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edited Oct 27, 2021 at 10:20

There are a couple edge cases I can think of where listing former moderators may not be beneficial due to actions taken after they left:

This page would need to cover the case of users who deleted their accounts after ceasing to be moderators. On one hand, such users may have simply left for personal reasons and would be totally fine with having their past moderation efforts be publicly recognized, but on the other hand, some may have removed their accounts to make their prior contributions less visible or dissociated from their name, and would not want their name to be public. While it's still possible to reach out to those who still have accounts on other sites, it may not be possible to reach those who deleted their entire network account, especially if they requested their info be erased under GDPR. You'll need to come up with a plan to handle such users.
Similarly, there are users who previously served as moderators and later got suspended after they left their positions. This would create quite a public spectacle, as other users would see that the user is suspended easily. This also covers some users who were previously mods but are currently serving long-term network-wide suspensions (possibly indefinitely banned from participating in the network).
When a moderator is removed by the moderator action review process (followed when a moderator team is unable to work with a particular mod), their name is removed from election pages, meaning that unlike if they resign or get removed for another reason, their prior record of serving as a mod is erased. You may want to do the same thing for this page.

There are a couple edge cases I can think of where listing former moderators may not be beneficial due to actions taken after they left:

This page would need to cover the case of users who deleted their accounts after ceasing to be moderators. On one hand, such users may have simply left for personal reasons and would be totally fine with having their past moderation efforts be publicly recognized, but on the other hand, some may have removed their accounts to make their prior contributions less visible or dissociated from their name, and would not want their name to be public. While it's still possible to reach out to those who still have accounts on other sites, it may not be possible to reach those who deleted their entire network account, especially if they requested their info be erased under GDPR. You'll need to come up with a plan to handle such users.
Similarly, there are users who previously served as moderators and later got suspended after they left their positions. This would create quite a public spectacle, as other users would see that the user is suspended easily. This also covers some users who were previously mods but are currently serving long-term network-wide suspensions (possibly indefinitely banned from participating in the network).

There are a couple edge cases I can think of where listing former moderators may not be beneficial due to actions taken after they left:

This page would need to cover the case of users who deleted their accounts after ceasing to be moderators. On one hand, such users may have simply left for personal reasons and would be totally fine with having their past moderation efforts be publicly recognized, but on the other hand, some may have removed their accounts to make their prior contributions less visible or dissociated from their name, and would not want their name to be public. While it's still possible to reach out to those who still have accounts on other sites, it may not be possible to reach those who deleted their entire network account, especially if they requested their info be erased under GDPR. You'll need to come up with a plan to handle such users.
Similarly, there are users who previously served as moderators and later got suspended after they left their positions. This would create quite a public spectacle, as other users would see that the user is suspended easily. This also covers some users who were previously mods but are currently serving long-term network-wide suspensions (possibly indefinitely banned from participating in the network).
When a moderator is removed by the moderator action review process (followed when a moderator team is unable to work with a particular mod), their name is removed from election pages, meaning that unlike if they resign or get removed for another reason, their prior record of serving as a mod is erased. You may want to do the same thing for this page.

answered Oct 27, 2021 at 9:50

There are a couple edge cases I can think of where listing former moderators may not be beneficial due to actions taken after they left:

This page would need to cover the case of users who deleted their accounts after ceasing to be moderators. On one hand, such users may have simply left for personal reasons and would be totally fine with having their past moderation efforts be publicly recognized, but on the other hand, some may have removed their accounts to make their prior contributions less visible or dissociated from their name, and would not want their name to be public. While it's still possible to reach out to those who still have accounts on other sites, it may not be possible to reach those who deleted their entire network account, especially if they requested their info be erased under GDPR. You'll need to come up with a plan to handle such users.
Similarly, there are users who previously served as moderators and later got suspended after they left their positions. This would create quite a public spectacle, as other users would see that the user is suspended easily. This also covers some users who were previously mods but are currently serving long-term network-wide suspensions (possibly indefinitely banned from participating in the network).