• Not An Answer Flag Queue Helper ♦
• Display Inline Comment Flag History ♦
• Deleted Users Helper ♦
• User History Improvements ♦
• Additional Post Mod Actions ♦

These are highly recommended for everyone because they are too awesome:

• Searchbar & Nav Improvements
• Post Headers & Question TOC
• Post Timeline Filters

Recommended chat userscripts:

• Chat Improvements
• No Oneboxes in Chat

General userscripts

Expand Short Links

Can you see the link in the post below?

• Appends _link to short link texts in posts and comments so they can be easily seen and clicked on
• Link is also bolded and color set to red
• E.g.: Link . visually becomes ._link
  

Hover Expand Navigation Links

• On pagination dots "..." mouseover, adds additional 30 in-between links
  

Lightbox Images

• Opens image links in a lightbox instead of new window/tab in main & chat

Redacted Screenshots

• Anonymizes user links in posts and comments
• Masks and hides user-identifying info on page (IPs and email addresses)
  
• Redact button can be found fixed on the bottom-left of the screen

Reduce Clutter

• Removes unnecessary elements from the UI
  • Show comment vote/flag icons only on comment hover instead of all the time
  • Reduces contrast of edited comment icon
    
  • Show "Edit" (tags) link only on tag list hover
    
  • Hides announcement bar containing keywords like "podcast"
• See comments in userscript source for more info

Searchbar & Nav Improvements

• (Parent) Option to search child meta
  

• (Meta) New search bar on meta sites, and option to search parent site
  

• (Parent) Adds link to child meta in left sidebar
  

• (Meta) Adds link to parent in left sidebar
  

• Advanced Search Helper when search box is focused
  

  • Fill-in your watched/ignored tags!
    
  • Tag autocomplete
    
  • Username autocomplete
    
  • Useful add-ons!
    

• Saved Searches

  • Toggle from search results page
    
  • View list via toggle button in Advanced Search Helper
    

• Auto Refresh

  • Toggle from search results page
    

Stack Exchange Dark Mode

• Dark theme for Stack Exchange.
• Some elements have reduced opacity until focused/mouseover (sidebar modules/images/timestamps). Some important colours are retained.
• Code highlighting in darker colours
  
  
  

Stack Exchange Wider Mode

• Unlock the max-width of all Stack Exchange sites and utilize your wide screen
• Change your preferred width size in source code

Stack Print Styles

• Responsive print styles for all sites on the network, as well as chat and chat transcripts
• Strips out unnecessary information from the page only when printing, leaving just the main content

Q&A userscripts

Additional Post Mod Actions ♦

• Adds a menu of quick mod-actions instead of having to wait for mod menu to load and having to select items in the mod menu
  
• The items in the menu are disabled/hidden depending on context, and also slightly different options based on whether it's a Q or A
  
• Able to quickly dispute or comment lock a post with custom number of days, as well as unlock
• Quickly destroy users (with <200 rep) if they are posting spammy content (post age <30 days) (requires confirmation, 5-second throttle)
• Post dissociation link quickly composes a post dissociation request for post user with link of post inserted into dissociation message template
• (Stack Overflow) assists with re-duping of old questions closed with the old duplicate notice
• (Meta Stack Overflow) one-click closing, deleting questions as off-topic, and posting canned comment

Chat Transcripts By Default

• Rewrites chat room links to chat transcript in Q&A comments, to avoid joining the room directly

Discussed On Meta

This userscript has only been tested on Tampermonkey, and requires additional permissions for cross-site requests to Meta as it's on a different domain. Simply click on "Always allow" when prompted.

• For questions, displays info if it's discussed on Meta
  
• On arrow mouseover, displays the Meta posts
  
• Works for posts with IDs >= 100000 only to prevent false positives

Downvote Posts in Search Results

• When searching for not locked posts (locked:0 or locked:no), adds button in bottom right to downvote all displayed results

Fetch Question Stats

• Display number of recent comments (in the last 30 days) on each post in question lists
  
• For mod queues, additional info (30-day revision history) is also retrieved
  
• Detects if post has any revisions after being flagged
  

Fetch Vote Counts Again

• Fetch vote counts for posts and enables you to click to fetch them again, even if you do not have sufficient rep
• Also enables fetch vote counts on posts in mod flag queue

Hide Vote Counts

• Experiment to hide all post scores until you have voted for the post
• Does not hide post scores for own posts, as well as locked or deleted posts.

Migration Helper ♦

• Dropdown list of migration targets displaying site icon/logo/header images and links to the selected site's on-topic page and mod list. Displays additional information for custom flagger for selected network site.
  
• Dropdown transformed with Chosen, allowing for text search of site names
  

Post Headers & Question TOC

• Sticky post headers to help when scrolling long posts / comment threads
  • User, revision history, post timeline links
  • Clicking on empty middle area scrolls to start of post (replaces URL hash)

• Question Table of Contents of Answers in sidebar below Featured Posts module
  • Only shown when there are five or more answers
  • Answer score, accepted, user display name, indicates mods and deleted users, datetime
  • Sorted by current answer sort order (active/oldest/votes)
  • Clicking on answer links scrolls to start of post (replaces URL hash)
  • Option to toggle visibility of deleted answers (visible to 10k rep users)

Post Ids Everywhere

• Inserts post IDs everywhere where there's a post or post link (for copying/easier x-referencing/etc)
  
• Useful for copying ID of answer, for converting an answer to a comment of the target post
  
• When double clicked, opens post timeline in new tab

Post Timeline Filters

• Inserts several filter options for post timelines, useful for old posts with humongous timelines
• Hides daily summaries by default
• Fixes display style on comment flags expansion (jQuery show/hide defaults to block, breaking table)
  

Revert Tooltips

• Reverts the new instant stacks tooltips used in the post voting containers into native browser tooltips that appear after a short delay
• Also changes the follow/unfollow stacks tooltip to native tooltips

Comment Moderation

Comment Flag Type Colours

• Works on user's comment flag history group page

• Works on user's mod comment history pages

• Works on mod comment flag queues

Comment Undeleter ♦

• Allows moderators to undelete comments deleted by any user, including ex-mods and Communnity user

Comment User Colors

• Unique border colour for each user in comments to make following users in long comment threads easier
• Only appears if user has more than one comment on the page
  

Display Inline Comment Flag History ♦

• Grabs post timelines and display comment flag counts beside post comments. This also permalinks to comment in post timeline
  
• Displays flags on comment hover
  
• Clear CommentFlags cache on weekends
• On post timeline page, if comment is found in URL, also expand flags on the comment
• Fixes display style on comment flags expansion (jQuery show/hide defaults to block, breaking table)

New Comments Layout

Better comments layout for easier readability and moderation.

• Reduce comment body font-size to 96%
• Comment meta-text is on a new line, font-size reduced to 90%
• Usernames in comments are italicized
• Deleted comment info is floated right to keep comments compact instead of taking up a new line
• Delete links are floated right (to make it consistent with Undelete links)
• When mouse is over comments section, show faint preview of all delete links
• Comment hover background
  

User Moderation

Deleted Users Helper ♦

• Redirects user 404 pages to main profile
• Linkify deleted users, show display name on mouseover
  
• You can now multi-select delete/undelete posts by deleted user
  
• Improved deleted user page, linkify URLs
  
• Additional helpful links below for IP & username cross-referencing
  
• When PII is loaded on user mod page, format the info in a textarea for easier copying into delete/destroy reason so it will look like this
  

Find Users Additional Info ♦

• Improvements for /admin/find-users

Mod Message Helper ♦

• Adds a message menu to userinfo boxes
• Select from usual mod message or CM message templates
• Selected templates are automatically selected on landing on the new message page

Mod User Quicklinks Everywhere ♦

• Adds user quick links under display name in posts (opens in new tabs)
  

Post Ban Deleted Posts ♦

• When user posts on Meta Stack Overflow regarding a post ban, fetch and display deleted posts (must be mod) and provide easy way to copy the results into a comment
  

User Activity Notifications

• Display Windows notification when user page is open and user has new activity (new post, new comment, new edit, etc.)

User History Improvements ♦

• Fixes broken links in user annotations, and minor layout improvements
  

User Info Sidebar ♦

• Adds user moderation collapsable left-sidebar to user-specific pages: quick links & selection of user details from Mod Dashboard
  

User Social Media Profile Links ♦

• When user PII is loaded, add links to social media profile
  

Userlink Tooltips

• On user link mouseover, display user's reputation

Suspicious Voting Helper ♦

• Assists in building suspicious votes CM messages
• Highlight same users across IPxref table (hover to highlight, click to pin highlight)

Reviews Moderation

Rejected Suggested Edits

• Adds new page /review/suggested-edits/history/rejected
• Adds link to above page via mod links page (/admin/links) as well as Suggested Edits tabs
  
• has toggle date format (like post timelines) and pagination
• anonymous users are easy to spot because they are unlinked
• click on left arrow toggle to display review summary
• anonymous edits reviews are preloaded so we can detect whether they have spam rejection reasons
  
  

Review Queue Helper

• Keyboard shortcuts for review action buttons
• Keyboard shortcuts for popup action dialogs (close, flag, delete, reject edit)
• Auto-focus submit button when option selected in popup action dialogs (e.g.: so you can go "2 > 2 > space" to submit)
• Automatically skips review audits
• Esc goes back a previous dialog pane
• More options available when SOMU Options userscript is installed

User Review Ban Helper ♦

• Display users' prior review bans in review (links to review ban history), ban quicklink
  
• Insert review ban/unban button in user review ban history page
  
• If ban quicklink is clicked from a review, auto user lookup if user ID passed via hash, auto-fill reason with review URL
  
• Link ban counts in table to user's review history
  

Mod Improvements & New Tools

10k Tools Helper

• Expands all sections
• Adds question or answer filters to Delete votes page
  

Mobile Moderator Pages

• Before/After (screenshot redacted using RedactedScreenshots, and also running CommentFlagsHelper and CommentFlagTypeColours)
  
• Use new responsive menu
  

Mod Batch Comment Deleter ♦

• Batch delete comments using comment permalinks from SEDE, e.g.: https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1131935
  

Mod Flagger Stats

• On post hover in mod flag queue, get and display flaggers stats (via tooltip on flag badge):
  Reputation, Total Flags, Declined Flags, % Declined
  
• Badge links to user's flag history (opens in a new window)
• Non-mods: Can view own flag badge on main profile page
  

Mod Popup Dialog Improvements ♦

• Delete moved comments is checked by default
• Prevent Mod actions in Flag Queue redirecting to post - instead opens in a new tab

Moderator History Improvements ♦

• Better UI for recent moderator flag handling history
• Automatically updates every 30 seconds

Personal Mod Message History ♦

• Displays link to switch to your recently sent mod messages in the inbox dialog
  

Refresh Empty Mod Queue ♦

• If current mod queue is empty, reload page occasionally
• Also puts the flag count back in the navbar in case you miss it or need a link to the empty flag queue for some reason

Mod Queue-specific userscripts

Comment Flags Helper ♦

• Highlight common chatty/rude keywords
• Some style improvements
• Rename "dismiss" link to "decline" with hover warning color
  
• Add "dismiss + delete" option on hover
  
• Always expand comments if post is expanded (includes deleted posts), and highlights flagged user comments in expanded posts
  
• Quick purge all comments link (with confirmation prompt)
  
• Option to review from the bottom of the page (so page won't jump around after handling each flag)
  
• Option to hide comments posted within the past day
  

Duplicate Answers Flags Helper ♦

• Add action button to delete AND insert duplicate comment at the same time, saving you from deleting and then having to open up a new tab to manually insert comment
  
• Comment left on answer:
  Please [don't post identical answers to multiple questions](https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/104227). Instead, tailor the answer to the question asked. If the questions are exact duplicates of each other, please vote/flag to close instead.

Options:

• Duplicate Comment (text)

Not An Answer Flag Queue Helper ♦

• Inserts several sort options for the NAA / VLQ / Review LQ Disputed queues
  

Possible Vandalism Comment Deletions Helper ♦

• Display deleted comments and user who deleted the comments
• UI is similar to commenttoomanydeletedrudenotconstructiveauto queue + Comment Flags Helper
  

Possible Vandalism Deletions Helper ♦

• Sort answers first

• Display post score, number of undeleted answers, post age
  

• Recommend action based on post info
  

Possible Vandalism Edits Helper ♦

• Similar to the above, display revision count, post age
• Does not recommend as edits still need to be reviewed manually

Too Many Comments Flag Queue Helper ♦

• Auto-expand unhandled posts
• Display post info at the bottom
  
• Inserts quicklinks to "Move comments to chat + delete" and "Delete all comments"
  
• Confirmation displayed after successful response from server (don't forget to mark as helpful)
  

Chat UI & Chat Moderation

Chat Emojis

• Allows users to insert unicode emojis into chat
  
• If chat messages contains just a single emoji, increase size
  

Chat Improvements

Works with "No Oneboxes In Chat" and "Stack Exchange Dark Mode".

• New responsive user list displaying usernames and total count
• Timestamps on every message in live chat
• Use tiny signatures and avatars only
• Mods with diamonds in signatures
• Message parser (smart links and link expander)
• Minimize room description and room tags (hover to expand)
• Topbar with live inbox notifications and chat domain switcher
• Link to rejoin starred rooms
• Expand starred messages in sidebar on hover and on print
• Starred messages are now scrollable instead of having to click on "show more"
• On mouseover user signatures or mentions, highlight occurences of same user's links and mentions on page
• Room owner changelog in access info page
• Add transcript and room owners links above user list
• Print styles for live chat and transcripts (for printing to PDF with clickable links)
• (Mobile) font size increase
• and more...

Chat More Magic Links

• Some magic links are not parsed in Stack Overflow Chat. This script parses and submit expanded magic links via an edit to your latest message.
• List of additional magic links handled by this userscript:
  • [mcve]
  • [help]
  • [help/on-topic]
  • [help/dont-ask]
  • [help/behavior]
  • [meta-help]
  • [tour]
  • [chat]

Chat Pagination

• Do not install if you have ChatImprovements as it already includes this feature
• Adds pagination to user's recent messages page

Chat Redact Messages ♦

• Add "Redact + Purge + Delete" button to message history page
  
• Add history link to message actions popup if not found
  

Chat Room Info Annotations ♦

• Display users' annotation count in chat room general info tab
  

Chat Transcript Helper

• Replaces timestamps in chat transcripts with your local time

Create Private Mod Chatroom ♦

• One-click button to create private mod chatroom from user chat profile, and then grants the user write access immediately after
  
• When entering this room, add view chat profile and superping buttons in message
• Clicking on superping button will generate a superping with instructions on how to join the room (because inbox only links to room transcript, and new users may not know what to do)
  

No Oneboxes in Chat

• Collapses oneboxes from live chat, chat transcripts, bookmarked conversations
• Click to display onebox
• Has exposed function to work together with Show Deleted Messages in Chat userscript

No Oneboxes in Chat Transcripts

• Do not install if you have NoOneboxesInChat, as it already includes this feature
• Collapses oneboxes from chat transcripts, bookmarked conversations (live chat untouched)
• Click to display onebox

Show Deleted Messages in Chat ♦

• Show deleted messages from live chat, chat transcripts, bookmarked conversations
• Works with No Oneboxes in Chat userscript

Miscellaneous

SOMU Options

• Required for userscripts that allows further customization
• See options under each userscript above for info on what is available
• Options sidebar will appear on pages that the respective userscripts are running on

Election Supporter Flairs

• Flair users who voted in the elections...
  • mods: when you were elected
  • users: for the latest election