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Comments in the SE engine have always been ephemeral, temporary notes that should result in some useful change to the post they're attached to, at which point they become obsolete. We didn't want them …

If a question is really no longer relevant, then presumably it would not be very likely to receive new answers, making closing a sort of redundant concept. On the off chance that someone's circumstanc …

This is something we can look at. As pointed out, mods can migrate to any site in the network at their discretion. What we like to do is watch instances of that, and look at how many posts were reject …

Newest was replaced with oldest because it doesn't break bottom up viewing of questions that have multiple pages of answers. There was a bit of debate about which to have, since they're basically redu …

We have this, well, almost. All moderator messages sent from the system are archived. This includes replies from users. The problem is, older messages aren't easy to discover unless you happen to be …

Comments can become a bit unwieldy; they can attract quite a bit of noise that tasks moderators to disposing of it. There are two kinds of comments that we can consider valuable to future visitors, an …

There is a version of this that is shown to people asking questions for the first time, just to make sure they see it. It's not, however, editable on a per-site basis. It was in the FAQ, but we found …

I'm not quite sure what we could do to make that any more explicit, maybe add a → to the right of the link? Make 'Migrated' the link instead? But as pointed out in comments: Typically, moderators ar …

There have been discussions and ideas surrounding decaying votes, along with weights of votes themselves. I've got mixed feelings about both. It's important to look at the utility of reputation, the …

Unfortunately, no, no such means exist in the current platform and is unlikely to be implemented. It's not that this is an unpopular idea, a few folks in various communities have expressed interest in …

There is a new system in place (rolled out late last year) that protects from this sort of thing. It's fed off of the community and moderators taking normal actions, and it's global to the network. …

What this doesn't account for is people actively typing replies to something you said which might or might not be posted prior to your attempt to edit, so you'd still have the possibility that a conve …