Tools

Userscripts

There are a bunch of useful userscripts for Stack Overflow out there. Userscripts add functionality to the site by running scripts in your browser. All major browsers support userscripts by installing a userscript manager extension, for example Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey.

• How to install a userscript?
• With Tampermonkey, Violentmonkey, or Greasemonkey installed, from a GitHub userscript page you can click the "Raw" button. (Greasemonkey is recommended against, due to general userscript compatibility issues.)

Auto Comments

Do you use AutoReviewComments - Pro-forma comments for SE? SOCVR has a collection of canned comments we often use during moderation. You can use them as a remote in script.

1. Copy the URL for the site you want

• stackoverflow.com
• meta.stackoverflow.com
• musicfans.stackexchange.com

2. Open the Auto Comments dialog and click "remote" at the bottom.
3. Paste in the url, check "auto-get", and click save.

Please be aware that this will overwrite all local entries with the server's, and will overwrite it every time the dialog opens. If you have custom comments you want to keep, commit them to this website's repository or don't use this feature.

Our own scripts

See our GitHub userscript repository with the full list of our scripts!

Our most commonly used scripts

• *-pls Request Generator  ^{_{(GitHub) (install)}}
  • This userscript is the primary method of posting cv-pls requests to SOCVR.
  • It adds a link under each question, so you can send a cv-pls to a chatroom (e.g. SOCVR).
  • When you're unable to install userscripts, limited functionality is available as a bookmarklet. However, the bookmarklet has not been updated in some time, so may not be functional, due to changes made by Stack Exchange to their pages. The bookmarklet is not currently functional.
  • Greasemonkey users: There there are some incompatibilities. From what people have reported, it will mostly function, but there are limitations. Makyen recommends against using Greasemonkey due to general compatibility issues with a large number of userscripts. It is recommended that you use a different userscript manager and run the version of the Request Generator linked earlier.
• Magic™ Editor  ^{_{(GitHub) (install)}}
  • While you're editing a post, one click fixes the most common spelling and grammar mistakes.
• Unclosed Request Review Script  ^{_{(GitHub) (install)}}
  • Enhances the display of requests and question links in the main chat page.
  • Provides brief question and answer status in the main chat window.
  • Indicates on the main chat page which requests are complete.
  • Enhances the search pages for cv-pls, reopen-pls, and del-pls requests, giving more detailed status, sorting, filtering, etc. Allows you to focus only on the open requests meeting the criteria you desire to work on.
• Review Finder  ^{_{(GitHub) (install)}}
  • finds the review of a post by searching for the post's id in the current review queue's history.
• Close Vote Review Shortcuts  ^{_{(GitHub) (install)}}
  • adds keyboard shortcuts in the close-vote review-queue and close dialog, so your hands never have to leave the keyboard

Endorsed scripts

• AutoReviewComments  ^{_{(GitHub) (install)}}
  • You can use our collection of comments, or create your own.
• Magic™ Tag Review 2  ^{_{(GitHub) (install)}}
  • Review questions in a tag with filtering on multiple criteria, including by close votes and delete votes
• Roomba Forecaster  ^{_{(GitHub) (install)}}
  • Tells the user if the question is eligible for being deleted by the Roomba.

Additional Stack Exchange userscripts

• Charcoal HQ userscripts  ^_(GitHub)
  • scripts to provide feedback to SmokeDetector (wiki), among other things
  • The ones to provide feedback to SmokeDetector require a review-approved Metasmoke account, in addition to being authorized to use SmokeDetector.
• Stack Apps
  • wide variety of userscripts/browser extensions for Stack Exchange

SEDE Queries

There are a lot of useful and interesting StackExchange Data Explorer queries. Here are just a few of them:

• Tags that can be cleared of votes

  • This query is used by Closey to determine which tags to suggest in thr Close Vote Event

• Burninate Prority List

  • Query used to determine the next tag for a burnination

• Tag distribution

  • How bad is a tag by showing the tags it is often used with