by Samuel Liew

Bug reports, Forks, and PRs welcome!

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
• 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
  

• Saved Searches

• Auto Refresh

  • Toggle from search results page
    

• Instant Filter Toggles

  • Toggle from search results page
    

Stack Exchange Dark Mode

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

Flag Retractor

• Allows you to retract pending post flags from your flag history page

Declined Flags Notifier

• Notifies you if you have any declined flags in the past few days

Saved Posts Helper

• Batch-move saved posts between private lists
• Undo button when unsaving a post
• Quick move dropdown after saving in Q&A

HNQ Site Names

• Adds site names to link in Hot Network Questions sidebar module
• Links open in new tab/window

Q&A userscripts

Additional Post Mod Actions ♦

Additional Inline Post Mod Actions ♦

• Similar to the above, but places the buttons under each post menu (above comments)

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.

Question Lists Helper

• Fetch details about questions from the API
• See who hammer-duped a question, or which mod closed it, and which close reason
• Comments preview on hover
• Mini images, tables, code snippet

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 ♦

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)

Smart Post Links

• Replaces the link text in comments and posts with the full question title, and adds post info in the title attribute
• Works in chat & chat transcripts too

Post Ids Everywhere

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)
  

HideReputation

• Hide all user reputation on the site

No User Id Share Links

• Remove your referral user id when copying a post share link

Sam's OpenAI Detector

• Add post menu item to send request to OAI Detector to get probability of AI-generated content

When Did I Vote?

• Add post menu item to trawl through your votes pages to find the date/time you voted for a post

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 Community 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 ♦

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 ♦

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 ♦

• Assists in building low-quality-questions mod messages.
• For SO Meta only, fetch and display user's deleted posts in markdown format.
  

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 Profile Links ♦

• On user profile pages, expands user network links menu and add chat profile links

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

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 ♦

Mod Improvements & New Tools

10k Tools Helper

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

Mobile Moderator Pages

Mod Batch Comment Deleter ♦

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

Mod Flagger Stats

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 ♦

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 ♦

Chat UI & Chat Moderation

Chat Emojis

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 ♦

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 ♦

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