Even when mods are not actively chatting, there are usually high rep users in the bridge that can help with a lot of the community moderation activities.

@Ellesedil we're not here to teach people to fish, we're here to answer specific questions and maintain those answers over time. Changing an answer from "its in the bottom left of the launcher" to "its in the help menu under updates" is drastically different than having to scour the internet for a new resource once a wikia page goes dark

I'm not sure how it is on other sites, but tags are very important here for determining dupes. "How do I mine for fish" in game A and "How do I mine for fish" in game B are different questions because they are for different games, and the tags will indicate that. But I don't see any tags in the annotation interface. Is that something you are taking care of in the potential duplicate algorithm?

+1, good use of a kingdom of loathing gif

@Kaizerwolf they are not one and the same, but sometimes both apply to the same question and later close voters tend to pile onto whichever one the initial close vote picked.

I disagree, this movie was pretty weak, especially the ending. I don't know how it has such high marks on rotten tomatoes.

Are you sure that the tag change is automatic for accented characters and not just a manually created tag synonym for the pokemon games?

Several of the bridge regulars are very active in the review queues and will manually post links to any suspected spam/offensive posts in the bridge for others to jump in with flags. Like @TrentHawkins i don't want to speak for everyone, but I don't see the need for this bot right now. Do we have any data for how long it takes spam to be detected and deleted?

@fredley Common sense is not very common

What are the criteria to indicate that the new asker would not be helped by the dupe target?