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<li><p>One problem I see for moderators is there's no real way to "set a reminder" for anything you want to act on in the future but can't (/shouldn't/etc) act on right now. </p>

<p>Votes on meta questions that could lead to an action by a moderator are a good example of a place where it's important to be able to say something like "Check the status of this in 72 hours (/a week/tomorrow), because I may need to act on it". Moderators often come to these threads early (since we're notified when they post) but may not remember to check back.</p>

<p>This situation - where you recognize now that an action may be needed in the future but there won't be any 'trigger' to do anything then - is a problem I raised on meta.SE:</p>

<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/257565/allow-moderators-to-leave-themselves-reminder-notes">Allow moderators to leave themselves reminder notes</a></p>

<p>(only to have it closed as duplicate of something it's quite clearly not an actual duplicate of -- I ruled out the exact thing it later closed as a duplicate of, right in the question). It got a little support via votes, but it would have needed a lot more support to go anywhere, especially since it closed. So much for that.</p>

<p>I don't have a good solution to this (or rather, I believe I do, as indicated above ... but I can't do anything much about it).  [Edit: well, "ping moderators" in some fashion, as amoeba mentions, is of course always an option.]</p></li>
<li><p>There's also no clear indicator of what is "sufficient" to indicate that we should take an action. There's no person and no set criteria which say "yes, that vote passes, now let's add it to the tasks that someone needs to take care of". When anyone can vote at any time, who says a vote passes? [Also, some of the time at least there's no clearly identified alternatives to vote for, sometimes just a single option that has a few upvotes, in which case sometimes it's not even clear we're really holding a vote rather than just discussion.]</p>

<p>I don't have a good suggestion for how do we deal with having a time point and one or more criteria by which to be able to say "okay, this vote's officially over, did the proposal get over the line?"</p></li>
<li><p>In some cases (such as some kinds of retagging operation) you don't necessarily need a moderator to do it.  If its one of those "retag a few at a time by hand" ones, anyone with edit privilege should be able to retag them (though it would be sightly easier for those users with the higher level ability to edit just the tags). In those cases, as long as there's at least some reasonable support you can point to here, there should be <em>no problem whatever</em> just doing it.</p>

<p>So at least in some cases, the issues in (1.) and (2.) are moot; anyone who cares enough to do it (and who is able to) just needs to do it.</p></li>
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